0:00 North Koreans to dance really well too it's just a different dance you know they're kind of outdated though because I saw it and like they're trying to be modern but they still got like five accordions and they look like 1963. they have that no what oh [Music] and welcome back everybody to another awesome episode of the careful boys where today we're going part two in on getting to know Mr Joe Wong here with us yeah it's just a lot of pressure on me you know because I only thought I would I have one part in my life and that that's it you know we have a part two yeah yeah we really want you to make us laugh in this one oh I think what's what's really interesting to me is I didn't know that
0:50 stand-up comedy was so new in China yeah and that you guys are a part of a whole movement to like create a whole art form and pioneering that space um I always take stand-up comedy to being a bit revolutionary and and maybe even anti-establishment is it the same in China where like they're having such revolutionary thought or like is it is it that style or is it like old style comedy where it's like punch after punch mostly it's old style you know it's like got it yo mama joke like set up punch set up yes Jerry Seinfeld you know Jim Gaffigan you know that kind of I mean yeah yeah you wasn't it Uncle Roger who just got banned on social media and stuff so like you got to be careful
1:40 about certain topics are you careful when you do stand up there I I'm careful everywhere you know that I mean his style of Comedy is that's the thing you know like even even in America is you can easily offend people you know just yeah yeah good that's so here's the thing you know like you have to be super careful right now yeah yeah in America basically there's liberalism but liberalism is basically within 50 mile radius metropolitan area yeah it's live outside of it you know it's very conservative crowd yeah yeah yeah if you say something like why privilege you can't just feel yeah all the ████ say the room is tied up and suck the air out of it diverse part
2:31 do you do you change your jokes depending on which which crowd you're with oh I do and I don't you know like with the Chinese crowds you know I switch a little bit you know but then uh but I I kind of yeah I had some bad experience doing uh talking about uh racism in America in in conservative areas really if you talk about racism in America in China people don't quite get it you know because they don't experience it you know racism is a certain types of racism is a very American thing yeah oh yeah well that's true yeah because what's Chinese people gonna do is
3:21 like regionalism yeah they're like how are you Chinese go so are you yeah yeah and also people are very tolerant about uh racist stuff in China because they have no idea what that is you know yeah because sometimes in the English comedy clubs there was there was something that's kind of kind of racist but then the crowd are more across are more tolerant about it you know it's because just because they don't quite get it you know so for them it's just English that's interesting yeah but but here oh yeah it's over there like with the I guess racist or cultural jokes being more Province based because I remember growing up my mom would be like tell me like like this province is known to be like really stingy this one stinks this one has rather hot girls they're
4:12 like do you do jokes like that about the different provinces and people kind of like all on the same page you all get it well if you're some people uh both see some people get it but other people get offended you know they get the reverse exactly yeah yeah it's for example you should joke about certain Province and then some people from their Province they get offended you know it happens before so is that just normal comedy though oh yeah yeah it's normal comedy because my mom would tell me like you can't trust anybody from like Choo Chow like that I thought that's true something it's all but they speak almost like the Taiwanese dialogue yeah they're made in Cantonese right I think that's where my grandparents are from but my mom said you can't trust anybody that's your child oh and then she would say oh yeah I just think that's what that's a province called that place produces
5:03 all the hot chicks I think you're just saying that that's where you're from I think the hot chips are from xinjiang but anyways see I don't know Sichuan and the problems has hot chicks to be honest seriously if you travel over there you know I just eat that yeah but then also people love seeing this stuff but if you just look at all the pretty actresses and see where they're from you know it's all over the place yeah yeah does uh satire exist in Chinese uh culture oh yeah yeah oh it's been there but you know we talk about stand-up comedy being a big thing now but then before stand up comedy it was uh crosstalk
