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Your show blends a lot of comedy
and trauma.

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Is that fair to say? It's
very fair to say.

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I wanted to ask, were you worried about
one overdoing the other?

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Were you worried about balancing
the two like,

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oh, this is too much yucking it up
or we're talking about some serious shit

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or this is too much trauma
and this is meant to be a comedy.

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That's a really smart question
because I can tell you, hands down,

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that was the most difficult thing
in the entire series,

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was balancing the trauma with the comedy.

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Would you like to try some chocolate
hummus?

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You say chocolate
hummus is insult to my grandmother.

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Oh, siento.
I did not know that this was Mexican.

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You got to have it.

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And whenever you do have a subject matter,
like immigration,

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statelessness, displacement, you're going
to get into a very serious topic.

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Yeah, sometimes very gut wrenching
and things

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that are very deeply personal to me
based off of my story.

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So I was very worried about like

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being that person on camera.

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But once we got into it,

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I realized how good it was for me,
how cathartic it was for me.

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And you know how, you know, the audience

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will tell right away
that it's an authentic experience.