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

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**SPEAKER_2** (2:35)
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**Mark Paone** (2:43)
Hey, everybody, this is Mark Paone, long time editor at The Daily Show.
Once again, back with a former Daily Show correspondent. I was, I should say... One of your favorites. One of my favorites. And senior Latino correspondent.

**Al Madrigal** (3:00)
That's right.

**Mark Paone** (3:01)
Comedian, actor, entrepreneur.

**Al Madrigal** (3:04)
Yes.

**Mark Paone** (3:05)
Renaissance man.

**Al Madrigal** (3:05)
Yes.

**Mark Paone** (3:06)
Al Madrigal.

**Al Madrigal** (3:07)
How are you? When you say long time, exactly how long have you been here? Because I know you keep track.

**Mark Paone** (3:11)
I started season two.

**Al Madrigal** (3:13)
That's insane. And this is season...

**Mark Paone** (3:15)
797 was my first day. Holy crap.

**Al Madrigal** (3:20)
Because for a while, I think you would call, as a joke, all jokes, we call Jon the new guy. And he had been here like 16 years.
And we became, I mean, as you do in the field department, which is where I did a lot of work when I was here, because I was here from the years of 2011 I believe I started full time at the beginning of 2012, shared an office with Jessica Williams, who's just crushing it. I'm so happy for her. It's kind of cool to see everybody go on and do things. But I was here from 2012 to end of 2013 full time, and then another half year, on and off, part time until Jon left. And then I dribbled into Trevor. Just dribbled, just dribbling.

**Mark Paone** (4:23)
So how did you get the gig? I don't remember.

**Al Madrigal** (4:26)
I got the gig because, and this is a be nice to everyone you meet thing. I got the gig because a guy hit me up to do a guest set on a show in Miami at the Coconut Grove Improv, which was an insane comedy club. Go around the country from 2004 till 2010 That's how I made a living primarily. I was acting in some TV shows, but I would do stand up on the road. People hit you up for guest sets. The guy that hit me up was Adam Loweit, a comedian from Florida who's going to be there at the time, who was also a producer at The Daily Show. He went on to be an executive producer, has done many incredible things.
He's in LA now? In LA with two wonderful children and his wife, and we're still close and stay in touch. But he hit me up for a guest set. Then he hit me up for when I was in New York for another guest set. Then he hit me up for another guest set. So this is like guest sets over years. Then finally when we're at Caroline's in New York, he said, I think my act was skewing this way. He goes, you'd make a great Latino correspondent. He goes, I know just how to pitch it. So we waited for a dark week, which the show has weeks on and weeks off. It's very difficult to do a daily show like they do.