5:53 that's been popular for you know over 100 years yeah it's kind of like Vaudeville you know like a variety show yeah Abba Costello you know two people oh like oh like a dual conversation yeah yeah yeah Japan had does stuff like that too yes exactly that was the dominant form for you know decades it's like it's like comedy dialogue between two people like yeah yeah yeah and then the one person that does a setup and the other one delivers the punch line yeah it's like the Takeshi Castle dude yeah the great thing about that is uh you gotta build in the audience there you know you'll see some stuff you know if the audience doesn't say anything your partner would go wow haha that's funny cues the laughter yeah and that's that's
6:45 why I used to do uh improv as well I did that for half a year improv over there over here uh in in America yeah but that's because with improv you have the same thing you know even if you say something that's kind of cliche but there's another person there you know to try to help you out so what would you do in a product like ground meat or UCB oh no I did this back in Boston so where's your favorite place to do comedy oh oh there's so many though the uh the comedy seller in New York um The Comedy Works in Denver there's so many great clubs um what makes a club great oh low ceilings um uh no uh rear lighting you know it's
7:35 basically Spotlight is good oh that sounds good that's that's about it it just feels like focused on the jokes and the comedy yeah yeah do you notice a difference in crowd like reaction and participation depending on where you go oh um yes um if you go to a suburban area basically ethnic jokes don't go very well they don't get it yeah not because they're racist or anything they just don't understand if they're supposed to laugh or not yeah like they're scared to laugh yeah they were like oh if I laugh at this and I'm a racist yeah but if you go to a more metropolitan area you know racial jokes just goes really well yeah yeah
8:25 it's like you know you're not late you know every show you you have oh yeah you know every ethnicity is there it's just energy is amazing you know that's the thing about LA and New York you know this is just the energy is really great man you do you think you're a bigger star here or bigger star in China I don't think I'm I'm big anywhere yeah you know it's just uh this is the thing about comedy you know when when you're hot people think you're funny no matter what you say you know you can't just burp people like Ah that's the funniest ████ I've ever heard seriously you know but yeah but if you're in like nobody knows you you know you can Crush at night but after the show people still go to the star that they know oh yeah so so do you think familiarity has so much to do with
9:18 how they see you already oh it's huge you know remember uh this German propagandist said you know if you repeat a lie a thousand times is the truth or something but with the entertainment this is the same you know just like if you're familiar face you know even if you're a s█████ act they're still like wow you're great now they that's this is how the mind works you know what helps too is if if somebody brings someone to the show and they go yo this Joe guy is hilarious that they're gonna laugh because they don't want to look like they were lying yeah that's why podcasts with comedians did so well because they could build their like following and then they have inside jokes and then now when when they're not even auditioning at the show anymore
10:10 people are coming to see them because they just like you that's uh that's a great point and also uh when you're at a comedy club especially in some uh not so great shows you have like 20 comedians in the lineup and three audience members there oh it's like you hear something funny but you're like oh nobody else is laughing yeah you don't want to be the loudest guy yeah if I laugh at the wrong joke and these two are gonna know who who left you know but if it's a packed room it's okay you know there's so many people even if you laugh them wrong ████ but people know nobody knows who did it do you have a podcast oh yeah I I just started one yeah it's called a a stand
11:00 up with our borders and a an interview stand-up comedians from different countries but also I interview people who are not comedians but they have a very interesting point of view you know a recently I just interviewed this uh fashion designer called Kiki and the weird thing about her is um she's a fashion designer she doesn't know how to make clothes what she doesn't know how to draw pictures of her good good clothing that she makes sounds about where she wants to get made like make a dress like this someone has to be like okay I gotcha but you're very close yes and you she writes books but she
11:51 just tells me people shouldn't be reading books you know you should do your own thinking she's just like wow that's such a fine that kind of character character is very interesting that's why you interview them walking contradiction oh yeah I know I know I'm still like how the ████ does she design fashion oh yeah but but she's a business woman so she had runs a company she just caught she knows uh who can do this job she'll tell them oh I want a you know dragon in this part of the robe or something and they just do it for her and she did the clothing for you know like um Miss Marvel or something and uh she was designing clothes for uh con film festival and stuff wow yeah you know just people have wow very
