Jo Koy Takes Down Asian Hate

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What’s the difference between challenging stereotypes and perpetuating those same stereotypes? That’s just one of the many questions international comedy superstar Jo Koy tries to get to the bottom of on this week’s episode. Koy talks about putting the jokes aside to deal with the harsh realities of his childhood as a half-Filipino, half-white kid in his new memoir ‘Mixed Plate’ and breaks down how he forged his own comedy path, refusing to take no as an answer from Netflix and gaining Steven Spielberg, who’s producing a new movie based on his life, as a fan. He also tells stories about turning down the chance to be Chelsea Handler’s sidekick and shares his reaction to mentor Jay Leno’s recent apology for decades of anti-Asian jokes.

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0:00.0	My guest on today's show is one of the most successful comedians in the world.
0:06.3	I'll let him introduce himself.
0:08.0	I'm half white, half Filipino.
0:10.1	That's what I mean.
0:14.7	Which means my dad was in the military.
0:25.6	That's not even a joke. That's real shit.
0:27.6	A lot of soldiers were fighting for this country.
0:30.6	My dad was dating.
0:33.6	I'm his purple heart.
0:43.3	This is the last laugh.
0:45.7	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast,
0:50.9	and that was a clip from Joe Coy's first massive Netflix special,
0:52.7	live from Seattle.
0:56.8	After putting it all on the line to self-finance that special in 2017, Joe has since released two additional hours on Netflix. Now he has put out a
1:04.7	new memoir called Mixed Plate that goes beyond the jokes to reveal just how hard his road to international comedy fame has been.
1:14.5	In this episode, Joe opens up about the systemic racism he faced early in his career
1:19.4	and the incredibly tough decisions he had to make along the way,
1:23.5	from turning down an opportunity to be Chelsea Handler's sidekick
1:27.2	to refusing to take no for an
1:29.5	answer from Netflix.
1:31.6	All right.
1:32.3	Let's do this.
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