Al Madrigal
Al Madrigal
Alessandro Liborio "Al" Madrigal is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He was a regular correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and co-founder of the All Things Comedy podcast network. He is known for his co-starring roles in the CBS prime-time situation comedies Gary Unmarried and Welcome to The Captain, as well as NBC's About A Boy. He was a regular sketch performer on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and has also appeared on Conan and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth4 July 1971
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing.
I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'
I think any husband knows when to stand down when it comes to domestic disputes. After 13 years of marriage, I even think I may have it figured out.
I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.
I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
I once called a guy into his own office and spun around in his own chair to greet him. That kind of thing may be why I quit, before I got into serious trouble. I would smile and the person would get so upset. But you do a thousand of those things, and it makes you weird.
I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino.
My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she's beat-boxing. We have no idea where the beat-boxing came from, but all of a sudden, there it was. Now we're launched into lyric sheets for every single song that is current. They're all over our house.
There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.
A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking.
I was well-dressed and good at firing people because I really did care. I cared about giving them the opportunity to talk through the situation and was always sincere. I would explain that 'This was a bad match,' and they were probably meant to do other things if they weren't giving their all to this, which paid $10 a hour.
I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.
My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.
People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.