Motherf*****, that’s you! How is it different to write for a reader, alone in a room? It smelled so bad and I was so embarrassed.” She laughs: “I’m definitely embarrassable.”, When she had a miscarriage, which she talked about in her first Netflix show, one of her emotions was embarrassment. I just want to make sure to take the time to celebrate Bowen and not focus on this too much because it’s a bigass deal that Bowen is going to be in the main cast. Randall Park is a really old friend of mine. “I get asked that all the time but male comics have been making fun of their wives for so long and I wonder if male comics get asked the same thing. Brace Yourself for Her Book. A lot of your jokes come at your husband’s expense, but it’s all in good fun. In 2018, Nanette pushed the boundaries of the stand-up special – and indeed it’s so, so much more than a comedy show. For Baby Loss Awareness Week, which took place from Wednesday 9 October to Tuesday 15 October, The Independent published daily content to highlight the stories of people who have experienced pregnancy and baby loss.

© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Whether she’s discussing pooping at work, doing stand-up while seven months pregnant, or … ), then you’re going to love her in Hard Knock Wife (her second Netflix special and a follow-up on her 2016 debut Baby Cobra). Baby Cobra is in good company, what with Patton Oswalt and Hannibal Buress‘ recent Netflix specials. Offstage, she seems softer and more laid-back than her fierce and foul-mouthed standup persona. I have friends who are arguably some of the best comedians of our time, and their kids don’t think they’re funny. During the discussion, Wong was asked whether she has ever suffered sexual harassment in the workplace. My husband is awesome and totally not Hollywood. And then there are your bits against feminism and Sheryl Sandberg.

I know you from Fresh Off the Boat. Are you eating too much dairy?” With a miscarriage, then, that’s the ultimate form of a woman being blamed for something really tragic. What's your problem?' If anything happens to the baby, everybody automatically says to the woman, “What did you do?” If she has dry skin, everyone’s like “What are you feeding her? “Sorry,” she said, “someone was at my door.” No apology was necessary, of course, as these kinds of minor interruptions happen all the time during these phone calls.

Why was it important to give him space to speak for himself?

It takes a great joke-crafter to put things in a context that makes people laugh. COMEDIAN ALI WONG performed her two popular Netflix stand-up specials while heavily pregnant with her first and second child. These days, once the children are in bed, she turns up unannounced and unpaid at comedy clubs up to five nights a week to try out new material. Underlying that question is this assumption that being an Asian-American woman is a weakness. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. I feel like I have great taste in books, and I started writing and I was like: “How come I don’t sound like them? I’m writing and performing the jokes in front of an audience constantly, so I know right away if it’s not working. It’s funny when people ask me that because, are we trying to pretend like I’m going to have any control over them? “In terms of how things have changed, I guess nowadays the culture has changed, so that when people do some joke that you’ve heard before about women being ‘naggy’ or something, it just feels dated,” she said. Wong, who slogged it out on the open-mic circuit, presents a grim account of life on the road: dying onstage, bad food, bad men. Even though Wong seems wildly uninhibited onstage (one of her early signature moves was pulling down her pants to moon the audience), she’s nervous about the reception to her book, which comes out on Oct. 15 and is even more personal than some of her stand-up. Find exclusive interviews, video clips, photos and more on Entertainment Tonight. Especially after having kids.”.

Under the pretence of pondering whether she’s still relatable, Ellen DeGeneres basks in the (well-earned) glory her accomplishments, reflects on her personal experiences – including her 1997 coming-out and how it was received in Hollywood – and riffs on the absurdities of daily life.

The comedian might be best known for her roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Black-ish, but her stand-up is well worth a watch. I’m certain I would not have endured. “It’s all about word choice,” Wong said. – Ali Wong on why women's bodies are the last taboo. But I don’t feel like male comics are ever asked about what it’s like for their wife.” I think she is right, but a male comic probably would get asked, were he to make jokes, as Wong does, about the most intimate details of their sex life. Why is it still so taboo for women to talk about bodily functions and all the fluids and secretions that ooze out of us? And he delivers some great one-liners. “Sometimes I have a joke I know is funny, but I haven’t found the right word, and when I do find it, it’s so satisfying.”, Wong’s conviction that language, even more than performance, is a comedian’s greatest weapon also guided her when she was writing her first book, “Dear Girls,” a collection of essays about her rebellious youth, her struggle to break into comedy, her romantic and sexual exploits, and what it was like to grow up in what she calls a “very atypical Asian-American family.”. If you think that is the winning combo for success then you’re in trouble.” Wasn’t it infuriating? “I constantly feel like I’m failing at both working and being your mom,” she writes in Dear Girls. Standout line: “I have built a career out of self-deprecating humour and I don’t want to do that anymore. I love the food but I would never hire a Chinese contractor to work on my house, because I know they cut corners. Don’t buy the books, don’t buy the hype. All Rights Reserved.

If you liked Ali Wong in Always Be My Maybe (which she co-wrote! Similarly, you talk about how annoying it is when white male comics tell you that you’re lucky to have a “niche” because you’re an Asian-American woman. He would have loved going to all these different cities, meeting all these different people. I could not afford to wait for my career to take off. “This has all been a delightful, lovely surprise.”. Wong spoke to TIME about life’s unpredictability, the power of couples’ therapy and the funniest things her daughters have ever done.

Now tons of people have met online. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. But not from my ridicule.

“I think I’m just not ready to share all that stuff yet, but of course there has been not-great stuff that’s happened.

Are you sure you want to delete this comment? In an interview, Wong spoke about recent controversies in the comedy world, her writing process and the question she hates getting asked. The star of two uproarious Netflix comedy specials is nervous about how people will react to her essay collection.

No one’s going to watch a lesbian during the day.’ And I said ‘Well, they weren’t watching me at night. True, but you haven’t been pregnant for seven years. To read about 20 celebrities who have opened up in the past about going through miscarriage, including Beyoncé, Gwyneth Paltrow and Michelle Obama, click here. Maybe you should take it out. There’s no secret. You’re used to writing …

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/books/ali-wong-dear-girls-interview.html You wake up every day reading the news, and you’re like ‘Wow, I didn’t know that.’ And somewhere, at that exact same moment, he’s reading the same news, going, ‘Wow, me too.’". Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. I just wish I had asked my dad all those questions. “I used to dress like a kid, to desexualise myself,” she says. Follow New York Times Books on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, sign up for our newsletter or our literary calendar. Still, she points out, by doing what she loves and doing it well, “even me putting myself out there sometimes is political. My mom is very concerned that he’s going to leave me out of intimidation. “I don’t know,” she says, then, as an aside: “As a British person, don’t you think it’s just so barbaric that we don’t give maternity leave?” Topical, political jokes, she says, have “never been my forte. What’s your view, should some material be avoided because it’s insensitive and offensive? And we had friends who were artists and we would go to their gallery shows.” Now, she says, she makes an effort to see what other Asian American creators are up to – whether in TV, literature, art or fashion – and will introduce her children to it. Get the latest news about Ali Wong. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. It all comes down to instinct. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. “You know, staying at those motels, getting paid that little amount of money. But I think less about him witnessing everything in my career, mostly just witnessing my kids and having a relationship with them and talking to them. “I hope my siblings don’t get pissed at me.”.

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