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hey guys welcome to my channel we're in

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a hotel right now because we are going

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to see Silicon Valley actor Jimmy o yang

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I am so excited he's like the best

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character in the TV show because he

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represents us immigrants in the United

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States super excited let's go and see

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buddy not Jamie oh yes interview a

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I'm so excited

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you have my favorites look at the

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character really don't tell anybody else

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I saw your show yesterday it was I was

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loving like crazy I was surprised about

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3,000 people okay yeah it was pretty

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packed in the north's theater san

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francisco is awesome where are you

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nervous yesterday no it was great cuz

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you know I get to do some stand-up in

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the beginning and then sit down and have

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a conversation kind of like this so it

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was it was just fun like I do a

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conversation in front of a live audience

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as a comedian I think I'm pretty

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comfortable with that cool I think it

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was San Francisco style because in San

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Francisco one would do something would

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you like sit down and talk and then QA

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even in the theater

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you are right so it's like it seems more

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legit yeah instead of just a guide to

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extend that it was cool it was really

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cool let's talk about the book you just

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released I read it well I listen to an

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audio book when it's light I'm like this

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is gonna be my favorite book because I

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get to the stage three years ago and you

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know I've never read a book about you

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know immigrants it's just my blog and

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everything so what made you write this

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book I think for people to relate

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because like you said there aren't a lot

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of material out there about immigrants

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and Asian immigrants or any kind of

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immigrants right so I want people to

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read this be like oh my god I went

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through that I have a dad that didn't

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want me to go into you know comedy or

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like the arts and then I did it you know

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just like this guy so I want people to

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kind of not feel so crazy about

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themselves going through the

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assimilation process you know and also I

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think it's important now for people to

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kind of see immigrants in a humanizing

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way instead of just like a political

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issue yeah so hopefully through my point

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of view people can just read like a fun

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story in your book you said that you mum

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freaked out when you bought a $50

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t-shirt yes oh my god like she's not

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cheap she's always looking for a good

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deal and so I can now who's never

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allowed to buy anything at full price

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yeah Ross Marshalls night or waiting for

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discounts at Nordstrom Rack my fares

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because it just came I was like you know

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it's the same thing in Nordstrom Rack

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why'd you go to Nordstrom yeah which is

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true I want a new fridge a smarter

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fridge like this

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$14,000 I ordered already I buy it for

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myself then why are you talking to me

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about it to make you feel bad because

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you're fat and the poor do you still

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maintain any of those Chinese habits I

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try not to but I've anxiety when I shop

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like whenever I go even like buy couch

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or something I need some kind of

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discount it's just like

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five dollars off so I feel a little

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better about myself you know it's not

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even a monetary money thing it's

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definitely a mental thing for me what's

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your most expensive piece of cloth right

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now oh I just got this yesterday this is

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super nice this is a $70 like kind of

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velvet pajamas from nest Betty what

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peeps okay so you're gonna tell your mom

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about it I don't know I'm just gonna say

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I got a threesome that's Kate yeah your

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parents didn't understand you ascends up

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things you mentioned in your book and

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that happens to a lot of kids was there

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a moment when you realize no they

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appreciate what I'm doing I don't know

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what they still do maybe my dad was an

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audience yesterday at the show was he

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yeah so afterwards he came over when

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everybody's taking a picture and it was

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cool you know I love have his moment but

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um I think he understands some of it you

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know in the Q&A is and stuff like that

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and he understands oh my god a lot of

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people coming to see my kid that's very

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cool but he still doesn't understand

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some of the culture or humor and he was

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so into stuff in the book I think he's

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kind of embarrassed about you know when

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I when I said like him I my mom used to

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argue and stuff like there's a kid you

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can't tell people that and he made it a

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point he was screaming in the cry as day

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that this book is 90% true and 10%

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fiction and I'm like dad he's just

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throwing me under the bus what are you

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doing this book is not true you know

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you're just completely undermining what

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I was just doing on stage but he's a

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prideful old Chinese man you know so he

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needs to do that I eat a fish I

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understand you eat the fish but when you

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clean the fish you can't just leave the

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fish head and gut some [ __ ] in the sink

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because the whole house smells like a

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bait station so gotta put it in the

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trash and then take the trash out dear

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Stan yes I eat the fish mother

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have you ever received complaints about

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your jokes like from Chinese people mmm

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not too much my stand-up sometimes maybe

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my character in Silicon Valley in the

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beginning I think people was like oh

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this guy's an accent and character and

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stuff like that but then as they saw the

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carrot to progress into more of a

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three-dimensional character I think

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people are pretty happy about it and now

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he's just kind of an [ __ ] the kind of

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a funny [ __ ] so people like liked him

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for that that's cool because sometimes

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when it joke about Russians here in

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America I guess really every comments

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like that's right yeah it's like a pride

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and secrecy thing like you don't tell

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anyone everything right but I think it's

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important to share these stories like

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even some of the very honest moments in

