Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Jimmy O Yang
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What up, Whiskey Ginger fans?
Welcome back to the show.
If this is your first time joining the show,
welcome to the show.
Like I always say, we got a good one for you today.
Like my man Steve Harvey done said,
it's Jimmy O. Yang.
Me and this dude go back a long, long time.
A very, very funny comedian.
He's filming a special.
So go check your boy out.
I just filmed my special.
Thank you, Denver Colorado, for coming out to see me.
And also, we're about to announce next week, Monday,
October 3rd, we're going to announce that I'm going to be playing New Year's Eve in Boston,
New Year's Eve in Boston. What did I just, how did I just say that? New Year's Eve, New Year's
Eve in Boston, dude. I'm playing Boston, the Wilbur Theater. We're going to announce on Monday
officially. The pre-sale is going to be Thursday.
The code will be CHETO.
And Friday, they'll be fully on sale next week.
But anyway, come see me New Year's Eve, Boston.
Those tickets are going to be at andrewsantino.com next week.
Cannot wait to come to New Year's Eve in Boston,
one of my favorite cities on Earth.
Enough rambling from me.
Let's go to the episode.
In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey.
You're that creature in the ginger beard.
Sturdy and ginger.
Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse.
Gingers are beautiful.
You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse.
Gingers are hell no.
This whiskey is excellent.
Ginger. I like gingers.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger.
My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth.
I say that for all my guests, but I mean it once again today.
It is the first time this gentleman's been on the show,
and it shouldn't be the last.
He's the man, Jimmy O. Yang.
Yay.
Hello.
Your name elicits that Jimmy O. Yang.
It's like O-Yang.
O-Yang.
It's like, uh.
And the O, of course, is for orgasm. Jimmy O-Yang. It's like O-Yang. O-Yang. It's like uh. And the O of course is for orgasm.
Jimmy Orgasm Yang.
Yes.
Origami.
Origami Yang.
Yeah.
Whatever you want it to be.
What is it really for?
It's actually part of my last name.
It's O-Yang.
Yeah.
Very rare Chinese last name with two words.
Because usually it's Jackie Chan or even Bobby Lee.
You know, just one word.
Ooh.
You know.
But this is
two words
it's O-Yung
O-Yung
in Chinese
and actually
when I first started
I spelled it together
it's O-U-Y-A-N-G
as one word
oh yeah
literally four vowels together
nobody can ever pronounce it
nobody can remember it
it was terrible
how do you say it
properly
in Mandarin
it would be O-Yung
O-Yung
yeah
so I'm good I did it right there you're great you're great give me any kind of Mandarin I bet I'll be able you say it properly? In Mandarin, it would be Ouyang. Ouyang? Yeah. So I'm good.
I did it right there.
You're great.
You're great.
Give me any kind of Mandarin.
I bet I'll be able to say it.
Okay.
我的名字是。
Slow down.
Okay.
I'm just saying my name is.
Okay.
Do it again.
我的名字是。
我的名字是。
Andrew.
Andrew.
Yeah, there you go.
You got that perfect.
That's wonderful.
Okay.
Do you speak Mandarin fluently?
Yeah, but my Mandarin's a little rusty
because I speak Shanghainese to my parents mostly
and then I speak,
I spoke Cantonese when I was growing up in Hong Kong.
Whoa.
Wait, but aren't they like,
I'm stupid,
but aren't they dialectically very different?
Quite different.
Yeah.
And they don't really understand each other,
but everybody kind
of understands mandarin to some degree that that would be like the general language but it's maybe
the difference between spanish and italian sure romantic whatever same roots but a little different
words are different written different i'm sorry words are written the same spoken differently
but mandarin is the global one that's the one that john cena knows yes yes yes that's the one if you want a chinese fan base you should learn dude he
looked like a robot when he was doing that because he almost looks not real as a person because he's
so like he's just this masculine beef beef mode guy that when he's like you're like this is fake
and whenever chinese people we're just so like stoked when a white person can speak any type of Mandarin.
You know, sure, his pronunciation wasn't perfect, whatever.
But just any attempt of speaking Mandarin, we're like, oh my God, we love this guy.
Please come do more movies.
See, I need his, I'm going to learn Mandarin soon.
There you go.
Before we get any further, let's have a little bit of whiskey, some rabbit hole here.
So listen, we got a bunch of different kinds.
There's, this one's finished in sherry casks, which is going to taste a little bit, a little bit of whiskey, some rabbit hole here. So listen, we got a bunch of different kinds. This one's finished in sherry casks, which is going to taste a little bit sweeter if you had sherry.
Okay.
Like sherry wine.
Yeah.
This is their original.
They also have a rye.
Do you prefer bourbon or rye?
I have no idea the differences.
That to me is Mandarin and Cantonese.
I don't…
Oh, right.
This is so different.
It's foreign.
I don't know what's going on.
This is Chinese language.
This is Mandarin. this is Cantonese
yeah to you
you probably know
the very nuanced differences
to me it's the same thing
well let's try just the original
and then you're gonna do
a splash of ginger in there
for the show
for whiskey ginger
if you want
it's up to you
well let me try it first
just a little snifter
and see how you feel about it
do you swirl it?
you don't need to do
any of that stuff
am I supposed to?
no you don't
you know what
you actually don't have to
I spoke to the head distiller one time of that stuff. Am I supposed to? I want to do it properly. No, you know what? You actually don't have to.
I spoke to the head distiller one time of a popular brewery.
I mean brewery, distillery.
And he said, however you want to have it, that's how you have it.
I like that.
You like it?
No, no.
I mean, I like that thought.
Yeah.
Cheers to you, by the way.
Cheers.
However you want to have it is how you have it.
It's pretty good.
Pretty smooth.
Wow, this is so smooth.
Pretty smooth, yeah.
I... What is it, 40%?
There is no alcohol in it.
That's...
It's 45.
I think it's 47.
That is very dangerous.
Because that does not...
Like, I'm fine.
No, no.
You know, this is not going to do anything to you.
It's just a nice little buzz.
A little jazz buzz.
I don't know, man. You'll start playing music in your head a little bit. I don't drink a lot of hard liquor, so this is going to do anything to you. It's just a nice little buzz, little jazz buzz. I don't know, man.
You'll start playing music in your head a little bit.
I don't drink a lot of hard liquor, so this is going to do something to me.
That'll start happening around your brain.
Wow, was that a trumpet next door?
It was me, baby.
That'll happen to you in your head when you drink some bourbon.
Bourbon to me is jazz for your brain.
That's amazing.
It just gets the brain dancing a little bit.
It fires some of the right receptors And opens you up a little bit
It doesn't get you
You can get annihilated on any kind of spirit
Do you get wasted on it?
Or you're a sipper?
No, I like to sip
What, like two drinks a night?
Yeah, I mean, I'm a pretty good sized guy
I can have a couple of drinks and feel fine
You know what I mean?
I mean, I'm 200 pounds
So if I have two of those, I'm good
If I have three or more
I'm getting shit-faced
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's dangerous. It's a little dangerous. It's a slippery slope.
For me, I'm a beer and wine drinker,
but once I start, it's hard for me
to stop sometimes. You're an alcoholic.
Is that what it is? Yeah, that's what it is.
That's what... Oh, wow.
I didn't know that. I thought I'd just
like to have a good time. Well, let me tell you something.
Asian drinking culture, I don't care what
part of Asia you're in,
you motherfuckers drink, dude.
People party.
Especially Koreans.
Well, Koreans are…
And China, I think, too.
Japanese, too.
But Chinese…
No, I'm telling you, dude.
I think so, too.
There's not one part of Asia I think doesn't party hard.
You know, I have a large bit of FOMO in my life
because I moved to this country from Hong Kong when I was 13
That's when people start like going out start like experimenting, you know drinking partying
I missed out on all of that and then when I came to America, you know
I was like kind of like foreign and like nerdy. So I just missed out on life
I feel like when it comes to drinking so they say Asia is fun
But like I don't really know Asia as an adult. I only know it as a child
What's your memory as a kid? It was nice. Uh, Hong Kong is like Manhattan. It's like concrete jungle
Yeah, you know you walk down. There's a lot of people and a lot of life
You know so I was not used to moving to LA if New York is the city that never sleeps
Hong Kong is the city that what?
Wow, you really put me on the spot there. Hong Kong is the city that never sleeps hong kong is the city that what wow you really put me on the spot
there hong kong is the city that never stopped making deals i think yeah it's a deal city it's a
wheel and dealy hustly any anyone you meet from hong kong they always they know business how do
you say wheeling and dealing in mandarin what would be the closest way to say that wheeling
and dealing or like or like yeah shaking like' and dealin'. Or like, yeah,
shaking, like, making
some deals. Maybe, let me think of a good
Cantonese word.
Hang on, hang on, hang on. You can edit
this out. The spaces.
We'll leave it in.
It takes my brain a sec to, like,
turn.
