How Arturo Castro's New Comedy Central Series Is Smashing Stereotypes

What's going on guys? Hanging with me right now I have the Arturo Castro.

Well, the Arturo Castro. I'm part of the. How many of us are there? You gotta. We must find them all. There can be only one of you. Oh, wonderful. Yes. I guess. How are you?

Great, great. Really excited to be talking about the show today, you know. I know. Well, congratulations. Your own show. It's insane. You're playing all these different types of characters.

Yeah, like 45.

45, is it really?

Yeah, they all live in my head. I'm I'm fine though. I'm like, who am I talking to right now? Yeah, what is he not here right now? Oh my gosh. What was that one split? I I can't remember. James did such a great job. But yeah, so it's 45 characters. So we sometimes shot like two or three characters per day. So you're very confused at the end of the day. Let me tell you that.

So how else would you describe the show for people that are going to be watching this?

Um, the show is sort of a love letter to where I grew up, which is Guatemala, and also where I became an adult, which is New York City. And so I sort of try to blend both both senses of humor and like find common ground so that people can I believe that humor is a really empathy building tool, you know? So if you see somebody that doesn't look like you going through things that you can relate to, then maybe next time you see them it won't be that different, you know? Sometimes we do. Yeah. Okay. And I also like to wear wigs, okay? That's at the heart of it. It's not that heroic. I just like to play dress-up.

I love that. Well, what inspired you to do this project? Besides the wigs?

Besides the wigs, both the nails. Um, well, I just felt like there was a narrative out there about what it meant to be somebody like me, and I thought that narrative was incorrect. And so I find that humor can also be an instructive tool, you know? And the show is really well-meaning, you know? We're we're not trying to be mean. We're just trying to sort of like dispel some of the ignorance. So I thought if I didn't see anything like that out there, I might as well write it myself. Yeah, I think I had to learn how to write. Oh my god. And read. Oh my god. That's tricky. But it says, still have it nailed it. I like it with the accent. Uh, yeah, so so that's just how it came about.

That's so cool. And I feel like those types of shows are honestly like the coolest where you guys are making audiences laugh, but you are teaching something as well. Would you agree?

Yes. More than anything, teaching people to love brunch, you know? And Yeah, it's I think listen, a lot of the show has nothing to do with politics or with being Latin, you know? Uh, we always try to put funny first, but if every now and then you can like talk about some real issues and sugarcoat it with a little bit of comedy, I think why not?

I love that. If you could have anyone on your show, like a guest star, who would it be and why?

We almost had Gloria Stefan. We she said she agreed. Like I sent her this letter, like this sort of like heartfelt letter. And she had to go do a documentary in Brazil. So she we would have to push for a month, but like that was like a close call of like, oh my god, life, what is life? But Ali Wong would be awesome on the show. She speaks perfect Spanish, you know that?

Wow. Yeah, congrats. I wish I could speak perfect Spanish. I learned to like a little bit high school, but yeah, I wish I had studied a little bit harder.

Everybody everybody in America is like, I took seven years of Spanish. Ola. Like, oh, that's really good. You know what? Sometimes in schools though, that's what you learn for the seven years. I'm like, where is Pablo who goes to the playa? Like I've never been in a situation where I needed to ask somebody where Pablo at the playa was. I know where Pablo is, you know? He's at the playa. Obviously.

That's so good. Okay. What are three things that you think someone needs to have while benjing your show?

Uh, definitely some snacks. Um, some hand lotion, you know, in case it gets, you know, it gets a little dry sometimes, you know? It does. Uh, and some tissues for just like the tears, just the streaming tears of laughter. And and sadness that you'll experience. It's a drama. It's it's misunderstood. It's actually it's actually my version of uh of very sad movies. Uh, no, I think you just need to like have a comfortable couch, you know?

Perfect. Good sense of humor and to enjoy. I love that.

Yeah. And snacks, you know.

Okay, what kind of snacks?

I'm a Nutella fiend. Like seriously, I can't have it around you know, like when I used to have roommates, she would she would always have like a Nutella thing and I'd be like, oh, you can't tell and like spoon bowl by little spoonful. I'd like finish it, you know? And then I couldn't afford to buy her a new one. I tried to like water it up. It was like so so nasty. But so I can't like I and I live close to a really good ice cream place. So it takes a lot of willpower. I'm actually feeding for it right now. Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry. We don't have any for you, but next time I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That was Patricia. That was not I was not saying who was that that just came out. Nobody. Don't. Stop it. It's going to be like this guy is insane. No, promise you I'm completely.

They're going to love this. They're going to love it.

Completely normal. And they're definitely going to love this part. Lastly, I want you to describe your show in three facial expressions. Oh. So look straight at camera for me. Go ahead and do them. Yep. I love the noises with the on too. You're amazing. You are amazing. Thank you so much for hanging out. Congratulations. We can't wait to watch. That's great. Ciao.

Thank you.