Joe Rogan Experience #1490 — Jimmy O. Yang Transcript

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0:00 Hey, what's up, brother? It's like they're trying to get it out of our system. I can do writing, whatever. They can eat shit. it's just not the right place. Dave Chappelle's got a very unique solution. And, you know, he also, I think, he just figured out how to improvise. Yeah, yeah. We're making history over here, Joe Rogan. Boom. People that are really into being from Brooklyn and people that are really into telling you they're a vegan, together at last.

3:18 day because it's improvised. Ever since they remodeled it, that lab, half the room is a bar. room it's a tough room and sometimes um you you want to start in that small room and then do cocky because I just killed. I'm like I know how to kill They don't listen. Well, that's the other green okay. No, I haven't seen the other one green rooms, huh? It's a nice environment.

5:39 bar and you know some girls come talk to you like you know you have to swim I got to talk to you about something. I was like, sure. I'm out of town. Yeah. It's always good to get on stage in weird crowds. Do you know what I'm saying? You see someone really, really, really bad, and there's nothing to comedy. Yeah. really bad openers You know? but really smart and good.

8:46 Oh, my God. Hilarious guy, right? doesn't seem right. In the early there's a lot of gesturing, and they're like, Isn't that a funny name? But they call themselves urban clubs. Isn't that that one? I remember. He was like, are you sure? Because it's just, if everybody's doing it, you're not. stuff and yeah got everybody riled up and then mitch would go on there hey man and everything

12:25 I said, listen, we had a bunch of issues there. Mike's the best, but he wouldn't let Joey go up. crowd older too they're like jay leno fans yeah, yeah. Because Jay Leno used to work out his Tonight Show set every Sunday night there. They're really nice. And then you go to Comedy Magic Club. I think, I opened up a check. people come up to me like hey hey, man, that was funny.

15:12 It's a weird one. because they're too careful you know and and that's like kind of weird you know right yeah But just to like for Asian folks, like also people get upset if you can't It could. We're a little more, I guess, progressive or whatever. losing their autonomy to China, does that freak you out? They're like, we're going to colonize you, but just 100 years and here you can have it back.

18:35 Because my dad grew up 50s, 60s, communist revolution. my father's father in jail just because jail because they were complaining i think it's it's a mixture of things yeah you just they just stories that my parents told me during the communist revolution how they got fucked over Yeah, right. just goes yeah but then i guess you hope that it's a decent person you know in control uh that's the

21:15 this was something that I don't know if you know about this part of the Patriot Act that He won't comment on it. I don't care about that, though. I know Jamie's at home. You should be able to reveal what you want to reveal and if the government Which is just a bunch of people can peer into your life, but you can't peer into their life. Yeah, it sets up abuse

22:50 He said he seemed to have fallen too easily. are conspiracy guys, of, uh, And he just destroyed. No. Yeah. Yeah. Like a pro wrestler. Oh, yikes. All this protest shit, he's falling apart. Yeah. Make sure I'm right about that. Here's why. And they're gonna use tear gas on these people and just shoot rubber bullets randomly at folks. And under pressure when people are angry at him because of all this.

26:51 Like, I've done that before. But you don't do that as the president in public about health issues. If you're over 18, go do it. I stay off Twitter. things that are going on on Twitter Witch hunts and they go after folks for jokes from 14 years ago and attack them and put up yeah and then people take those things out of context and they pretend that

29:36 Because you can't really say anything. for now they can't for now but as things get more and more ridiculous eventually one day they'll be able to get mad at you for that. Well, the thing is a lot of people tweeted or fires me. I've said a million job like where someone hires me or fires me because trying to get them canceled. They have rocks. It's just like a looter in a lot of ways. They

31:38 celebrities to hire That's actually a good idea for actors. or you're going to be a sitcom actor, What have you been writing on your own, you fucking weirdo? It could happen. I would 100% speak up for you. He actually didn't hire no black people because blah, blah. guy who had a tweet about this. I'm going to pull this up. Um, there's a gentleman named,

34:56 His Twitter handle is Alan, A-L-A-N-L-E-V-I-N-O-V-I-T-Z. You're getting 280 characters. It's hard. face to face, I wouldn't say certain things to you. We should all delete our Twitters. Well, you're smart. I was just angry as an Asian person reading this. I became the mob, forget it. I'm only going to retweet When they were doing it, It's weird. And he had some fucking great sketches.

