Bowen Yang

Dua Lipa: At Your Service

BBC

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

From planning their promised matching tattoos to breaking bread over their mutual love of Subway sandwiches (really), Bowen Yang and Dua Lipa have one of the funniest ‘At Your Service’ conversations yet. Touching on everything from the ‘Saturday Night Live’ star’s rise to fame to the radar he’s learning to hone when it comes to accepting new work, this week’s episode is as illuminating and warm as it is laugh-out-loud hilarious. Come for the laughs, and stay to learn how Bowen and Dua first met and bonded, as well as which up-and-coming comedians he's obsessed with right now.

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0:00.0	This podcast contains strong language and adult themes.
0:03.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Do a Leaper at Your Service.
0:22.9	This week, I'm joined by Bowen Yang, the breakout star of Saturday Night Live,
0:27.4	a weekly live comedy series that's been a television staple in the United States since 1975,
0:33.1	and which has churned out alumni like Tina Fey, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, and countless others.
0:39.3	Bowen has taken the comedy world by storm since joining the series as a performer nearly three years
0:44.0	ago, but his first big break was with his beloved pop culture podcast, Las Culturistas,
0:49.2	which he has co-hosted with Matt Rogers since 2016. In the years since, he's broken through to
0:55.2	the mainstream with his bold, hilarious writing and acting, and countless viral SNL skits.
1:01.0	From his weakened update appearance as the iceberg, the Titanic hit.
1:05.2	Next week marks the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Here to explain his side of the story
1:10.4	is the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
1:16.0	Hi, Colin. Hi. Thanks for having me. This is always a really weird time of year for me.
1:22.8	To co-writing the incredibly iconic Harry Styles Sarah Lee sketch.
1:27.1	I was telling him about your work managing the company Instagram here at Sarah Lee.
1:33.4	Yeah, and I love representing the brand. People love bread content.
1:38.6	Yeah, that's actually why we brought you in today, since we flagged some activity on the
1:42.4	account that's been a little off message. Oh, I don't think so.
1:48.7	For example, why did Sarah Lee comment on this picture of Nick Jonas saying,
1:54.9	wreck me daddy and then comment again a month later with destroy me king?
2:03.4	Bowen's work is always funny and never the same and consistently groundbreaking.
2:10.4	I first got to know Bowen when we appeared together alongside host Kristen Wigg in an SNL
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