Comedian Cristela Alonzo on finding humour in hard times - a podcast by CBC Television

Growing up, comedian Cristela Alonzo thought "making it" meant living like the people on TV. Although they didn't look like her Latino family — squatting in an abandoned diner with an extension cord for a lifeline — she saw herself in their stories. Now Alonzo, the first Latina woman to create, produce, write and star in a network TV show, has seen her own family represented on TV. Her sitcom "Cristela" mines the humorous side of the American dream. Today she joins Shad to talk about television's influence, how she's found joy in unlikely places, and why she does not, in fact, speak for every Latino.

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