Jimmy O. Yang is the Hong Kong Taylor Swift

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TigerBelly – “Jimmy O. Yang is the Hong Kong Taylor Swift”

Release Date: March 4, 2026
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Overview

In this high-energy, laughter-filled episode, Bobby Lee and the TigerBelly crew welcome comedian and actor Jimmy O. Yang for a conversation that spans careers, comedy specials, international fame, and deep dives into romance, dating culture, and Asian heritage. The discussion moves from Jimmy’s explosive stardom in Hong Kong to Asian and American approaches to dating and the existential doubts comedians face after filming a special. Expect trademark TigerBelly chaos, honesty, inside jokes, practical relationship advice, and brainstorms for future TV hits.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Reunited: Jimmy O. Yang Returns to TigerBelly

• Jimmy’s History with the Show: Jimmy last appeared around 7-8 years ago, before TigerBelly got its new studio (03:00).
• Bobby’s Guilt: Jokes fly about why it’s taken so long for Jimmy’s return and confusion over calling the wrong people for bookings (03:14).

2. Jimmy’s Explosive Career in Asia

• Life in LA & Vegas: Jimmy splits his life between the two for balance (03:30).
• Hong Kong Arena Shows: Jimmy details his wild success in Hong Kong, selling out five arena shows to 8,000 fans each and shooting his comedy special there (13:39).
• A-List Audience: “All my childhood heroes showed up… Jet Li, Dale Wong… met Chow Yun Fat separately.” (14:02, Jimmy)
• International Tour: Performed in Macau, Tokyo, and set records in Tokyo for stand-up attendance (15:00).
• Shooting the Special: Juggles editing and directing himself, discussing the value of capturing vibe and connection with his Asian audience (14:32).

3. The Comedy Grind vs. Stand-Up Freedom

• Acting vs. Stand-Up: Jimmy finds acting stressful for its lack of control and long hours; stand-up remains liberating (05:12).
• Comics’ Struggles With Editing Specials: Both Bobby and Jimmy discuss self-critique, editing nerves, and the importance of being involved in the post-production process (25:56, 26:33).

4. Crafting Comedy Specials: Vulnerabilities and Regrets

• Behind the Edit: Bobby is currently letting editors take the first pass on his special before he steps in, but worries about being too critical of his own performance (25:56–28:29).
• “Stand-up dysmorphia”: Feeling you bombed, despite others saying you did well (28:56).
• Taking Risks: “I wish I could have made some choices, you know, I also—I should have taken more risks… that was another thing.” (33:06, Bobby)
• Joke Density vs. Storytelling: Debates between relentless laughs (“bam, bam, bam”) and Chappelle-like storytelling (34:10–35:07).
• Clothing & Presentation: Jimmy and Bobby discuss the importance of looks, directors, color, and regret over T-shirt choices (35:24–36:16).

5. Old-School Courtship vs. Modern Dating

• Contrast in Dating Cultures: In-depth look at the differences between Asian and American dating, with the group dissecting Filipino and Hong Kong customs around courtship (40:35–53:20).
• Key Differences:
  • American Dating: Physical and fast-paced; “hook-up first, exclusivity later.” (42:21)
  • Asian Dating: Slow, steps-driven, explicit intention, public displays of affection (e.g., Filipino harana/serenade), clarity about exclusivity.
  • Lisa: “In the Philippines, the first step in courtship is asking if I can court you… then it’s a five-step process.” (46:51)
  • Jimmy: “I do think culturally, it’s very important to share the same cultural values. Speaking the same language is very important.” (39:12)
• Dopamine Hits & Relationship Burnout: Discussing how fast dating culture leads to infatuation and emptiness, and appreciating anticipation and genuine connection (54:07).

6. Brainstorming the Ultimate Asian Dating Show

• “TigerBelly Courtship”: The group plots a dating show, mixing old-school values with elements from Japanese reality sensation "Terrace House." (57:37–72:46)
  • Rules for Jimmy & Bobby:
    1. Delete all dating apps (58:26)
    2. Meet people in the wild
    3. Don’t reveal your profession for a month
    4. Court only one person at a time; no physical contact for a month
  • Lisa: “If we’re just going for the sake of actually just coaching you to be good courters, I would have you approach women who don’t know who you are.” (59:37)
  • Terrace House Love: Deep dive into why “Terrace House” is mesmerizing, its low-drama, high-stakes dynamic, and longing for a similar authentic Asian dating show (69:09–72:40).
  • Memorable pitches: “It’s like the opposite of popping a balloon… just hoarding.” (57:57, Jimmy)

7. On Growth, Aging, and Personal Fulfillment

• Aging Out of the Game: Bobby reflects on passing up opportunities (“I was at home playing video games instead of meeting girls.” 67:48), both hosts discuss feeling increasingly comfortable with who they are, and Jimmy contemplates settling down and the long-term value of character over fleeting attraction (63:07).
• Parenthood & Purpose: Lisa shares her newfound understanding of wanting a baby after having one (“Once you have your own baby, you’re like, why would anyone not want a baby?” 66:11).

8. Career Highlights & What’s Next

• Jimmy’s Film “Spring”: Playing Chinese miners in a Sundance-premiered horror film about a 19th-century massacre (77:10).
• Hong Kong Special Release: Plans to release in theaters March 20; Jimmy committed to a theatrical experience and self-editing (77:39).
  • “It’s too special, meaningful for me, especially for my people in Hong Kong. I gotta do this myself.” (77:59)
• Future Projects: Discussion of an “Asian Kings of Comedy” mega-show featuring several notable comics (81:22).
• Family Ties: Jimmy’s father’s acting career and guest spot on “Space Force” (82:20).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the size of Jimmy’s Hong Kong shows:
  “It was the arena there. It’s 8,000 people. I sold out five shows… I could have sold more, but the tickets were going like seconds.”
  — Jimmy O. Yang (13:44)

• On stand-up vs. acting:
  “I find acting very, very stressful… you see it forever. But stand-up…doesn’t matter how busy… I find that great. That’s my thing.”
  — Jimmy O. Yang (05:12)

• On Asian and American dating:
  “Here in America, after like three dates or whatever, say you hook up, you have sex. And then you have this three month period of deciding, are we exclusive? …In Asia, it’s backwards.”
  — Jimmy O. Yang (42:21)

• On standards & character:
  “When then hot girls don’t seem that important anymore if you really got to spend four months with this person… you got to look at her character, too.”
  — Jimmy O. Yang (62:59)

• On “Terrace House” drama:
  “Nothing happens. …When two people kiss, it’s like I’m a little teenager again.”
  — Lisa Gilroy (70:11)

• On editing specials and self-doubt:
  “I have stand-up dysmorphia… I have to trust that instinct. I heard it, I felt it.”
  — Bobby Lee (28:56; 29:11)

• On family and belonging:
  “I filled this void in my heart that I’ve been avoiding for a long time… when I went back [to Hong Kong], I’m like, I’ve been missing this part of my life, and this is who I was and still who I am and who I want to be.”
  — Jimmy O. Yang (39:41)

• On staying true to yourself:
  “You’re not just, you know, funny and rich or IMDb or whatever, but I think once you do the courtship, you really get to know each other. Like, man, I’m actually a good dude.”
  — Jimmy O. Yang (61:59)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:00] – Jimmy's history with TigerBelly; reunion jokes.
• [05:12] – Jimmy on acting stress vs. stand-up freedom.
• [13:39] – Hong Kong shows, arena special, meeting heroes.
• [25:56] – Worries and strategies about editing comedy specials.
• [40:35]–[53:20] – Asian vs. American courtship & dating cultures.
• [57:37]–[72:46] – Brainstorming the Asian dating show, “Terrace House” pitch.
• [77:10]–[79:54] – Jimmy’s new film “Spring” and cinema release of Hong Kong special.
• [82:20] – Jimmy’s father’s acting career.

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Recurring In-Jokes & Classic TigerBelly Mayhem

• The $80,000 Date Joke: Bobby’s mock-anxiety over getting used by women (“She’s basically a Gucci store…$80,000 deep.” [47:36])
• The “Bones” Conversation: Joking about feeling good sets “in your bones” and phantom itches (31:10)
• Ongoing “Who called who?” and “Say hi” confusion: Calls to Ralph and Lisa, confusion about relayed greetings (06:33–07:34)
• Lisa’s show coaching: Drawing up courtship rules, vetoing dating app and IMDb brags (58:26, 59:37)

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Tone & Style

The tone is playful, sharp, self-deprecating, and occasionally poignant. Bobby’s nervous energy and Jimmy’s laid-back but ambitious approach create a blend of chaos and genuine vulnerability. Guests riff on one another, veering from topic to topic, but always circling back to authenticity, self-improvement, and the complexities of love and career in the spotlight.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode is an ever-entertaining mixture of locker-room laughter and surprisingly profound insight—especially on the contrasts between Eastern and Western dating philosophies, the personal growth required in both stand-up and relationships, and the universal quest for deep connection. Jimmy O. Yang’s adventures as a bridge between cultures, and the group’s candid analysis of ambition, self-doubt, and the “crush at all costs” mindset make this installment a classic TigerBelly journey.

For more on Jimmy’s tour dates and special: jimmycomedy.com

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“You’re like the Chinese Michael Jackson, dude.” — Bobby Lee to Jimmy O. Yang (80:03)

“The Hong Kong Taylor Swift.” — Jimmy O. Yang, claiming his new nickname (80:08)

Transcript

[Bobby Lee]

Hi, I'm Bobby Lee and I created a graphic novel with my friend Matthew here. It's called Dead Weight. Look at how beautiful this is.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow. Amazing. Dude. This looks great. Look at that. Oh, my God. Dude, you can get it everywhere. Books are sold. Barnes and noble, Amazon and gundnerbooks.com. it's rated R. Kung Fu Panda meets Kick Ass. It's from my heart. And so please check it out.

[Jaime]

What are the side effects? I don't even.

[Bobby Lee]

There's a delay in my responses to. On podcasting. Like, I'll think of a joke and then like 20 seconds later I'll say it. But then we've already talked about another topic. Damn.

[Jaime]

He's taking your move.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. That's your move, dude.

[Ronnie Chang]

20 minutes late.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

Hey, Merry Christmas.

[Bobby Lee]

A month later. It's really good, man. He's a bundle of joke. You're a dandy, dude. If there's one word to describe Jaime, it's dandy.

[Ronnie Chang]

If there's one word to describe Bobby, it.

[Bobby Lee]

What is it?

[Ronnie Chang]

Messy.

[Jaime]

Nice.

[Bobby Lee]

In what way?

[Ronnie Chang]

Your. Your little toy collections.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm sorry, in what way am I.

[Ronnie Chang]

No, no, you're not messy.

[Bobby Lee]

Why would you say that?

[Ronnie Chang]

I don't know, man. Why do we. Why do people say things that don't even make sense, man?

[Bobby Lee]

That's true, man. That's true.

[Ronnie Chang]

They're just. I feel like everybody's just saying things just out of their ass.

[Bobby Lee]

Out of their ass? Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

Like what's real, what's not anymore, you know?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

Like, the other day, I was at a.

[Bobby Lee]

You're not real.

[Ronnie Chang]

I am real.

[Bobby Lee]

You're real.

[Ronnie Chang]

I'm real, man.

[Bobby Lee]

Prove that you're real.

[Ronnie Chang]

I'm okay. I'm at a red light in Dallas.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, here it go, right? So here it goes.

[Ronnie Chang]

It's 2 in. It's 2 in the morning. One is, I'm going to get the pizza, and there's a Waymo behind me and there's nobody in there, but there's a passenger and it's a green light. I stay and I just want to see how long the Waymo would honk.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, my God. You do exist. Oh, my God.

[Jaime]

That was all the evidence.

[Bobby Lee]

That was all the evidence I needed. Oh, my God. You are real. My God. Everybody, let's clap your hands.

[Ronnie Chang]

You ever thought about, like.

[Bobby Lee]

Like killing you? Yes.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No.

[Ronnie Chang]

Break checking Waymo?

[Bobby Lee]

No, I've never thought about it.

[Ronnie Chang]

I did.

[Bobby Lee]

You break checked Waymo?

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah. You ever think about that?

[Bobby Lee]

Like, how smart I just said that. I don't think about it. Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

You never driving.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. You doing, man? What's up, Jimmy?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Good. What's up?

