More from Al Madrigal
We’re down in Mexico. It’s for a bachelor party, so we go into a Mexican strip club.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor’s suit, because I’d be riding the streetcar to school everyday.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal 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.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal If you want to be hip to the lingo, they’re not using the word dong up in the States.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal Don’t bring your sand toys to the park. That’s another bad move. Because I go to the park, and I’m on the Vicodin and a little weed too – let’s face it – and I go in there, and my wife’s like.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal I go back with this woman down a murky hallway, and then without missing a beat – these ladies are all business – she goes.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal Im so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal Go ahead, take out your dong.’ ‘I’m not taking out my dong. And by the way, who uses the word dong?
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal Bring the sand toys! Bring the sand toys!’ And I know what happens every single time.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal I become sand toy repo man from the eight little kids that run off in nine different directions with my sand toys.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal 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.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal My primary responsibility is to be funny.
Al MadrigalAl Madrigal
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