Bowen Yang

Yeah, I went to- 4.36?

Yeah, which wasn't even really one of the better times.

I know it sounds crazy, but it was good.

This is me being hard on myself.

But it wasn't like, some of these guys were doing sub four.

I did get to NYU and ran track for a week and decided I have to stop and try to focus entirely on trying to make the dream happen.

So I was coming out of the closet and trying to do the entertainment industry.

Well, I don't think anyone was surprised that when I was in college, they were like, oh, he's, you know, wanting to pursue this.

But the way that I sort of got into it so that I could soften the blow for people was like, I'm going to do sketch comedy.

You know, because I still felt like there was something masc about it, I guess.

And so I still had that sort of internalized homophobia of not wanting to say out loud that I wanted to be a singer or a comedian.

That was doing a lot of different things, perform on stage, etc.

And.

Would be like- We did Bye Bye Birdie one year and I sat in the audience and I watched this person just waste the role of Conrad Birdie.

I was like, I would have been the Conrad Birdie

I just, I also, I wanted to play Rosie and Kim as well, but you know, I really would have, I think I was appropriate for a part that I didn't go out for.

I, no, it happened again and again until I was finally like, how long am I going to sit in the audience knowing that not only I want to do it, but that I kind of think I can.

And so then it was, I got to college and,

By chance, my RA freshman year was like, I have a fun thing for us to do this weekend.

We're gonna go wait on the standby line at SNL.