I don't know. Let me come back to this. That's fine. You can just edit it out turn i don't know let me come back to that's fine
all right well let me say this uh i love you i've known you for years for people that don't know who
you are you're an incredibly talented actor uh writer performer comedian uh lover i see you post
a lot of pictures of uh girlfriend wife girlfriend. A lover, a sweet lover. It looks like you're very caring.
And what else are you to me?
Just a sweet human.
A great person.
Thanks, man.
And we worked together very recently
on the movie that's out right now.
You can go see Netflix's
Meantime featuring
Jimmy O. Yang and Andrew Santino.
I think Kevin Hart is in it,
but I think it's mostly
It's us two on a poster.
And then I think there's a guy also named Mark Wahlberg.
Make Wal- Make Wal- Make Walman?
Is it Mac?
Yeah, Mac Walman is on it.
Yeah, yeah.
And he's good. Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Hart, and they do a great job. Not as good as you and I,
but they're also in the movie.
We're the draw, as they say.
That's why they gave us the big check.
Yeah, that's why it's probably number one on Netflix right now. yep it is i go you know netflix called me and they said do you want to do
a movie with us and i said probably not and they said we have you know 126 million with your name
on it okay and you know they know my deal is always 150 million so i was confused i said that's
interesting you know yeah where's the rest of that money uh-huh and they said jimmy o yang that's
what it's going to cost for just his trailer alone yeah yeah yeah they got me yeah and i said dude
keep the money and that if i can act with jimmy again this is what else do i need and that's what
i said i don't care uh i'll take a tenth of what you get because that's that's how i feel you know
i'm just happy to be there god
bless um but you know they were very cordial they were like would you like to act with somebody named
kevin hard they made me chemistry test with kevin yeah there was like other actors but i'm like you
know let's let's let's do kevin he's good he is pretty good he's surprising him he's not as good
as us but he is yeah he's as good as he needs to be i think that kid's gonna have a bright future
i don't know dude i'm 50 50 50-50 with him. It could work.
It could not.
We were going to work together.
You said that
the audience can't see,
but on my wall
is a cue card
from when I did Conan.
Yes.
And the cue card
talks about the show
that I was on,
which premiered on Yahoo
called Sin City Saints.
And you were supposed
to be on the show.
Yes, that was supposed
to be my...
I did not bail.
I wanted to do it.
That was my first series
regular role.
I was driving Uber, man.
You know?
Were you really?
This was between season one and season two of Silicon Valley.
So I was a guest star.
I started as a co-star, like with two lines on Silicon Valley.
And you got bumped from there?
Well, so get this.
Thanks to this show.
Okay?
Because in between the two seasons, I was like,
I hope Silicon Valley bring me back,
even just for a couple episodes, whatever. I would talk to mike judge every now and then he's like
yeah we're writing good stuff for you but like you know you never know it never happens so i was
auditioning i was auditioning and i finally landed a serious regular role with you on uh sin city
saints this basketball show with baron davis yeah baron davis rick fox tom arnold yeah on yahoo i
was like this is dream job i love was like, this is a dream job.
I love basketball, and this is
my serious regular role. My first, like,
that's a huge step.
And then they were like, well, you know,
either you do this, or you probably won't
be able to do Silicon Valley. So,
at that time, you know, we were smart
enough, me and the team,
which was a one-person team at the time, was like,
let's go back to HBO and see if they want
to match the offer
or like,
you know,
make you a series regular then.
So they did,
fortunately.
So I became a series regular
on Silicon Valley
and then I could not
do the Sin City Saints show,
unfortunately.
Or fortunately
because the show was terrible.
Was it?
It bombed pretty bad.
You know who ended up
taking the role?
I think Justin Chan took my role.
Yes, he did. Who was an amazing actor and now he's an incredible director. Yeah, no, he's awesome.
Yeah, he was very cool, man. He was a sweet dude and when you said that too, it just like,
you know, you like shoot back in a memory in your brain real fast, but there was a moment where
we had to, there was like a,
I had to pass a piss test.
Oh.
No, no, on the show. Oh, on the show.
Yeah, my character.
Because you were the mascot, right?
No, no, no.
I was the,
I owned the team.
Oh, you were the,
who were the mascot?
Who was?
I wasn't in the mascot suit.
I was the guy that owned the team.
Jake Tullis, I think,
was my name.
Oh, okay.
I originally was going to go out
for the mascot
because I was on another show.
I think I was on,
I think I was still on a holding deal.
Huh.
And,
oh, you were on that show
where everybody was in the bar.
Yeah, that show was real hot.
I was watching that show.
I was like,
man, I'm jealous of this motherfucker.
It killed us fast, dude.
They were like,
get this thing off the fucking air.
It was a cool show, though.
It was a good try.
We tried.
Yeah.
We tried, but, but yeah, so they they
So right on the show. I'm the owner of the team and I have to pass a piss test and I'm a drug abuser
So we ship in clean piss. Nobody has clean piss that works on the organization
We ship in clean piss and we freeze it to get it shipped to the United States. And I say to Justin, I said,
you know, uh, go, uh, put this in the microwave and, you know, unfreeze it. Like just get it
warms. Cause the woman's going to come to, to, and him and these other characters, they go put it in
and all you hear is a loud boom, like a really loud boom. And the microwave has exploded.
And then they all walk in and they all have piss all over their face.
But dude,
I couldn't hold it in
because they would put
a little bit in their mouth
and when they'd walk in
they'd go,
like cough out fake piss
and I was losing my shit
just because it was just,
the visual was so funny
of all them walking in
soaked in piss
and that was like
one of those moments
where I was like,
this show might be good.
It's funny.
It's weird.
It's unique and Yahoo just shot it right out of the like, this show might be good. It's funny. It's weird. It's unique.
And Yahoo just shot it right out of the sky.
Well, Yahoo didn't.
It was trying.
No, they failed miserably.
Because they had two shows.
They had this show and the space show with Paul Feig.
That's exactly right.
Which I heard was awesome.
It was awesome.
Both of these shows were awesome, but they just…
Nobody…
Who would go on Yahoo and start streaming stuff?
Nah, they tried.
They wanted to make original television shows,
and then they just couldn't do it.
I think they just need more money.
You need that more initial investment.
It seems like it's worth it now
because this was, what, 10 years ago?
It's a long time, yeah.
Imagine if they would start building,
like, seven years ago, I think?
Seven or eight, yeah.
If they were building the Yahoo streaming service
for seven years, they'll be crushing it right now.
Look, now they're, where are they?
I have no idea.
Is anybody Yahoo something? You Google it. Yeah. i don't think i've ever yahoo still my front page
on my uh old pc desktop you gotta change it that's about it you gotta change it to anything else oh
you know i use yahoo fantasy football that's what i hear a lot actually it's a good platform it's
grandfathered in but it's annoying because yahoo i know there's a huge security breach, but also every year or so, my email gets hacked because of Yahoo.
100%.
Because I cannot delete it because I need it for fantasy football.
You got to use it as your dump email.
It's got to be your junk dump email.
It is.
Yeah, it is.
Like when you go to a store and they're like,
can we get your email?
And you're like, you got it.
I'm going to give you my Yahoo.
If it's at Yahoo.com, I don't like you that much.
If it's at Gmail, we're friends.
You're my boy. Yeah, exactly. So we it's at Gmail, we're friends.
You're my boy.
Yeah, exactly.
So we did this movie together, which was great.
Finally, we were able to reunite and do something fun together.
Is this the first time we worked together?
Yeah, it is.
I think so.
Yeah, because we were going to work together on that.
I feel like we probably might have worked together on something that we don't even know. I've seen you in a lot of audition rooms.
Yeah, we are.
Well, we are the same archetype.
When somebody goes,
give me a Jimmy O. Yang, Andrew Santino type.
It is weirdly.
I think we audition for a lot of the same stuff.
Well, I think it's because your looks aside,
you're very funny.
You're quick.
I think we both have a similar sardonic sense of humor and it kind of follows a fun line.
This is great.
No, no, this is true.
I agree.
It is.
But you are able to give me
as many compliments for me,
but really,
it's compliments for you.
Yeah, it is.
You're quick.
You're funny.
It's for me.
You're cute.
Thank you.
You know what I mean?
Like, that's why people like you
for these roles.
What are we?
And you're quick.
Quick, funny, and cute.
Great at improv.
And cute.
Yeah.
Us three are quick, funny, and cute.
Incredibly cute.
Yeah, well, I mean, you know,
look at us.
Who's stopping us now?
This is great. Whatever compliments I give you, it's for me. No, yeah, and cute. Incredibly cute. Yeah, well, I mean, you know, look at us. Who's stopping us now? This is great.
Whatever compliments I give you is for me.
No, yeah, but truth be told, we do kind of follow that same line.
I would see a lot of similar guys.
For a while, like when I first was going out for auditions,
I would see Ian Edwards a lot.
And I was like, we are so opposite end of the spectrum.
Yeah, personality-wise, everything.
Yeah, dude.
Also, he's a black guy.
I was like, what the fuck?
We're nowhere near each other.
But also, Ian and I used to joke about it,
that we'd be in the same rooms.
