you know our next guest from Silicon Valley from crazy Rich Asians and now his new series it's called interior Chinatown it premieres Tuesday on Hulu please welcome Jimmy [Applause] [Music] oang how are you good to see good to see you did you bring a gift for my parents uh no but I brought my parent here as a gift for you oh you brought your dad my dad is here Dad is here hi Dad how are you does your dad um go with you to a lot of things yeah he actually became an actor uh I
put him in an episode of space force he was right opposite John malovich just crushed it he actually was uh krie Washington's dialect coach on one of her shows is that true yeah so if you guys Hollywood anybody is hiring a good uh Mandarin looking to hire a good Mandarin dialect coach you can call Richard oang I'm his agent do they come with you uh to like do they go on tour with you your parents at times you know yeah you like that when they're on tour with you well you know my dad loves to
take a lot of selfies so sometimes uh they get that gets a little overwhelming he like harass a GMO backstage for oh that's all right GMO GMO likes that it's fine yeah he was fine I like him too he's a nice Dad oh so your dad will come to a set or something like that and then take pictures with the actors yeah yeah oh okay and you don't love that well it's it's okay but I like to be the center of attention well sure yeah sure who wouldn't be your uh tour is called the Big
and Tall tour yeah is that are you plugging some kind of like um like plus-sized men's uh clothing where I shop every day yeah no I just feel like it's like a very distinctly American thing to have like big and tall stores and I never feel like I fit in in this country like even the smallest size I'm swimming in it this is a children's extra large right you know I don't know why they don't make like uh you know like like like small people clothes for me you know like they should have a store
instead of big and tall called like short and cute I'll sh short and cute would be a nice nice store come on yeah yeah that is I never thought of that so they don't have big and tall stores in most other places I don't think so I think regular American cloth is already big and tall for most people gotcha yeah on Saturday you were at Carnegie Hall you had a soldout show at Carnegie Hall that's a big deal thank you it was really cool it was really cool it was the first show on the tour
and we actually we sold out two shows at Carnegie Hall two shows wow it was an incredible experience and like everyone from New York came out a lot of Asian people their first time at Carnegie Hall too I was probably the only Asian that didn't play an instrument to play at Carnegie Hall that's interesting you know it's Yas long long and then me you know and how did it go it was awesome man the crowd was electric and I think I made some history the first first line I said when I got out on stage
uh in Carnegie Hall was in canones I saido in canones which means your mother pretty sure I'm the first one to say that at Carnegie Hall congratulations yeah thank you thank you thank you you sure did you look into it cuz it's possible that I don't think Yo-Yo Ma I I don't know he does the yo-yo mama jokes but never he doesn't get that he doesn't get that blue with the material yeah uh take it this is a show for adults only yeah um coule of my friends they want to come uh they want to
bring their kids while like 9 and 11 but it's like a PG-13 show there's some cursing um so I'm like I'm sorry you guys can come but your kids can't come and then halfway through my set a baby started crying in the back and then now I'm like well first of all who brings a baby to a comedy show it's weird right and bring baby like movie theater it was super weird and now I also look like a liar in front of my friends telling them there's an age limit apparently isn't so how long did
the baby make noise for a while uh and then they finally had to usher the adults with the baby out not just a baby they just a baby the adults didn't take it upon themselves to get up and leave the theater when chilling they were like oh we're making the show funnier he's making fun of our baby H you know I got to tell you for you know on one hand yeah it's annoying on the other hand for those people to go like hey we don't have a sitter for our baby but we still want
to go see Jimmy yeah that's I mean those people will probably love you very much it's it's it's very special very nice it's that little bastard of a baby they have that didn't like the show shouldn't have never had that baby maybe the baby was drunk is that possible probably yeah yeah yeah the baby was upset about the canones joke I'm pretty sure yeah do people get a refund when their baby interrupts the show and then they get thrown out um I hope not I hope not I hope that'll come out of my pocket I
hope not and the guy was like still like when everybody was leaving the show they were like oh the God the baby's still there in the lobby parading his baby around like hey I'm the baby guy like dude so he was pretty happy with himself yeah he became the famous baby guy in my Carnegie Hall show did you meet him or no no I don't I don't care he tagged me on like Instagram and I'm like I'm not going to respond I get encouraged this kind of behave your dad didn't get a selfie with the
baby or anything so hey I I first of all congratulations on interior Chinatown this is is I know based on a book right is a big thing thing you're the star of this show yeah which is huge do you feel like did you feel cuz you've been like the supporting guy in most of the stuff that you've done yeah yeah does it carry extra weight pressure whatever when you're the star of the the whole production it does it does but I feel like every role has prepared me for this cu the show is about this
guy who's stuck in the background of another Law and Order type TV show and he doesn't know it so I'm the lead but I'm actually playing a background actor you know like an extra uh so all those roles and then he graduate from like an extra to like the generic Asian guy to like a tech guy which are all little roles I've played before I was Chinese teenager number one once you know one of my best roles and then of course I was Tech Guy in Silicon Valley so you know like all those roles finally
prepare me for Willis and you know but yeah I was kind of nervous I I did a lot of preparation myself and what kind of preparation did you do um so Willis he he's never left Chinatown he's he's he's always lived in the SRO sharing one bathroom with his whole hallway like pretty tough life you know so I want to kind of kind of you know inform myself of that again so I went out and I bought like a $1,500 Toyota Corolla you know so I can take it to set to see how Willis feels
that's probably the kind of car he would drive right so like kind of method acting type of thing where you're embodying the character yeah yeah yeah yeah and um yeah method acting with a Toyota Corolla um and and the car was so crappy that you know in your gear shifter you says like d n and like R for like reverse this doesn't have any letters so first of all you got to crawl in from a passenger side and you got to just hope you're not going in reverse you got the right way just going the
right way right yeah cuz it's not like a garbage truck where you hear beeping when you're in Reverse no there's there's no sound in this car whatsoever did you did what I mean did that seems unsafe yeah um so I took it on a lot like the first day first of all they they wouldn't let me in cuz to what the where like like to to the Fox Studios where I was shooting the show uh and I'm the lead a show and then I'm like I'm sorry if my name doesn't perfectly match my ID they're
like yeah yeah just just just go away you know somebody know said like I am the lean of this TV show and then she was like no you're not okay like not not in that Toyota Corolla but that was good that that informed like probably how Willis feels every day right so it was a good side and then on the way home I made a left turn on dhini here and I'm not used to how loose the brakes are in this car and I just tapped this Tesla in the back like fully got an accident
and then the guy pulled over he couldn't be more Angry got I was like yo what the you know why why'd you hit me what's going on and I'm I'm so sorry I'm an actor studying for a role right now and uh the brakes on this car is not great right and he was he was like so angry and they looked at me for a second was like yo I know who you are and I'm like no this can't be happening right now and he's like I know who you are you you yeah you're that
actor comedian guy you telling me he driving that bucket right now I'm like I'm telling you it's a research for a role you know I'm so sorry just let's exchange insurance information let's get over this he was like no no no it's okay you know my car is actually not that bad I'm like oh wow that's nice yeah and he was like actually Jimmy um I'm a comedian so if if you just let me open for you uh we can forget all about this you know and I'm like sure and I took his number down
oh um and I've never called him back well he's so angry watching this right now imagine yeah he got rear ended and now this yeah yeah the men text me like once a month you know and I have I have no respond well if you go see Jimmy on tour and the uh opener is not funny at all that's probably why his show interior Chinatown premieres November 19th on Hulu thank you Jimmy oang everybody will be back with the red CR [Applause]
