Raging Fool

Felipe Esparza’s 2025 Netflix special Raging Fool gets its best mileage when he targets his own vulnerabilities, like trying to stay healthy as a middle-aged Latino whose body is actively rejecting his diet. Taped at the historic Crest Theatre in Sacramento, the hour finds the former Last Comic Standing winner leaning into the domestic friction of his marriage, specifically his attempts to keep things exciting and his complicated relationship with dairy, which he argues is a far more immediate threat to his life than the street drugs of his youth.

Directed by his wife and producing partner, Lesa ODaniel-Esparza, the show serves as the comedian’s follow-up to his 2020 release, Bad Decisions. This time around, Esparza focuses on a tightly structured set about aging, family dynamics, and the tough-love lessons of his mother. His storytelling remains rooted in the working-class perspective of his East Los Angeles upbringing, but the viewpoint has shifted to that of a man comfortable with his domestic routine, even when that routine involves dodging his wife’s veganism and navigating modern political divides within his community.