But I think it's because they wanted two ends of the spectrum.
They're like, give me the crazy, loud, hyper, quick redhead.
Give me the slow, smooth, cool, calm, well thought out.
Yeah, because Ian's smooth as shit.
And he's extremely smart and very well thought out.
I'm fast, but I might miss fast.
Huh.
You know, like I'm trying to hit home runs.
That's all you need.
Yeah, I want to hit home runs.
Especially when you're shooting, you get like five takes.
You just need one home run.
Yeah.
Go for a home run every time.
But a lot of guys, there's a different comedic sensibility
like Ian on camera I'm talking about
where like he probably hits a fuckload
of doubles and triples.
Like he just knows that it's like chipping away.
His vibe is very like,
it's very slow and steady wins the race
because he's consistently very funny.
But anyway,
we worked together on this me time show film.
We had a great time.
We barely got to do anything together together,
which is kind of a bummer.
You play a...
Should we give it away?
Maybe not, actually.
Now that I think about it.
It's a villainous role, I'll say,
but I don't want to...
It's kind of like...
I want people to kind of...
Figure it out themselves.
It's fun.
We're doing this thing tomorrow.
Are you going to go to this thing tomorrow?
Yeah, I want to go to that thing.
So on these press days.
I can't make it to the press.
I'll be at the premiere.
The premiere.
On the press days, they ask you so many questions.
And sometimes you're like, how do I answer these and have fun?
Because sometimes they're just like, what's it like working with Kevin?
And you're like, what are you looking for
it's all
it's
press junkets
for people who don't know
what we're talking about
it's an incredible
waste of money
and circle check
it's insane
because these movie studios
or Netflix
or whatever
will rent out
a whole floor
at the Four Seasons
at the London Hotel
and have different actors
in different rooms
and it's a media gangbang.
Like,
you're talking about
like big publications
like Variety,
AP,
whatever
and then the small ones
it's like
whatever,
some nerd blog
or something
that will come in
with like 10,000 subscribers
and you gotta talk
to all of them.
Each of them gets
like three minutes.
That's it.
And these are the little clips
where you see like
Liam Hemsworth
like sitting very uncomfortably
in a tall director's chair
Right talking with a poster behind. We're all family
Yeah, that's the one thing that we all need to remember is that we're all family and we all had a great time on
The movie yeah, like who has ever watched one of those on access Hollywood and be like I am gonna go watch that
I wasn't gonna watch this movie now
I don't know. They're so they're they're they're they're I'm not good at them, but I'm going to do the right thing and go.
Oh, you should.
Participate.
I participated.
I just couldn't make the one tomorrow.
But I think it's all about face
and it's all about,
you know, it's a team thing.
You know, like they ask you,
how's it at work?
And then you just say how great he is.
Of course, he's awesome.
We all know he's Kevin Hart, but you know, he's also a businessman? And then you just say how great he is. Of course he's awesome. We all know he's Kevin Hart.
But you know, he's also a businessman.
And you know, on a representation standpoint,
he's doing so much for everyone.
All this, all that.
Not that I don't believe in those things.
I'm telling the truth, though.
I'm going to go, Kevin was a jerk.
He bullied me day one.
That's just how it was.
He was rude to me, cussed at me constantly,
slapped my phone out of my hand.
See, that's funny.
Yeah, well, that was really what happened. And Kevin, you know. out of my hand. See, that's funny. Well, that was really what happened. And Kevin,
you know. And so stop playing.
See, that's funny. Stop playing, heart.
Maybe I'm too much of a company man.
Yeah, dude, I have to mock
it a little bit because it's just so silly
sometimes. And also, the soundbite they're looking for, you're not
going to give them anyway. That's
what it is. It's like, I don't have that in me anyway.
So you'll get that from
Kevin or Mark or whatever. But again, the movie is about us it's about jimmy and i's
relationship and it should really be focused on us instead of those guys we'd make a good buddy
comedy i think so yeah we would and we would captivate china right we get a huge chinese
market and an irish market which is also really big yeah the irish Irish market is huge. The OMA O-Yang will captivate
the Irish market as well.
Right.
They do think you're Irish.
Jimmy O-Yang.
Yeah.
That's why I sell so many tickets.
Mostly Irish people
in my shows.
It's very weird.
I do great in Boston.
You kill in Boston.
Yeah.
I kill it in Boston.
Are you touring right now?
What are you doing?
A little bit.
Yeah.
I'm ramping up.
I was going to shoot a special
in January
but I think we are
moving up to November.
So I'm just hitting it. You was gonna shoot a special in January, but I think we are moving up to November
So I'm just hitting it you know
Doing some stuff. Why are you moving it up? I got to shoot something in January I just I what is it a pair for I can't I can't talk. Why don't you say it? I can't I can't I can't let me guess
I'm gonna try to guess what you're shooting in January. You don't have to say yes or no
You're gonna be shooting Silicon Valley the movie
You don't have to say yes or no.
You're going to be shooting Silicon Valley, the movie.
No, no, no, no.
That one I can say no.
I just want to build a little suspense. I know.
I like that.
That was good.
It was a good sell.
You're doing, I'm probably going to guess it right, so I won't keep guessing.
Yeah, yeah.
I think I know it in my head already.
Doing a Bobby Lee biopic.
Oh, gross.
Yeah, I know.
So what, you're the after?
Yeah, I'm working on that Christian Bale vice body right now.
Sorry, Bobby, I love you, man.
No, I don't love him at all.
You're the after without a doubt.
Actually, he's becoming more of an after.
I've talked about that a lot,
but he's becoming the after
because now that he's single, he's getting in better shape.
He's sober and clean as he's ever been.
That's great.
He's happier.
He feels and looks good.
I do think when you clean up a little bit,
physically you start eating better and all that stuff,
you do look better.
The problem is I like the sauce.
It's hard for me to put down the sauce.
I stopped drinking beer and like mostly wine the last couple of months.
Huge difference.
Well, beer is just bloaty.
It's bloaty McBloaterson, dude.
You look like a swollen fat guy all the time.
I love beer so much.
What's your favorite beer?
What are we talking?
Honestly, Coors Light.
That's your go-to?
Dude, I mean, if like Sunday you're watching football, there's like nine hours of games.
I can't just drink IPAs from 10 a.m. to like 9 p.m.
No, that's absurd.
You got to just drink like water.
You know what I mean?
Coors Light is water.
Yeah.
It gives you a nice buzz.
I don't need to get fucked up.
I get it.
You know, Patrick Mahomes.
My homies.
He's a homie.
He's a friend.
He's your boy?
Yeah.
He loves Coors Light.
And I mean,
he's obsessed.
I think he's sponsored by Coors Light.
It's great.
But he loves that stuff.
He can drink it constantly.
I can have a couple of those things,
but then at some point,
I do want some flavor.
Really?
Yeah, I do need a little bit.
I switch it up.
So I do IPA first.
Or like a nice flavor.
What are we talking? Which one? What's your favorite?
You know what I really like recently is the Wolf Pup.
Is that Golden? That's Golden Road.
Yeah, right here in LA.
I like that a lot. I have a keg
raider in my house, so I can
do like a smallish six
keg of IPA.
And then Coors Light. Invite me over.
Yeah, come by.
I would love to have a couple beers with you.
I don't like drinking beer that much.
But once in a while, it's appropriate.
Right.
It's a live sporting event.
You better believe I'm having a beer.
Yeah.
Fantasy draft.
Come over to your house.
Fantasy stuff.
Yeah.
Football game.
I'll have like any of that stuff in the sports world, I'll have one.
But otherwise, it just gets me so farty too, dude.
Gets me farty, bloaty, gross.
Yeah.
Yeah, I just don't feel…
I feel slow the next day.
From beer.
Yeah.
Not this stuff.
This is the brain juice.
This will keep you firing.
But you know what it is?
I think maybe I just don't need to do all that much.
Yeah.
I try to…
I ate some vegan stuff.
It's true.
I felt a lot of energy.
Yeah, you feel better.
So much energy.
But it's not better. Just because I have energy. I don't know what felt a lot of energy. Yeah, you feel better. So much energy. But it's not better.
Just because I have energy.
I don't know what to do with my energy.
I'm sitting at home watching TV anyways.
I don't need all this energy.
I'm like, let me actually eat some meatballs so I get sleepy.
So then I can go to sleep.
Right.
The body needs time to recharge.
Energy is not for everyone.
Nope.
You know?
Some people don't need energy.
No.
And that's the Jimmy O. Yang way. Nope. You know, some people don't need energy. No. And that's the Jimmy O. Yang way.
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Yeah.
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It's not energy.
It's not for everybody.
No, no, no.
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Who's your team?
You're a big football guy?
I love fantasy.
I went to school in San Diego.
So the Chargers was my team.
Didn't love Phillip Rivers.
So now I'm just kind of like, I just follow the sport.
What didn't you like about him?
Too Christian for you?
Too many kids?
I don't know.