[Bobby Lee]

What's up? What's great to see. It's been what, five years?

[Jaime]

Love your film.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Thank you.

[Bobby Lee]

It's been five years, man.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's quite the upgrade up, man, from the. It's been a while from the apartment over there. This is awesome.

[Bobby Lee]

Wait, wait, you haven't been here since the apartment?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, I haven't.

[Jaime]

He was here when we were in your condo from mad TV days.

[Bobby Lee]

No.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Was that five years ago?

[Jaime]

It was like seven or eight.

[Bobby Lee]

Eight years ago. Oh, my God. Very early.

[Jaime]

Early guys. He was one of the first in the.

[Bobby Lee]

How many times he did it One time? Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. You never called me back. I would have. I would have done it anytime. I' like, did I offend?

[Bobby Lee]

Bobby, we've been calling you every day. Apparently we were. We were calling Ronnie Chang. Saved a different.

[Jaime]

It was John Cho.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. So where do. Where do you live now?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I live in LA and Vegas, actually.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, go split my. You wait, you have a pad in Vegas as well?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I love it there.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's awesome. And also la. I don't know. There's always a pressure when you come back. You're like, I got to do this. I got to answer this call. When you're in Vegas, just. It's just chill.

[Bobby Lee]

You chill.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You stay out of casinos.

[Bobby Lee]

You do.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I mean, I. I don't.

[Bobby Lee]

Great restaurants. Great restaurants, right?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. I live close to Chinatown over there and it's nice. Food is great. Japanese, Chinese, Korean.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, everything. Well, I. I don't like that.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Why?

[Bobby Lee]

I don't like in a Chinatown that they have all these other one places.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, you only want China.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't like that at all. Yeah. Why'd you even say that?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Don't let the other Asians in.

[Bobby Lee]

That's not it. Have your own town.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Do you get offended when you.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm going to Japan down. I'll go to Chip if I want Japanese food. If you Koreatown, I'll go to Koreatown.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Do you get offended with Chinese restaurants in Koreatown?

[Bobby Lee]

Well, I like. I like Korean Chinese restaurants. There's a place called Young King on Olympic.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, my. Was that us 2017? My God, before the stadium rise, my outfit was atrocious. God, I don't wear glasses anymore.

[Bobby Lee]

You look the same, though.

[Jaime]

You have an aged.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, thanks, man.

[Bobby Lee]

You're just more successful now.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, I can afford my eye surgery. Yeah, that Was huge.

[Bobby Lee]

I mean, you were doing great, but now it's a completely different level.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's been fun, man. It's been fun.

[Bobby Lee]

Has it been stressful?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

A little bit. But generally, I would say, like, you have little fingers.

[Bobby Lee]

Anyway, go ahead. Sorry, my bad.

[Jaime]

Adhd. Adhd.

[Bobby Lee]

Sorry.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I think I find acting very, very stressful. Big or small roles. Because it's it. You put it on TV or movies and. And you see it forever. And it's not always the material. Connect with. And you work so long. But stand up. Doesn't matter how busy my stand up schedule is. They're like, man, it must be crazy. Travel. I find that great. That that's my thing.

[Bobby Lee]

That's fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have no control when you're doing television, film. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And so many moving parts. The hours are so long. Stand up. We have the best jobs in the world, man. An hour a night.

[Bobby Lee]

It is. It is the best. It is the best job in the world. You know what? I think you're right. Yeah. It has to be. It has to be the best job in the world. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Especially in entertainment. I mean, if you worked at the movie tv, whether you're in the crew, behind the camera. Director man. Just the hours, the sheer hours and the grind. It's tough, man.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, you're just there all day long and they don't even really. Sometimes they don't even use you. Have you ever had that happen? Yeah. Yeah, you have.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You sit in your trailer for like five hours.

[Bobby Lee]

Five. Yeah. Or even longer. I call that nap time. I always nap.

[Ronnie Chang]

I always nap trap.

[Bobby Lee]

You nap? You nap trap?

[Ronnie Chang]

A nap trap?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. Do you know this?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I don't think we met.

[Bobby Lee]

How you doing? But have you heard, have you heard of this person?

[Jaime]

Creature?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Should I have. Should I.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No one knows.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

[Bobby Lee]

And no one needs to know.

[Ronnie Chang]

You might know my best friend.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Who?

[Ronnie Chang]

Ralph Barbarossa.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Ralph is awesome.

[Bobby Lee]

He's awesome.

[Ronnie Chang]

He says he's great.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Did he really? Yeah, I don't think so.

[Jaime]

Call him right now.

[Bobby Lee]

I really don't think so. Yeah, yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

He knows Ralph.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, I know, I know, but.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, but honestly, did Ralph. Did Ralph really say what's up?

[Ronnie Chang]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

I. I don't know. People say that. I don't. I don't believe.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no. But also that's a weird thing to do. And also they do it in Chinese culture. It's like, hey, when you see an uncle, tell my said hi. But like, you know, and then everybody say, what's up? But then, now the pressure's on you to say, what's up? Like, yeah, now.

[Bobby Lee]

But. But I don't believe.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Just text me.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't believe that that happened.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yes. Look, he's hearing.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yo.

[Bobby Lee]

No, I'll ask Ralph. Ralph. Bobby Lee. Ralph. It's Bobby. Hi, Bobby. How you doing? Do you know who our guest here on Tiger Belly is?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, sir.

[Bobby Lee]

Exactly.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, no, no. I told you, right handed. Hang it up, hang it up, hang it up, hang it up. That's it.

[Bobby Lee]

What the was that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yes, yes. This is, this is what I'm talking about, Jimmy. Right?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, I get it.

[Bobby Lee]

It was a. No. It was a full blown lie.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No. And Bobby, why'd you go into a Spanish accent when you, when you.

[Bobby Lee]

I cater to my friends.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, I, I, I get it. Sometimes I do that with my, like, like around me too.

[Bobby Lee]

I call Lisa Gilroy. I'm like, what's up, girl?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Love Lisa Gilroy. Shout out to Lisa Gilroy.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. He says, she says, hi, I'm sure.

[Ronnie Chang]

I'm sure.

[Bobby Lee]

She says, hi, I'm sure.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Call Lisa.

[Bobby Lee]

Call Lisa right now.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Call Lisa right now.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, so we're. Jimmy. Jimmy and I caught you in a lie.

[Ronnie Chang]

No, I.

[Bobby Lee]

Look, he.

[Ronnie Chang]

He's a busy man. You know that too.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

See, See, that's when you know they lying. No, when they talk about, you know, he busy. You know, he. He's busy.

[Bobby Lee]

You know he's busy. Yeah, you know, we're all busy. Yeah, he's busier than me. No, he's busier both of us.

[Ronnie Chang]

Well, he knows. He's.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Just stop. Just stop.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

He busy then. But, you know.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah, yeah, no, I'm.

[Bobby Lee]

So he does.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

All right.

[Bobby Lee]

We just prove he doesn't say, okay.

[Ronnie Chang]

We're at high. We're at an Addison Improv. Yeah. Shows. Addison Improv Ra. Did four shows. I said, oh, I'm going to Tiger B next week. I'm doing Jimmy Oang.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Tell myself Jimmy Oang. I'll take it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This whole thing is going down. It's fine.

[Bobby Lee]

You just said hi to the wrong guy.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Gbo Cheng's here next week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Here's your phone back. But don't call Ralph back, okay?

[Ronnie Chang]

He's worried now.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, no, he's not worried now. Just text him or something.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, I apologize for that. Jimmy Ochang. Yeah.

[Jaime]

It's gonna be your new like.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I apologize.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Fine.

[Bobby Lee]

It's fine. Yeah. Seeing someone new?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, no, no. Single. Single.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But I'm taking it slow, man.

[Bobby Lee]

Take it slow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Hey, how's it going?

[Bobby Lee]

Remember Kalila?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Hey, Kalila, how's it going?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Good, how are you?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, of course I remember. You look coolest, right?

[Bobby Lee]

Very Olympics, right? Yeah, very. Yeah, Very Winter Olympics.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

What are you, a snowboarder? All of us that was going on.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I am.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Placing Lindsay Vaughn.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I saw she took a big crowd.

[Bobby Lee]

That was tough to watch.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Tragic.

[Lisa Gilroy]

What do you think about Jake Paul's reaction to his wife winning?

[Bobby Lee]

His wife's Olympic is in the Olympics.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, she.

[Jaime]

She won gold.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I think generally we should just stop talking about Jake Paul.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I know. You know, do any of you guys think you'd be good at any winter sports?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh my God, so many of them.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Like what?

[Bobby Lee]

Curling.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Okay. Yeah, yeah, I can see it.

[Bobby Lee]

Do you. Have you seen me do this?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I've seen you do that in that position, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I mean, because I practice, but people think I'm gay. Right? But I'm practiced curling.

[Jaime]

Oh, oh. With a penis in your head?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I'm constantly doing very large two hand penis. Yeah, yeah. Well, you gotta find those.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

You know what I mean? And I practice. I'm like, are you gay? I go, no, I'm. I'm a curler.

[Jaime]

Stop looking at me.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Now can I practice on your penis?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's two people that do that sport. Do you know that sport, Jaime? Curling? Yeah. Okay, what is it?

[Ronnie Chang]

The little Canadian thing with a tube, like a broom?

[Bobby Lee]

It's a tube. Yes, it's a tube.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

We'll take it. We'll take it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, we'll take it.

[Ronnie Chang]

It's like a sphere.

[Bobby Lee]

It's a sphere. Yeah, yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

Like they gotta make it into the.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

What is the criteria for you to be good at curling? You have to be. Have good eyes, steady. You have to have a strong core for sweeping.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I feel like it's similar to golf.

[Bobby Lee]

It's not. It's really the opposite of golf.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I feel like still precision.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Well, but golf, if you're tall and if you have a muscular like back and hip, like, that's really helpful. Yeah, like this. Where's the talent and where's the muscles?

[Bobby Lee]

Like, that's true.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Do you need. Do you need really strong hands?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I'll be the first to say. I don't think that I could sweep in that space speed for that long.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, but you're be. You're A good pusher, probably.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That I could do.

[Bobby Lee]

But the pusher has to he. They act as a coach, maybe.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Right, right, right, right. Downward, downward, like, right, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

What about spotter?

[Bobby Lee]

The spotter? Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

What about bobsled? Either of you?

[Bobby Lee]

Amen. I don't know.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You need to be able to run fast. Remember when Lolo Jones tried to go bobsledding?

[Lisa Gilroy]

She did, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It didn't work out.

[Bobby Lee]

Why?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I think you have to be a track star.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Right?

[Bobby Lee]

You have to run fast.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You got to be the one like.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, run and then jump into the sled.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, I would miss it entirely, I think.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I try to not do any winter sports. I was just in Park City. Everybody's like, oh, skiing, I'm zero interest. Like, why would you go out there? It's cold, it's wet, it's just terrible.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Just let me stay on flat ground.

[Bobby Lee]

That's how I like my women.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

On the flat ground.

[Bobby Lee]

Cold and wet and flat ground on flat ground. No, that sounds crazy.

[Jaime]

Yeah, it does.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. That one I like. But you know what I love the best, Jimmy, is the figure skating.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, yeah. That's cool. That is artistic.

[Bobby Lee]

It's very artistic.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And Asian people excel.

[Bobby Lee]

They really do excel with the emotions too. And they're very clinical. You know, the Filipinos are good. Yeah. Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Why you gotta always try to take a job? Why you always gotta.

[Bobby Lee]

I know.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You're right about my country.

[Bobby Lee]

That's mean. That's mean.

[Jaime]

Do we do Winter Olympics?

[Lisa Gilroy]

We don't.

[Jaime]

Yeah, we do stuff.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Because where do we train?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. We should add some sports that you'd be good at then.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It's just not for us, K. Like, we have good box in the cold.

[Bobby Lee]

That's so racist.

[Jaime]

No, we gotta keep it in.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, no. Don't expose. I'm rare.

[Jaime]

Jimmy's like, I want to leave.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, it's fine. I'm just like watching an episode.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Speaking of the Philippines, not to put you on the spot, but my friend has been beg longing for you to perform there for.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I would love to go.

[Jaime]

Philippines wants you, dude.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It's great.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, I would love to go. My tour this year started off just like 20 cities in America, and I keep adding stuff and I'm like, man, I'm so dumb having never done Asia. So I went to Hong Kong first. That's my hometown. It went crazy over there. I ended up shooting my special there.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And then you shot it in Hong Kong.

