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Jimmy O. Yang (performing a bit)

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Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

I think there's many sides of Beverly Hills. They lived in like an apartment in Beverly Hills. That wasn't very fancy at all. It was like one block away from not being Beverly Hills. And eventually my dad actually used that address. as a fake address to get me into Beverly Hills High School. I'm telling you this now. I think the statute of limitations is up. I don't think he'll go to jail.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

I think there's many sides of Beverly Hills. They lived in like an apartment in Beverly Hills. That wasn't very fancy at all. It was like one block away from not being Beverly Hills. And eventually my dad actually used that address. as a fake address to get me into Beverly Hills High School. I'm telling you this now. I think the statute of limitations is up. I don't think he'll go to jail.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

My Beverly Hills certificate? I don't think so. But yeah, it was culture shock because Hong Kong is a big metropolitan, very vertical city, much like New York. You can walk anywhere. There's life on the streets. There's subways. You don't need a car. Whereas LA is the opposite. Everything is six lanes wide. Everything is concrete, strip malls. You can't walk.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

My Beverly Hills certificate? I don't think so. But yeah, it was culture shock because Hong Kong is a big metropolitan, very vertical city, much like New York. You can walk anywhere. There's life on the streets. There's subways. You don't need a car. Whereas LA is the opposite. Everything is six lanes wide. Everything is concrete, strip malls. You can't walk.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

My Beverly Hills certificate? I don't think so. But yeah, it was culture shock because Hong Kong is a big metropolitan, very vertical city, much like New York. You can walk anywhere. There's life on the streets. There's subways. You don't need a car. Whereas LA is the opposite. Everything is six lanes wide. Everything is concrete, strip malls. You can't walk.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

Absolutely. The one thing that I really loved was hip hop when I first came to this country. It was so foreign to me in a way, but I was like, wow, this is the most American thing ever. And in high school, I really got into hip hop. I got into rap. I started making beats. I thought that would like make me instead of like the weird foreign kid into like the cool kind of hip hop kid.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

Absolutely. The one thing that I really loved was hip hop when I first came to this country. It was so foreign to me in a way, but I was like, wow, this is the most American thing ever. And in high school, I really got into hip hop. I got into rap. I started making beats. I thought that would like make me instead of like the weird foreign kid into like the cool kind of hip hop kid.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

Absolutely. The one thing that I really loved was hip hop when I first came to this country. It was so foreign to me in a way, but I was like, wow, this is the most American thing ever. And in high school, I really got into hip hop. I got into rap. I started making beats. I thought that would like make me instead of like the weird foreign kid into like the cool kind of hip hop kid.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

But of course it's weird, you know, for me to try to rap, like, you know, but I really kind of dove into that. And then in college, I went to UC San Diego. It was a big Asian population. But there's also like a stoner surfer culture. So I remember I was like... I really got into like the stoner culture thinking that was mainstream America college kid that I want to get behind.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

But of course it's weird, you know, for me to try to rap, like, you know, but I really kind of dove into that. And then in college, I went to UC San Diego. It was a big Asian population. But there's also like a stoner surfer culture. So I remember I was like... I really got into like the stoner culture thinking that was mainstream America college kid that I want to get behind.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

But of course it's weird, you know, for me to try to rap, like, you know, but I really kind of dove into that. And then in college, I went to UC San Diego. It was a big Asian population. But there's also like a stoner surfer culture. So I remember I was like... I really got into like the stoner culture thinking that was mainstream America college kid that I want to get behind.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

And even now, I think... Like, inadvertently? I can't even talk today.

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Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

And even now, I think... Like, inadvertently? I can't even talk today.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

And even now, I think... Like, inadvertently? I can't even talk today.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

Sorry, English is my fourth language.

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Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

Sorry, English is my fourth language.

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Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

Sorry, English is my fourth language.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

You're fourth or fifth. Inadvertently, I'm still doing that. Where I... I am the commissioner of my fantasy football league. I watch every single NFL game. I love drinking a Coors Light on the weekend with my buddies or five or six, you know, just to be like really American. You know, I love very American things.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

You're fourth or fifth. Inadvertently, I'm still doing that. Where I... I am the commissioner of my fantasy football league. I watch every single NFL game. I love drinking a Coors Light on the weekend with my buddies or five or six, you know, just to be like really American. You know, I love very American things.

Fresh Air
Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

You're fourth or fifth. Inadvertently, I'm still doing that. Where I... I am the commissioner of my fantasy football league. I watch every single NFL game. I love drinking a Coors Light on the weekend with my buddies or five or six, you know, just to be like really American. You know, I love very American things.