I just felt like
I wouldn't want to hang out with him
that's a big thing for me
you would not want to hang out with him
don't want to hang out
what pro football player
what starting quarterback
do you want to hang out with
I'd hang out with Matt Stafford
I feel like
Staffy would be cool
yeah
Herbert
I don't know
a little quiet
maybe that's cool
who would you absolutely
not hang out with
because you can't stand him
I mean
like right now Deshaun Watson would be absolutely not hang out with because you can't stand them? I mean, like right now?
Deshaun Watson would be a hard hang.
You know, for obvious reasons, I feel like.
I just don't know.
It's like there's an elephant in the room.
Like, should I talk to him about it?
You're typically not the elephant, though.
No, not me.
In that case, yeah.
You don't look like the elephant that he's used to.
You know, when you get to drinking, you just don't want to like hold back.
Well, you're going to take a shot.
You're going to make a joke.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're like, what are you drinking?
Do you want a rub and Coke?
Yeah.
You're going to throw something at him.
Something.
You're going to hit him with something.
Yeah.
What did he get clipped for?
11 games?
Yeah.
It was six at first and then 11.
Now, I think.
Something like that.
It is funny, though though in a regular season
Why wouldn't you just suspend for an entire season of games? Why pick 11 is I'm it's always weird
Like we know why he's coming back the first game. He's back versus the Texans. Oh
NFL needs to make money dude. That's very smart. That's exactly why they're doing it cuz I know there's that that's got to be week 12
Or whatever
Yeah, yeah, so it must be 12 games. I think 13th is Houston. Okay, so funny man. That's got to be week 12 or whatever? Yeah, so it must be 12 games. I think 13th is Houston.
Okay.
So funny, man.
That's genius.
I know.
That is genius for them to do that.
That's marketing.
That's when you know it's politics,
not about...
It's not about...
They don't care.
There's no morality to that.
Yeah, because it's so arbitrary.
Yeah, it is.
It's like Kareem Hunt kicked a woman in the face.
Sure, Ray Rice knocked out a woman.
Both horrible.
Both should not be able to come back.
But, you know, Kareem Hunt's a little younger.
He's still got some legs under him, you know.
He's fast, dude.
It's like, eh, somebody's going to sign him.
How quickly we forget, too.
Yeah.
Yeah, we forgot.
It didn't even happen, really.
It was like...
He was on my fantasy team last year.
Killed it.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Having an okay year.
Yeah, I think so.
I actually won my fantasy league for the first year in about 15 years, maybe 20.
And it was just no better feeling.
Was it the same guys you, like, grew up with, the guys doing this?
Like, high school friends or something?
It has changed.
Some personnel has changed over the years.
But this, I'm only in one league now.
I used to be in, like, two, three, whatever.
But, yeah, this is, like, very important important. I got addicted so I had to stop. Oh, it was it was bad
I just was paying attention to things that I didn't care about. I was like, why do I give a shit about this?
Yeah, well, I was spending too much time on watching football of teams
I didn't like or care about and committing to I just it lost a little bit of its love for me for some reason
Yeah, well, especially because you have a team it's hard to do both right? You don't have a team like or care about and committing to I just it lost a little bit of its love for me for some reason yeah
well especially
because you have a team
it's hard to do both
right you don't have a team
I don't really got a team
like basketball
I don't play fantasy basketball
first of all
it's too many games
and second of all
I'm a big Clippers fan
so I can't
I can't root
you know what I mean
like I'm already
rooting for something
you got season tickets?
I did actually
where were they?
um
were they good?
like third or fourth row
behind the basket.
So not the best,
not like the 50-yard line.
Eric Griffin has tickets behind there,
somewhere behind one of the hoops.
No, no.
He's near Adam, right?
Yeah.
Well, they share the tickets.
But he's on the side side.
I'm behind the basket.
I shared it with Jeff Dye,
Richard Barrett from the Comedy Magic Club, and Michael Palisak back in the day. I shared it with Jeff Dye, Richard Barrett
from the Comedy Magic Club,
and Michael Palisak
back in the day.
Oh, nice.
So it was a good crew.
And it was like
four of us sharing two tickets,
which is great.
Yeah.
But the thing is,
that was still too many
and then our rule is
we never sell it.
So we'll just give it
to friends or whatever.
But it became such a hassle
to plan.
Yeah, it does.
Like, do you want to go
to Staples that night?
Do you want to?
It's like, I'll just buy last minute tickets,
not that expensive.
It is kind of hard though that
there's a high inconvenience level
with getting to any sporting event in Los Angeles,
which I think is part of the deterrent is like,
dude, I don't live that far
from really any of the venues,
but Dodger Stadium is like impossible to get to.
No, yeah. And leaving with the parking? Forget about it.
It's like this is the hardest venue I've ever gotten to in my entire life.
Uber.
The worst was when the Rams first moved back to LA when they're playing at the Coliseum.
Yeah.
It took me like, I went to a Green Bay game and it took me like two hours to just get in.
The Coliseum was so bad. I remember going to those games and the bathroom lines,
because that place is not equipped
for that kind of mass amount of people
coming and going.
The bathroom lines would be so bad.
I would always,
every time I went to something there,
I'd piss right outside.
I'd piss right by the fence.
Oh, really?
You can get arrested for that, though.
Okay.
Arrest me.
Well, yeah,
and also become like a child predator.
Sex offender?
It's not true.
I looked that up.
Is that not true?
No, that's not true.
That's not true.
That's one of those old urban myths.
If for some reason a judge really wants to lose their mind on you, they could do that
to you.
Chances are it's not going to happen.
I have a urinating in public ticket.
Really?
This is kind of my thing.
How much?
Oh, dude, it was when I was in college.
I was pissing behind a bar, drinking a beer outside of the bar.
California or something?
No, it was Arizona.
Okay.
Which, by the way, the laws are way stricter in fucking Arizona.
Arizona's a red state, dude.
That's a bit fucking better.
Back up, buddy.
What are you doing over here?
You're kind of ain't welcome over here, dude.
But I feel like-
Jimmy Chang.
Get out of here, Jimmy Chang.
Laws are stricter in some aspects, but maybe less frowned upon.
I feel like it's okay to just have a DUI.
It's fine. In Arizona? No, it's okay to just have a DUI. Like, it's fine.
In Arizona?
No, no, dude.
They're crazy out there.
When I was in college,
everyone does have a DUI
because you have to drive everywhere.
Right.
But when I was in college,
every one of my friends was getting DUIs.
I didn't have a car,
which kind of saved me, to be honest,
from getting a DUI.
Although I probably should have had one
because I drove a few times.
And I'm not cool with it.
But they used to put you in a place called Tent City.
Do you know what this is?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio used to put you out
in the middle of the desert in a fucking tent
and you'd wear pink jumpsuits and eat bologna sandwiches.
What? You'd sleep in the desert outside
hot as fuck during the day, freezing at night.
You can do that? Oh yeah, dude. That's legal
to just throw a kid? The Wild West. Arizona was the Wild
West. Oh my god. I had a bunch of friends
that did it. Tent City, man. Yeah. That seems very inhumane. Oh my God. I had a bunch of friends that did it. Ten City, man.
Yeah.
That seems very inhumane.
Yes, dude.
Yes.
Did people die?
Nobody died,
but it was fucking torture.
Jesus.
Wow.
Teaching you not to drink and drive, huh?
So I had my dick out in my hand
pissing behind a bar,
a bar that our buddies owned
or we knew the guys that ran it.
So no one cared.
But of course,
the cop was like,
I'm going to let you finish up. And he was standing behind me and i was like fuck so i did i finished pissing
and i finished the beer you finished a beer well i knew i was done i mean it was like i'm gonna get
arrested so what was it just a misdemeanor ticket just a ticket i think it was a yeah some kind of
oh i had a community service i remember that i go back into community service and i had to take
these alcohol classes so I was in a class
with a bunch of like,
like alcoholics,
like people that had
gotten in trouble
who were like,
you know,
DUIs or car accidents
or hit and runs
or just multiple arrests
for liquor offenses.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But they wanted to
teach me a lesson
so I had to be in this class
with like,
mostly people in their
30s and 40s.
Did it make you want
to drink alcohol less
or more?
No, it was the same.
You were just like,
I love alcohol.
I wasn't going to change.
That class wasn't going to shift shit for me.
Just because this guy was like, my wife left me.
My kids hate me.
I was like, I'm 20.
I don't give a fuck.
Yeah, that's your issue.
Meanwhile, all seven of my kids don't talk to me anymore.
So maybe it did catch up.
It probably did.
But you know, the first step is acceptance.
That's right.
Cheers to accepting.
Now, I say, I'm not an alcoholic.
I'm a booze hound.
Big difference.
Huh.
Okay.
Or a booze bag.
It's another word I use.
Yeah.
Because alcoholics, they need the booze.
And I like it.
You like it.
I just love it.
Sure.
Yeah.
They twitch for it.
Right.
You know, they shake.
I don't shake.
Sure.
I mean, I shake my ass after I have
a couple of these. That's what they all say.
That's what they all say.
That's what they all say. What's your biggest
vice in life? I'll give you a little more.
I think alcohol.
