Bowen Yang

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.5 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ ? 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.

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0:00.0	I'm talking to Boan Yang today on the three questions.
0:16.7	And Boan, I don't know that I've ever met another Boan.
0:21.5	Have you not?
0:22.5	I don't think so.
0:23.7	I feel like you come across so many different kinds of people every day and you're like,
0:29.0	wow, I guess that's an honor, should I be honest?
0:31.6	No, no, I mean, it's a very nice name.
0:35.4	It feels like an old West Star, you know?
0:40.2	Boan, you know.
0:41.6	Boan, Boan.
0:43.4	It's a Celtic name, apparently.
0:46.8	And then it also works phonetically in Mandarin, Chinese.
0:50.4	And so my parents just kind of chose something that worked on both.
0:55.2	They seem like smarty pants from what little parents?
0:57.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:58.6	Yeah.
0:59.6	Yeah.
1:00.6	Yeah.
1:01.6	I just wondered because I know you spent some of your childhood in Australia and I wondered
1:06.4	if that was like a reason that they picked kind of a more anglicized name.
1:13.9	Yeah, it's like a common wealthy name, isn't it?
1:17.3	I was only in Australia for six months when I was born there, but then we moved to Ontario,
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