[Jaime]

That's cool.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I wasn't planning on it.

[Bobby Lee]

How many people?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It was the arena there. It's 8, 000 people. I sold out five shows.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh my God.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I could have sold more, but like, the tickets were going like seconds. It was. I've never experienced anything.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, my God.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And I mean, because that's my hometown. That's my people.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And man, all my like childhood heroes showed up and stuff like that.

[Bobby Lee]

Which one?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Jet Li, Dale Wong. Wong. And then I met Chow Yun Fat separately.

[Bobby Lee]

Fan?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, huge fan. Huge fan. I met like everybody there that I grew up watching.

[Bobby Lee]

They come backstage.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Chun Fat wasn't backstage, but they always there. And many, many people. And it was just crazy. I'm like, I can't recreate this, you know? And it was. It was kind of spectacular. I'm like, so I just had 10 cameras. My Hong Kong people shot it and now I'm just cutting it together myself.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Director.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. So I was like, let's do that. Because originally I plan on doing in Seattle. Yeah, yeah. But then I'm like, Seattle is awesome. Maybe my next one, you know, I'll do a Netflix one for Seattle. But this one, I. I have to. I have to do it for the. For like my people.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I feel like that's the right move.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And also just Asia in general, they're so just like hungry and ready for like, stand up in a way that's more like rabid.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It was wild. And I was like, man, I'm so stupid. So I did Hong Kong, I did Macau, I did Tokyo. I've done the. It was the biggest stand up show in Tokyo ever. Yeah. And the love I got there was so cool. And then so like, this tour is winding down. So the next tour, I got Philippines, I got Korea. I want to go to Thailand. Many cities that I'm like, man, I would rather hit that than say, another American city, you know?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I mean, those are your people too.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I know. And it's.

[Ronnie Chang]

It's.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's what I'm saying. I was dumb, right? Because you see my crowd, it's. It's even in New York, it's like say 70 Asian. But if you go to Asia, everybody's Asian. But there's so many, so many tickets to be sold.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

There's so many, you know, And I feel like I'm really serving my people because they. They're underser. Like Hong Kong don't really have a new big comedian. And. And Tokyo don't really get big comedians, you know, especially ones that speak English. So it was. It Was pretty cool to go to go back there.

[Bobby Lee]

So when you do Tokyo, are you scared that they're not going to get your jokes or.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, I mean, they know when they buy the tickets, you know, it's in English.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And I have. I have some Japanese material. No, they know like in Hong Kong, everybody's asking is in Cantonese. Is it in English? I'm like, I'm a English speaking comedian, but I added like about 20 Cantones in there.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. So that, that's in the special. Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, when we played London, Andrew and I, you guys sold. You sold more tickets than the both of us did. I had the O2.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I did the Wembley.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, the Wembley thing.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, it was. It was cool. I didn't expect it. Yeah, it was my first time there too.

[Bobby Lee]

I was backstage ago. Yeah. Jimmy did better.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

We were like, good for. That was. I was so proud of you. That was amazing. Thank you. You're blown up all over now.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's. It's kind of crazy. And honestly, it's. It's.

[Bobby Lee]

I do El Paso, 200 seats. Pretty good.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But both of you both absolutely crush in Manila. Bobby, you love the Philippines.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Have you done it?

[Bobby Lee]

There's no proof that I'm going to sell tickets. There he is. I'm not like him. He's an international star.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I know. Jim.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't know.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Sell out multiple.

[Bobby Lee]

Sell out multi. Multiple. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, you crush it, Bobby.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah, he will.

[Bobby Lee]

In a different venue probably.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No, but the Philippines is this. So has your back.

[Bobby Lee]

Wait until my special comes out.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

And then see if I, you know, and then, you know, we'll see what happens. Because I've never done a special.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I just did one. Yeah, it was fun. So get that out there.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I mean, if the people are like, oh, we like it.

[Jaime]

So stress. Why do you.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't know. I'm on the Lexapros kicking. Okay.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

It makes me.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I'm also applying pressure. Oh, yeah. He doesn't like that.

[Bobby Lee]

What do you mean?

[Lisa Gilroy]

And I mean, you got to play this.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I'd be. I would be a bad hostage. I give away all the secrets, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The government's going to do this and this.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

6. They're going to come cool. Yeah, yeah. I'm not good at it. If you're B. If you're B.

[Jaime]

That's me. Oh.

[Bobby Lee]

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[Jimmy O. Yang]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Lisa Gilroy]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Jaime]

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[Bobby Lee]

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[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not good at it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Can I. Can I interview. Like, can I ask you about your special? Because it's. You such a veteran of the game. It's your first time shooting a special. Oh, like, how was it? Did you edit it yourself? Like, you know, how was the experience?

[Bobby Lee]

They're editing it now. I don't even know where they are.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You don't. You got to go in there, Bobby. You got to go in there.

[Jaime]

You can't look at it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I can't look at it. I can't look. I hate it. It stresses me out. But you got to do it.

[Bobby Lee]

No. Here's what's huge, Jim. Jim.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Can I call you Jim?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Sure.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Call me Jimmy. Jim Ochang.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, that's what he called him.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

All right.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I get it. I get it.

[Ronnie Chang]

I'm dyslexic.

[Bobby Lee]

He also lied.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

See, he got excuses.

[Ronnie Chang]

I hear things differently. Jimmy O. Yang.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Thank you. No, no, it's fine.

[Bobby Lee]

It's totally fine. Oh, you felt you've been thinking about that since. Huh?

[Ronnie Chang]

Rob texted me and he's like, it's

[Jaime]

not Jimmy O. Chang.

[Ronnie Chang]

I'm telling them that Ralph. When I saw Ralph this past week, he's like, oh, tell him I said, what's up?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Right? So then we called Ralph, right? And I go, do you know who. I have a guest on this right now. And he goes, no, man. So it was a. It was a lot. Stop, stop. I get it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Look, Jimmy, look, it's fine, dude. It's fine.

[Ronnie Chang]

Sorry, dude, I forgot who you said it was.

[Jaime]

Guys get fired by Ralph.

[Ronnie Chang]

Look, I tune out when you talk a lot.

[Jaime]

Tuned out when you talk.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's fine. It's fine.

[Bobby Lee]

It's fine. It's fine for you, not for me.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Why?

[Bobby Lee]

Because he's an extension of who I am.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I see it.

[Bobby Lee]

You know what I mean?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Is he on the payroll?

[Bobby Lee]

He's on the payroll. So it's like. It's a little Ralph again.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, please.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, no. We're not calling. No, we're not calling Ralph again. We believe you. We believe You.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, no.

[Bobby Lee]

Stop.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Don't call him.

[Bobby Lee]

Don't call him, call him. He's at the Grove. He's at the Grove.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You guys, location. Don't blow up his spot. What is going on? Motherfucker's at the gr. Yeah, he's at the Gap store.

[Bobby Lee]

What is going on here? It's my best friend who shares location. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Location with anybody.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You don't share with anyone.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No. Is that dangerous?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Should I. I think with one. At least one person.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, I feel like dudes don't really do that.

[Bobby Lee]

Girls are very good at that.

[Lisa Gilroy]

We have to be.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Girls are.

[Bobby Lee]

Jimmy. Have. And I have a motto. If you're gone, you're gone. Am I not right or.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No.

[Jaime]

You guys should share locations.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. I would love to see your location. Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, if you're going to. Gone. I don't think anyone cares enough where I'm at.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, you're so dramatic. I hate when you do this. You're, like, fishing for.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I want people to go, no. Who's gonna be at my funeral? Where is everybody? I go. You're supposed to go.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no. Bobby, come on.

[Bobby Lee]

Bobby, come on.

[Jaime]

I'll take your location.

[Bobby Lee]

It's too late.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You're the type of guy who would have a live funeral. Like, you need to hear everyone's eulogy about you while you're still alive.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So you're gonna be like, yes, I totally. We should all do that.

[Bobby Lee]

Thank you, Jimmy.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

We should all fake our own death,

[Bobby Lee]

see how much we're loved. Yeah, don't.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Don't come like Seinfeld. Don't come through. Like, if I'm dead, I wouldn't even know. Yeah, I don't even know Seinfeld, by the way. Ralph Barbosa don't come through when I'm dead. I wouldn't even know.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I mean, I would fake my own death and then, like, live. Live my. But people. But I want to hear what people have to say, so. Oh, my God. My bad.

[Jaime]

What was that?

[Ronnie Chang]

Death.

[Bobby Lee]

Excuse me? Say it again.

[Ronnie Chang]

Like, what would you do? Like, oh, yeah, that's how he died.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Probably car accident or something.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, that's hard to fake.

[Bobby Lee]

It is.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah. He'd have to. Police report, like, what's easiest.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Public disappearance.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, disappearance. Kidnapping.

[Bobby Lee]

I was frozen in the tundra.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, yeah, he went. He went there.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Avalanche. Drowning. You know, you can go to, like, whatever you climb, you know, kill him in Jaro, and then he died or something.

[Bobby Lee]

But also, you can have, like, a. A manic or like, you know, I mean, like a. A wax version of me in ice. Right. And take photos of it or bring it. Bring it to the funeral. So, yeah, you know, I mean, like this. And then I'll hear people say. And they'll pop out and go, you're a bastard, man. You know what I mean? You didn't really love me, you know?

[Lisa Gilroy]

I mean, like, we were never friends.

[Bobby Lee]

We were never friends or something, you know?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But how would you come back from your dad death? How would you explain that?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, I would tell everyone. I lied. I lied. This. This is all because I wanted to see what you guys had to say. Yeah. Some of them said good things. Yeah. You're cool. You're cool. You're out. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You've been right, you know.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. What's wrong?

[Lisa Gilroy]

What do you mean?

[Bobby Lee]

You're looking at me like I'm off a little bit.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I am literally locked in into what you're saying.

[Bobby Lee]

What's up with these glasses?

[Ronnie Chang]

It's Ray Bans.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Thank you, Jaime.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Great observation.

[Jaime]

What's up with these?

[Lisa Gilroy]

I've been having horrible migraines and I need to, like, block off the light, but thank you, Jaime.

[Bobby Lee]

Thank you, thank you.

[Jaime]

Wait, back to your special?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, back to you.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah. You haven't even asked.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I did. I was like. So have you been editing it? You don't want.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah. Yeah, you have. You have.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Are you nervous? How do you feel?

[Bobby Lee]

So this is what's gonna happen. Okay. I'm letting them edit it so they. They could have a pass at it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

And then I'm going to come in.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Okay, great, great. But you got to go and sit there for like, a week.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to go in. Why a week?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You got. You got to get into all the nooks and crannies. I've heard so many comics, they go in and they give notes and then they dip. Yeah, but I. The editing is so important. It is, because the editors might not even be there at the show. Your director might feel the way you felt of, like. Oh, man, that joke actually hit here.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Like, should we switch shows here?

[Bobby Lee]

So if you shoot. If you shoot. How many shows do you shoot for your special?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Usually two, but the Hong Kong one, I end up shooting all five.

[Bobby Lee]

All right, so do you watched all five?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, I mean, I've been editing for months now. That one's a beast.

[Bobby Lee]

I think you're acting crazy.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It is. But I think I'm making improvements.

[Jaime]

There you go.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Because what people perceive and what you Perceive are two different things. Like, sometimes it's like, you know, I'll think I didn't have a good set. And people go, no, you actually did have a good set. You know what I mean? So how would you.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I screen it for my friends sometimes.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, you screen it for this one.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

The other two were pretty easy.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Two shows. One show was better. And if I flub the line, you go to the other show, come back. Right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Choose angles with your direct.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Do you ADR yours?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I. I want to. I really want to treat it like a movie in the adr. And like, I'm like, can I put in? They wouldn't let me.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

They're like, that's never gonna work.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But people have done that with adr.

[Bobby Lee]

No.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'm just like, I've heard Eddie Murphy. Was it raw? He shot one show or two shows, but then he shot when there's no audience, just a close up of him, just so they get that footage to cut around.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. I don't know how that works because, I mean, for me, you feel the audience's energy.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Even on the clothes.