Is this your biggest vice for real? Well, I don't really have
any vices, really. I used to smoke a lot of weed
in college. I've never really done drugs.
Because I don't like going outside
just a little bit, man. I'm already catching a buzz.
But like, you know, I just like to have a good time.
Especially when you're like at a comedy
club, you're on the road.
When you do two sets, you know,
like two hour sets, like in between sets,
I like to drink a few beers.
Yeah, why not? It's an adrenaline thing.
Like you want to celebrate a little and
hang out, you know. And then when
I go on a date now with my girlfriend, you know, we have a bottle of wine, you know, and then when I go on date now my girlfriend
You know, we have a bottle of wine, you know, and it's nothing bad
But I think if I really want to get like a six-pack and like super healthy like this is not it
Oh, do you want a six-pack? No, but I'm just saying like maybe once in my life
I want to try to get into tip-top shape. I never tried. I've done it. It's not worth it
I promise really a broccoli and rice and stuff. When I was doing-
Were you doing it for a role?
No.
I wanted to be healthier.
And when I was doing that I'm Dying Up Here show, I was shredded.
But also, you never saw me.
I was wearing clothes anyway.
But I wanted to get in crazy good shape in my mind.
I just wanted to be healthy because I was shooting and your hours are bad.
That show did well, right?
No.
It was okay.
Yeah.
No.
I made a lot of stinkers.
No. I feel like every show I do, you do, anybody does,
it's like, this is going to be the one.
Yeah.
Showtime.
Showtime, baby.
HBO.
You know, Silicon Valley was a great show.
I was just a small part on it.
But shows like that and like even Sin City Saints,
it's like, damn, like, you know, this is going to be it.
Yeah, you'd think.
Space Force, I thought, I was like, yo, gonna be huge. Yo, how could it not be it?
I know.
I mean, it was still the most wonderful experience,
but it didn't do as well as I think.
But your film record is better than your TV record anyway.
Mine?
Yeah.
You think?
Yeah, so who cares?
Like, the best part is if you get in enough film,
it kind of supersedes any bomb you've made on television.
Yeah, well, here's the thing.
Bombs on television, nobody will watch.
That's my point.
It doesn't matter.
And then, unless you're...
Name all the films you've been in.
I can start with the shit ones that you haven't seen.
I think you've only seen, like, you've seen Crazy Rich Asians.
You've seen Love Hard.
Come on.
You've seen, well, Me Time.
These are bangers.
But there's also, you know, Fantasy Island.
The Blumhouse remake that you've never seen.
I've never heard of it.
Exactly.
Okay, there's also Life of the Party with Melissa McCarthy.
I think I know that one.
That did well.
Yeah, that did well.
I think it was a, you know, it could be funnier.
But I mean, for me, it's the experiences.
You know, I make good friends on that film.
Crazy Rich Asians, we're best friends now.
Space Force, we're like family.
You know what I mean?
That's what I love about these shows.
Who else was on Space Force?
It was, of course, Steve Carell, John Malkovich,
but it's also Ben Schwartz,
Tony Newsom, Diana Silvers,
Don Lake, who is the funniest guy.
He's an older Canadian guy.
And also the writers, like Greg Daniels.
Did my boy, Travis Kelsey, do an episode?
Didn't he do an episode of that show or something?
He did a space show.
No, probably not.
How do you know Kelsey and Mahomes?
I know Pat through Travis.
Oh.
We were going to do a project together,
and it never worked out, and we kind of stayed friends.
I feel like every cool comedian knows, like, basketball, football players. I don't know anybody. Football players, for some reason, we kind of stayed friends. I feel like every cool comedian knows like basketball, football players.
I don't know anybody.
Football players, for some reason, I kind of know more.
I don't know why.
Where do you meet them?
And then just out in this world, baby.
Out in these streets.
You know why?
Because you hang out at the store and stuff.
A lot of people come through.
Sometimes they do, yeah.
Well, the store is my home for sure.
But those guys I met outside of it.
We became friends outside of the world.
It was just kind of a fluke.
I was going to do a project with Travis
and it never worked out and we stayed close.
And over the years, we would just chat.
If he's like, I'm in this city,
and I'll go, come to a show.
Or if I'm over there and I'm like,
yo, you guys are playing in town.
Let's link up.
And it just was kind of organic.
It was never like a...
Yeah.
But I mean, yeah, the store has a lot of people
that come through, but I don't have...
There is no like celebrityism. There's nobody that i need to hang out with so the only reason i'm gonna kick
it with you is if i really think you're fun yeah i i don't think like it is like being starstruck
i think maybe like the first couple of years you go to emmys or like whatever sure like but now
it's like yeah whatever no there's no well there's no there's certainly no for me there's
no hollywood person that would make me go, whoa, I couldn't care less.
Has anyone made you nervous?
No, that's a good question.
No, I don't think so.
Has anybody made you nervous?
Have you been around someone?
Yeah, I get nervous quite a lot, though.
Do you really?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Around acting?
Around anyone that I think, that I grew up with, especially.
Why do you think?
You know.
You scared of letting them down? It's like an imposter syndrome, I think, to some degree. Why do you think? You scared to let him down?
It's like an imposter syndrome.
Do you have imposter syndrome?
Don't we all?
Oh, you don't.
You're a very confident man. No, no, no.
I think I have a lot of elements of it, for sure.
I don't think I have the syndrome.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't think everything I do
is the worst thing in the world
and I'm not like,
I shouldn't be here and I don't belong everything I do is the worst thing in the world, and I'm not like, I shouldn't be here, and I don't belong.
I definitely have moments of like,
I think there should be a sidebar to imposter syndrome.
I think I have a cousin of it, which is,
I still can't believe that we get to do this for a living.
That's what it is.
It's not that I think I'm garbage, I don't belong.
No, you're super talented.
Thank you.
I think it's more like, holy shit.
We're doing it.
I grew up with this guy, and now I'm...
Because I never set out to be an actor.
Right.
I didn't go to Juilliard.
I studied fucking economics, you know what I mean?
Yeah, man.
Journalism.
I didn't fucking...
Yeah, I think stand-ups.
We have this camaraderie on set because we are lucky to be here.
You know what I mean?
We never set our path to be here.
Right.
We're just doing stand-up,
and then we happen to be good at this thing also,
and then, you know, one job led to another, whatnot.
But then when you're like,
holy shit, oh my God, wow,
this is Steve Carell,
and I am in a scene with Steve.
That's wild.
It takes a second.
But once you get over it right away,
now you're deep, right?
You're good.
Yeah, but it's like if I have to send...
And by the way, Steve Carell is not that talented.
You heard me, Steve.
I'm talking to you.
You're trash, buddy.
What have you done that's good?
Name one thing you've done that's good.
I do wish there's like not necessarily a roast battle,
but if you talk shit down the football field, you can fight.
You know what I mean?
There's something to settle it.
There's nothing to settle it. In our world? In acting or like... We could start fighting. Actors field, you can fight. Yeah. You know what I mean? There's something to settle it. There's nothing to settle it.
In our world?
In acting or like, you know.
We could start fighting.
Actors could start fighting each other.
Yeah.
Just like a hockey, grab the collar, let's go.
I'd be down.
Fucking, I just saw a video the other day of Tom Hardy in like a jujitsu open, like a
open, you know, like a tournament, but an open tournament.
And he was fucking this dude up.
Tom Hardy's strong as shit, dude.
Very good at jujitsu.
I was watching this dude.
He's super talented.
What can't he do?
I mean, take your wife, take you down,
choke you out, and arm bar you.
Can you imagine?
And your girlfriend or wife gets more turned on
by him beating your ass.
And you're like, this guy's already talented and cool.
Super hot.
He's my crush.
He's my Hollywood crush.
Is he?
Without a doubt.
He's hot.
He's like dude hot. He's like a man is he without a doubt he's hot he's like
he's like dude hot he's like a that's why i like him he's a guy you know i mean i don't want like
a boy crush i want i i want like a fucking dude who smokes he might spit on you when you're
fucking you know what i mean like someone that kind of does that make you more straight less
straight like what what is that is that blurred. Yeah. You know, it was very obvious when I was like, I'm not gay.
There's just no way because girls would be like, that guy's really hot.
And I'm like, I don't know.
It doesn't click.
It doesn't click.
I only like guys that's in like the...
I can see it.
It's a six pack and they're jacked.
I'm like, oh, girls should think that guy's hot.
But then girls go, we don't like that.
Yeah, we don't like that.
So maybe it's your thing.
So, yeah.
What are we finding out about you that you don't know?
That I think I'm attracted to muscular men.
Exactly.
You like jackdads.
That's what it is, yeah.
Are you in the gym at all?
No, never been to the gym.
God bless.
That's great.
But I do.
You're a naturally skinny guy, though.
Yes, yes, but it's the energy thing, okay?
Like, I don't need all the energy.
But also, like, there was, like, maybe four years
where I started making some money
doing stand-up and, like, Silicon Valley.
And I would, like, go to improv
and then go to, like, Tatsu Ramen at, like, 2 a.m.
