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The Dave Chang Show

‘Master of None’ Cocreator Alan Yang on Breaking Out of Harvard and Into Comedy | The Dave Chang Show (Ep. 10)

The Dave Chang Show

The Ringer

Food, Society & Culture, Arts

4.88.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Chef and Momofuku founder Dave Chang is joined by screenwriter and producer Alan Yang to discuss how he transitioned from studying biology into comedy (5:23), making it in Hollywood (20:11), and some fun behind-the-scenes tidbits that 'Parks and Recreation' fans will enjoy (25:23). Stay tuned for part two of the conversation with Alan Yang in two weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network presented by Major

0:16.6

Doma Media.

0:18.4

Today's guest is Alan Yang, the co-creator of Master of None, one of my close friends,

0:23.6

and he's working on several projects for Amazon, and he has a new movie coming out that

0:30.3

is somewhat autobiographical.

0:33.1

There's a lot to Alan's career, and I think there's a lot to Alan's career that can be

0:38.2

applicable to anyone that aspires to anything creative.

0:41.4

So thanks for tuning in, and without further ado, here is Alan Yang.

0:48.8

I'm with my good friend, Alan Yang, who is joining us today for the pod, and we are still

0:56.4

hoping that we're going to work on our own pod together somehow some way.

1:00.6

Initially, the whole pod was an idea that we would do something together.

1:05.2

It's still going to happen, but the reason why it couldn't happen is you see Alan Yang's

1:10.4

an incredibly busy guy.

1:12.4

He's got a lot going on, and I want to find out about all that's happened and what he's

1:17.4

working on, and we're just going to shoot the shit like we normally do, but thanks for

1:22.0

joining us Alan.

1:23.0

Hey, what's up?

1:24.0

Thank you very much, Dave.

1:25.0

Dave, you're already better at this.

1:26.4

That intro was very strong.

1:27.7

Thank you.

1:28.7

Thank you.

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