A night with George Lopez

That his bilingual humor rings true no matter where one falls in his self-described Neapolitan demographic explains his status as a Forbes-worthy superstar.

When Lopez returns to the AT&T Center on Saturday, Aug. 8, for a live (and edgy) HBO special, “Tall, Dark and Chicano,” he’ll do so in front of more people than the typical rock concert draws.

His conquering hero act never gets old here. (Make that anywhere. Forbes listed Lopez among the top comics with $20 million in concert, album and DVD sales last year.)

Lopez, however, arrives with a new future looming — that of late-night TV talk show host on “Lopez Tonight.”

“It’s not your father’s America anymore,” Lopez said at a recent news conference in Los Angeles, according to the New Orleans Time-Picayune.

“That is what this talk show is going to be about. There is music that’s not touched. There’s actors and actresses that are brilliant, and this place is going to be that place. It’s going to be the place where you greet everybody.”

The comic is confident “Lopez Tonight” will be a hit when it airs in November on TBS.

“It’s a Neapolitan night,” he told the Television Critics Association last week. “It’s fantastic.”

Hammering home the point at his presentation that it’s a new world, and that time has come today, Lopez unveiled a pilot of the talk show featuring a cameo by President Obama.