Because I was like, hey, I'm bulletproof.
I got money and then I'm skinny, you know?
And then after four years of that
and not exercising,
literally living in a one bedroom,
not even moving.
I was,
I just felt like shit.
Like every other week,
I would just get sick
and I just felt horrible.
You never got fat though.
I've never seen you fat.
I got chubby,
but not like fat.
But like,
it was very unhealthy.
Like me getting chubby,
it's probably like you on 600-lb Life.
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Ginger.
I like gingers.
Yep.
I see it.
You see what I'm saying?
I see it, yeah.
It's like,
it might not show,
but my arteries
are probably like not good.
They're not working.
Yeah.
So,
at least
I move around now.
Like I garden,
I cook.
Some motherfucking gardens?
Yeah, man.
What are you growing in your garden?
I'm all about,
oh man,
I just grew a bunch of habaneros.
I see you cook online.
I see that.
But you grow all that shit?
It's all pandemic, man.
It's all pandemic shit.
You know,
I garden.
I grow a bunch of tomatoes.
I made my own tomato sauce.
Bro.
Yeah.
It's great.
And now, a lot of Thai chili peppers coming in.
I got one habanero plant that I bought for like $6 at Home Depot.
It's got like 300 habaneros on it.
And who needs 300 habaneros?
I mean.
I can't even give it away.
Give it away to fans when they come to a show.
Yeah, that's true.
You guys want habaneros?
I thought about starting a stand at the farmer's market. Why don't you
do it? I don't know. It would be
too many selfies. It would be weird.
And I would try to sell my habaneros for like
too much. How much? What are we talking?
Well, I would at least sell it for a dollar
which is four times the market price.
So? It raffles us a quarter. Supply
demand. That's true, but
this is what I'm doing. Actually,
when I get home tonight, after this,
I am gonna ferment
a bunch of these habaneros. Okay.
Along with some pineapple, some peaches,
some onions, and make hot sauces.
Look at this, bro. Yeah, I'm all about it.
Could you, would you have your own line? You know how, like,
a lot of people have their own tequilas, their own
whiskeys, or whatever. You should have your, you can have your own hot sauce?
Maybe. Let me see how this experiment
goes. It will not be sustainable for me to, like, like, if I make it, I'll have to. Well, you sell it to have your own hot sauce? Maybe. Let me see how this experiment goes. It will not be sustainable
for me to,
like if I make it,
I'll have to-
Well, you sell it
to a distributor
and they do it.
A co-packer or whatever.
What are we going to call it?
I got it already.
What is it?
Oh, yang.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, yang.
Like with like four A's.
Oh, yang.
But it's O-H-H.
Oh, yang.
That's good.
Oh, yang. That's good. Oh, yeah.
That's what you do when you eat it.
Oh, yeah.
One of those old 90s commercials.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They'll like take a bite of a wing.
They go, oh, yeah.
I like that.
Yeah, that's it.
You want to be in my commercial?
I'd love to.
Great, great.
Are you paying?
I don't know.
I got to do a kick down for free.
You sell the company for like a billion like Clooney did for his tequila.
And I'm like, wait a minute.
I'm calling you.
I'm like, Jimmy, you didn't pay me any money.
You're like, I got to go, man.
Yeah.
I feel like tequila is to play.
Alcohol is high margin.
I'm not sure of hot sauce.
People are willing to pay more than like $5 a bottle.
You know what I mean?
Like, yeah.
Nowadays, I feel like I get hot sauce just like given to me in a gift package of something.
I have so many hot sauces.
I feel like it just like ends up there.
I'm like, how did we buy this?
We didn't buy this. Yeah. And they're like, nah, we got it in a thing that was in a thing. so many hot sauces. I feel like it just like ends up there. I'm like, how did we buy, where did this, we didn't buy this?
Yeah.
And they're like,
nah,
we got it in a thing
that was in a thing.
Too many gift packs.
A lot of gift packs
and this is a good thing
to brag about.
A lot of gift,
what's the best gift
you've ever received?
Like in a gifting suite
or like in a gift pack?
Either or.
Well,
I would say
HBO used to have good ones
and I got one that's
just like a carry-on bag
that I still use till today.
Like a tote bag
kind of type thing?
No, no.
Like a wheelie bag
from the Swiss Army Knife brand.
Oh, Swiss.
Fucking awesome, yeah.
Free plug.
See, this is
your gifting suite.
It's paid off.
It paid off.
Thank you.
Victorinox.
Yeah.
You're welcome, HBO.
Yeah.
That was the nice thing you got, huh?
I never get shit good.
A lot of women's stuff. They're like, Marc Jacob makeup. It's the nice thing you got, huh? I never get shit good. A lot of women's stuff.
They're like, Marc Jacob makeup.
It's like awesome.
And I would give a bunch of stuff to my mom.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah.
But it's never...
I never got anything good.
Ever.
And then you hear of people on shows that get really dope shit.
And you're like, how come I've never been on a show that got dope shit?
I guess some New Balance that was kind of tight.
That's cool.
Stuff like that, you know.
But like how many more sweatpants do I need?
None.
You're out.
You're good.
You've got all of them.
Yeah.
I'm good.
I don't know what show I heard.
Somebody gave everyone a Rolex on something, you know?
Oh, wow.
You know, it's like one of those like modern family type of shit.
You know what I mean?
Well, okay.
Okay.
We just, I guess I was talking about gift boxes.
Like if it's, you know.
Oh, have you gotten some other good shit?
Steve actually gave us something very nice.
Come on, say it.
I don't know. It was a watch. He us something very nice. Come on, say it.
It was a watch.
He gave everyone a watch.
It was awesome.
Is that it right there?
It's not it.
It was Omega Speedmaster, which is the moon watch, which is Space Force.
That's so cool. That was incredible.
So he gave everybody a watch.
Did he inscribe it or anything?
He did.
And what does it say?
From SC to whoever, you know.
From SC to whoever.
Yeah, it just says whoever.
Whoever, they just wrote whoever?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I was, I am such an idiot.
I thought I was the only one that got that one.
I was so happy.
Jimmy.
I don't know why I thought that.
And then Ben Schwartz hit me.
He was like, oh my God, did you get it?
I was like, huh?
What did you, you tell me first.
What did you get, a bottle of wine?
Like, what did you get?
And he got a watch, and then I was like,
fuck, oh, everybody got one.
That's when you up it.
You go, yeah.
Steve, nicest man on the planet.
I can imagine.
Yeah.
That's when you up it and you go, yeah, dude,
that car is so fast that he got,
that's nuts, right?
You have the car, you got the car?
Yeah.
Oh, you got a, which,
which model did you get? The Ferrari is what we got. Ferrari, yeah you have the car you got the car yeah oh you got a which which model did you get the Ferrari
is that what you got
I got
so you got a Camry
you got a Camry
can you imagine
yeah
I think the most boss move
if he gave people a watch
I think that's a cool thing to do
yeah
if I ever did that
I would misspell
everyone's name on purpose
oh that's cool
I'd write from Andrew Santino
to Johnny
O Chang
or some shit.
I would do it just as a nice little kiss.
To Bobby Lee.
Just say…
For you to Bobby Lee.
That's much worse if you just say another person's name.
Yeah, well, that's insulting.
You know what's crazy?
I've never been confused with Bobby.
But weirdly, people confuse me with Ken Jeong a couple of times.
Shut up.
I swear to God.
You don't look anything like Ken Jeong.
That's what I'm saying.
And he got like 20 years on me.
And then, like, I was at the improv.
Wait, let me see it now.
Oh, I see it.
No, you don't.
No, of course not.
Yeah.
I was at the improv.
And then this agent came up to me.
I forget what agent.
Did you just say Asian came up to me?
Agent.
Okay.
You have to be clear on that.
No, no, no.
Agent.
Agent.
By the way, are there any Asian agents? There are a couple. Do you have Asian agents? I Okay. You have to be clear on that. No, no, no. Agent. Agent. By the way,
are there any Asian agents?
There are a couple.
Do you have Asian agents?
I do.
I have one.
You better.
I have an Asian agent
that's actually Jewish.
An Asian Jewish agent?
Yeah.
This is wild.
That's the type of agent
you want.
What's his or her name?
Her name is Annabelle Young.
And Young is actually
her Jewish family sign name.
But it could also function as a Chinese name.
She's touching all the bases.
I know.
That's why she's an agent.
Annabelle Youngman.
Yeah.
Annabelle Youngstein.
What's a traditional Chinese first name?
For a woman.
You mean like actually in Chinese?
No.
An American.
What are most American Chinese girls named?
Is that a thing?
Sure.
I mean, you can just name yourself anything.
Yeah, but there's common ones, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe Jessica?
Jessica's common?
I think.
I don't know.
I don't hang…
What's Jimmy in Chinese?
So my Chinese nickname that my parents call me is Jing. So it's like close to Jimmy, I think. I don't know. I don't hang… What's Jimmy in Chinese? So my Chinese nickname that my parents call me is Jing.