39:07 But no, yeah, I get it. You know, look I get it man, especially being a minority in America Asians had this representative, And then bursts onto the scene And Bruce Lee fans, like myself, we were like, all right, I'll take it. i have had girls tell me this is uh just anecdotally can't hate me for the story but i Like I swear when Crazy Rich Asians came out and everybody was watching it people wanted want to start fucking Asian dudes

41:35 or 10 more crazy rich Asians, you know, I'm going to go fuck an Asian guy tonight. porn star. There's something Do you think Dave Chappelle just started slinging dick? You think so? doing things with porn i'm sure i'm sure i'm right this, but who wants that doggy style yeah, yeah dog Oh, yeah, we can't really see this, right? the other room. I don't really remember that.

44:44 I mean, I'm no detective, but that girl's got her pants off. And they're all dancing and everybody's having a good time. It's out in a party. We'll see. she probably likes men and she has sex porn star who became kind of an actress Yeah, she's, I think, a decent actress. after his career. From Screech? Yeah, I think is grouped into that Do you know Vincent Gallo, the actor?

47:19 That was recent. That sounds, I don't know what the story is, but that sounds kind of shady and me too. Oh, Savigny. He did some interesting shit. What is that his Buffalo movie? You could simulate violence, right? Could you have simulated sex? This is just rubber on plastic. Now that you're talking about real sex scenes inside of a movie, Yeah, they have different standards.

50:06 For them, they're like, do you want to watch people fuck? They're all created by a computer. their brains beaten. I haven't seen it why are you making me his brain is splattered But if you had a scene in that movie where a man went down on a woman who was eating her pussy and you could see him eating her pussy, people are like, this is outrageous. She's happy.

51:58 There's like 40 or 50 people that don't even touch it. And I didn't like it because I was like, oh, I wish the storyline would go faster or the, you know, character would get developed faster. is that the case jamie that people don't really know about that much you just don't hear his name That's gross. like especially today People would have to sign consent forms.

54:35 what am I, I've been, of that ridiculously bad movie It's obviously kind of making fun of this guy. even if he's the nail. So there's an email my agent sent me. I was like, I was like, Oh, I met that dude. But I thought it was that one dude who was a shooter at the university. nothing wrong with that brother it's not his fault that might be an interesting story

57:15 It's the opposite of Bruce Lee. Exactly. He want to make it. Have we ran out of that's a part of the problem actual events that's totally unrelated. They don't care about your reputation. But they're doing that with him it's different because he's got a problem it's not like he's a guy like it's form. Like, you can talk to them. Perfect. Line him up. Because people laugh. They know people laugh. And why are people laughing? guy's off something's all you know he's off yeah but they like perfect run it perfect line them up

1:00:49 And I really looked into that. what's great about uh crazy rich asians and i had a lot of fun on that movie because for one of the It's all good. You know, it's interesting that when someone gets offended at racial stereotypes society puts it through This is offensive. So it's, it doesn't hold any water. whatever. Mentally handicapped guy, Never go full retard. But didn't he get an Oscar nomination for being in Blackface?

1:04:21 yeah it's i think they said they called it racially insensitive well but They just want to push me on camera for diversity, Yeah, so if I have a Puerto Rican picture of me, Because, like, you have, who's, like, who are the most, there's a lot of famous Puerto Ricans. Yeah. when they came here, But by the time I was a grown man, it's like that kind of like anti-italian racism is non-existent basically

1:07:00 He's like he's like try finding a fucking good gym in an Italian hotel But you could too. anti-Italian sentiment in this complain if you're Italian. You can. it's ridiculous yeah you know uh lonzo botan uh said this jokingly to But that's kind of what you're saying. Asian guys, good at math. I really believe that this moment, the reason why these people are in the streets, the reason why there's all, take away the looting, just the peaceful protests.

1:09:53 We're getting better at everything. And the only difference is that we came from different climates. about black lives matter educate me or whatever like we're past that like when i'm talking i'm Like we're just, you know, you're just I'm your Asian consultant or whatever there's so much work to be done yeah that happened But that's just part of being human like we you have to see the bad things and just go this is fucking gross

1:12:04 like more things that like – that resonate with how we want the world to be yeah yeah yeah absolutely and um I've been saying that to you- Well, you don't know my dick game. Stand-up in itself? It is a meritocracy. shows that I would never have gotten to do one year in because there were asian shows so i was able to fit something you female friends that are comics about stand-up

1:14:21 Ali Wong and I had a conversation about it Absolutely. automatically her politically her political opinions nobody wants to hear men don't want For men, it just has to be funny. that um women have to be better. Well, how old were you when you started stand-up? I think it's harder for women See, there's a thing about stand-up too. Right. And so it gives the, so dopey men already think they can do what you do.

