Danwei interviews mainland-born stand-up comic Joe Wong, who recently made his debut on the Late Show with David Letterman:
Moser: So what possessed you to try stand-up comedy?
Wong: Well, I had always been interested in American pop culture. I guess if hadn’t been, I would have been better at my job as a scientist.When I was learning English, my teacher gave me a book on humor writing, and one of the articles was by Woody Allen. And it struck me as really funny. After that I started writing some articles for the campus newspaper, and one of them got published. And people started coming up to me saying “Your article is really funny,” so that was the first time I realized people might be able to appreciate my humor.
But not until 2001 did I realize that there was this art form called stand-up comedy. Before that I had never seen stand-up comedy, because I didn’t have cable TV until 2001. I graduated in 2000, and I began to go out with my co-workers, and one night we went to a stand-up comedy club in Houston, Texas.
Here’s Wong on the Late Show:
Happy weekend.
