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Cleto Rodriguez (Comedian) Cleto Rodriguez is a San Antonio-based, nationally touring stand-up comedian. His grandfather Cleto L. Rodriguez was one of Texas’ first Congressional Medal of Honor winners. [1]

Performing since 1995, Rodriguez has worked with comedians George Lopez, Carlos Mencia, Wayne Brady, Brett Butler, Tim Hawkins and Bob Smiley. [2]

A clean comedian, Rodriguez performs nationwide in comedy clubs, corporations, colleges and churches. He was even chose as the touring comedian for the 2008 Promise Keepers events in seven U.S. cities. [3]

Currently on hiatus, Rodriguez starred in “The Cleto Show,” a weekly late-night sitcom based in San Antonio and created and directed by Cevallos Brothers Production that aired on the FOX affiliate KABB. Actress Eva Longoria Parker served as executive producer. [4] Prior to "The Cleto Show," the comedian worked on an Internet-based "Late Night Live with Cleto Rodriguez" that had been picked up by LAT TV before the network shut down its operations in San Antonio. [5]

Cleto has been building up Wednesday Night Laughs and Thursday Night Laughs, clean comedy variety shows that happens monthly at Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club in San Antonio. Rodriguez can also be seen Wednesdays on the NBC affiliate's San Antonio Living show on WOAI-TV. [6]

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  1. ^ CletoRodriguez.com, "CletoRodriguez.com", 2010, "http://www.cletorodriguez.com Biography]" Nov. 11, 2010
  2. ^ CletoRodriguez.com
  3. ^ Speaker Bios, "Promise Keepers website", 2008, "Promise Keepers", Nov. 11, 2010
  4. ^ Jakle, Jeanne, "Alamo City will be a co-star in 'Cleto Show'", Nov. 7, 2008, "MySA.com", Nov. 11, 2010
  5. ^ Renteria, Melissa, "Cleto Rodriguez brings talk show back to TV", Dec. 11, 2008, "MySA.com", Nov. 11, 2010
  6. ^ WOAI.com, "River Walk Trivia: What do tourists know about our city?", Oct. 28, 2010, "[1]", Nov. 11, 2010
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