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the book like when my mom left to go

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back to Shanghai I was having a hard

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time writing it but I thought it'll be

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important to write it for other people

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that maybe have gone through the same

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thing maybe their parents didn't

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assimilate as well or maybe they came to

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this country by themselves to kind of

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see this story and be like hey I'm

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hopefully gonna turn out okay awesome

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this morning you put your soda cans in

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the green one okay that's not right

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the green is for grass and leaves okay

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the blue one is for recycling go ahead

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and put those in there yeah very good

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the black one is for all other trash do

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you understand yes which is for burning

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no we don't burn trash in this country

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it's illegal you never burn trash okay

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can you say that I never burn trash I

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never burn trash yes what about garbage

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when you started doing your stand-up you

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said you were doing this for free even

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for the bottles of beer yes that's true

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really I think makes me make money out

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of it I think it's a step by step thing

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right like a first you just trying to

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get stage time doing open mics getting

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good you

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and then you hope to get some college

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gigs maybe $1,000 here and there and

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then you get there and that was like oh

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my god this is amazing

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mmm and then you get some like other

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gigs and then you get some TV stuff two

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lines on TV like this is amazing but I

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never thought I would be like a series

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regular on like a fifth season of the

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HBO show so everything just kind of

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happens step-by-step and it kind of just

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unfolded I always say like sometimes you

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don't necessarily need to know every

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step to get to the goal mm-hmm but just

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know what your goal is and kind of you

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know just be happy along the journey and

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they'll unfold when was this transition

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from being a stand-up comedian to an

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actor when did you decide I'm gonna go

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audition for I was just hoping that I

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would get a couple commercials every

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year so I can get some residuals and

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like sustain myself being a comedian but

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then like I said you know just step by

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step like the first thing I got was like

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two lines of two Broke Girls and I

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thought that was like beyond my wildest

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range to be like in sag to have two

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lines on a TV show that was crazy

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mm-hm and then that led to something

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else a little bigger and then that led

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to something else and even Silicon

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Valley started something really small it

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was just two line part parallel to like

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the headliner like maybe a main like

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pain-in-the-ass on the show like okay

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but but a series regular on the show so

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yeah I'm super happy about that that's

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really cool

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so let's talk a little about the accent

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I don't hear any accent let me speak I

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still hear my accent so what is the

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advice you would give to people like me

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how do you learn hmm I came in like 13

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so I think that was a pretty good age

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but also I watched a lot of television

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when I came here I did have an accent

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and I just imitated you know my favorite

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American actors and also I watched a lot

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of B et the plaque and I am in

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television and Rap City comic view I

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love the hip-hop culture you know it's

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almost developed like a hip-hop kind of

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way of speaking and that come on

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and I kind of covered up my original

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accent for some reason so I was I would

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say definitely you know just immerse

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yourself in the whole culture you know

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talk to your friends in English

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watch watch TV shows in English and read

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an English something everything is very

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important important to be immersed in

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that culture and talk and listen and

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speak and work everything out in English

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so you know guess what just because my

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business is a study abroad yeah don't

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talk to anybody else sir if you can't

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pay for the tickets I really don't see

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how that's possible what if we do like a

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little in a nap thing I just go in there

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ten minutes you know have one cocktail

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to three Max's he doesn't mean yes I'm

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hungry

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does anybody have an extra ticket my

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investor cannot pay that's actually not

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true they think they must have misplaced

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the tickets no we have everyone's

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tickets here can you please check Eric

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Blackmon er I see it's not at all how

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it's spelled here let's go check out a

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nice night thank you when people ask you

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where are you from what do you tell them

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now I tell them Hong Kong and then but I

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grew up both in Hong Kong and Los

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Angeles it depends if it's just an uber

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driver I'm just trying to not have too

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long or a conversation I'll tell Los

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Angeles because I have been there now

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for 17 years most of my life mm-hmm but

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if people want to really get into it you

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know telephone call 13 and what is your

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favorite thing about Uncle

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I just went back there for the first

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time in 17 years last year and I think

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the food and the culture like it's so

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cool that you see like a old Chinese

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restaurant that only serves like a

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brisket soup and they've been there for

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like 50 years

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mmm and then next to it it's like a

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massive glass building that's beautiful

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that was built last year that's you know

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80 stories high so seeing that kind of

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juxtaposition is really beauty

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cool do you see yourself ever going back

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to China yeah I want to actually maybe

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try some stand-up in China or like you

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know take my comedy there we'll see what

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happens not in the immediate plans in

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the future I will consider that maybe

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not move back for good but spend some

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good amount of time what is your big

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vision for your future we'll see I I

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wrote this book I want to turn it into

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TV show I think so maybe I have to

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Silicon Valley you'll see how to

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American TV show that is awesome

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agent yang how was how was last night it

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was said Eric

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he promised me Dina was a bigger meat

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big meat vehicle meet people meet people

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thing people say no you can't come in

