A camera crew showed up to Tacos Tu Madre on a weekday to film a group of middle-aged dads in matching numbered hats. That sentence still does not feel real to type.
But it happened. KTLA’s L.A. Unscripted ran a segment called “For a Good Time: The DILFs of Larchmont,” and somehow the goofiest thing I have ever started is now something a television station decided was worth a few minutes of Los Angeles airtime.
I did not set out to run a club that ends up on the local news. I set out to grill some meat and talk to other dads. Here is how the first thing turned into the second.
From a Backyard to a Broadcast
The DILFs of Larchmont did not start as a club. It started as the Backyard Comedy Series, which I began hosting at my house in 2022 because I had moved to Los Angeles and could not figure out how to make friends as a grown man. If you have tried this recently, you know it is genuinely hard.
The dads kept coming back. At some point we gave ourselves a name, ordered hats, and started meeting every month. People ask all the time who decided we were DILFs. The answer has never changed: we did. We did.
I told the full origin story in DILFs of Larchmont: LA’s Most Exclusive Dad Club, and the comedy side of it lives in Laughs on Larchmont: A Comedy Crawl for a Cause. The short version is that a group of dads decided to take fatherhood a little less seriously and, weirdly, a lot more seriously at the same time.
What the Segment Got Right
The KTLA piece is part of their “For a Good Time” franchise, which turned out to be exactly the right home for us. The crew came to our monthly meetup at Tacos Tu Madre, on the corner of Larchmont and Melrose, and they filmed the parts that actually matter: the hand-numbered hats, the poker, the happy hours, and yes, the Krav Maga class.
We are dads. Our slogan is “Protect and Provide.” We took the “protect” half literally and signed up for self-defense lessons as a group, which is either very responsible or very ridiculous. Both, probably.
What I appreciated most is that the segment did not play the club as a joke at our expense. It is a funny club. I am DILF #1, a title that comes with the rank of Grand High DILF, and I make every member’s hat by hand and number it myself. That is objectively silly. But KTLA understood that the silliness is the delivery mechanism, not the point. You can watch the full segment below. Or you can watch it on Instagram by clicking here.
Conclusion
Getting on KTLA is a fun milestone, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. But the broadcast is not the win. The win is that a dad somewhere in Larchmont Village who feels a little isolated can watch three minutes of local news, see a bunch of guys in dumb numbered hats having an obviously good time, and think, “I could do that.”
If you are a dad in or around Larchmont Village, come find us at Tacos Tu Madre. And if you want to see what the DILFs get up to next, follow @thedilfsoflarchmont on Instagram. We remain, after all, only slightly easier to get into than Harvard. Slightly.