Jimmy O. Yang hopes his standup comedy subverts Asian stereotypes

The Daily Beast

Yang, who recently dropped his first-ever special on Amazon Prime, tells The Last Laugh podcast of his comedy: “A year or two into stand-up I was pretty good. But you can tell that material was pretty generic. I hadn’t dug deep into my truths, my family, where I came from. And I think that’s what I try to do in the special now. You can still talk about stereotypes. I have an Asian d*ck joke, but it’s trying to subvert the standard stereotype and turn it on its head. I have an Asian math joke. But these are all jokes based on my own experiences instead of generic stereotypes. And I think that’s what differentiates newer comics from someone who has graduated from that and is willing to open up.”