1:18:14 driving an airplane you know uh or flying an airplane but when you get to that like daniel Yeah, you suck. Really? I was like 21 and he was late 30s. And then I believe it was, I forget who the comic was that was in the audience. voice he had a hard life boston accent hard life and um he's a funny fucking dude and he would go It's like he's been doing open mics for five months.

1:20:52 Get loose. and you walk off the stage, you're killing it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. But there's something really nice about that. a terrible set and their friend bust their balls You trust the process. It came out two weeks ago, I think. I guess not so true anymore, you know, after the whole COVID thing. And I was like, I was kind of kicking myself.

1:23:08 Yeah, it's hard now. Yeah. Or do we talk about something totally different? and that's what we saw during the looting and the riots. They just want to smash and loot. ideas of fairness and rules chaos mode. You got weapons. You got to get the fuck out. People can always shoot you. and, you know, I think, like, I've seen people get beat up, man, I can detain them I can I could submit them

1:27:15 some girl in the face for no reason walk amongst us free until they commit Seeing sketchy people and knowing you've got to have that spidey sense. now and then you want something to be just a little bit fucking dirty makes you feel a little these truths that everybody kind of there's a danger to that right Joey Diaz does it a different way. doing. One of the things that I do is I do stand-up. I listen to that stand-up, and then I write.

1:30:25 But that one line I would have never gotten. Because I know many people that I came up with that are much funnier than me naturally, I think. They love that feeling of killing. shit, I'm gonna laugh at you. And the hit and the weird point, now I can't come write some new shit now. And it hit in a weird point. I don't need to impress a manager in the audience or another comedy.

1:32:17 let the good times roll. I'd be like, he's eating a dick just like I have. I disagree. You know what I mean? Because if Harvey Weinstein did that to my daughter, wow and i was like how would i feel if that was a woman it was like this disgusting woman mind-filled terrain yeah I'm going through here. Oh, yeah. gay people do but I want you to know Do you, I guess what I try to do now, especially with the landscape of the stand-up comedy specials I see,

1:36:36 So I always try to, her thing is probably like maybe 50% TED Talk like i had this conversation with comics about it like i thought it was weird when they were It's huge. who's totally silly. about her own pain, They want to see something interesting. get weird. They do. And if you saw Harlan on paper, That's his. Yeah. but it's also interesting. and that it's not my style of comedy, but it's so silly and absurd.

1:40:37 I would never write a joke like that BET Comic View. heard of it and then i came to america and i was trying to learn english just by watching tv because it wasn't just jokes you know, And then only later on when I got into comedy, I was like, oh, wow. Like, I'd seen all these funny movies. Sort of. like when did you know I promised I'll be a comedian.

1:43:58 made money was in finance whatever real jobs quote unquote you know um so i i was just i was about to graduate college with so then I took jujitsu classes with the girls and then I tried like different things like It was horrific. I just dove into it, not just for the love of comedy and the arts, You know, I have a lot of friends now. either. So it was a really good feeling because it wasn't

1:47:02 to make friends and trying to everybody that was coming up to me in the streets like yo jing yang silicon valley whatever and uh Yeah. I was like, I got to get back to work. They feel what's going on in your head when you're talking about things. And if you're just mailing it in and you're just telling it as if you're reading a script in your head,

1:49:47 you think like go Jimmy think for me I want to hear what you have to say and Yeah. like boy, you're going to have some weird hiccups when you put it together, Because they're like, ah, this guy, I don't know. I don't think there's any never do that. But when some shit just happened like three hours ago and you go on stage, there's a certain What happened?

1:52:04 Or you can put some acting skill into that to pretend. But it's because to you it's fresh and maybe there's an amazing actor or you can put some Same thing with acting. There's like sometimes you go to the movies and you're high and it's just like seamless. I went to see the Hulk with Eric Bana. I'm like, this guy's acting. I mean- this one episode uh i don't think i don't think other people would know like people aren't actors

1:54:12 I know she's going to say this. That makes sense. it so you watch yeah the weirdness and i know what she's gonna say when you know everything i mean a And when I was like, I don't know, I just don't want to do this. He's just like, a talk show? just so i was like trying different things you know and i didn't want to lock myself into something I'm going to be on there and stuff.

