The fourth installment of Ali Siddiq’s storytelling series “The Domino Effect” arrives on Father’s Day. The first three chapters have garnered some 20 million views and counting.
A couple of years ago, at the age of 49—three decades removed from an FBI drug bust that sent him to prison, and 24 years into his career as an ex-con turned stand-up comedian—Ali Siddiq was still seeking his big break in show business., found him back in a Texas jail performing for inmates, but it came and went on Comedy Central after a few airings in 2018.
“I still talk to my mom. And when things go wrong, or when I don’t understand something, I immediately tell my mother,” he says. “And I know women are like, ‘You talking to your mama.’ Or men are like, ‘Oh, you’re a mama’s boy.’ And I’m like, ‘Yep, sure am, and somebody who has been living 70 years and has more experience than me, why wouldn’t I go ask her about a situation? She’s been right my whole life. She’s been right for 50 years. She’s been wrong about one thing.
“I do, ‘Mexican Got on Boots.’ That's what it’s affectionately called. It's called ‘Prison Riot.’ And then I come back on and I do ‘Mitchell’ ,” he says, adding he went back a third time when Roy Wood Jr. replaced Shaffir as host, and told a story about doing mushrooms with Shaffir (“, where Siddiq beat out Rife among NBC judges Kenan Thompson, Chrissy Teigen, and Jeff Foxworthy to reach the finals.
“Before me, I didn’t ever hear anybody talking about not moving to L.A. or New York to start their career,” he says. “I never heard it. In 26 years, I. I was the first person that I ever heard say, man I’m staying home, I’m staying in Houston, and they are gonna find me.”
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