Ken Jeong's standup is what happens when you grow up around white kids and never outgrow the "make self-deprecating Asian jokes about yourself to cope" phase
Your big joke is about how your wife's last name is Ho? You're not twelve, it's just misogynistic and self-Orientalizing now.
The trailer for "You Complete Me, Ho" is like a checklist for bad Asian American comedy:
playing up your parents accents for laughs ✅
dick joke ✅
Asian names sound funny gag ✅
Contrast with Hari Kondabolu's take on refusing to perform "otherness" for white laughs: "Sometimes people ask me, 'how come when you do impressions of your parents you don't use an accent?' And the answer to that question of course is FUCK YOU."
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