[Jaime]

Do you want to direct?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I. I think so. I think it'll be fun. But it has to be. It has to be something I'm really into. But I love that idea. Like, we're missing one, like wing angle in the special rebuild. And I want to go back to Hong Kong and shoot it.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, my God.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You don't see the audience.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I support this 100. Yeah. That's where my head would go.

[Bobby Lee]

Why not? No one's gonna watch it. Go, where's the wing shot?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I would. It doesn't matter. I would, I would. And it's the flow. They might laugh harder if there's a wing shot.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It's. I totally understand what you're saying. I would go through extremes too, to get the perfect thing in.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Right. Right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I. I can't get it because.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, I'm not saying go that crazy. I'm not saying go that.

[Bobby Lee]

You gotta reshoot the whole thing if you're gonna freak me out right now.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, you're fin. Bobby, you're fine.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm just gonna.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'm just saying, I've heard comics, they don't even go into the edit room. They give notes and then they out. And I'm like, come on, man.

[Bobby Lee]

And they never see it until it comes out.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Cuz I understand you're nervous about it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You gotta go in.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But I'm.

[Bobby Lee]

I'M sure I'm too critical, though. That's the problem.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's good.

[Bobby Lee]

How is that good?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's good. You gotta be critical to, like, improve.

[Bobby Lee]

No, no, because I base it on, like, you know, when we did it, I got off stage, I go, what happened? And they're like. Like, it was really good. I mean, I base it on other people watching it because I have, you know, I can't watch myself. What's wrong, George?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, I'm thinking he has this

[Bobby Lee]

split between you two. Yeah, yeah. What?

[Lisa Gilroy]

You have, like, the. The version of dysmorphia.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Stand up dysmorphia.

[Jaime]

Oh, yeah. Stand up dysmorphia.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, I have this where it's like, he'll crush and he'll walk out of there being no one.

[Bobby Lee]

Laughs that's.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You can't hear. You can hear it. You can feel the audience, right?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I felt it in my bones. Yeah. That's what's like.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

To me, is I have to trust that instinct.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's it. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Like, I heard it, I felt it. I saw the people around me. Alex, you were there.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Right. So it's like, already after it was done. The reason I got depressed afterwards is because in my mind, I was like, I should have done this, I should have done that.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I want to rebuild a set.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was thinking that. I was like, you know, I mean, what. What was the thing coming out on stage, I did kind of the same thing over and over again. And I regret that I didn't have one where I just came out normal.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

You know what I mean? I did this.

[Jaime]

It was a lot of power poses.

[Bobby Lee]

He did a lot of, like, commit. Yeah, I was. Yeah, I was doing a lot of that. It's amazing.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But I like when you do that.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Maybe subconsciously did it so the editor don't have a choice to use. You know, actors do that, you know.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And you give me this. I'm like, no, I'm just gonna keep doing this shit. Cause I like it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I mean, it's better than how you came out. Out on stage on our live show. How you, like, rolled into. See, what if you did that?

[Bobby Lee]

So when I asked you was that embarrassing that I did that? You're like, no, it was fine. And now you're saying that it was.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It. I. I thought it was funny. It just didn't get the pop. I think you thought it would.

[Bobby Lee]

It was a death roll.

[Jaime]

Oh, alligator.

[Bobby Lee]

Death roll. When I was rolling, I go, Is. I'm not getting a pop.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You just kept rolling.

[Bobby Lee]

I kept rolling. And then I stood up like this, and no cheers. And I'm like, I'm gonna kill myself. It was like. So you lied.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I. I personally thought it was funny.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But, you know, put some fake cheer in there. It's fine.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it was a live show, so I don't care about that, but. So ask me some more questions. Editing. Let's move on from editing.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Where'd you shoot it?

[Bobby Lee]

San Diego.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

San Diego.

[Bobby Lee]

Babo. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Beautiful. Great theater.

[Bobby Lee]

Great theater. I did full. Four shows there.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Four shows. Do you. Do you feel in your bones like this is the show that is bones?

[Bobby Lee]

Are you the one that first brought up bones, or am I the one it really.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'm trying to speak your language.

[Jaime]

Hearing you, dude.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Is there one show? You're like, man. The first. I'm like. You're like, this is it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

Did your bones feel it?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Did my bones.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Do you get itchy bones? No Skin where. It's like, you. You don't know where the itch is?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yes, I hate.

[Bobby Lee]

Right? And it's. You think it's in your bones?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

Really?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Usually my itches on my skin, I

[Jaime]

just know where it is, you know, Normal itches.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, I got normal.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, normal. Maybe you. Psoriasis.

[Bobby Lee]

No, normally I do have normal itches. Or I even can see a bump. I'll go, oh, that was a little. You know.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Let me look that up, Gil. Phantom itches.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, phantom itches. You never have a phantom itch.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I thought that's for people like. Like that's missing a limb.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Phantom limbs. Yeah, but I. I do know what you mean. Where you're like. I think that's it. You go to scratch and it doesn't relieve it. It's like, too deep.

[Bobby Lee]

It's too deep. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I think we both have diabetes or something.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It's like.

[Jaime]

So it's. Yeah, it comes from amputation. That's pretty common.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

Multiple.

[Bobby Lee]

Huh? Anyway, let's go back to that nerve pain. So when I.

[Ronnie Chang]

Is there itching? Like, he's trying to go back to the spectrum. Is there itching? Like, what itch?

[Lisa Gilroy]

What itch? What?

[Ronnie Chang]

I told you about an inch

[Jaime]

right now.

[Ronnie Chang]

I thought she was talking about something else.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No.

[Ronnie Chang]

You think itching is, like, just in your head. Like, it's just not real. You know what I'm talking about?

[Lisa Gilroy]

I know what you're talking about.

[Bobby Lee]

You know, like, it's Vaguely, but let's move on. Okay.

[Ronnie Chang]

I'm just saying.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I know. You were saying.

[Ronnie Chang]

No, like. You know what I'm saying, right?

[Bobby Lee]

I don't.

[Ronnie Chang]

You know what I'm saying? Jimmy.

[Bobby Lee]

Jimmy.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Is he, like, your son?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jaime]

Kind of.

[Bobby Lee]

It's sort of like a big brother thing.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Okay. Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. So I.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Nice.

[Jaime]

Good.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's good. It's good.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Anyways.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, so I went. There was some shows where I thought I. That couldn't have gone better.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Probably one in four.

[Jaime]

One in four?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. The second and third one is fine. You know, but so I. I wish I could have made some choices, you know, I also. I should have taken more risks. You know, that was another thing.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Like, once you killed the first show, you're like, I should have try some other shit.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes. Yeah. This. This thing that, you know, that I have in my catalog, you know, I mean, that I. You know, But I wasn't intending it to be in it, but, like, I should have just thrown it out there, right?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Because how much material do you have after how many years now?

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, Jimmy.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, I'm saying.

[Bobby Lee]

What are you doing, Jimmy? It's a very good question.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Honors. Honest question.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm so picky about my material that I only did, like, 38 minutes of material.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. And I did another 10 minutes of others. Other things.

[Jaime]

Specialty.

[Bobby Lee]

Specialty device stuff. Yeah. Yeah. So. Because for me, it's like, it has to go bam, bam, bam, bam, which is like a terrible way of looking at it. And the next special is gonna be completely different. Yeah, I'm gonna take my time. More point of view. Whatever.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This is great. So you are gonna do the next one?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's awesome.

[Bobby Lee]

Because.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Very exciting.

[Bobby Lee]

Because in my mind, it's like. It's not that hard, you know? In my mind, I was like, oh, my God, it's got to be this and that. But then when I saw Chappelles, I mean, the last one, he. He just leaves so much room. He. He's so comfortable with silence and not having laughs every fucking five, ten seconds. Right? That it's like, to me, that's okay. That means that they're listening and he can really talk about how he feels about things. I mean, we've had this argument many times. Not argument, discussion. Where it's like, you know what I mean? I think my joke writing, I. Carlos Mencia fucked me up.

[Jaime]

Oh, how so?

[Bobby Lee]

Because he's so. Bam, bam, bam, bam. As a kid, I used to watch him in rooms, you know, I mean, just go, bam, bam, bam, Crush.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

In my mind, I'm like, oh, it has to be like that.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But that's great. I think that is what the audience want to see.

[Bobby Lee]

Crush, Crush, Crush. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But now with the whole Netflix thing, it becomes more storytelling.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's what it's more like one man show. But both are valid. But I do think the audience want to see Crush.

[Jaime]

Crush, Crush.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you want a crush. But it's like, so what else do I have? The clothing. Maybe I should have thought more of it.

[Jaime]

Did you think a lot about your clothing?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Not really. The first special, I just dressed myself and I was really comfortable. I did think about the lighting and the color that go with my clothing.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And the second one, I hire a stylist. And it was too. It's not so much me, but I have had people still till today. It's like, where'd you get that jacket?

[Bobby Lee]

I want that jacket.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'm like, okay, whatever.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And. And for Hong Kong, was it the Hong Kong. The Hong Kong one, that's where you get a stylist.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, this is the third one.

[Bobby Lee]

The third one.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That one hasn't came out. But that one I've regret with my T shirt. My T shirt was too loose. Like, the collar was.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know, And I wasn't. That's the second one.

[Bobby Lee]

That's the second one.

[Jaime]

This is the first one?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, the first one. See, that's super simple, but I like that. And it kind of pops, like within the color.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I do think that's it, though. It is. Color is everything. I don't even think it's the style because, like, you just have to pick the correct color for you.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

So that's cute, too.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. So these two. I planned everything and I work my director shout out to Marcus Rayboy. But the Hong Kong one, I just shot in on a limb. There was some great camera work by the Hong Kong team. But then. Yeah, the deep. There's no DP there. There's the. You know, the lighting's not perfect, so there's a lot of imperfection. But it's more like a rock concert than anything. So I took the whole hard drive home. It's in a suitcase. And I've been editing it and edit bay with Marcus.

[Bobby Lee]

Chinese thing. The way you're doing it, I.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Well, yeah, it's. It's a.

[Bobby Lee]

It's.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's a hard special to cut this.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Who's our favorite director from Hong Kong?

[Bobby Lee]

Bobby Wong Kar Wai.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, he's awesome.

[Bobby Lee]

Now what?

[Lisa Gilroy]

He knows now.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. One Kar was my favorite, and I've been trying to get you to get into him.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I'm gonna hurt him so bad, right?

[Bobby Lee]

Jimmy, some people aren't open to, like, real, pure art. You like Wong Kar Wai?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I mean, yeah. For.

[Lisa Gilroy]

For 10. For an entire decade, I've been trying to introduce him to in the Mood for Love, which was like standard, beautiful, and then chunking Express, Fallen Angels. And he was just like, nah, nah, nah. I don't want. But he calls himself like a cinephile. But I'm like, how do you not know Wong Kar White if you call yourself a cinephile? After we broke up, he texted me. He was like, you should watch in the Mood for Love.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You forgot? She was the one that told him.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And I was like, who introduced to that? And he had watched it with, I think, a girl.

[Bobby Lee]

A hinge date.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah. On a hinge date.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Hey, that. That's a deal. Closer in the move.

[Ronnie Chang]

For love.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's a deal. Closer. She Asian?

[Bobby Lee]

No, a white girl.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I think when Asians push Asian, When a white girl pushes Asian, then I'm.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You got to listen.

[Bobby Lee]

I have to listen.

[Jaime]

She.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

She told you about in a move.

[Bobby Lee]

I honestly forgot that you even said it.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I'm so mad at.

[Bobby Lee]

We talked, so I forgot. What. So when this white girl was like, in the flood in my mind, I was like, it doesn't sound familiar.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So wait, the white girl also told you. You're saying.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, this is years after, you know, we had broken up. She's out of my house.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

You know, I mean, we're in bed. Let's watch a movie.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Like, you didn't suggest it. The white girl suggested.

[Bobby Lee]

You know, she suggested it. Yeah. Then. And I'm like, you.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You're like, if a white girl's on a date.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

She chooses that movie. Like, that's an in for sure 100. That is such, like a slow, romantic.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Beautiful.

[Bobby Lee]

It's beautiful. I mean it. I just don't like the way it ends, you know, I mean, I want the. I don't want to give it away, but it's like I want them to.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, of course.

