Chinatown 2.0

Richard Yan

Chinatown 2.0 is a video podcast that interviews world citizens of Chinese heritage.Our interviews are long form, deep dive, rationalist conversations.Our guests are thinkers and doers, and come from areas of startups, finance, law, art, academia, et al.Some videos will be in English, and others in Mandarin.Host: Richard Yan (twitter.com/gentso09)

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Chinatown 2.0

Episodes (24)

Mar 24, 2023 Ep. 24: Comedian Olivia Xing discusses her Party School special, ESL comics and how to handle bombing on stage
Dec 13, 2022 Ep. 23: (Mandarin) Weibo co-founder Indigo on China's startup scene, NFTs, life in Japan/Vancouver
Nov 23, 2022 Ep. 22: Comic Peng Dang tells American jokes like a native, learned English from listening to rock

Chinatown 2.0

Mar 24, 2023
51 minutes
35 MB

Olivia Xing is an actress, standup comedian, artist and student based in LA, and she recently did a one-hour comedy special called Party School where she told jokes about China, the US, politics in both countries, and the immigrant experience. 00:00 Teaser 00:44 Intro 02:48 How Olivia got started with her Party School comedy special 08:19 Chinese debate show 奇葩说 12:12 How Chinese comics and rappers deal with censorship 16:26 Olivia's biggest takeaways from her comedy special 18:38 Richard's favorite jokes from Olivia's comedy special 23:29 ESL comics: English-as-a-Second-Language comics 25:13 Minority comics shouldn't pander to stereotypes just to get la...

Chinatown 2.0

Ep. 24: Comedian Olivia Xing discusses her Party School special, ESL comics and how to handle bombing on stage

Richard Yan

00:00 -51:07