Al Madrigal | |
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Birth name | Alessandro Liborio Madrigal |
Born |
San Francisco, California, United States |
July 4, 1971
Medium | Stand-up, television, film |
Genres | Observational comedy, satire |
Subject(s) | American culture, human behavior, family, fatherhood, cultural assimilation |
Website | AlMadrigal.com |
Alessandro Liborio "Al" Madrigal (born July 4, 1971) is an American comedian and actor. He was a regular correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and is a co-founder of the All Things Comedy podcast network, alongside Bill Burr. He is known for his co-starring roles in the CBS prime-time situation comedies Gary Unmarried and Welcome to The Captain, as well as NBC's About A Boy. He was a regular sketch performer on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and has also appeared on Conan and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Madrigal is a series regular in the upcoming SHOWTIME dark comedy, I'm Dying Up Here.
Madrigal was born in San Francisco, California. He grew up in San Francisco's Inner Sunset District, where his neighbors included future comedians Mike Pritchard and Margaret Cho. He is of Italian (from Sicily) and Mexican (from Tijuana) descent. He attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory High School, where he was salutatorian for the class of 1989. He then attended the University of San Francisco, but left the school two credits shy of receiving a degree.