[Bobby Lee]

You know, I mean that. But I think. I think this is cool too, you know? I mean, it's. It's love that doesn't actually happen. It's there. It's. The feelings are there and they do love each other, but they can't for some reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Beautiful. I think that's what I want. Maybe that's why. I mean, how old are you now?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

38.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, you're so young. Yeah. Yeah. But do you want forever love this like this?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I think so. I'm starting to date more seriously now. You know, I. I give myself maybe like two years, and then I think I'm ready.

[Bobby Lee]

Whoa. Yeah. And you think Asian or why? What do you think?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I do think Asian now. You know, I've dated girls of every ethnicity.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I haven't dated a half Asian girl just as a transition, you know, But I do think culturally, it's. It's very important to share the same cultural values. Speaking the same language is very important to me. You know, my kids will speak the same language, then communicate my parents better. So, yeah, I'm especially this. So this last year, 2025, when I went back to Hong Kong, that was my first time going back in 15 years.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So that was how I got in touch, you know, And I stayed there for like two months, and it just felt like I. I filled this void in my heart that I've been avoiding for a long time.

[Bobby Lee]

Time.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And I think that speaks to the dating part of it too, you know, because I was trying to assimilate to be American. But then when I went back, I'm like, man, I've been missing this part of my life, and this is who I was and still who I am and who I want to be.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. There is a comfort there, no? Yeah, yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Like, I think there's something also and understand really special about like the 1.5 generation, like you, Ronnie Chang, or even like Zhao Ying or even Andrea Gin, right? Where it's like you come to America at a little bit of an old. A little bit later in your life, there is that feeling of like you understand both places. So, like, intimately.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And when you go home, you're like, oh, like I tried a little too hard to assimilate 100. Right.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And you feel that with every little thing. Like in American dating is so different than Asia dating.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't know. Even though the difference. Tell me.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So when I came first came to America, I was 13, right. I didn't know. I thought I would date to get married when I turned 16, 18, whatever. Right. But then when I watched them, like American Pie, they were like, you got to get laid on prom. You know, average age, you get laid first and then you go to college, frat boy party, you know, And I was like, oh, my God, I'm such a loser. I gotta. I Gotta get behind this, you know?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So then I started like, kind of that, you know, get getting into that. I'm like, how do I, you know, like young Jimmy. It's like how to like hook up culture. Like, how do I navigate that? That and then the dating, even as a.

[Bobby Lee]

And I find it, it was, it. Was it harder for a little Asian? Like you're 100. It's so much harder.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I didn't get any, any action either.

[Bobby Lee]

Me there, me there.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Until I started doing standing. Yeah, exactly. That was, that was our safe.

[Bobby Lee]

That's the whole reason why I'm doing it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Let's be honest.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

If I was tall and white, I would have never done.

[Bobby Lee]

I would have never done it. You know, I'd be like, welcome to Kinko. You want? That'd be me.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And especially that, that time when I was.

[Bobby Lee]

Want dry paper. I don't know what they sell there,

[Jimmy O. Yang]

but like 20 years ago, like, Asian wasn't cool yet, you know?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, we were FOBs. So you came here right around the same time I did? Yeah, I was a fob. Even the Filipinos rejected me. They're like, your accent's a little bit too hard on the continent, yo.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I remember Korean kids in my school in LA rejected me. They're like, hey, China boy, what's up?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, they called you that?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, cuz I was like. I was like, okay, these are the only Asians in my school. Let me go hang out with them. And then they, I mean, they became my friends eventually, but they made fun of me because I was so foreign.

[Bobby Lee]

They probably called you Jimmy.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Wait, was like, was it different? What. How was it like in Hong Kong, like in the Philippines? The courtship, it has levels and steps.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So I'm. I'm just learning this, right? So like, you know, you can talk to someone in Asia or the Hong Kong, like, whatever, right? For weeks, for months, you go on dates and you don't do nothing, right? Like, you don't. You don't make out, you don't even do nothing. Like, it's not. Not. You don't lead with. Because here in America, after like three dates or whatever, say you hook up, you have sex, you know, and then you. You have this three month period of deciding, are we exclusive now? Are we boyfriend, girlfriend, everything? It's like backwards.

[Bobby Lee]

So. Okay, I'm glad, I'm glad you brought this up.

[Lisa Gilroy]

That's why situationships happen so much more often here where it's like people get hurt and it's more clear, like cut and Dry over there, where it's like, because you follow these steps and these rules, there's kind of less confusion about where are we at?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But you know what's crazy? Because I'm so Americanized, I got conf. Like, I'll hang out with a girl. We obviously are like, liking each other, but then we haven't made out, haven't had that physical, like, assurance. And I'm like, how. How do I know she likes me? What if I'm friend zoned? What if I'm a loser? You know? But then they're like, no, no. Like, I was talking to a female friend of mine and then she was like, no. Like, what do you mean?

[Jaime]

You.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You don't need sex to.

[Bobby Lee]

To.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

To know if someone likes you. Is she hitting you up all the time? Are you guys, like having a good time going out and. And is she making moves to try to hang out with you again?

[Bobby Lee]

You know, I mean, because I dated a girl here, like three or four dates. Chinese girl from China. And I went in for the fourth date. I went kind of went in for a kiss and she was like, weirded out by it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

You know, I mean, and in my mind I was like, oh, she doesn't like me. You're done. Yeah, but I think I up then. Well, because in the culture you're saying that, like, you mean according.

[Jaime]

It's what, a lot of courting?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It really is like a long, drawn out process.

[Bobby Lee]

I kind of like that.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's. That's how it's supposed to be.

[Bobby Lee]

That's how it's supposed to be.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And it also just feels so much safer for me. Even like a physical sense, like an emotional sense where it's like, all right, there's a real pursuing. And he's pursuing because, you know, four or five months in and you know, he likes me as a person. Right. But also, I think there's also just

[Bobby Lee]

like four or five months.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But in the Philippines it's different. Okay. Our thing is like, you also have to harana. Harana is like, you actually have to do a public display of like a serenade or a public display of like before anything, you have to make an announcement.

[Bobby Lee]

Like a birds of paradise.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yes, there has to be.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But like back in the day, they used to like sing underneath like your window. So like, if

[Jaime]

Bobby Lee doing that.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay, yeah, but like, look it up, Gilb. Like the. The steps of port.

[Bobby Lee]

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[Jaime]

Yeah, Beanies and beanies. Any of these right here?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. Lyft rides, for sure. Gift cards. I do that. And, you know, my select restaurants that I really enjoy.

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[Bobby Lee]

Can I ask you guys this, though? How do you know when you're friend zoned, though?

[Ronnie Chang]

Well, she says friend.

[Lisa Gilroy]

There's no confusion because.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Because if you're caught. That's what I'm trying to ask. This I want to know.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Can I tell you the first step in courtship in the Philippines is asking if I can court you. It's not immediate courtship. So if I say, bobby, I'm really interested, can I court you? And then you say, yes, then it's like, there's a mutual interest here, and then we can proceed. Yeah, because if you're like, nope, I don't want you to court me, you're done already. Friend zone. There's not even gonna be.

[Bobby Lee]

But in America, right, Women use guys for meals. Right. And different things. Right? So if they said, I'm gonna. Can we Court. Right. You know, okay, we have an understanding. Six months later, right? You spent. You're $80,000 deep. Right.

[Jaime]

First of all.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

80,000. 80,000.

[Jaime]

It's six months.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. You're eight. Flex. She's basically a Gucci store.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay. And then she's basically like, yeah, I just want to be friends.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But I feel like that's.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's. You just got played. Like, that's.

[Bobby Lee]

How do you know if you're getting played?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Friend zone is different.

[Jaime]

$80,000.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, is that what it is?

[Lisa Gilroy]

But also, like, that's on you. You love to spend $80,000 and blow your money.

[Bobby Lee]

Do you know her? No, I don't. No, I don't.

[Jaime]

You do.

[Bobby Lee]

No, I don't.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's the thing you love.

[Ronnie Chang]

You said 80,000.

[Bobby Lee]

It was hypothetical.

[Ronnie Chang]

Oh, sure.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Hyperbole.

[Bobby Lee]

Hyperbole. Yeah, yeah.

[Jaime]

60,000.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes, whatever.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But, you know, papa likes to flex, that he's got money.

[Bobby Lee]

But, babe, how do you know, though, that it's. It really is a courtship? Even though she said, are we court? You know, I mean, how do we know?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Maybe as an honesty and, and, yeah,

[Jaime]

it's a risk, though.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Of course there's going to be a risk. If you say you court me, you want to court me. And I say, yeah, because I'm like, oh, he's attractive. And then there's. That's why it's a five step program. The next is you have to announce interest, and you're not even official yet.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

The third step is what is announcing interest? Like, I like, can I court you? And then a couple days in, you're like, I. I like you.

[Bobby Lee]

It's probably a couple. Like, you make it an outward. Like, heary, heary, heary.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yes, yes, yes.

[Bobby Lee]

Everyone gather.

[Lisa Gilroy]

So after you make liga, which is the actual courting body. Right?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

What is courting, by the way? Like, is it going out on dates, having dinner, going out on dates?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Gestures of, like, sweetness and, like, flowers and like, but you don't touch her.

[Bobby Lee]

How many. Yeah, no touch.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You don't touch her.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay. I mean, you, you have a public, you know, I mean, affection, like, you know, like holding their hand.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Holding hands, I think is. Okay. Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay. Okay. So when. When do we. Jim, when. When does Jimmy and I know when the courtship part is over?

[Lisa Gilroy]

If we're.

[Bobby Lee]

Give me the signs.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay? So there is always going to be a point where you have the conversation. Like, over here in America, everyone avoids the conversation. Are we. Aren't we. Right, Right. Where are we? Everyone's like, I'm not ready. Whatever, Whatever.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You have sex first and then you decide six months later. Like, so once you.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Once you create, once you say, yes, you can court me, you are committing to that conversation down the line of we have to come back together and. And figure out if we're going to be. You're going to be my joa or not my boyfriend.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But are. Are. Are you expected to only court one person? And is the girl only being courted by one person?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yes. You have to be very respectful in your court.

[Bobby Lee]

Whoa, whoa.

[Lisa Gilroy]

What you're saying down the line, you also have to let her par. Recording her.

[Bobby Lee]

Whoa, whoa. Dude.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, so it's all backwards because you don't meet the parents until like a year, two years in here.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, well, can I ask you some other questions, if I may? Okay, so let's say the court is. So when the courtship is over, is it marriage and then.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No, marriage is like, you know, you can. That's a negotiation. You can.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You just boyfriend, girlfriend.

[Bobby Lee]

You're just boyfriend and girlfriend. Right.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But to get there is like. I think it just eliminates confusion, you guys. I think America has it all wrong. That's what everyone. Stuck up situation.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I totally agree.

[Bobby Lee]

I think it takes the mystery away.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Everyone's confused. Lightning speed. And everyone wants the dopamine hit.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You don't even know if you like hanging out with that person without, like, outside of, say, hooking up.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Here in America.

[Bobby Lee]

I think you. I think you're on to something here.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So when your boyfriend, after I don't know how many months, of course, should we go through five steps, then the end of five stuff is boyfriend, girlfriend.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, you're joa. Like, we are together.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And then. Then you can have sex.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You can do whatever you want if you, you know, you can even have sex. Probably.

[Bobby Lee]

What you said. What did you say?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Go ahead, go.

[Bobby Lee]

What'd you say? I just said anal, bro. What the. You go from courtship. He doesn't want to cancel your payroll.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

He's hilarious, man.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Hi, man.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you will go straight anal without kissing and stuff like that.

[Jaime]

Not even. That's where your mind was.

[Bobby Lee]

That's where your mind was at.

[Ronnie Chang]

Well, she said anything and he had sex only.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah. Okay, I understand, I understand.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But not everyone follows these rules back home. I'm just saying there is still a hookup culture. Yeah, there is hookup culture, but I think it's more confusing over here for sure.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's also another question. It's like, still, we live in a modern, you know, Philippines. We live in modern Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Japan. There are people to hook up. There are people that are into old school courtship. How do you know who's who?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, how do you know?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But then I guess you can, you can kind of vibe it out, you know?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I think that you're on to something because it's like I'm stuck in a lot of relationships where you meet somebody, three days later, you're having sex. It's a lot, a lot of sex. Right. And then six months down the road

[Jimmy O. Yang]

you're like, how much, bro? How much sex? How much you like? You know, three times a day? Like, what are about we talking?

