Al Madrigal Quotes

#1. I'm so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.

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#2. My primary responsibility is to be funny.

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#3. A lot of Latinos are like me: third generation, English speaking.

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#4. The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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#5. My daughter plays keyboard very well, and my son plays guitar, and they're totally into music.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

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#10. I love doing a show that makes no mention of ethnicity.

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#11. If you're playing the clubs, you're either on your way up or your way down.

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#12. I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

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#13. When my son was 3 years old - I'll never forget this - there was this homeless guy walking toward us, and my son looked at me, and he said, 'Who's your buddy?'

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#14. I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse when I walk into businesses: 'That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.'

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#15. Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

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#16. 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.'

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#17. 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.

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#18. You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor's suit, because I'd be riding the streetcar to school everyday - minding my own business, humming out a 'Frere Jacques' - and I realized that in any other town, this might be considered cute. But you know what it is in San Francisco? Sexy.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I'm not much for setup ... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.

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#21. I'm always alone. Sad face emoticon.

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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#24. Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.

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#25. There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start to do this bad Rick Moranis voice I do as well when I really get going. It's pretty horrible.

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#26. I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

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