Bowen Yang on 'SNL,' Diversity, and Culture

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Sam chats with comedian Bowen Yang about becoming the first Chinese American cast member on Saturday Night Live, what it was like to do the show during a pandemic, and why Adele Dazeem is the number one moment in the history of culture. Watch Sam's extended interview with Bowen here: https://youtu.be/1KMRAhxeDpA

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0:00.0	Comedy is hard, but comedy on a zoom meeting.
0:03.6	That is even harder.
0:05.0	My guest today, he can fully attest to that.
0:07.2	I would be, they tell you to get in costume.
0:09.0	So I was in this like spirit Halloween level
0:12.4	Kim Jong-un costume.
0:15.0	And I was like mounting this gigantic green screen.
0:20.0	That's bigger than my living room.
0:23.0	In this costume, on a zoom, putting a light panel
0:26.4	like three feet away, setting it,
0:28.3	like to framing myself, just like,
0:30.8	just doing all these technical things.
0:33.0	And being guided very well by these experts
0:35.2	and professionals, but like,
0:36.3	Uh-huh.
0:37.3	It, I'm just gonna be pretty hard-lined and say
0:41.0	that it was bad, like the comedy suffered.
0:43.6	Okay.
0:47.6	Hey y'all, you are listening to It's Been a Minute
0:49.6	from NPR.
0:50.4	I'm Sam Sanders, and my guest today is Bowen Yang.
0:54.4	Yes, that Bowen Yang cast member on Saturday Night Live.
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