[Jaime]

Hey, how much you curling?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, I'm curling. I'm curling. Maybe three or four times a week.

[Jaime]

Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, that's.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, three or four times a week. And then it's like six months later, you're 80 grand in debt.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jaime]

So many meals.

[Bobby Lee]

Eighty grand.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's a lot.

[Bobby Lee]

You're right. And then you realize you don't even like this person. So I think reverse engineering it. Right. Maybe the. Right.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But I like the announcing intention early. Yeah, I think, I don't think necessarily. I don't know. I don't know. Hong Kong culture, culture, like the modern culture as well. But I, I'm not sure if you do that super early. I don't know.

[Bobby Lee]

So when you were in Hong Kong for two months shooting your special this and that, were you courting anybody there?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I, I went out, like, I just checked it out.

[Bobby Lee]

You checked what's going on?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But also, it's like Hong Kong is such a small city state, you know, it's 7 million people. It's like Manhattan, New York. Whatever I do could end up in the newspaper. If I walk around, it could be, you know, pictured. So I couldn't like go to a club. Neither did I want to.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, right, right, right. You know there's no strip clubs out there. Right, Right. No. Yeah. There's no way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That'd be crazy. Yeah. So you, you, you checked out?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I checked it. I just want to get a vibe. And sometimes I, I would talk to a girl from Japan, from Hong Kong, just to ask, like, not even like trying to hit on her. Like, I'm very much like, I don't know, maybe I'm just old and like, chill. Now you're inquisitive. Yeah, I would, I would go ask a stripper what's going on and not trying to hit on her.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know, or I'll Go ask a nice girl what's going on, not try to hit on her and then, then we'll see what happens. I don't, I just don't want to like mess around, waste time anymore, you know?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I think you both are on to something. The dopamine hits is what we're, you know, I think that's the problem. I'm looking for a feeling of quick fix for sure. And a relationship isn't a quick fix.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah. Top of the muffin only. That's what you eat and chase.

[Bobby Lee]

Top of the what?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Top of the muffin.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jaime]

With a, the crispy part on the top.

[Bobby Lee]

I love the crispy part though. You know it's burnt. Do when it's burnt a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Wow. How long would you wait until the sexual? Would you wait three years?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Well, three years seems like a lot. I'm a little older.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But it's like I don't mind waiting anymore. Yeah, I don't really.

[Bobby Lee]

But what's the time though? I mean you can't through do three, you know what I mean?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Look, I think if there's progress, it's fine, you know.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh. Like four months in we kissed. Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

There's signs, there's signs there's progress. I'm going the right way. I'm not just spending 80 grand.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'm not just like bleeding out.

[Lisa Gilroy]

There's a difference here to slow play it. Apparently all the younger kids are about sides now. Have you heard this side piece? Nope. Not even that.

[Jaime]

Anal.

[Bobby Lee]

Right.

[Jaime]

Just lots of anal sides.

[Lisa Gilroy]

So like basically taking it back to junior high and just doing side stuff. Not intercourse, more like kissing, foreplay, dry humping things. Except for intercourse. It's kind of like to build the moment, you know, to build the thrill.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, Yeah. I like the anticipation part of a lot of this, you know, I love the anticipation. Like I get nervous. I, I, you know, like, like I'm like. Does she like me? She's not going. I really like her. But I think there's a vibe. I, I like that it's nerve wracking.

[Bobby Lee]

But isn't that still dopamine?

[Lisa Gilroy]

The sides?

[Bobby Lee]

No, the, the mystery part. Yeah, yeah, that's all still dip dopamine.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But that love, that deep comp, the deep knowing of someone, like that's irreplaceable for me.

[Bobby Lee]

But here's some, a little story I'd like to tell you.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Everyone in the room. That was a really story. It's something I witnessed. So a long time ago when I started doing comedy. I hung out with this girl, and she's very funny. I want to say her name. And very attractive. We never did anything. We were just friends. And then she met somebody many, many years ago, and she got out of the comedy business and she had children with this guy, and she was very much in love. And I just ran into her and seen her many, many years. And I go, what's up? And she. And you can tell something was up. She's like, I'm just stuck. Like, what are you stuck in? She's like, I just. I'm so unhappy in my marriage, but I can't leave, you know, because of the kids. Kids and the house. You know what I mean? So. And my kids are. There's another 10 years before they leave the house. You know what I mean? So in my mind, I'm like. That just sounded like torture, you know, I don't want to be trapped in that situation, you know? I mean. And, you know, and I know that people change in relationships, and I. That's my biggest fear, man, is to be in a situation where I can't get out.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, well, I think that that's everyone. I don't think that's, you know, exclusive to Asia, dating or America.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Like, you know, after a while, like, your marriage could just not work.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And there's no way to know and prep that.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

There's really no way.

[Bobby Lee]

There is no way.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But there's a risk you take.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Take.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I've also heard opposite examples where someone has been on the road so long, next thing you know, they 45. They never really seriously dated. They want kids, but it's a little too late. And they're super depressed because they missed that time frame. They wish they never tore that me. I've heard.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow. So I'm in pain now anyway, so.

[Jaime]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I don't know what you're waiting for. I think you're so ready for something great.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's true.

[Jaime]

I have a show idea. Jimmy and Bobby go to Asia to court courtship.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Courtship.

[Jaime]

Unscripted.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, unscripted. Like a dating show.

[Bobby Lee]

He's going to pull so much more than me.

[Jaime]

It's not about that. It's finding the one.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, when it's courtship. But don't. It doesn't matter.

[Bobby Lee]

You're going to get the one before my one.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no, that's not it.

[Bobby Lee]

Absolutely.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Can I do an Asian courtship?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's like the opposite of popping A balloon that's like so quick. So, like, whatever it is, just hoarding.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. Coach us now. All right, all right. So we've been in Hong. Does it have to be Hong Kong?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no. Anywhere in.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah, Glendale.

[Bobby Lee]

What?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Glendale. We're in Monray Park.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, Monray Park. Yeah. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Let's say. Let's say in Japan. Just because it's a mutual Asian.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay, so first off, I have two rules for the both of you. Number one, delete all your dating apps.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I just did.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, I just did.

[Jaime]

There you go.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Cuz I'm like, I'm going to take this seriously. Like, it gives you a dopamine hit to, like, talk, but it never works out.

[Bobby Lee]

It never works out.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's about hooking up and, you know, other people on 50 talking. 50 messages. Anyways, I deleted it.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And once you match, that's the hit, right? You don't care anymore after that. Once you get the match, you're like, okay, cool, I got the dopamine hit. Don't care to have the conversation. Okay, delete.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, delete the maps. Okay, I'm not gonna do it now because it's hypothetical medical.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Second. Okay, you're gonna both meet people in the wild, right?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, my God. In Japan. I don't know. Japanese.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It doesn't matter.

[Jaime]

Expats, dude, number.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Number three rule. You are not allowed to tell anyone your profession and what you do for the first month.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Whoa, wait a minute.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Whoa.

[Bobby Lee]

I have no skills, then.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, that's the only way I get laid.

[Bobby Lee]

That's my thing.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, but what if.

[Bobby Lee]

That's a great idea.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

What if. What if they know who. Who. Who we are already?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay, that's fine.

[Bobby Lee]

They're not going to talk to me unless they know who I am.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Like, I'm not saying I met her at a show, right? Like, that's unfair.

[Lisa Gilroy]

If we're just going for. For the sake of actually just coaching you to be good quarters, I would have you approach women who don't know

[Jimmy O. Yang]

who you are in Japan. Actually most.

[Lisa Gilroy]

So that you can really practice skill of, like, you know, because I feel like that is really important for you for either of you to feel like this person really likes me.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yes. Yes.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Right? It's never going to be about, like, how shiny you are as Jim.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Get it? And then. Okay, and then do we ask them out on dinner and then. Or do we announce, like, hey, I'm feeling you right now. Can I court you?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Well, it depends.

[Bobby Lee]

Right now can I go?

[Lisa Gilroy]

The next thing is you're gonna. You're gonna give. Actually, you know what? I never know what the correct answer is. If you give your number, if you ask for her number, I think you ask for her number.

[Jaime]

I see you asked.

[Bobby Lee]

Can I give her a business card? No.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No business.

[Jaime]

Why a black and white headshot?

[Bobby Lee]

It won't say Comedian Bobby Lee.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, yeah, but those are my three rules.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay?

[Lisa Gilroy]

That's, that's those. We'll start there and then we'll, we'll graduate onto. Once you get past actually being able to ask a girl and, like, garner her interest without all of that, then, you know, we'll, we'll move forward from.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And we cannot have sex with anyone.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Ronnie Chang]

Know.

[Bobby Lee]

And how long?

[Lisa Gilroy]

A month. You can't tell them for a month.

[Bobby Lee]

One month.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And you just. Quarter. You take her out on dates.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

What if, what if Bobby got a side piece he's having sex with? Just keep his mind off.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, yeah. That's another thing. One at a time. No side pieces.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, See, there you go. You was gonna ask.

[Bobby Lee]

I was still gonna do it. A lie.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'm not, I'm not, I'm not doing it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, no side piece. I'm gonna tell you. I'll be honest with you.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

I think that if me and Jimmy were in Japan, he would be courting for first. I, I, I do believe that.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Ding.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I think four weeks later, I'd just be looking at you like, no courting yet. You know, I mean, and then the show thing's over.

[Jaime]

The show's over.

[Bobby Lee]

The show's over.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I don't believe that. I don't believe that.

[Bobby Lee]

It's going to take me six months.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, but I think, like, that's a great thing about courtship. It's like people are dating you for you. It's not just like, like your skills getting laid or whatever, you know, I

[Bobby Lee]

mean, but my assets, right, is that

[Lisa Gilroy]

I'm, you know, that you're funny.

[Bobby Lee]

I'm funny. Yeah.

[Jaime]

Has nothing to do with being a standup comedy.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, that has nothing. In your profession. You just are funny, Bobby.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

And I have an IMDb.

[Jaime]

You've shown that on dates.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jaime]

What I've done rule number four, no story.

[Bobby Lee]

I've done animation, too.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I think once, if you do the courtship stuff, it kind of like, I think you're much more than that, Bobby. You know, you're not just, you know, funny and rich or IMDb or whatever, but I think once you do the courtship, you really get to know each other. You're like, man, I'M actually a good dude. I'm actually different than that guy because of this. It's not about getting laid. Those are your assets for like, you know, trying to. Trying to sleep with some woman in Miami or something.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I think it's also going to eliminate this idea in your head that your only value is your profession.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's right. And the only value is money, fame, or like, you know, because that's.

[Lisa Gilroy]

That's all shallow and it's not sustainable.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay, here's another thing. I think maybe we have to lower our standards. Standards, too.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No, I don't think so.

[Jaime]

No. Have high.

[Bobby Lee]

What?

[Jaime]

Have high standards.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

We're talking higher standards.

[Lisa Gilroy]

High standards. Character. And you are. Who you're attracted to. Who you're attracted to. You cannot, you know, But I would say, like, dig deep and really go for people with like, character.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Which I think you do a good job with. I think that you. You do date hot girls, but you also. You date everyone.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

When then hot girls don't seem that important anymore if you really got to spend four months with this person. Person. You know what I mean? Like, you got to look at her character, too.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, I see.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes. Sometimes the. All the time. The character is sexy.

[Jaime]

I like that line.

[Bobby Lee]

You like that? Yeah, sometimes. To. All the time.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

What.

[Bobby Lee]

What are some traits that I find sexy? What are some traits that you find sexy?

[Jaime]

Non physical, you mean?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, non physical.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Non physical. I think if someone shares some of the same interests, you know, like, like just chill stuff like gardening, cooking or sense of humor.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Not just saying, like, they have to be super funny, but you understand humor.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You can laugh at things together.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. And. And, you know, this sounds super basic, but like kindness, honesty, and like, stuff like that.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know, like, are you gonna argue with me about everything or.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, I hate contrarians.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

So exhausting.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Or even it's like. Okay, if you don't agree, there's a way to talk about it, you know, can we just. Just, you know. Yeah, stuff like that.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So that and family values.

[Bobby Lee]

Family values is important.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Family.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. You know, my thing is I like when they have like, they're obsessed with a weird thing that's really. I like 17th century yo yos. You're like, what? You go to their house and they have every style and from every passion.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Awesome.