So it's like close to Jimmy, I think.
Jing?
Yeah.
Yeah, Jing's tight.
So it's like…
Why wouldn't you go with Jing?
You should have gone with Jing.
It's like Jing Yang.
It's like Jing Yang.
Jing Yang is tight, dude.
But anyways, this agent came up to me.
I was at the bar at the improv.
And he was like,
Hey, man.
Congratulations on Ride Along 2.
And I'm like…
Oh, did I… No, I didn't audition Ride Along 2. And I'm like, oh, did I?
No, I didn't audition for that movie.
Did I get the, like, you know someone?
I don't know.
Like, is he a producer?
He was like, no, I heard you got a part, man, on Ride Along 2.
I was like, oh, okay.
I don't know.
Oh, maybe you know more than I do.
And I left and I went home.
I think Ken Jeong was in that movie.
So sad.
Yeah.
You don't look anything like Ken Jeong.
Yeah, weird.
Yeah, who do you think you...
Do you have a doppelganger?
Do you think you look like someone that's famous?
Could you play someone in a biopic?
Huh.
Hard to say.
Maybe the girl from Squid Games.
You do kind of look like that chick.
Somebody tweeted that.
Somebody tweeted that.
Which is a compliment.
She's a Louis Vuitton model.
Yeah, she's a babe.
You know what I mean? Well, so that means you're a babe. Totally fine with me.itton model. Yeah, she's a babe. You know what I mean?
Well, so that means you're a babe, you know?
Well, I don't know. Does that translate?
You gotta grow your hair out a little bit.
Yeah, yeah. I used to have much longer hair.
Why'd you cut it?
Well, now it's just for convenience.
I think I'm more adult now. I can cut it.
But I used to have it like real long after college.
And I'll go on auditions and I think people don't know how to place me.
Like, oh, you know, you look more like uh you know like a not nerdy but like you know like a more sweet innocent guy
you know but then you have to like this long weird hair like they don't know what's your type
a dirt bag they don't know that you're a no they don't they know I don't look like a dirt you're a
ne'er-do-well you're a troublemakeraker. I mean, for you, you spent… Were you in prison for six or seven years, right?
Couple.
Oh, if you count the two in Hong Kong, yeah, that'll be eight.
I mean, you're a tough guy.
And once you got out of the gang, once you were out of that gang that you grew up in,
did they ever come back for you to try to jump you back in?
No, that's why I moved to America.
You know, a lot of laser removal surgery.
And how old were you when you moved to America?
13.
So the gang was what?
From like 9 to 13 is… Yeah, well, I was in the youth section of an adult gang that's why i was so hard
you know the youth section yeah yeah all right y'all are everyone 12 and under you're on here
for the for the meeting yeah it's like the world cup the u20 section you're over there do you follow
uh football soccer i used to man that's a sport I grew up playing but in America like
No one gives a shit.
Yeah, it's like I was forced to, I used to think football was so stupid cause I didn't understand the rules
and everybody's like, hey man you watching the Super Bowl?
I still remember like, my first year was in America was 2000, was that the Ravens year?
When Ravens, Ray Lewis won his first Super Bowl.
Mmm. Was that right?
2000, 2001.
Oh, no, no, no.
Maybe that was the Raiders and Bucks.
Now I have to see.
Super Bowl 2000.
Was it Giants and Ravens?
And Ravens beat them.
Could be right.
Super Bowl 2000, Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
And it was Rams and Titans.
No, it's the one after that.
That's why I said 01 is what I think you're talking about, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's okay.
You miss.
Sometimes you miss.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can't be right all the time.
You're right often, but you can't be right all the time.
I intentionally miss, so I seem more human.
Oh, I get that.
Yeah.
So this was the Ravens and the Giants.
What was the score?
Do you remember the final score? This would blow my mind if you got this. Oh, I get that. Yeah. So this was the Ravens and the Giants. What was the score? Do you remember the final score?
This would blow my mind if you got this.
It was a defensive game.
I don't think either side scored a touchdown.
I think it was like 13-9 or something, right?
No.
No?
34-7.
Okay.
Ravens beat that ass.
Oh, they scored defensive touchdowns.
Neither side scored offensive touchdowns was what it was.
That's really?
Is that what happened?
I swear.
Because Trent Dilfer because Trent Dilfer
Trent Dilfer my dude
that's crazy
but anyways
I didn't know like everybody's like hey man you watch
I'm like no I don't know football it's stupid
it's a stupid sport but the thing is I think
everybody liked it and I want to be part
of the culture I want to be American
instead of like hey continue to watch soccer
and be like the weird foreign kid.
So I got into it and I think once I get into something, I get really into it.
And now football is by far my favorite sport.
That's your thing?
Yeah, that's my thing.
I guess baseball has always been my shit.
For some reason, I've always loved baseball.
I think you got to, did you grow up watching and playing it?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
See, I never did.
So I think I don't, I don't get the pacing of it baseball is
big in asia though right yeah because asians are actually good at baseball some of them are
incredible who's the best asian baseball player of all time well do you count it's with shohei
otani or uh the the japanese guy that used to play for uh ichiro suzuki yeah is that his name
ichiro yeah yeah he was awesome i I didn't say it with the accent,
but out of respect, you know?
That's okay.
What's this thing on your hat, by the way?
I can't tell.
It's a lucky cat, you know?
You see in Chinese restaurants,
the thing that goes...
Yeah, we have them all over the studio.
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
In the other room, yeah.
We got them everywhere.
What's up with that?
People send them.
Huh?
Is it part of the theme of a show, or...?
It's just Bobby.
Oh, okay.
It's just because Bobby...
Like Asian, like, let me send you some
generic Asian shit
some Asian bullshit
yeah everyone's like
can we send you some Asian bullshit
nice nice I like that
we get so many chopsticks
sent to us as a bid
really
nobody sends me Asian bullshit
cause I think they don't
want to offend me
but I would appreciate
Asian bullshit
send Jimmy some Asian bullshit
and look right here
this is his address
that's actually his home address
we're putting it up right here
on the screen
right there so please send some Asian bullshit and look right here. This is his address. That's actually his home address. We're putting it up right here on the screen. Right there.
So please send
some Asian bullshit
to his home address.
He will take offense
to nothing.
Yeah.
In fact, you know what?
That's his phone number
right there as well.
That's his home address
and his phone number.
And it's
jimmyoyang at yahoo.com.
Is there a dot after O?
Is it jimmyoyang?
There's dots everywhere.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, you have to just find out
where the dots are.
He's not going to tell you that part.
He'll tell you what it is.
You figure it out.
You got to figure it all out.
You know what's crazy?
I've actually heard like, you know, like very green, new writers, new comedians, they want
to send their tape or script to a studio exec or somebody, right?
They literally just guess and send it to andrew.santino at nbc.com
And I'll say
maybe 50% of the time
they would get to somebody.
But how would they know?
They're never going to respond.
They're not going to respond
but they would figure it out
and be like,
oh, yo, that's a real email
because you get like
a vacation response
or something.
I did that one.
barackobama at gmail.com
No, it's not.
That is?
barackobama at gmail.com So everyone knows?'s not. That is. BarackObama at gmail.com.
So everyone knows?
Or he changed it now?
He changed it, but he hit me back.
No, he didn't.
Yes, he did.
No, he didn't.
What did he say?
Yes, he did.
I said, what up?
And he was like, what's going on?
Check out my new show on Netflix.
Yeah, he's like, I just landed a killer ass deal with Netflix.
And I was like, oh, it's sick.
Congrats.
And then he was like, where are you at this weekend?
And I just told him I was on tour.
And then he said, are you ever going to come back to the house?
And I have to stop by.
I haven't said hi to him or Michelle in so long.
I feel like I really need to.
I owe them.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the last time we went out to dinner with the Obamas,
they paid for the dinner.
Oh, that's nice.
Well, it was annoying.
The United States of America paid for that dinner.
He didn't.
But he didn't even let me try to take out my credit card.
He paid right away. So it pissed me off. I said, He didn't, but he didn't even let me try to take out my credit card. He paid right away.
So it pissed me off.
I said, Obama, dude, next time, like, let me try to pay.
At least make an attempt.
And he won't.
And he won't.
He was a good guy.
Are you the guy that does that thing at dinner?
If you have a dinner with a group of friends, do you like picking up the tab?
In the beginning, when I was first starting to make it, you know, absolutely.
I would go out of my way to do it.
But now, I don't want to be it but now i don't want to be an
asshole i don't want to be like too i got it hey i got money yeah let me know no no no it's like
i would but if it's like a round of drinks or whatever something simple sure but if it's at
dinner um or i'll just say hey let me pay for you guys in badmami and half the time people forget
or they pretend to forget and i'm fine with that yeah if And if they want to Venmo me, then it's fine.
This is the best part.
I'll say that sometimes.
If someone goes, come on, man.
And I'll go, just you can Venmo me or something.
I don't have Venmo.
It's great.
Oh, that's awesome.
That's the trick.
You know?
Just Zell me.
Whatever app you don't have.
