Ross was performing at a comedy club on Long Island when a member of the audience pulled out a toy gun that looked real. In 1993, Giraldo provided pro bono defense counsel services to his friend and fellow comedian Jeffrey Ross, who was charged with inciting a riot. Giraldo passed the bar and began a career as a lawyer, working for eight months as an associate for Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom before changing his occupation. Giraldo was admitted to Harvard Law School after achieving a near perfect score on his Law School Admission Test (LSAT), scoring in the 99th percentile of students taking the test. While at Columbia, he was an active member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity. After graduating from Regis in 1983, he earned a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia University in 1987. Giraldo was an excellent student and was accepted into the private Jesuit Regis High School in Manhattan. Giraldo played the guitar in a band in his late teens/early twenties. He was the oldest of three children (brother John and sister Elizabeth). Giraldo was raised Roman Catholic and spoke fluent Spanish. His father, Alfonso, was from Colombia and worked for Pan Am, and his mother, Dolores, was from Spain. Giraldo was born in the Bronx and raised in Bayside, Queens. He is remembered for his appearances on Comedy Central's televised roast specials, and for his work on that network's television shows Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Lewis Black's Root of All Evil, and the programming block Stand-Up Nation, the last of which he hosted. Gregory Carlos Giraldo (Decem– September 29, 2010) was an American stand-up comedian, television personality, and lawyer.
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