[Bobby Lee]

This one's from the gilded age.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Like something that they geek out about.

[Bobby Lee]

They geek out about. I really like that.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Super cute.

[Bobby Lee]

That's really cute.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, yeah. Something passionate about Something smart. You got to be able to carry conversation. Something it doesn't have. Not high iq, but like conversationally.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I like weird rituals too. Oh, no.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Does that mean you don't like ritual? Sounds scary.

[Bobby Lee]

What? No, like a daily ritual. Like a weird thing.

[Jaime]

Ocd.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. You're like, I have to stick my toes in the swimming pool for five minutes. Right. You know, every morning.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Okay.

[Bobby Lee]

Something cute like that for quirky.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Quirky?

[Bobby Lee]

Quirky. I love rituals on the spectrum.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Humiliation rituals.

[Bobby Lee]

Like a pentagram.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's so cute.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, it's so cute. No, or like, you know, I saw a TikTok where a girl wakes up every morning and she. She. She puts her butthole to the sun and she needs that.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, yeah. Be whole sunny.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, that's probably good for you. Yeah, that's good for you. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Wear some of sunscreen, though.

[Bobby Lee]

What? Put some sunscreen. Yeah, yeah. You have to put somewhere on the calamari. Yeah, yeah. So what else do I look for? Shared interest is good too. Like, here's what I can't do when they have no passion that I don't like.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

I mean, and they. Here's another thing is everything is typical, atypical. Like I like Taylor Swift. You know what I mean?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

They got no personality.

[Bobby Lee]

No personality. I mean. Yeah. Pumpkin spice.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And they don't know what they want. Sometimes that's really hard.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'm not there to try to figure it out with you.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. And if all they want is a baby, that's also a red flag for me. Oh. All I wanted. All I want is babies.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I get that now that I have one. I totally get it.

[Bobby Lee]

You do?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yes. Because I used to be like, why would anyone just want a baby? And then you have a baby and you're like, why would anyone not want a baby?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Right, right, right, right.

[Lisa Gilroy]

George.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. Are you being real?

[Lisa Gilroy]

I'm being so.

[Bobby Lee]

I feel like it's a trick.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No.

[Bobby Lee]

Is it a trick?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Listen, all respect to people who never want to have children. I totally get it. But once you have your own baby, you're like, I can't believe I was that person who never even cared for babies before. Like I obsessed. You are like true obsession.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I get it.

[Bobby Lee]

Well, you got a good one. That's why.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No, if it doesn't matter, sometimes you

[Bobby Lee]

don't get a good one.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's a sense of purpose and it's

[Bobby Lee]

the most, you know.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, you know, God given purpose. You could have, you know, more than money, more than anything.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. You have to pad the Walls. Because yours is a little, you know, I mean, nuts. Right?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Even I would look like, you gotta

[Bobby Lee]

lock the knives in the house.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Those babies are cute.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, gosh.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I. I want a good one.

[Ronnie Chang]

1.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I would say at my age, my life would make a lot more sense if I had a baby. All my friends got married, got babies, they hang out. Parks.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know, like, I got nobody to just like hang out. Like, I'm still trying to, like, like, should I still try to go to that.

[Bobby Lee]

This bar?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know, like, I got, I got nobody. Oh, I heard this bar is cool. But I ain't got nobody, like, hang out with.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'm not gonna hit. Hit up like, you know, a 22 year old dude I just met at the Improv. Hey, man, you want to go to the bar? Yeah, you know?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I mean, the, the other night, even this happened. I was at the Comedy Store. I was in the main room. I had already gone up and I was walking out, you know, the main room where you're like, I'm walking out, you know, the back row. And there was like a group of girls there from out of town and they're like, sit with us, right? So I sat down. They had an empty seat. I sat there. And then you were so funny. You know what I mean? All that stuff. And like, hey, you want to hang out afterwards, after the show's over? I'm like, yeah, I'll meet you over here. You know what I mean? When the show's over. Right. When they met me over there, I was at home playing video games.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's a sense of peace, man. Don't let them disturb your peace.

[Bobby Lee]

I know, but what I'm saying is I'm. Unlike back in my 30s, I would have stayed and I would have, you know what I mean, taken the risk, you know what I mean? But now it's like I can't even do that anymore. Yeah, you know, it's like tiring, like, tired.

[Ronnie Chang]

What, are you tired? Like, tired of it.

[Bobby Lee]

I think it's like, if it's guaranteed smash, I would have stayed, right. I'm not willing to, like, stick around.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But also, smashing doesn't mean that much.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, Coach doesn't like to hear this.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, what's this? Oh, wow, here we go. Court chicken.

[Jaime]

Gay couple.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, the Asian Bert and Ernie.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This show would be a hit in Japan. Like, with the visual, like, it's kind

[Lisa Gilroy]

of like, can we try? Because I feel like this actually might be a go for the boat.

[Jaime]

Let's get Howie Mandela on this?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. How? Maybe How. Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's really cute.

[Bobby Lee]

You like Howie Mandel?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, I met him a couple times. He seemed nice.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But do you. Jimmy, have you ever watched Terrace House?

[Ronnie Chang]

Yes.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Okay, so, yes, I love Terrace.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Me too. Obsessed, Right? But you know how everything is like non dramatic, it's just chill. But we're like locked in.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yes.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I need this show to have that same kind of.

[Bobby Lee]

All right, both of you pitch me Terrace House. Because I've. I remember we used to watch it all day long. I didn't understand why people watch it. The pitch to me. Why Terrace. Terrace House is good.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You go.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I'll go first.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I'll say.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I'll chime in.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay. So the. The concept of Terrace House is very much like the real world, except that things. They're not. It's not overproduced things. They're six kids. Are they six?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I forget how many.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Six just live in a house.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And then they go about their very pretty Japanese people.

[Lisa Gilroy]

They go about their regular lives, they go about their regular jobs. And then the camera just captures their little interactions with each other. Sometimes they date each other. But it's a. A very quiet, non dramatic show. But you become so heavily invested because you learn about who they are, their dreams, their passions, why they're in that house, what they have to achieve before they leave the house.

[Bobby Lee]

Yes.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And nothing happens. It isn't like Bad girls club where people are beating the.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Jumping into hot tubs, fighting. None of that. There's no.

[Jaime]

They work jobs.

[Lisa Gilroy]

They have real jobs. They go to school.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yes.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And then I'm telling you, Bobby, you know, know, like in heated rivalry. Just that. The finger touching.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Okay, so in Terrace House, when, when, when two people. When two people kiss, it's like I'm a little teenager again. Because it's like nothing happened.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's like season finale.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Exactly.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

They like even have a little peck and there's. Oh, the greatest thing is every 10 minutes they cut to commentary.

[Lisa Gilroy]

That's where they're the best. The best commentary. They're so funny.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, and then. And then you really see the Japanese courtship happen. Happening. Like there will be like episode seven. Like there's only maybe 10 episodes. Episode seven. Or it's 20 episodes. Episode like 15. The guy knocks on the girl's door with a flower and be like, I am actually very interested in you. Would you be interested in actually going out with me? You know, it's complete opposite real world when they. In the hot tub.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And then one of the episodes in one season, this guy takes this girl Senna, this gorgeous girl. He takes her to a church with, like, a big bouquet of roses. And he gets on his knees and he's like, like, like, date me. And she just stands there and she's like, nah. And it is.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh. Oh, no.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. See? Heartbreaking.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But it's like he. He goes through these extremes. Like, that's courtship. He got suited up, he got the flowers. He chose the church. And it was hilarious. It was hilarious.

[Bobby Lee]

Great content. Yeah. And then. And then two days later, he Harry carried.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But I really feel like you guys should do something like a dating show, but with that same tone of Terrace House.

[Bobby Lee]

Okay. Yeah. But the goal of everybody in the

[Jimmy O. Yang]

show is to find love.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yes.

[Bobby Lee]

So that's the very deep.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know, it's like very serious. They take it very seriously.

[Bobby Lee]

It's not the surface level American game show.

[Lisa Gilroy]

And when a girl checks out, like in Tara's house, then a new person comes in, knock on the door, and you're like, who is she? And you only see, like, this part of her hair at first.

[Jaime]

Never show the face. Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Who's Jimmy's next? You know?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But then it's so polite. But then you start seeing some spark. Oh, she's spending a little more time with him.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yes.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But, like, they're spending time, but she's not really feeling him, you know?

[Bobby Lee]

So let me ask you, are they still doing the show?

[Lisa Gilroy]

They had to stop for a little bit because one of the cast members. No. She sadly unalived herself. She was getting a lot of hate from the fans, and she was awesome. She was this wrestler girl.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, wow.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah. It was so sad. Oh, no, the Internet. But this girl was incredible on the show.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Dang.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, no. And so when did they end?

[Lisa Gilroy]

A couple. And then to Kui, one of the comments, I think he had fraud. So there was, you know, issues there.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I do think Terrace House is the definition of Asian old school dating. And then real world is the definition of American modern hookup culture.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, I see. I see. You know, and I think I want old school.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I think so. I think as we get older, I

[Bobby Lee]

think there's something to it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And I. I do think even when we're in our 20s, you know, the old school would have been better. We just got tricked by the media, by everything thing that. By the MTV culture of it, that we're like, no, man, you're. You need to be a man and go get laid. You need to be cool, you know? But who actually wants that?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Because there's an. Ultimately, there's an emptiness that happens.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

What'd you say he just named another TV channel?

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, that I want to hear. I like to hear these people reference. What did you say?

[Ronnie Chang]

Spike tv.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I love Spike tv.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Spike TV was sweet for a first.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Like, bro. Bro.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, that's right. That was good.

[Ronnie Chang]

Remember?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I do remember. Remember?

[Ronnie Chang]

Oh, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Format. Oh, yeah, I love SP tv. They had, like, robot fights. I think they aired, like, mma. They had. It was like, bro. Not even, like, hookup bro. Like, just like, bro. Like, they had a slam ball. Do you guys remember that? When they had trampolines and you dunked the basketball? It's amazing how far you.

[Bobby Lee]

Do you think you get an American Ninja Warrior here?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, we a go try. My buddy's. My buddy's an assistant director.

[Bobby Lee]

Really?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, we should go try.

[Bobby Lee]

That seems so hard.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I. I wouldn't go far. Like, all the grip strength stuff.

[Bobby Lee]

I wouldn't be.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I can do all the quick, quick, like, jumpy stuff.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jaime]

All right. You show Bobby and Jimmy play slam.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This is one of the date activities we.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Slam ball.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I think I really hurt myself, but that's a thing, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the matter?

[Lisa Gilroy]

No, I'm still working on the show in my head.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. You think it would work?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, I think so.

[Bobby Lee]

Could you. Can you could do this? Can you line it? Because we're doing a TV show. Can you line up people?

[Lisa Gilroy]

That's what I was thinking, too. Like, I got to make vet. Vet girls who literally, I do not know who the you are. I think that that would be a little hard, but I think we can find them.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Or you can, I guess. We set up, like a bar situation. We're like, willing participants, and it's like a social mixer, something like that. Like, we set up a couple mixers.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

But you can't let them know that we're filming a TV show where you're looking for love.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But they have to be willing participants.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, yeah, that's true.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I want to blur their face.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

I just saw Bobby did that episode with the button.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, the button.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, the button. Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

That was a funny.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, was it like pop the balloon type thing?

[Bobby Lee]

It was kind of like that. Yeah. Yeah. That was fun to do, to watch and observe.

[Ronnie Chang]

You should do it.

[Bobby Lee]

You know, I was there. She was. She was already there.

[Ronnie Chang]

No, like, she should do one for you.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, you feel for other people.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It's a good idea.

[Bobby Lee]

I. Here's the thing I hate rejection when it comes to the opposite sex, it hurts me, you know, I mean, and I have to get over that.

[Ronnie Chang]

I think.

[Bobby Lee]

I think I'm 54. Will I ever get over it?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, I don't think anybody gets over it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know, Yeah, I think that's normal.

[Bobby Lee]

Somebody go immediately do that in front of your face. Yeah, like that. Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

You know him.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, those guys, remember?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So you're doing it for years, coaching them.

[Bobby Lee]

I was coaching.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, but see, you're coaching the girl or the guy. This guy doesn't need your coaching. Yeah, but I mean, look like he's a very goodlooking guy, but if and. And if he gets some, like, cool lines and comebacks from a comedian, that's actually the perfect combo.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. I don't think I give him much help. But he passed on her.

