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Jimmy O. Yang (performing a bit)

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675 total appearances

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Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

My Beverly Hills certificate? I don't think so. But yeah, you know, it was culture shock because Hong Kong is a big metropolitan, very vertical city, much like New York. You can walk anywhere. There's life on the streets. There's subways. You don't need a car. Whereas LA is the opposite. Everything is six lanes wide. Everything is concrete, strip malls. You can't walk.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

My Beverly Hills certificate? I don't think so. But yeah, you know, it was culture shock because Hong Kong is a big metropolitan, very vertical city, much like New York. You can walk anywhere. There's life on the streets. There's subways. You don't need a car. Whereas LA is the opposite. Everything is six lanes wide. Everything is concrete, strip malls. You can't walk.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

My Beverly Hills certificate? I don't think so. But yeah, you know, it was culture shock because Hong Kong is a big metropolitan, very vertical city, much like New York. You can walk anywhere. There's life on the streets. There's subways. You don't need a car. Whereas LA is the opposite. Everything is six lanes wide. Everything is concrete, strip malls. You can't walk.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Absolutely. The one thing that I really loved was hip hop when I first came to this country. It was so foreign to me in a way, but I was like, wow, this is the most American thing ever. And in high school, I really got into hip hop. I got into rap. I started making beats. I thought that would like make me instead of like the weird foreign kid into like the cool kind of hip hop kid.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Absolutely. The one thing that I really loved was hip hop when I first came to this country. It was so foreign to me in a way, but I was like, wow, this is the most American thing ever. And in high school, I really got into hip hop. I got into rap. I started making beats. I thought that would like make me instead of like the weird foreign kid into like the cool kind of hip hop kid.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Absolutely. The one thing that I really loved was hip hop when I first came to this country. It was so foreign to me in a way, but I was like, wow, this is the most American thing ever. And in high school, I really got into hip hop. I got into rap. I started making beats. I thought that would like make me instead of like the weird foreign kid into like the cool kind of hip hop kid.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

But of course, it's weird, you know, for me to try to rap like, you know, but I really kind of dove into that. And then in college, I went to UC San Diego. It was a big Asian population. But there's also like a stoner surfer culture. So I remember I was like, I really got into like the stoner culture thinking that was mainstream America college kid that I want to get behind.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

But of course, it's weird, you know, for me to try to rap like, you know, but I really kind of dove into that. And then in college, I went to UC San Diego. It was a big Asian population. But there's also like a stoner surfer culture. So I remember I was like, I really got into like the stoner culture thinking that was mainstream America college kid that I want to get behind.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

But of course, it's weird, you know, for me to try to rap like, you know, but I really kind of dove into that. And then in college, I went to UC San Diego. It was a big Asian population. But there's also like a stoner surfer culture. So I remember I was like, I really got into like the stoner culture thinking that was mainstream America college kid that I want to get behind.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And even now, I think... Inadvertently? Sorry, English is my fourth language.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And even now, I think... Inadvertently? Sorry, English is my fourth language.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

And even now, I think... Inadvertently? Sorry, English is my fourth language.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

You're fourth or fifth. Inadvertently, I'm still doing that where I am the commissioner of my fantasy football league. I watch every single NFL game. I love drinking a Coors Light on the weekend with my buddies or five or six, you know, just to be like really American. You know, I love very American things.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

You're fourth or fifth. Inadvertently, I'm still doing that where I am the commissioner of my fantasy football league. I watch every single NFL game. I love drinking a Coors Light on the weekend with my buddies or five or six, you know, just to be like really American. You know, I love very American things.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

You're fourth or fifth. Inadvertently, I'm still doing that where I am the commissioner of my fantasy football league. I watch every single NFL game. I love drinking a Coors Light on the weekend with my buddies or five or six, you know, just to be like really American. You know, I love very American things.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Like I went to shop for like a Yeti cooler the other day and it made me felt like I fit in, man. Yes.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Like I went to shop for like a Yeti cooler the other day and it made me felt like I fit in, man. Yes.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

Like I went to shop for like a Yeti cooler the other day and it made me felt like I fit in, man. Yes.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

A lot of the American movies, growing up in the 90s, it was a lot of action movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bloodsport. That was the go-to Hong Kong movie because they shot part of that in Hong Kong. Still one of my favorites. And of course, the big movies like Forrest Gump. And my dad was kind of a cinephile, an American cinephile.

Fresh Air
Best Of: Comedy Writer Michael Schur / Actor Jimmy O. Yang

A lot of the American movies, growing up in the 90s, it was a lot of action movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bloodsport. That was the go-to Hong Kong movie because they shot part of that in Hong Kong. Still one of my favorites. And of course, the big movies like Forrest Gump. And my dad was kind of a cinephile, an American cinephile.