Comedian Cristela Alonzo clarifies that she doesn't represent every Latino
Cristela Alonzo on finding humour in the American dream, and the TV families that helped raise her.
Growing up, comedian Cristela Alonzo thought "making it" meant living like the people on TV. Although they didn't look like her Latino family — squatting in an abandoned diner with an extension cord for a lifeline — she saw herself in their stories.
Now Alonzo, the first Latina woman to create, produce, write and star in a network TV show, has seen her own family represented on TV. Her sitcom Cristela mines the humorous side of the American dream.
Today she joins Shad to talk about television's influence, how she's found joy in unlikely places, and why she does not, in fact, speak for every Latino.
Alonzo is in Toronto as part of the JFL Comedy Tour 2015.