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wait so you guys didn't get in we went

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to Taco Bell Eric he started crying in

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Taco Bell try to play much taco sauce

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talk through things you'll love in the

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United States

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hip-hop music entertainment and like

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movies and stuff like that thing we're

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still the capital and sports mm-hmm top

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three things you hate

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say whatever I think I I don't really

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like how things are like so polarizing

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in the politics and there's so much you

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know argument on TV every single second

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I don't really like the fact that

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compared to Hong Kong especially like

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cities like LA or most cities in America

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it's not very walkable you know yeah

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that's not really you know so there's

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not a like there's an ID on the streets

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I want to say food but there's just so

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much diverse food that's kind of a good

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thing actually because you can find a

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lot of good food but there's certain

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places that I can't find good Chinese

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food tell us so a typical day my typical

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day well like today I woke up in my

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hotel room you know I I'm doing this

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interview and then I'm going to Google

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today to do a talk and then after that I

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think there's one more interview have a

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good lunch

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hopefully I highly recommend chef's

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shoes and I might go there for some

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lunch and then I prepare for my show at

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night I'm doing a stand-up show in San

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Jose today oh so and then after that

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maybe another good meal and then just go

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to sleep

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wonder what if I told you there's a

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managing this is the assistant wait for

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the boss to pitch mom's outside okay oh

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the lady who's a smoke you said a no no

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start sorry Monica was smoking

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cigarettes cigarettes

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no no he's confused he's Chinese

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he's talking about this crack addict

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prostitute who saw the gas station she

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was smoking cigarettes so sad

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jinyang what are you doing this is Palo

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Alto your people are lunatics about

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smoking here we don't enjoy all the

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freedoms that you have in China right

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where people smoke all the time I don't

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a smoke itself a special occasions so

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you do smoke but have you been smoking

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in my house no there's no special

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occasion ever happen in your house top

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three apps that you use oh man um I use

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Instagram a lot but that's not

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surprising I think that's fun and I just

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scroll through a lot of memes oh I have

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this lighthouse app it's a camera it's a

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it's like nest camera but it's a smart

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camera as AI oh let me see like when my

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dog is doing like when my parents came

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home so it's like that that's really

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cool I can see how much he looks like

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yeah there's a funny so it's my plug

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monitor it's called lighthouse and let's

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see what else do I use Google Translate

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that's a great app oh you still

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translate things yeah because sometimes

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I don't read very well in Chinese

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anymore sadly oh I needed English yes or

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Chinese and something like that you know

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because my dad sends me a lot of Chinese

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articles and I just punch it a google

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translator great please do you ever take

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a picture yeah Google Translate and it

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tells you how to text so it's super

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super awesome advice for immigrants want

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to get into Hollywood oh I don't know I

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think it's not as intimidating as it

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seems you know I think it's just like

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anything else hard work does prevail you

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know in Hollywood it's not just luck

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it's not just a nepotism a lot of times

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I think immigrant parents don't think

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that's a real job but I'm here to tell

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you it is right like that's how I afford

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this pajama is being an actor yeah it's

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being an actor and in Hollywood so I

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think it's important to see other people

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like for me growing up to see Bobby Lee

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and ken Jeong you know people

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like me making it in Hollywood so hey I

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just want to say like it's possible even

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even with an accent it's awesome I mean

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look I don't really have an axe in real

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life but I played in one movie with Mark

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Wahlberg that I played and you know a

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real immigrant that had an accent and

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jingyang I've been playing this

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character five years you know so I think

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as long as you play authentically with

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humanity and take acting classes it's

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not just a natural talent you know it's

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a natural town that needs to be

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cultivated and you need to take acting

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classes so take acting classes and

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believe that it's possible any advice

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for open mic errs or anybody I want to

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try stand-up comedy I think you just

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gotta go onstage and try it you're not

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gonna be funny in the beginning okay so

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just try and Eric keep trying to keep

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grinding it out when I started I was

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going on open like seven days a week

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mm-hmm it trying to have as many shows

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as you can I don't care how crappy it is

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just do it stage time stage time stage

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time stage time is the most important

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things more important money when you

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first start stand-up comedy when you go

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stand in front of the Trump

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what can your talking oh man that's a

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good question huh

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look I'm American too I'm as American as

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anybody you've ever met I'm as American

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as you are and I and I think that's

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important for people to understand that

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because so many parts of the world in

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America and around the world see me as

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an Asian person before it would ever see

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me as an American even though I have an

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American passport so I think you know

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media representation that's important to

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change that but also just you know

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somebody like Trump could really maybe

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hear something like that

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like I am just American as you are Wow

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great thank you thank you so much Jimmy

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that was so inspiring thank you

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immigrants here in the States

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you are living the American dream thank

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you thank you right it was good meeting

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you

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thanks for watching and guys if you want

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to guess book please get it the link

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I'm laughing like crazy when they listen

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to it get both let's get the hardcopy an

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