[Ronnie Chang]

Anyone?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, he passed. Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

No. But you know what? Bobby had really good instinct. He knew when someone was going to hit the button before they hit the button.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, Yeah. I could have no vibe.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

He's actually better looking than any of these girls. Yeah, he's a very handsome guy.

[Bobby Lee]

He's very handsome guy. And he's also cool. He's got a Sun Kang kind of vibe to him. Yeah, you mean quite Asian.

[Ronnie Chang]

Didn't you find anybody?

[Bobby Lee]

What?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, they got a couple matches.

[Bobby Lee]

A couple matches?

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

This kid. Kid. This kid was cute.

[Lisa Gilroy]

This kid was super cute.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Look at this.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This is a K town.

[Bobby Lee]

This isn't. No, just Hollywood. Look how cute this guy.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

How come everybody.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Oh, so it's Asian dudes dating white girls dating outside. Non Korean.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they thought I would be the master of that, which is like.

[Jaime]

Let's call Bob the master of dating,

[Bobby Lee]

the master of white girls.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This is a good show. I. I'm gonna go home. Watch this. This is good.

[Bobby Lee]

So do you have anything coming out? Like, are you working on anything or what's going on?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, so the special should come out soon. Well, okay. Let's talk about rock. Spring premier to Sundance.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Me, Benedict Wong, Kelly Marie Tran. It's really cool movie. That's a horror film, but it also flashes back to 1885 and we're two Chinese miners. And it was based on a real story where they got massacred by these white people. People. Wow. Quite sadly, it's like a timely movie, you know, but, you know, with Sundance, I think you got to sell it and then you got to find distributors. So I don't know how it works.

[Bobby Lee]

Is it his production Company made it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, it's Macro. Macro made.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, Macro did. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

They're awesome.

[Bobby Lee]

I love that guy.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. And then my Hong Kong comedy special, it's coming out March 20th in the theaters in Hong Kong. I haven't announced theaters there. Yeah, yeah. And then. And then I'm gonna find some theater distribution here, here, and then I will figure it out how to distribute it worldwide.

[Bobby Lee]

I wish I had your ethic.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, man, this is so much work.

[Bobby Lee]

Ethic.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This is so much work. It's driving me crazy, actually. It'd be so much easier if I just sold it to Hulu, Amazon, Netflix, this one. But then I'm like, it's too. This one is too special, meaningful for me, especially for my people in Hong Kong. I was like, I gotta. I gotta do this myself.

[Bobby Lee]

So you're gonna do it, but you're not gonna sell it to a streamer?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Maybe on the secondary market. But I wanted to have that theatrical release because it looks. It's a huge, like, concert film. I sing. Anthony's in there.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow. Yeah. Do you get nervous doing these gigantic venues?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This one I did because it was 20 minutes, brand new, like, Cantonese material. There's Kanthony's song.

[Bobby Lee]

Wait, wait, wait. You went up in front of all those people and tried material you never tried before?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, but I knew I was kind of gonna. I kind of knew it was gonna work because the structure of the joke is gonna work. But also, it's Kanthony's like, you know, they're gonna like it because there's a familiarity. It's like, you know, the five minutes every comedian does at every city, Hawaii or whatever. And you talk about spam with Subi, and of course they're gonna laugh.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know?

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. Like. Oh, I see, I see. Yeah, yeah. You kind of know, do local references, and you have an instinct about that. Yeah, yeah. And then so do you. So you said you prefer stand up over film.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Like, I've always. Cuz. Cuz acting was always a challenge, and I want to do. I set so many goals. I try to prove myself as dramatic actor. I've done a lot of that. But then now I'm like, man, why did I ever, like. I never quit stand up, but why did I ever take a break from stand up to try to act? This is what we do best.

[Bobby Lee]

But the acting helped your stand up. I think it made you super famous,

[Jimmy O. Yang]

like on Silica Valley, stuff like that.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Also, I think Crazy Rich was. Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Crazy Rich.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But I mean, do you know how Many things. Things I do that you. You don't even remember or you never heard of.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, I know all everything. Easter Sunday.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, yeah. So that. That's the Hong Kong show. I popped up out of stage like Psy.

[Bobby Lee]

My God, dude.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, it's a whole thing. Like, you guys. You guys will see it. That's why I. I want.

[Bobby Lee]

Zoom in on. Zoom on Jimmy here.

[Jaime]

So high.

[Bobby Lee]

That is crazy, dude. Yeah, well, that's. And people went crazy.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, it was pretty cool.

[Bobby Lee]

You're like the Chinese Michael Jackson here, dude. It's amazing.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

The Hong Kong. Taylor Swift.

[Bobby Lee]

Swift, yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

You know.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, that's. And how many people you said?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

8,000.

[Bobby Lee]

8,000. Damn. It's a lot of people, dude. Good. Next photo. Let me see the next photo.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, these are just different pics. That's me in Texas. I guess that's Wembley.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. Wembley. O2. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's just a picture.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Jesus Christ. You've going from the first time we saw you. That's Singapore.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

This is. There's Australia, there's Sydney.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow. Yeah, it's. It's. When you're. When you do big shows like that, do you stay in that town for a couple of days or do you go show different cities?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I try, but, like, Australia was like Sydney and then Melbourne, I did Radio City, which was so beautiful, so awesome.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

But I had to do Atlanta, like, two days before, so. And then I had to fly back to Vegas for Super Bowl. I was like, hosting a Super bowl party. So it's like.

[Bobby Lee]

That's the thing. It's like, when we did Australia, it's like, it was so back to back. We weren't able to go and like. Yeah. Enjoy it.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Lisa Gilroy]

When you do Manila, I implore you to leave a couple days afterwards to explore.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

That's what I want to do on this next tour. I want to plan it a little better, you know, more focused on the cities and then give myself more time to kind of hang, you know, I

[Bobby Lee]

think in about three or four years, what's gonna. We're gonna do a mega Asian show.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I've been. I've been wanting to do that. I think that'll be great.

[Bobby Lee]

I think. I think imagine like a king comedy thing. Yeah. Like five or six people, maybe. Maybe. Yeah. You coy ally. How great would that be?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, that'll be fun.

[Bobby Lee]

That would be so fun. But who closes? It's hard.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I think you just draw straw. It doesn't matter.

[Jaime]

Oh, it's fun drawing straws.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Well, every show can Be different.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah. I'm not following you guys.

[Jaime]

You. You host. Host.

[Bobby Lee]

I'll host. I'll host the thing you.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, that would be fun, too.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Steve Harvey was one of the funny, funniest parts of Kings of Comedy.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So a lot of the Hong Kong special, my mom and dad were in three of the five shows. So a lot of the shots kind of pan back to them, their reaction. I give them shout outs, you know, so it's all. It's like I. I introduce you, and actually, you see the characters in my special that I talk about.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I love that.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow, that's so cool.

[Jaime]

Is your dad still acting a bunch?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, man. Yeah. He's. He's crushing it.

[Bobby Lee]

Your dad's an actor?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. SAG Aftra acted, dude.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow. This is. Did you help him get into the business?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, I. He started, like, commercial acting, and then I wrote an episode of Space Force.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And he was opposite Steve Carell. He was mostly opposite John Malkovich, actually.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

He wasn't nervous. He crushed it. And John loves my dad. Like, he's the coolest guy.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And my dad's very cool, too.

[Bobby Lee]

But you give him a lot of lines or no.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, he had a good amount of lines.

[Ronnie Chang]

Wow.

[Bobby Lee]

Does he have an accent?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Naturally, he has a bit of an accent, but it's interesting because I think he studied property. British, English.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

So it's almost like a British with a little touch of Chinese accent. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. There's John.

[Bobby Lee]

That's amazing. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, he was a dialect coach for Kerry Washington.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

On, I think, little fires everywhere or something.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah, man.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. You're the future, Jimmy. I mean, you're just. Who's okay. Mark Wahlberg. Yeah. Wow.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

And then. And then they flew to Singapore. Like, go to the next one one. They flew to Singapore for the crazy rich Asians rap party.

[Bobby Lee]

My God.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

You know Michelle Constance.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

He. He loves it. Like, I don't really care, you know, to be, like. It feels nice to be recognized, you know, I just kind of want to chill, you know? Hang on. My friends. My dad loves the attention.

[Bobby Lee]

He does.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Way more.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When I said, when I. I observe you a lot in the wild. Yeah, yeah. And you like to chill with regular people and just hang.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

All my friends, my best friends and my fantasy football league.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

High school, when I first started stand up, you know, College buddies. Yeah, man. I don't. I mean, I have, like, cool friends, too, but I don't really go out of my way to Go to your beefs. Beefs. No, I don't really.

[Bobby Lee]

Who do you hate?

[Jimmy O. Yang]

I don't. I don't go out. I don't go out enough to have beef.

[Bobby Lee]

You have no hatred toward anybody.

[Jaime]

Not like you're.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

No, no.

[Bobby Lee]

I know. Why do we have wars?

[Jaime]

I can just look at that one poster and have so many stories already. The Kims of comedy.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Lee]

When you have so little to fight for and they don't give you a lot of spots, they make us fight over it. Yeah. Yeah. Over the crumbs. But now it's different, you know it is.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah. Truly.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Even just my generation of it.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

It's been like I was lucky to be in this time. Where also I met even crazy rich Asia. I met so many people that I'm. I'm so proud of, and they're like, peers and, you know, contemporaries that I would never met doing, say, another TV show show. Because usually we'll be the only Asian person on there.

[Bobby Lee]

Michelle Yao is a nice person.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

The best.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Yeah. I did a movie with her once. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

She's amazing.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. Nobody saw it. Nobody saw this movie. It's fine. I was there.

[Jaime]

I remember the story.

[Bobby Lee]

I don't even know what the story was.

[Lisa Gilroy]

You know what? I do?

[Jaime]

I do.

[Bobby Lee]

What was the story?

[Jaime]

I know.

[Lisa Gilroy]

It's wire work.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that story.

[Jaime]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah. But. All right. So Jimmy, everyone, listen. What? Check out his dad dates.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Right, jimmy comedy.com.

[Bobby Lee]

jimmy comedy.com. he's a nice kid, super talented. And I can't believe what you say something.

[Lisa Gilroy]

The thing was honking ambulance outside.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

Wow.

[Ronnie Chang]

One.

[Bobby Lee]

That's crazy.

[Jaime]

Ha. What did you learn from the day?

[Bobby Lee]

What you learned about this?

[Jaime]

From current culture to courting culture. Like, give me a fact.

[Ronnie Chang]

Wait five months for sex.

[Bobby Lee]

Amen.

[Ronnie Chang]

J.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yes, sir.

[Ronnie Chang]

There you go.

[Bobby Lee]

Memorize his name. That's good.

[Jaime]

He memorized the whole.

[Bobby Lee]

That's good.

[Ronnie Chang]

Yeah, that's pretty much it. Courtships.

[Bobby Lee]

Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

Like medieval times.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Like. Like. Have you heard of courtships before?

[Ronnie Chang]

From medieval times.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, wow.

[Bobby Lee]

What do you mean?

[Ronnie Chang]

Knights and jesters are.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Right, Right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Oh, he's right.

[Bobby Lee]

How do. How the do you know about that?

[Ronnie Chang]

That medieval. We have medieval times in Dallas.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Oh, like the actual theme park. He's not talking about the era.

[Bobby Lee]

You're not talking about the era?

[Jaime]

The theme park.

[Bobby Lee]

Oh, I see. Okay. I said yeah, yeah. Are we the gestures of this? Yeah.

[Ronnie Chang]

No, right.

[Bobby Lee]

Probably. Yeah. You don't know anything about history, do you. Industrial Revolution.

[Ronnie Chang]

We're making history right now.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yo, keep paying this, man.

[Bobby Lee]

You should write a book, dude.

[Lisa Gilroy]

I would. I'd buy that.

[Bobby Lee]

I would buy it too. Yeah. Yeah. A self help book. Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

For people.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah, for people.

[Bobby Lee]

Horses, marsupials.

[Lisa Gilroy]

Yeah.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Yeah.

[Bobby Lee]

They would love it. Yeah. She gives Jimmy a round of applause.

[Jimmy O. Yang]

Thank you, guys. That was so fun.

[Bobby Lee]

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