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Joe Wong on David LettermanPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, August 1, 2009 2:35 PM
Chinese-born stand-up comic Joe Wong on the David Letterman show. See David Moser interview with Joe Wong for more. |
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Comments on Joe Wong on David Letterman
Hilarious!
Ha! Funny guy! Joe Wong 加油！
Not bad, but I can't say I'm blown away. For his age particularly not bad. As each fresh 18 year-old upper-middle class chinese is more western-influenced than the last, I won't be surprised to see a real David Chappelle come straight out of China.
Fantastic commentary on immigrating to the United States. Go Joe!
chinese and western way of humor are so different, but he seems to grasp it very well..
he reminds me of that singer william hung with his hit "she bangs", i'll say they are quite similar.
He's no William Hung. He's very self-aware and has a unique comic delivery!
i love his accent & content.
I get the feeling this guy will be derided by the Mainland chauvinists pretty soon: pandering to Western audiences, betraying the Motherland, etc. The lot of a comedian is always dicey.
@Iacob:
Stories about Joe Wang had been out for a long time, and so far he has not been "derided by the Mainland chauvinists".
[Edited to place response tag in comment body. Please stick to one commenter name. Thanks. --JM]
Made me laugh a couple of times - but all the 'convenience store' bits made me think he was playing up to stereotype to get a cheap laugh. Left me feeling a bit awkward
I enjoyed it. It's for kicks and for fun and a good time killer. He's pretty good at his jokes and truthfully, it takes guts to go out there to perform live.
I think this gives a perfect example that if Chinese people actually show they have a sense of humor, which they very often don't, and can have a laugh at themselves while taking the piss out of the West in a clever way, they will get respect.
One thing that makes the US different from China is that people get respect who deserve respect - this never happens in China. Only ass-kissers get anything here.
Love to see Dashan go on TV and make jokes that made fun of Chinese people's stereotypes of laowai, something playing on how boringly repetitive your average conversation in China with locals usually is... don't think people would find it funny at all, they would maybe laugh automatically but at the end feel that somehow he was insulting the motherland.