.shengwangtime on keeping identity issues out of his comedy: 'It’s not really a conscious decision to avoid it. I think I’m just still trying to process what that really means to be a child of immigrants.'
“It’s been a long journey,” Wang says of everything it took to get from his debut half-hour special on Comedy Central more than a decade ago to his first hour on Netflix this month. “It feels kind of like a dream come true, I guess, as crazy as that sounds or as cheesy as that sounds.”opens with an introduction from its director, Ali Wong, who calls Wang “one of my best friends and one of my favorite comedians in the entire world.
Wang’s parents immigrated to Houston, Texas, from Taiwan in the early ’80s when he was a toddler. His family of five all slept together in one bedroom in their first years in the country. Unlike many other stand-up comics, comedy was not a “childhood dream” for Wang. He wasn’t the class clown. “I was never someone that people said I should be a comedian or I was funny or anything like that,” he explains. “I don’t think that anyone suspected this would happen. I didn’t suspect it would happen.”
“This is totally a pandemic accident,” he says, explaining that he had a haircut scheduled for March 11, 2020, canceled it at the last minute, and has barely trimmed it since. “I wasn’t planning on keeping it. I just wanted to see how it would look. But then people kept saying nice things and slowly it just felt like it did look like me now.” He thought about cutting it before the special taping, but it was Wong who really encouraged him to keep it.
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