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Willie Dixon was there. Jimmy Reed was there, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley-- a bunch of people sitting around.I was trying to get this job.
I'm going to give you a hug. JIMMY O. YANG: Thank you.Thank you. Thank you.
And just as a little incentive, if you don't have the book already, those who ask questions will be the first to get your very own copy of the book. JIMMY O. YANG: Ooh.So exciting.
Exactly. Yeah, all right, so we're going to start in the beginning. JIMMY O. YANG: Hi.You were born-- hi.
Your parents were originally from Shanghai. JIMMY O. YANG: That's true.They spoke "Shang-lan-ese." JIMMY O. YANG: We speak Shanghainese back home.
So no wonder you're confused. JIMMY O. YANG: Very.Yeah, and then English somewhere came along.
good English, just being in Hong Kong but having parents who came from the mainland? JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah, I was kind of already the foreign kid, because whenever I'd speak to my parents they would be like, oh, that's the Shanghai boy right there.There's like an internal almost hierarchy of semiracism within Chinese people.
I was panicking. So where did Grandpa take you? JIMMY O. YANG: And then grandpa-- he was like, this is my favorite American restaurant.We arrived at the strip mall, and it was El Pollo Loco.
Not exactly how it works. JIMMY O. YANG: And then you go to the salsa bar and just get whatever you want.Get some onions and cilantro.
I'm wondering how you reconcile that with yourself having lived through that. JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah, I think it teeters the line of being a stereotypical character and then portraying an immigrant character and humanizing it,right? I know a lot of especially American-born Asian actors that don't even-- they won't even audition for a part that has an accent or something.
that could not work out? JIMMY O. YANG: Good question.I think for me, I just almost couldn't live with myself not doing what I love.
You're fine. Thank you. JIMMY O. YANG: Just pretend you're in a coma or something if it didn't work out.I think we're all very lucky that we got to hear your story in writing-- JIMMY O. YANG: Thanks, guys.
--TV, and in the movies. JIMMY O. YANG: Thank you.JIMMY O. YANG: Thank you.
JIMMY O. YANG: Thank you.JIMMY O. YANG: Thank you.Thank you.
because we happened to look like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor. JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah, I was born in Hong Kong and I moved to LA when I was 13.In 2000. JIMMY O. YANG: In 2000.
He wrote on everything. Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of Wikipedia, told me he really is the patron saint of Wikipedia.And he should be also the patron saint of Google too in many ways.
The wizard has one rule, though. Jimmy Stewart plays a type of person in those movies.
And so I drove up there and fell madly in love. Jimmy was in that version, Mallory was in that version.Dan had been working on it, and John had been the choreographer, but it had been at an earlier version where his genius had not
And like we talked about, Jack McDuff that I got to play with, he was one of the greats of it. Jimmy Smith is another one.So a lot of times, you'll just see a little digital keyboard that simulates the sound of that.
I'm going to give you a hug. JIMMY O. YANG: Thank you.Thank you. All right.
Thank you. All right. JIMMY O. YANG: Hey, gang.Thanks for coming out, everybody.
And just as a little incentive, if you don't have the book already, those who ask questions will be the first to get your very own copy of the book. JIMMY O. YANG: Ooh!So exciting.
So we're going to start in the beginning. JIMMY O. YANG: Hi.You're born-- hi. You're born in Hong Kong.
You're born-- hi. You're born in Hong Kong. JIMMY O. YANG: Uh-huh.Tell me about that.
Your parents were originally from Shanghai. JIMMY O. YANG: That's true.Did they spoke Shanghaiese?
Did they spoke Shanghaiese? JIMMY O. YANG: We spoke-- it was speaking Shanghaiese back home.And then I learned Cantonese from school.
So no wonder you're confused. JIMMY O. YANG: Very.Yeah. And then English somewhere came along.
good English, just being in Hong Kong but having parents who came from the mainland? JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah.I was kind of already the foreign kid, because whenever I speak to my parents, they'll be like, oh, that's the Shanghai boy right there.
I was panicking. So where did Grandpa take you? JIMMY O. YANG: And then Grandpa, he was like, this is my favorite American restaurant, when we arrived at this strip mall.And it was El Pollo Loco.
Not exactly how it works. JIMMY O. YANG: And then you can go to the salsa bar and just get whatever you want, you know?Get some onions and cilantro.
And you go to John Burroughs, right? JIMMY O. YANG: Yes, John Burroughs.It's very-- it's inside of LA Unified School District, so it's very diverse.
Did you show them off? JIMMY O. YANG: No, nobody cared about ping pong.Maybe until college, when it became like a beer pong game, but that's a whole different-- We're not there yet.
Maybe until college, when it became like a beer pong game, but that's a whole different-- We're not there yet. JIMMY O. YANG: --skill set.We're in middle school.
So middle school, is this when your BET love affair with the television started? JIMMY O. YANG: I think it started.I remember the first day of school, people were telling me to sag my pants.
So how far did you pull them down? JIMMY O. YANG: I pulled them all the way down to my knees.And they were like, no, no, no, don't do that.
Then you go to Beverly Hills High School, right? JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah.My dad was a genius.
He used a fake address for me to go. Jimmy 's dad is right here.JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah.
Jimmy 's dad is right here.JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah.Stand up. JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah, he's-- Say hi to Jimmy 's dad.
Stand up. JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah, he's-- Say hi to Jimmy 's dad. JIMMY O. YANG: Oldest Googler in the building.And the subtitle of the book, it's-- well, the title is, "How to American-- an Immigrant's Guide at Disappointing Your Parents." So here we are.
So who did you hang out with in high school? JIMMY O. YANG: It's a group of kids.I wanted to hang out with-- I wanted to find, like, a group of Chinese kids I could kind of really hang on to, you know?
Can you do a little of that rap for us now? JIMMY O. YANG: I can't.No. No. I was horrible.
Yeah. Did you ever sell one of your songs? JIMMY O. YANG: I sold maybe a couple bootleg CDs in school.Like, we would just burn CDs.
There wasn't like, a porn site that bought one of your songs or something? JIMMY O. YANG: What?What are you talking about?
Ooh, we've got some in the house. JIMMY O. YANG: I'm sorry.I'm sorry-- one of the most boring places I've ever been.
But you didn't-- is that what your dad wanted you to major in? JIMMY O. YANG: He wanted me-- like, something legitimate, right?What Asian parents would consider legitimate is like, engineering, science.
And I didn't-- A lot of extracurricular activities? JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah, you know, smoking a little too much weed my freshman year.I was just trying to not be grouped in-- because there's so many Asian people in UCSD, right?
So did you not hang out with any other Asian kids, then? JIMMY O. YANG: No, no.I did. I mean, that's my only option at UCSD, and it was fine.
I mean, your dad got you this job. JIMMY O. YANG: Yeah.And he helped you go to college, right?