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We’re having withdrawals!
It’s been nearly two years since we’ve written about super-gay actor and comedian Alec Mapa, but that all changes today.
After launching a successful crowdfunding campaign to film his comedy special, Baby Daddy, the fruits of his non-vaginal labor are finally ripe and ready for the devouring.
Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy (Showtime, 10 p.m., Friday): Comedian Mapa’s one-man show about his seriocomic struggles after he and his partner embark on adoption as a gay couple.
Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy premieres on Showtime tonight, at a moment when theSupreme Court is considering gay marriage, and Michigan just made it legal to deny LGBT families a chance to provide stable homes for the state’s 13,000 children in foster care.
“I just couldn’t take conservative pundits passing judgment on LGBT families any longer,” Alec explains why he created his award-winning one-man show. “I couldn’t take hearing that my marriage wasn’t legitimate or that gay adoption was harmful to children. Creating and performing this show was a way to beak down that hateful narrative and replace it with an authentic truthful telling of how my husband and I created our family through foster adoption. The main message is my family’s not all that different from yours. We all want the same things. The only difference is we’re gay, so we want nicer things.”
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When was the last time a riotous, raunchy standup comedy act melted your heart and left you bawling like a baby? Grab a hankie (or 12) and check out the new Showtime special Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy (premiering Friday, June 12, 10/9c), in which Filipino actor Alec Mapa (Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Devious Maids) hilariously details how he and his husband, Jamie Hebert, who is white, came to adopt Zion, a five-year-old black boy, and become a family “that looks like the last two minutes of It’s a Small World.” Mapa gave us the sweet deets.
Friday’s TV Highlights: ‘Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy’ on Showtime
By ED STOCKLY JUNE 11, 2015, 8:00 PM
Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy The comic and actor (“Switched at Birth”) talks about adopting a foster child with his husband as well as off-color topics in this expanded version of his hit one-man comedy show. 10 p.m. Showtime
TV highlights: ‘Orange Is the New Black’ returns to Netflix for a third season
On the stand-up special “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” (Showtime at 10), the comedian focuses on life after he and his husband adopted a 5-year-old.
by Jim Halterman | June 11, 2015 at 9:38 AM | LGBT, Showtime
I first saw the film “Baby Daddy” last year when it hit the festival circuit and I expected to laugh at the biting, spot-on comedy of Alec Mapa’s stand-up but what surprised me was the heartfelt depth of the portrayal of family in the film.
Mapa, known for roles on shows like “Ugly Betty” and “Switched at Birth,” lets the cameras into his personal life with his partner, Jamie Hebert, and how life changed when they adopted 5-year old, Zion and don’t be surprised if you don’t walk away with a clearer understanding of what a family is in 2015.
I talked to the always engaging Mapa last week about the film, which is set to air on Showtime this Friday, as well as his role on the new season of the Lifetime soapy hit, “Devious Maids.”
By David Wiegand
June 10, 2015
Alec Mapa stars in his own Showtime special at 10 p.m., “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy.” The San Francisco-born Mapa is a well known actor, comic and writer, who got his big break replacing another talented San Francisco native, BD Wong, in David Henry Hwang’s “M Butterfly.”
GLAAD’s Entertainment Media Strategist
Bobby Hankinson of Towleroad listed Alec Mapa Baby Daddy as a highlight on this week’s TV schedule:
6/08/2015
WHAT TO WATCH THIS WEEK ON TV:
‘ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK’ RETURNS; ALEC MAPA MAKES ‘EM LAUGH
Hilarious gay comedian Alec Mapa breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly of parenting in his new special Baby Daddy, Friday at 10 p.m. Eastern on Showtime.