Be like, that's the only one I use.
But you don't have it.
They won't find you either.
Let me tell you this dilemma.
You know, since we're talking about money.
Yeah, please.
I'm the commissioner
of my fantasy football league.
You know.
As it were, yeah.
Yeah, the league dues
used to be 100 bucks
now it's 200.
We like have different things
and stuff.
One guy.
Uh-oh.
Refused to pay.
Mark?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What does he,
why does he not want to pay?
He just,
I mean,
he's a struggling comic
but
half of the people are struggling comics
you can always put together
$100, $200
the thing is, as a friend
$200, whatever, I want to hang out with you
it's fine, I can even cover you $200
but as the commissioner
you know what I mean?
I want to win money in my fantasy football league
and it's unfair to everyone.
And this has been years and years
and years. And I always have empty threats. I'm like,
you don't pay by the state. You don't pay by the draft. You're out.
So this year, I'm putting my foot
down. And I'm very afraid
that he might actually get kicked out. I really want
to know who it is so bad.
No, no. I don't think you know him.
Oh, okay. Well, you want to make a speech to him
real quick? Go ahead and look at that camera and tell him how you really feel because he might listen
look um mike look mike look mike s uh uh no his name is not mike or s um please pay your league
dues and if not ask me to break your fucking knees. Ask me to borrow money. Like, borrow money, but ask...
It's like, hey, man, I need $200 for rent.
Give you $200.
And it goes to that.
And then just don't...
You know what I mean?
Don't, like, not respond to my texts, bro.
Then I don't know...
Like, then it gets awkward.
He shows up at the draft.
Yep.
Everybody knows he hasn't paid, you know.
He shows up at the game.
I'm like, hey, dog, when are you going to pay?
Pay up, dog.
Just pay up, man. Well, dude, if you don't pay up, I went the other game. I'm like, hey, dog, when are you going to pay? Pay up, dog. Just pay up, man.
Well, dude, if you don't pay up, I went the other route.
I said we're going to physically cause harm to you.
That's the mafia way.
You know, pay or we break your fucking kneecaps.
There you go.
Pay up or it's over.
Double threat.
All right, you got kids?
Not anymore, buddy.
You want kids?
Not anymore.
Bing.
That's the one.
Bat to the nuts. Bat to the nuts.
Bat to the nuts.
I never had that issue,
but I guess, you know, look.
I do have the thing sometimes
when someone says they'll pay you back
and they never do
and I let it go.
I'm always like,
fuck it.
That's fine.
I'm telling you,
it's just because I'm the commissioner of the league.
So you got to be kind of authoritative.
Otherwise, it's fine.
You don't pay me back 200 bucks.
It's totally okay, man.
It is what it is.
Yeah.
But also, I'm going to hold it against you for the rest of your life.
You're that guy?
No.
No.
But I'll think about it sometimes.
I would say this, though.
That's annoying.
Somebody borrow, say, 200 bucks.
I let anyone borrow 200 bucks.
Callers.
Give me 200 bucks.
Callers of yours.
You guys can…
By the way, call that number and ask for 200 bucks.
Yeah.
Ask for 200 bucks.
But the thing is, it's a good judge of character, I think.
Because it's the best use of money.
If you don't pay me back, I don't have to talk to you anymore.
That's it.
You showed your true color.
You know?
Right.
Or, I mean, unless you're like truly struggling.
Then whatever.
Then it's a different tale.
But other than that, I think it's a good investment.
But usually, honestly, everyone have different tale. But other than that, like I think it's a good investment. But usually, honestly,
everyone have been great.
Like people always ask me,
it's like, hey man,
after you made it,
has a lot of people asked for money?
I'm like, zero.
No one.
Zero.
I've given one friend money.
You offered?
I,
it was like a negotiation,
but I was like,
it's not going to be borrowed.
It's going to be given.
Okay.
I don't want to think about
somebody owing me money.
So it's over.
I gave the money and it went away.
The friend went away
or the thing went away?
Oh, the friend went away.
No.
No, you give a couple of bucks
and then you just say,
let's not talk about it.
It didn't happen.
That's good.
And I don't want the money back
and it didn't exist. That's nice. Because then there's want the money back and it didn't exist. That's nice.
Because then there's a thing in a relationship.
Borrowing money to your friends. I'll say this to our fans.
Just do it.
It's tough, yeah. Just give someone money if they
need it and you have it and you can help and then
don't think about it, don't talk about it.
Or I suggest you trade them
something.
An empty bottle of whiskey. You know, something.
Something. Yeah, give me a swap. An ashtray, a coaster. Here you go. Give me the coaster. I'll bottle of whiskey. You know something? Something. Yeah, give me a swap.
An ashtray, a coaster.
Here you go.
Give me the coaster.
I'll sell you some.
Right.
I'll give you the 400 bucks.
So mentally you feel good about it.
Give me your girlfriend.
Yeah.
Easy trade.
Yeah, exactly.
One night, 200 bucks.
Let's go, babe.
Kick rocks.
Come on.
Go do the thing for me.
Yeah.
Go sleep with one of my friends.
It's an easy trade
exactly
well good thing about comedy
is I think you can have
friends open for you
that's money
okay there you go
who opens for you
when you go on tour
oh my buddy Derek Keener
usually opens for me
amazing guy
he lives in Arkansas
actually
what
black comic
amazing amazing
so funny
little rock
no he lives in a place
called Texarkana
Texarkana Texarkana
it's between Texas
literally a border town
between Texas and Arkansas
I know it
yeah
but he's awesome
super funny guy
and I met him
years and years ago
on like a weird
hell gig
in LA
or in like Ontario
actually
and I just remember
how funny he was
and also how
professional he was
and how he took care
of everyone
he made sure
he got all of our money.
How did you meet this guy?
That's how I met him on that show.
On the gig. That was the first time you ever met him.
And I didn't know the man.
They paired you guys, huh?
Yeah, and he was so kind and he took care of me.
And that was back when I was nobody, I was just a buddy.
So now even like when we go out like out of town like he makes sure everything's cool.
Mm-hmm.
Sounds cool, you know know people's not bothering
me whatever it may be right huge and i think that's what a lot of times young comics don't
understand it like hey i'm funny enough i'm i'm just gonna open and then i'll fucking go get drunk
nah help me out yeah help me out a little bit help me out yeah i don't need you to be my tour
manager but i appreciate the little stuff well because it helps you know yeah because there's
a million funny people out there.
Oh, maybe not.
I don't know about a million.
Maybe not.
There's a good amount.
There's a few.
Yeah.
There's probably six.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Or like at least three friends you can call that will be happy to come.
Yeah, exactly.
But, you know, just be a good pal on the road.
Just be a pal.
Yeah.
Stop that other stuff.
Yeah, but check him out.
Derek Keenan, man.
He's awesome.
And one thing we've been doing just inadvertently is he has never tried any food.
What?
He's never…
Cat doesn't eat food?
He's never tried sushi, never tried even a miso soup, never tried a soup dumpling.
Nothing.
So I would take him out to Boston and then we'll go to a Chinese restaurant and have him eat soup dumplings.
Uh-huh.
And some of those videos, they don't know like say he's my opener or whatever just like my
black friend and like it just went viral and it's like really funny just on my of him doing
eating yeah yeah he just never reached he just never went uh outside of his little circle of
whatever he yeah I guess Texas or Canada they don't even have like well I imagine they don't
have sushi anything they see you down there they freak the fuck out. He saw... What are you doing here, dude? Probably.
You lost?
He... You know, we ordered a bowl of miso soup.
You know, he looked at it.
He was like, what are those little cubes of cheese in there?
I was like, no, it's tofu.
And he's never eaten tofu.
You could lie to him and be like, yeah, that is cheese.
Yeah, that is cheese.
It's the kind of cheese he'll never know.
Very soft, unfermented cheese.
Say his name.
Derek Keener.
Derek Keener.
Shout out to D. Keener.
Yeah, man.
Wherever you are in the world.
D.K. go watch Me Time
everyone
if you have a chance
go see us on Netflix
we're in a
a new movie with Kevin Hart
and Mark Wahlberg
who play our
assistants on the show
they're below us
obviously on the call sheet as well
thank you dude for being here
I hope you enjoyed the sauce
thanks for having me man
this is great
this is incredible
really fun
I will see you tomorrow night.
Congrats to you, dude.
Honestly.
And I know what you're shooting
in January or whatever
and congrats on that.
Okay?
Thank you, brother.
It's going to be huge.
As it were,
we end the show the same way.
You look in that camera right there
and you say one word
or one phrase
that's going to end the episode.
It's cemented in history forever
as the end of Jimmy O. Yang's episode
on Whiskey Ginger.
One word or one phrase you choose.
When you're ready, go ahead.
You lay low, Moe.
And scene.
What does that mean?
It means fuck your mother.
In here, we pour whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey.
You're that creature in the ginger beard.
Sturdy and ginger.
Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse.
Gingers are beautiful.
You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse.
Gingers are hell no.
This whiskey is excellent.
Ginger.
I like gingers.