The Project co-host says comedy’s changing audience means there’s no more expectation he has to explain his heritage.
, recorded live during the Sydney Comedy Festival, covers a lot of ground. With his trademark apologetic goofiness,co-host shares the indignity of sleeping with a mouthguard for grinding teeth, a dubious acupuncture session, the time he emceed a nudist wedding in the nude and his disaster-plagued proposal to lawyer and comedy writer Humyara Mahbub at the flooded Splendour in the Grass festival . What he doesn’t much talk about is his Chinese heritage.
Michael Hing says he “can understand the criticism” people have of The Project, of which he is a regular co-host. “There was a time, from about 1990 through to the early 2010s, when if you weren’t a straight white guy, you had to deliver your comedy in relation to how you weren’t a straight white guy,” Hing says. “There’s very little Chinese material in my special. There’s been an upswing of comedians who look and sound different to the old tropes, and the audience has changed.
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