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Jimmy O. Yang (performing a bit)

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675 total appearances

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

We do, and I keep telling him to take acting classes because naturally he's got great instincts and he's really charismatic. But he's like, I'm too old to learn, whatever. But I think there's a fear of him. He's afraid of failure. So he doesn't want to go take a bunch of acting classes and then fail. That means he's not good. So he just likes stuff that comes easy to him. And he loves to accolade.

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

In a way, I think he is... much more attention seeking than me and he loves taking selfies and being on you know social media i'm i had to make him put his instagram on private it was getting too wild um but but uh he loves all that stuff and in a way at first i found it kind of like i'm like man like he's like kind of overstepping into my world that i created for myself you know

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

In a way, I think he is... much more attention seeking than me and he loves taking selfies and being on you know social media i'm i had to make him put his instagram on private it was getting too wild um but but uh he loves all that stuff and in a way at first i found it kind of like i'm like man like he's like kind of overstepping into my world that i created for myself you know

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

In a way, I think he is... much more attention seeking than me and he loves taking selfies and being on you know social media i'm i had to make him put his instagram on private it was getting too wild um but but uh he loves all that stuff and in a way at first i found it kind of like i'm like man like he's like kind of overstepping into my world that i created for myself you know

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

Like what is this nepo daddy business? I don't like it. But now I'm like, if this is what's gonna make him happy truly, if a little bit of fame and recognition makes him really happy and he gets to be a part of my journey as well and I get to be a part of his, that's really nice. How many people can say they can do that with their father?

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

Like what is this nepo daddy business? I don't like it. But now I'm like, if this is what's gonna make him happy truly, if a little bit of fame and recognition makes him really happy and he gets to be a part of my journey as well and I get to be a part of his, that's really nice. How many people can say they can do that with their father?

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

Like what is this nepo daddy business? I don't like it. But now I'm like, if this is what's gonna make him happy truly, if a little bit of fame and recognition makes him really happy and he gets to be a part of my journey as well and I get to be a part of his, that's really nice. How many people can say they can do that with their father?

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

Like I did a Toyota commercial with him and we were out in the woods in Colorado And even just the four-hour car ride there from the airport and stuff like that, we share so many father and son stories that usually we don't get to talk about. So I felt that was, like, really nice. So I'm taking the good with the bad.

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

Like I did a Toyota commercial with him and we were out in the woods in Colorado And even just the four-hour car ride there from the airport and stuff like that, we share so many father and son stories that usually we don't get to talk about. So I felt that was, like, really nice. So I'm taking the good with the bad.

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

Like I did a Toyota commercial with him and we were out in the woods in Colorado And even just the four-hour car ride there from the airport and stuff like that, we share so many father and son stories that usually we don't get to talk about. So I felt that was, like, really nice. So I'm taking the good with the bad.

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

Like, I think everything else, like, if he wants to take a selfie with my co-stars or whatever, great. Let him do it. Who cares? He's not bothering anyone. But I think the father and son bond and that extra connection, you just can't recreate that, and I'm grateful for that.

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

Like, I think everything else, like, if he wants to take a selfie with my co-stars or whatever, great. Let him do it. Who cares? He's not bothering anyone. But I think the father and son bond and that extra connection, you just can't recreate that, and I'm grateful for that.

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

Like, I think everything else, like, if he wants to take a selfie with my co-stars or whatever, great. Let him do it. Who cares? He's not bothering anyone. But I think the father and son bond and that extra connection, you just can't recreate that, and I'm grateful for that.

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

I know. And I think to go back a little bit to Interior Chinatown, there's an unspoken love between family, especially Asian family members. But we don't ever say I love you. Like there's a scene in the pilot you see like Willis has such a strained relationship with his father. You can tell there's a deep love, but there's also so much stubbornness and stuff and the relationship has deteriorated.

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

I know. And I think to go back a little bit to Interior Chinatown, there's an unspoken love between family, especially Asian family members. But we don't ever say I love you. Like there's a scene in the pilot you see like Willis has such a strained relationship with his father. You can tell there's a deep love, but there's also so much stubbornness and stuff and the relationship has deteriorated.

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

I know. And I think to go back a little bit to Interior Chinatown, there's an unspoken love between family, especially Asian family members. But we don't ever say I love you. Like there's a scene in the pilot you see like Willis has such a strained relationship with his father. You can tell there's a deep love, but there's also so much stubbornness and stuff and the relationship has deteriorated.

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

And I think at times in my life, I felt like we don't talk enough and I can't get myself to talk about the sensitive stuff to my father. But now I feel like because we're doing this, I'm able to have more of an open conversation with him. And it's such a blessing that I think a lot of people would have missed that opportunity, you know, and myself included.

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

And I think at times in my life, I felt like we don't talk enough and I can't get myself to talk about the sensitive stuff to my father. But now I feel like because we're doing this, I'm able to have more of an open conversation with him. And it's such a blessing that I think a lot of people would have missed that opportunity, you know, and myself included.

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

And I think at times in my life, I felt like we don't talk enough and I can't get myself to talk about the sensitive stuff to my father. But now I feel like because we're doing this, I'm able to have more of an open conversation with him. And it's such a blessing that I think a lot of people would have missed that opportunity, you know, and myself included.

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

I think it's a comedy show, so it has to be funny. But I think to me, whenever the funniest happens, whether it's on stage or on the screen, it's when somebody said, oh, that seems so real. You know, it has to be based on authenticity.