12:42 interesting career paths yeah that's crazy yeah that's that's why I wanted to do this uh podcast also you know the comedy change too you know we spoke about influencers you know I don't know if you know this comedian called uh joyin yeah Summers yeah exactly oh yeah yeah if you're all telling you about her she has a big accident too oh yeah I think accent and plus you know when I first met her we met in China she wanted to become an actress in Hollywood but but then you know for one reason or another people thought her accent was too thick no yeah to think even for fresh off the boat you know that's your real accent accent uh so she decides to become a stand-up
13:33 comedian you know for me if a guy like me I just basically grind it out in comedy clubs yeah but for her she couldn't even do that because of the pandemic so she just did it she actually just purchased the Comedy Club on Hollywood on Melrose she purchased it yeah just she bought the comedy club just does it and then maybe she's doing it for passion enough I know sure was she a biotech person too yeah how does she have all that money wait yeah exactly why do you think Bob that person can afford to buy a club dresses yeah so and then the pandemic has so the way she does it she just taped herself doing stand-up comedy with no audience puts it online and see how people respond to it and eventually after a couple of years
14:24 she actually built the following online wow and has a set of uh jokes if she can do her special lesson she can tour with wow what still made it happen yeah Amazing Story I I was like Wow because you know like traditional comedians would hate these type of you know influencers because they want everyone to grind the way they are yeah yeah of course you know but then and I was like yeah but that's a different grind though yeah it's a different grind yeah you think about putting out you know uh short videos day after day you know it's just yeah and she has cats you know just in her videos where she's like doing stand-up with no audience is she like editing an audience laughter Oh I I don't know the details
15:14 yeah I'll be like that's brilliant yeah yeah do you think there'll ever be a time where like there's after school comedy clubs for kids but like in China 's usually like piano or like oh yeah yeah very traditional like Asian extracurricular stuff you think you think it'll ever get it like I I don't know I don't know if it's gonna reach that point but it's possible in a major city still like there used to be like the I spoke about crosstalk right yeah they actually groom their apprentices since they were like five or six years old you live in your Master's house that's old school whoa Super old school but there's still Stars uh crosstalk stars who started like that whoa why do they
16:05 need them that young oh they just to help have that conversation already oh yeah they they can perform on stage are they young oh I see yeah yeah and basically the master is tell us tell us you'll see this and the audience gonna laugh when you say this word it's very specific you know and that's how they learn the the trade yeah that's really old school because old um theater that's how they formed a lot of groups in Asia like they started they it's like you know how the K-pop like performance groups from from kids it's like that like a lot of performance theater yeah they're like training system yeah yeah that's like an old school art yeah but I have to say these K-Pop Stars you know they were so disciplined you know I was
16:57 really impressed when I was in China sometimes I would do certain uh La variety show or whatever they they always sit in a really good posture you know it's just like uh they stay up late no one complains nobody takes a nap or anything I was like wow how can they do this you know it's just wow it's amazing you know they're they're work ethic it's just astounding you know yeah it's like North Korea focused on The Military and South Korea focused on K-POP same approach for discipline oh but one went makeup and dance exactly yeah but then you know the North Koreans to dance really well too it's just a different dance you know they're kind of outdated though because I saw it and like they're trying to be modern but they still got like five
17:47 accordions and they look like 1963. they have that no what oh North Korean Dance dances in oh you can see them in China though if you go to certain restaurants oh yeah yeah they were like North Korean uh performance Hoops yeah they're they have like 10 accordions no literally it's it's like that's I'm not even joking it's like 10 late accordions singing and it's all Corey oh yeah yeah and are they all hungry they're starting now they're well fed they're well fed yeah they're I think I think because they're the performance ones they're actually they're not gonna send out the hungry ones yeah I thought they're just like dancing on people's tables and then just like a piece what's that the North Korean
18:37 that you can go to and they yeah they serve North Korean food they have the performances and it's all North Korean workers wow yeah so you could get the North Korean experience it's like a dinner and a show the whole experience well this video seems to be ending isn't it seems to be ending [Music] foreign
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