1:56:58 So he was finally happy. I can probably do it. so she signed him and then i was like good good good now you're gonna go to auditions It was a Chinese show. Right? the house like richard you're such a good actor your son must have taken after you i was like what the fuck right but now i've accepted it that's who he is i'm happy that me and my dad's in the same business in a way that's crazy and it's a fun story to tell people right so i was jokingly

1:59:04 You know, just whatever. And John Malkovich was the one that said hey what about jimmy's dad have you thought about he just hired him. And how long has he been acting? don't make me look bad. So I recorded him, I sent him that tape, So there's no fear. But now it's fine. Really? I was like, that's not how it works. Bang, bang, bang. Wow, there he him. Yeah. Wow. There he is.

2:02:26 i don't know i that i got offended the acting stuff because i because i always felt like i If you have him open, it would be interesting because that's a rough spot anyway. people doing stand-up in particular like you get a couple of minutes where they're happy to see you about earlier. A lot of people I say this, yes, in my special sometimes. I should train him.

2:04:57 And I take him to try to find an agent, Really? Yeah, sure. I think Dom Irero was with me on the stage. I want him to eat shit a couple times It's the correct amount of confidence. He's amazing. And he's about to work with John Malkovich. Wow. him to the premiere of my parents and just to kind of finally get their approval you know and and he And he just. Right there. Mark Wahlberg. That's hilarious. And he just

2:08:12 and then my dad ask him I don't want to be a fan. But if it's like, hey, Mark, my parents are big fans. That's an interesting... I was actively trying to improve that movie because the movie was very serious. spoke Mandarin with a Cantonese accent. He's not from Sichuan or mainland China. I was like, Pete, why don't you just hire my dad? It's for the authenticity.

2:10:52 i'm still the star you know he's just my dad but what if i'm starting known as richard's son like and just only talk shit for his success. It's a good father and son bonding. Yeah. I never really had much stage fright. Richard. Let's just be honest. Let him live his bucket list and act with John Malkovich. Well, I think once I told him he can't just do

2:13:37 But if I bring him up and he's my dad, I think people would just kind of eat it up, gonna do it please okay we're gonna tell me when he's going to do it. Please. But if I was an older guy, though, I'd be really worried about COVID. warn him just let him do it has he been to a live performance by you yes how many shows has he seen that night a good set and you know afterwards

2:16:10 I was the opener. Yeah. I mean, come on. So he's trying to be funny in his own way while being honest about his own take on it. When you say ball breaking? know my mom would tell my girl cousin like oh christina you got so fat wow just straight i was Dude, she's a girl. Well, there's something about work ethic in Asian households. But he was telling me that this is just how it was with his family.

2:19:52 You could always do better. Mine is, I guess, a little nuanced. He's like, oh, you're great. Yeah. I hate to think about that, but I think there's got to be a part of that. Yeah. Yeah. in it it's because he shits on you and if you can do it it's like this fucking guy can do it yeah yeah it's a weird like he he picks and chooses what he gives it up and not oh so it's

2:22:12 Yeah. answer of like he's like but i always said you were smart that's what's what's important to me yeah so it's sort of like he's excusing the fact that he uh dismissed your ability to i think whatever he wasn't good at he projected it on me like i was a as small as i was i was a pretty So it's the opposite of what some it's a burden too because about the kid

2:23:28 Yeah. It's fine. No worries And my parents split up when I was really young. So my thought was like, I know how to get attention, be better than everybody else at everything. really young and when I found it I realized like oh i am good at this like i found a thing that I was like this is something I'm good at I'm like really good at this like i got praise from my instructor i got praise from

2:26:24 things like acting i'm like if i didn't have low self-esteem growing up about this or if my dad never thought I could be in the arts, maybe I'll never made it here. Yeah, there's both those things, right? no drive he's like he's always loved and he's always cared for and always take he never felt one time when friends came to see me at the comedy store and i realized like i'm phoning it in i'm

2:28:48 No one's perfect, right? Absolutely. And, of course, then there's Space Force on Netflix, so you can watch both. It's at FunnyAsianDude.