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Jun 6, 2022 · T hose who left the show on season 5 — Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong, and Wendi McLendon-Covey – may have had an especially difficult time getting back into the groove of things; after all ...
- Looper Staff
Aug 28, 2024 · After five seasons of teaming with "Jonesy," and turning improv comedy into an art, "Reno 911" writers killed off furry-lipped, sunglass-wearing Deputy James Garcia (Alazraqui) in a Season 5 cliffhanger, by having him drive into a taco stand and die a fiery death.
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Carlos Jaime Alazraqui was born in Yonkers, New York on July 20, 1962, to Argentine parents. He has Sephardic Jewish heritage from his father. He moved with his family to Concord, California, at an early age. Alazraqui graduated from Concord High School. He attended college at California State University, Sacramento from 1982 to 1986, where he bega...
Stand-up comedy
Alazraqui originally began his career in stand-up comedy, he was the winner of the San Francisco Comedy Competition in 1993. He beat out fellow comedians Marc Maron and Patton Oswalt. In addition, Alazraqui joined Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour in 2014, playing some of the dates with Ward and he has a semi-regular segment on Miller's radio show Coffee with Carlos.
Film and television
Alazraqui is known for his live-action work in Reno 911!, in which he portrayed Deputy James Garcia for five seasons (2003–08). He played the same role in the series' 2007 spinoff film Reno 911! Miami. As a nod to this role, he also played a "bumbling" Reno cop in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Let it Bleed". He has been a celebrity on the Tom Bergeron version of Hollywood Squares. Alazraqui also wrote and starred in The Last White Dishwasher, a short film. In 2020, Alazraqui rep...
Voice acting
Alazraqui has performed several voices for Nickelodeon cartoons, including Rocko on Rocko's Modern Life, as well as Denzel Crocker and Juandissimo Magnifico on The Fairly OddParents, Winslow T. Oddfellow and Lube on CatDog, and Scooter on SpongeBob SquarePants. He also voiced several additional voices for the Cartoon Network shows, Cow and Chicken, Kidscity: The Village Dome of Kids, and I Am Weasel during their runs in the mid-late 1990s. He also voiced Spyro in Spyro the Dragon. He was late...
Alazraqui resides in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and two daughters. One daughter, Rylee, is a voice actor as well. Rylee is the voice of Rohk-Tahk in the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Prodigy.
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Jul 8, 2014 · After killing off series regulars Wendy McLendon-Covey, Carlos Alazraqui, and Mary Birdsong at the end of season five—a decision that some fans disagreed with—season six was the show's most...
- Samantha Highfill
Jul 21, 2020 · Alazraqui’s long resume dates back to the early ’90s and includes Rocko in “Rocko’s Modern Life” (opposite Tom Kenny, the voice of “SpongeBob SquarePants”), “CatDog,” Lazlo the spider monkey in...
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It is mentioned in the DVD commentary track that Alazraqui was reluctant to leave Family Guy. In particular, Seth MacFarlane suggests that the death of Alazraqui's character took the actor by surprise.
