Rex Lasat Navarrete (born 1969 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino-American comedian whose material is geared toward Filipino audiences. Sometime after his birth in 1969, his parents left the Philippines and immigrated to the United States, settling in Chicago. Navarrete, on the other hand, was raised by his grandparents in the provinces of Cavite and Batangas. He later reunited with his parents and his baby sister at the age of three. Eventually, the Navarrete family moved to South San Francisco, California where he spent the rest of his childhood. He started his career in 1989 with a performance at University of California Santa Cruz.