Episode 198 - Cristela Alonzo

The Cripescast Podcast

Charlie Berens

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Cristela Alonzo isn’t afraid to grab life by the horns. Having grown up squatting in an abandoned diner with her mother and three siblings, she knows what it’s like to live like you’ve got nothing to lose. Her lifelong love for comedy had her jumping at the chance to work as an office manager at the Addison Improv in Texas circa 2003, even if it meant fudging some of the details on her resume to land the job. Fast forward to today, she’s headlining the country and has made history as the first Mexican-American woman to create and star in her own US primetime sitcom, “Cristela.” With two Netflix specials under her belt and another on the way, Cristela shares that she’s living comfortably with her bills on autopay and her “therapy money” in hand. This week, she joins Charlie on the Cripescast to chat about everything from professional wrestling, to her love for Wisconsin cheese curds, and of course Packers vs Cowboys.

Follow Cristela on all platforms @cristela9 and be sure to check out her specials on Netflix!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Cripes cast. I'm your host Charlie Barons, and we are powered by Everlight Solar.
0:06.0	Here's today's episode.
0:07.5	Hello everybody, how are we doing today my guest is Kristella
0:15.2	Alonzo you may know her for her Netflix specials lower-classy and middle-classy you may know
0:22.2	her for her show,
0:23.7	Kristella. She is the first Mexican American woman
0:28.7	to have her own prime time sitcom.
0:31.2	Well, I guess it's not technically a sitcom it's like a comedy. I don't
0:36.2	know how they define those things anymore. Anyway she is a really big deal. She is a funny
0:41.3	funny gal and it was super fun to talk to her excited to have her on.
0:46.0	And Colleen Maraca, excited to have you here in the studio.
0:50.0	Thanks.
0:51.0	How is it going?
0:52.0	How is it going? How is it living? We're going good. It's May. Can you believe it?
0:55.0	It, um, I don't know.
0:58.0	It's, the time, time just
1:05.0	time gets faster as we get older.
1:08.0	And maybe it's just a universe.
1:11.0	Time is just speeding up, you know, like, it's not just actually, it doesn't just feel
1:18.0	faster, it just is faster.
1:20.3	You think?
1:21.3	No, I, that's not a fully formulated thought.
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