Master of None's Alan Yang Unpacks Season 2

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Gene and guest co-host Lenika Cruz, who covers culture at The Atlantic, welcome Alan Yang. He and comedian Aziz Ansari created an Emmy-winning comedy series that stepped comfortably out of the usual TV comfort zones. Master of None just premiered an already beloved second season, and Yang talks about making bold creative choices, crafting inclusive stories, and writing complex characters with an Asian American lead at the center of it all.

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0:00.0	Wow, thank you very much to everyone who worked on the show, our amazing cast and crew.
0:05.0	That voice you're hearing right now is Alan Yang.
0:07.0	It's from a speech he gave last fall at the Emmys after he and Aziz Ansari, his writing
0:11.1	partner, won an Emmy for comedy writing for Master of Known, the Netflix show they created
0:16.0	together.
0:17.0	There's 17 million Asian Americans in this country and there's 17 million Italian Americans.
0:24.1	They have the godfather, good fellas, rocky, the sopranos.
0:29.1	We got long duck dog, so we got a long way to go.
0:33.4	But I know we can get there.
0:35.4	I believe in us.
0:36.4	It's just going to take a lot of hard work.
0:38.4	Asian parents out there.
0:39.6	If you just do me a favor, just a couple of you get your kids' cameras instead of violins
0:44.7	will be all good.
0:46.7	That's who and what?
0:47.9	This week on the Co-Twitch Podcast, a sit down with Alan Yang.
0:51.5	It's in time for the second season of Master of Known.
0:53.6	I'm Gene Demby, by the way.
0:55.0	In recent episodes, we've been pulling some thread on issues of race and representation
0:58.4	in popular culture.
0:59.6	And that's why we're sort of obsessed with Master of Known.
1:01.8	That show leans into these big questions.
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