Comedian Gabriel Iglesias, also known as Fluffy, had a segment on Jay Leno’s Garage. But, this time, he didn’t show a car from his collection. The stand-up artist competed with Jay Leno, instead, in excavators.
While stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias didn’t come on Jay Leno’s Garage to show his collection, he did have a very fun segment on the show. Both he and the talk show host hopped in excavators and fought like pro drivers in the competition of their lives. The massive machinery was a 2019 Caterpillar Excavator, running on a diesel engine with 92 horsepower.
Their first task was a tire stacking competition, the two having to pick up one tire at a time and replicate the pile on the other side. It involved driving the excavator and knowing how to pick up things. For this task, Iglesias was faster, and Jay Leno tried to figure out directions. He shared: “It’s a lot of fun driving this monster around but operating the shovel requires knowing my right from my left.” When he had quite a bit of a struggle, he added: “It’s the nice part about being dyslexic.” On the other side, Fluffy joked that he was so good because of Xbox.
After Iglesias secured his victory in the first task, Jay Leno joked “I feel bad it’s Fluffy’s last time on the program.”
The second task was much more fun, the two playing excavator basketball, where they had to pick up the basketballs and slam dunk them into the tires. Again, Iglesias did great, managing to slam dunk three balls, while Leno chose to give up.
It was all fun and games, but it’s worth noting the fact that Gabriel Iglesias does have a massive Volkswagen collection, mostly including Volkswagen Type 2 camper vans. You can see a few pictures of his vehicles in the gallery.
For their first time in an excavator – as far as we know – both Jay Leno and Gabriel Iglesias had a great time. Okay, maybe Iglesias did, because Leno lost by far.
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