Interview: Comedian Cristela Alonzo On Her Sitcom And Her Love Of Music

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🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

You might have seen Cristela Alonzo in her Netflix stand-up special or on her ABC sitcom, 'Cristela.' Now she's out with a book all about music's role in her life called 'Music to My Years: A Mixtape Memoir of Growing Up and Standing Up.' In it she talks about her life as a first generation Mexican-American and how she found her way to stand-up comedy. She sat down with Sam Sanders to talk about her love of music and 'The Golden Girls,' growing up poor and making her sitcom, which was canceled after one season.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, I am Sam Sanders.
0:06.9	You are listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:09.7	My guest today is here to talk about her new memoir, but she is most known for something
0:14.6	you could see as a failure.
0:16.7	Her sitcom, which made history when it launched, was canceled after only one season.
0:22.3	I'm talking about comedian, Kristella Alonzo.
0:25.1	She launched a sitcom on ABC in 2014 called Kristella.
0:30.5	And it was the first network sitcom created by Elatina.
0:33.4	It was a very big deal, but the show did not last.
0:37.1	In this chat, Kristella tells me about that experience and what she thinks needs to change to make
0:42.0	the industry better for people like her.
0:44.9	We also, as I mentioned, discuss her new memoir.
0:47.8	It's called Music to My Ears, a mixtape memoir of growing up and standing up.
0:53.4	Every chapter of this book is named after a song that means a lot to Kristella, including
0:57.8	a chapter all about the Golden Girls theme song.
1:00.3	It was a fun story behind that one.
1:01.9	She'll tell it.
1:02.9	Let's get to it.
1:03.9	Kristella was in New York.
1:05.0	I was in LA.
1:06.7	Enjoy.
1:07.7	Can't you hear me now?
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