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“I have always smiled in my stand-up because I’m so excited to be there,” Alonzo tells Variety. “I always tell people that the audience wants to be on your team in stand-up. You got to show them that you’re there for them, and you’re happy. So why do we not have those moments of joy more often?”
Even through a Zoom video interview, Alonzo radiates positivity and delight in a time when it’s easy to give in to despair and anger. In 2014, Alonzo made history as the first Latina woman to create, produce, write and star in her own U.
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'Cristela' doesn't shy from presenting ethnic issues
It would be easy to pigeonhole the new sitcom "Cristela" (8:30 p.m., ABC, TV-PG) as "Latin-ish." But it's more (and less) than that.
Comedian Cristela Alonzo stars in the title role as a striving law student six years into her studies. More affluent students get their degrees in three, but she's had to take a series of menial jobs in order to care for her mother and pay the bills.
Not unlike Dre (Anthony Anderson) on "black-ish," Cristela is caught between two worlds. Her immigrant mother, Natalia (Terri Hoyos), doesn't understand why she hasn't started a family of her own and peppers every conversation with guilt-inducing advice. Her prettier, thinner sister, Daniela (Maria Canals-Barrera), has problems with Cristela's Americanized feminist attitudes, like encouraging her nieces to play soccer instead of yearning to be cheerleaders.
Natalia's husband, Felix (Carlos Ponce), just thinks of Cristela as a mooch who is never lik
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In the classic sitcom, McEntire played a single mother whose life was in disarray after her husband had a child with his mistress and her pregnant teen daughter got married. It ran for six seasons, with the first five airing on The WB and the sista season airing on the newly rebranded The CW. The Reba cast also included Christopher Rich,..