In Season 2 of 'This Fool,' Chris Estrada ramps up the crises and dark jokes
LOS ANGELES — When Chris Estrada was growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, he got to see the gestalt of the region. He learned to drive at a young age, "like 13 or 14," he says, as a necessity. His mom worked two jobs while his grandma watched the kids.
"My mom would be like, 'Si se pone mala tu abuelita, la tienes [que] manajar al hospital' [If your grandma gets sick, you have to drive her to the hospital]" he recalls.
Over time, he got to know the area, driving through downtown L.A., Koreatown, Hollywood, Compton and the neighborhoods he grew up in: Inglewood and South-Central.
With the slice-of-life Hulu comedy that Estrada helped create and in which he stars, he is showing a part of Los Angeles, and its people, that is rarely seen on screen. After developing a loyal following in the stand-up comedy circuit over the past roughly 10 years by, in part, sharing observations of his Mexican American working-class family,
