Comedian Joel Kim Booster on ‘Bad Dates’ and Why He’s a ‘Rude Little Pig’
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:43.0 | From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, you might have seen comedian and actor Joel Kim Booster in the Maya Rudolph series Lute, or in Fire Island, his Pride and Prejudice adaptation set in the gay vacation spot. |
| 1:13.6 | Booster's latest project is hosting the podcast Bad Dates, where comedians share their worst dating stories. |
| 1:20.6 | So, want to get Booster's advice on how to have better dates, or hear why his latest comedy special is called rude little pig |
| 1:28.5 | stop it you guys are obsessed with me what do you want to metal joel kimbooster in studio |
| 1:37.2 | after this news welcome to forum i'm mina kim kim kim Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. |
| 1:48.3 | LA-based comedian Joel Kim Booster says San Francisco is where his shows will regularly sell out without him needing to beg people to buy tickets, telling the Chronicle, this is where Asian people are, where gay people are, and where gay Asian people are. |
| 2:02.0 | It's a Venn diagram full of people who historically have not seen themselves represented in comedy spaces. |
| 2:08.9 | The writer and star of the film Fire Island, who plays Nicholas and Lute, will be at SF Sketchfest this weekend with a stand-up special, rude little pig, and a live |
| 2:18.8 | taping of his new podcast, Bad Dates. |
| 2:21.8 | But he's with Forum right now, and we are so happy to have him. |
| 2:26.1 | Joel Kim Booster, welcome. |
| 2:27.8 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 2:29.4 | This is such a huge, weird, full-circle moment for me. |
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