Behind the Show | Al Madrigal on What Makes a Great Field Piece

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Comedy, Daily News, News

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Longtime Daily Show editor Mark Paone sits down with former correspondent Al Madrigal to unpack some of their favorite segments. They talk how to make a great field piece, the Stephen Colbert advice that gets handed down to every new correspondent, what he would do differently, and how a Senior Latino Correspondent can get away without speaking Spanish.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:08.4	Hey, everybody.
0:09.5	This is Mark Payone, long-time editor at The Daily Show.
0:12.9	Once again, back with a former Daily Show correspondent.
0:18.9	I should say one of your favorites.
0:21.3	One of my favorites.
0:23.1	And senior Latino correspondent.
0:25.9	That's right.
0:27.1	Comedian, actor, entrepreneur,
0:29.9	Renaissance man.
0:31.2	Yes.
0:31.8	Al Madrigal.
0:32.5	How are you?
0:33.6	When you say long time,
0:34.9	exactly how long have you been here
0:36.3	because I know you keep track?
0:37.2	I started season two. That's insane this is seven seven 97 was my first
0:43.6	crap because for a while i think you would call as a joke all jokes we call john the new guy
0:52.2	and he had been here for like 16 years and we became I mean
1:00.6	as you do in the field department which is where I did a lot of work when I was here because I was
1:07.0	here from the years of 2011 I believe I started started full-time at the beginning of 2012,
1:14.3	shared an office with Jessica Williams,
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