00:00Last year?
00:01Remember our host, who shall not be named?
00:03Shall not, and I want to.
00:04Shall not be named.
00:05He kept on bringing all of the women up as this next female.
00:10Get ready for the female.
00:12This next comic is a lady.
00:15Is a female.
00:15Put your hands together for a lady.
00:17Here she is.
00:30How was last night for you?
00:31Oh man, it was a dream.
00:33It was so fun, yeah.
00:35Babies like me, because babies think that I'm just a sneaky ass baby.
00:45It could be a stranger's kid, screaming, crying.
00:47I walk into a room, my baby's like, wow, whoo, look at you, walking around here all unassisted.
00:59That was my first taping.
01:01Yes, congratulations.
01:02Thank you very much.
01:03Congrats to you.
01:04That's a good credit too.
01:05You added your first little Comedy Central thing.
01:07I know.
01:08I know.
01:09Yeah, yeah.
01:10And these two white women tapped me on the shoulder, and I turned around, and they go,
01:14where are you from?
01:15Like, where are you from, from?
01:19And so I looked them dead in the eyes, and I said, in a land so far away, where everyone
01:30looks the same.
01:33My home, I yearn to see pussy willows, tickle trees, snowy flakes, south of the moon.
01:43I hope this song will bring you to Erie, Pennsylvania.
01:54What was your first time on stage?
01:56I mean, I came from a, like, very randomly came from a family that did a little bit of
02:03showbiz.
02:03Interesting.
02:04When my sisters were like five or six years old, they entered them into a mall talent
02:10show competition.
02:11That's right.
02:12That's right.
02:13Classic refugee story.
02:15Enter them into a mall competition.
02:17You know?
02:17These cute kids.
02:18Let's put them to work.
02:19Yes.
02:20And it was a very, like, white suburb.
02:22So these two little Vietnamese girls, dressed in matching dresses, singing Frere Jacques in
02:27Vietnamese, blew people's minds.
02:30Yeah.
02:30They were like, this is talent.
02:32So much culture.
02:33So many new point of views.
02:34Oh, my God.
02:35So they started putting me into photo shoots, and I loved it.
02:39It's fun.
02:39When did you first know you were funny?
02:41I watched a ton of Martin Lawrence stand-up when I was a very little girl.
02:45And I definitely remember picking out personality traits.
02:48Like, a comedian is confident, and they're a good public speaker, and, you know, they're
02:53good storytellers.
02:54And I just remember saying, I can do this.
02:57I'm not going to tell anybody for 20 years, but I could maybe be one of these comedian
03:02people, you know?
03:03Like, I remember I did.
03:04You really didn't tell anyone?
03:05No.
03:05Like, this was just, like, your little...
03:08I remember internalizing it, really having that epiphany, and still feeling the fear
03:13of, but if you tell people, they're going to dissuade you.
03:16I think for my parents, when I came out as a comedian, they were like, that's fine.
03:22You already came out as gay.
03:23We're like, there's so many other things we need to worry about right now.
03:26We've been through it.
03:27We've been through it.
03:28It's nothing.
03:29Tell your little jokes.
03:30Yeah.
03:33I brought something from my childhood.
03:37Ooh, I see stickers.
03:38You see stickers.
03:40You know how you, like, wrote notes to each other and would just, like, leave them and...
03:43Yeah, fold them up into a crazy thing.
03:44Yes.
03:45Yeah.
03:45We didn't do that.
03:46We wrote in a notebook that we would pass back and forth to each other.
03:50That's not very secure.
03:51No, and I ended up with it, which I'm so thankful for.
03:55So I wanted, I'm going to share with you, this is what I like to call my gay breadcrumbs.
04:01Mm.
04:02Because when I look back on my childhood, there were so many moments where I was like, oh,
04:06you're so gay.
04:08Oh.
04:09But at the time you didn't...
04:09Why didn't anyone tell you?
04:11But at the time, no idea.
04:13Just writing love letters to your friends?
04:15Yes.
04:16Casually.
04:16Best, this is my best friend.
04:17We played soccer together.
04:18We had sleepovers together.
04:19Yeah.
04:20Um, not going to name her, but hi, good to see you.
04:23Um, this is one of the, this is one of the notes that I wrote her.
04:27I hope we get to do something this weekend.
04:30I want to take you out to dinner.
04:32Wow.
04:33I'm in fifth grade.
04:34And then we could go see Charlie's Angels.
04:37Wow.
04:38The most gay thing you could go see.
04:40This is classy though.
04:41Eat, sit back, and watch some girls kick ass.
04:44Cool B-Day.
04:46Hey.
04:48I didn't want to like be so aggressive.
04:50So I love that I'm just like, eat, sit back.
04:53Look, we're just two friends sitting on each other's laps at the movies.
04:58Oh my God, I wish.
05:00Yeah, I know.
05:00I hope she sees this.
05:01I hope she sees this too.
05:02And I hope she's like, I did want to see Charlie's Angels.
05:06Oh my gosh.
05:09I want to show you one of my favorite books.
05:11I read this book by Steve Martin.
05:13It's called Born Standing Up.
05:14And I read it after the first time I bombed, which was at a comedy club.
05:18The first time I ever got booked at a comedy club.
05:20And when I tell you I bombed, I mean it.
05:22I bombed.
05:23There was silence.
05:24I got one laugh throughout the whole set.
05:26I remember it was a lady.
05:27And she laughed at an act out I did where I was pretending to dig.
05:30And just I started digging and she was like, that's funny to me.
05:33And nobody else laughed.
05:35And I got off stage and I felt so defeated.
05:38I had been in comedy for about a year.
05:40And so I went home and I read Steve Martin's book.
05:42And if you look in his early career, he mostly just bombed.
05:45And learned to bomb.
05:46It's such an important thing to learn.
05:49To get comfortable in that silence even.
05:51Yes.
05:51It's power.
05:51To be like, it's alright, I'm comfortable in this.
05:54Tell me about your pictures.
05:55Like what is this?
05:55Okay.
05:55These are like childhood photos?
05:57I mean, as you know, I used to be a little kid.
06:00A child star.
06:02A child star is strong.
06:04I like it though.
06:05And these are cut out from catalogs.
06:08I'm dressed like I'm ready for the island.
06:10And the island is having an Easter party.
06:12Yes.
06:13Well, I wasn't a child star, but I did hate my hat.
06:17So this is me.
06:18I think it's like Easter, maybe when I was four.
06:21And just a little baby Chanel.
06:23She just was very sure of herself.
06:25She just knew, I don't need this hat.
06:27I mean, I'm gonna wear it, but I don't need it.
06:29You know?
06:32Before I get on stage, I always try to like,
06:35lab magic, labia majora.
06:37Just like, go out there with your big lips,
06:39and take ownership of the stage.
06:42Big lip energy.
06:43It hasn't taken off.
06:45It's about to.
06:46I've tried to share it with several people,
06:48and they're like, okay, cool.
06:49And that's how you know a mantra is good though,
06:51that not everybody gets it.
06:55You don't have to do.
06:55I can't.
06:55You're just like a little girl.
06:56Go.
06:56Go.
06:56Go.
