Name: Jimmy O. Yang Answers The Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED
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反身代名詞

Yang, and this is the Wired Autocomplete Interview. ["Wired"] Can't say I've Googled myself.

情態副詞

No, I've actually Googled myself many times. ["Wired"] All right, very excited about this.

Usually when white people come up to me, they say, oh, Silicon Valley, Jin Yang, hilarious.

When Asian people come up to me, they know me from stand-up, they know me from Crazy Rich Asians.

A lot of immigrants come up to me, like Chinese immigrants, Japanese, they're like, your stand-up special got, you know, subtitled and translated in Chinese, and that's how I know you.

And a lot of times Chinese people, they call stand-up comedy talk shows.

Oh, and a lot of girls, younger, older, come up to me because of Love Heart, this rom-com I did with Nina Dobrev on Netflix.

Yes, that was actually one of my proudest projects to date, based on real-life movie about the Boston Marathon bombing, which was a very dark day in our country, and I get to play this character, Danny Mang, that kind of became the hero and saved the day.

He was a Chinese immigrant student, and he got carjacked and kidnapped by the Boston bombers, and he ran away, escaped, and was able to call the cops, remember his tag numbers, and that's how they found the two bombers that led to the shootout in Watertown and the capture of these bombers.

So, I get to kind of talk to and interview Danny every day at a great time in Boston, and I thought it was just such an important story, and it was the first drama I did, and Peter Borg was a great director, and it was good to kind of prove to myself that I could be a good dramatic actor, and it gave me a lot of confidence in that sense, but also, it was just such a great story to tell.

I do have a lot of jokes about my dad, and those have became some of the most popular jokes, and yeah, my dad is just naturally like a pretty funny, charismatic person, pretty easy to make fun of.

He started acting after I did, and that is true.

We just recently did a commercial together.

At times, I'm like, is this kind of seeping into my life a little too much?

I think that's a line maybe I said in my standup, or my character Jing Yang has said on Silicon Valley.

I'm not so sure how that became a top search, but that's a really interesting phrase, because for every character I play on TV, on film, I try to have a mantra.

Right before every scene when I was that Jing Yang character, I would say, I don't know in Chinese.

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.

Either he doesn't care to know, or he doesn't care about these people to know, or he truly is a bit lost.

So that was kind of like my mantra for the Jing Yang character is, I don't know.

I didn't think I was that good of a singer, but it all came together pretty well.

This is the remix of the lyrics of Baby It's Cold Outside to a more appropriate lyrics, and it's me and Nina Dobrev doing a kind of duet.

He'll be like, oh, your net worth went up?

I'm like, I wouldn't listen to any of these sites.

Yang economics, I'm pretty sure it's because I was an econ major in college.

I went in as a mechanical engineering major, and I was too much of a slacker.

And I was like, I'm never gonna graduate as a mechanical engineer.

So I picked the easiest major that would still appease my Asian parents, which was economics.

I don't think I've disappointed any Asians.

But this was the subtitle of my book, which is How to American, The Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents.

I think there's a lot of jokes about me disappointing my parents, being a disappointing Asian to my parents.

I hope I'm not actually out there disappointing Asian people.

I started doing standup, and that's not a very Asian thing.

You know, that's not something that my parents consider as a real job.

They wanted me to be in finance, in, you know, maybe a lawyer, doctor, like real jobs to them.

So me being a standup, an actor, I disappointed them for many, many years.

But like I said in my book, to me, it was better to disappoint my parents for a couple years than to disappoint myself for the rest of my life.

So I had to take a risk, take a chance, and try something that I love.

This became a thing, the kind of light blue jacket I wore on my second special, Guess How Much.

It was a really cool jacket, and a lot of people start Googling where I got it from.

It was a brand that my stylist at the time hooked me up with, and I think it was a Chinese brand that has since went out of business.

Of course, if there's enough demand, I think there's now a site that sells the Jimmy O.

Yang Guess How Much jacket, like a bootleg one.

I started standup comedy when I was 21 years old, junior year of college.

This is when you could go into a comedy club.

Anybody usually under age of 21, you have to wait outside a comedy club and then get in your set when it's your turn.

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