Bowen Yang (Re-Release)

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Comedian, writer and actor Bowen Yang joins Andy Richter to discuss growing up with smarty-pants parents, the high school of SNL, and why your goals should be a process. This episode originally aired in March 2021. Do you want to talk to Andy live on SiriusXM’s Conan O’Brien Radio? Leave a voicemail at 855-266-2604 or fill out our Google Form at BIT.LY/CALLANDYRICHTER. Listen to "The Andy Richter Call-In Show" every Wednesday at 1pm Pacific on SiriusXM's Conan O'Brien Channel.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the three questions. I'm your host, Andy Richter. We had to cancel
0:05.5	our recording of the Andy Richter call and show this week due to the tragic fires across Southern
0:10.9	California. And our thoughts are with everyone affected and will continue our silliness next week.
0:17.0	For now, I'm resharing my conversation with Bowen Yang.
0:21.7	Enjoy it.
0:37.2	I'm talking to Bowen Yang today on the three questions. And,en, I don't know that I've ever met another Bowen.
0:43.1	Have you not? I don't think so.
0:45.5	I feel like you come across so many different kinds of people every day in your life.
0:50.8	Wow, I guess that's an honor. Should I be honored?
0:53.5	No, no. I mean, it's just, it's an unusual.
0:55.3	It's a, it's a very nice name.
0:57.3	It feels like, it feels like an old West star, you know?
1:02.1	Bowen, you know.
1:03.3	Bowen, Bowen.
1:04.8	It's a Celtic name, apparently.
1:08.5	And then it also works phonetically in Mandarin Chinese and so my parents just
1:13.2	kind of chose something that kind of that worked on both they seem like smarty pants from what
1:18.8	my parents been reading yeah yeah yeah I just wonder because I know you you spent some of your
1:26.5	childhood in Australia and I wondered if that was like a reason that they picked kind of a, you know, more anglicized name.
1:35.7	Yeah, it's like a commonwealthy name, isn't it?
1:39.2	I, but I was only in Australia for six months when I was born there, but then we moved to Ontario, Canada for a couple years, and then we
1:49.4	moved to Montreal.
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