Episode 941 - Jimmy O. Yang

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy O. Yang felt like an outsider growing up in Hong Kong and then felt like he didn't fit in studying economics in America. It was only once he starting paying five bucks to do an open mic night in Hollywood that he found a community. Jimmy tells Marc how the immigrant story was different for everyone in his family, how he got his first real lessons in American life from watching BET, and how his performances in Silicon Valley and Crazy Rich Asians are so different when it comes to the pressures of representation.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.9	How are you, what the fuckers, what the fuck buddies, what the fucksters, what's happening.
0:15.7	I'm Mark Mare and this is my podcast, WTF, welcome to it.
0:18.7	I'm going to try to do the business up front, the way that shows do it in the professional
0:24.0	way.
0:25.0	Today on the show, how about a little of that?
0:26.9	Today on the show, I talk to, huh?
0:29.4	Even with a cold, I can lock into broadcast voice.
0:33.2	So today on the show, I'm going to be talking to Jimmy O'Yang.
0:37.4	O'Yang, you might know him from Silicon Valley or his new movie, Crazy Rich Asians, which
0:44.0	is out this Wednesday, August 15th.
0:46.7	So look forward to that a little later in the show.
0:49.2	Jimmy O'Yang is going to be here.
0:53.1	I do still have the cold and, yes, Jimmy O'Yang is going to be here.
0:59.1	He's here, he was here and I'm going to share it with you.
1:01.6	That's how it generally works here.
1:03.8	But I'm going to try to do some other business up front where people do business, which is
1:08.8	kind of interesting, just to follow out of my pocket.
1:12.2	Did I just drop my new sobriety chip, my new brass metal?
1:19.2	I don't know what kind of metal it is, but my new 19 year chip, did I just drop it on
1:25.6	the floor?
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