Al in the Family

Linda Stasi

TV CRITIC

"Al Madrigal: Why Is The Rabbit Crying?"

Here's something that may cause stand-up comic/late-night favorite Al Madrigal to put a price on my head: Al Madrigal is Roseanne Barr for the 2010s.

No, Madrigal hasn't turned into a surly fat woman with a bad attitude. He's still a nerdy-looking thin guy in corduroy.

But he does do domestic comedy — making fun of the situations he and his wife find themselves in because of their kids.

Madrigal, a third-generation Mexican-American from San Francisco, who can't speak Spanish (he calls himself "a full assimilation 'Mission Impossible' American") does soccer dad comedy.

Cliff Cheney

SOCCER DAD: Al Madrigal's stand-up special later this week represents a new-era breakout.

Madrigal is a storyteller more than a joke-teller, and his one-man show on Comedy Central Friday night will make you laugh. But if you're a young parent, he will make you howl until you spit expensive mineral water from your nose.

He tallks about his 6-year-old son's "chollo" gang-banger soccer coach who — threatening at first sight — whips out a full spread sheet detailing which which snacks parents are expected to bring on which days.

Madrigal's take on going to Home Depot to hire a Mexican day laborer to help him install the cheap, fiberboard Ikea kitchen? Hilarious.

"Go early for the first round draft picks," he advises.

He also tells a story about how his freshman college roommate was so rich, he had a cleaning lady whose name sounded like Liam Neeson.

One day, the roommate's dirty-looking girlfriend gave the 50-year old bible-toting Guatemalan cleaning lady marijuana-laced chocolates. It was up to Madrigal to talk the woman down, using the Spanish he learned from a CD: "Los choc-o-latt-ay es en drug-as."

After that day she never returned.

You will, though — especially if you are a normal suburban parent who isn' t on the drug-as.

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