A biography for Bowen Yanghasn’t been written yet.
“I think there is gay comedy, because I think most gay comics are very very very in touch with that identity.”
“Podcasts feel about as accessible and ubiquitous as books or articles or anything like that.”
“I was fully burnt out - and in some ways I think that was good, because I was just fully numb.”
“Stop letting Grey's Anatomy' fool you into doing pre-med.”
“My dad every now and then will toe that line and be like, You could try women!' And I'm like Don't. It's almost an endearing kind of homophobia, if such a thing exists.”
“All heist movies are about gadgetry, ultimately, which feels very queer.”
“I was anticipating Animal Crossing.' I was an early adopter. And then I was really, really looking forward to it coming out even before lockdown happened. And then, of course, everyone sort of glommed on to it. And I embrace that. That's the whole point of the game. You want to build a community through this video game.”
“Yeah, I feel like every year there's some collective thought that podcasts just keep evolving and that podcasts are still just like the weird wild west of media.”
“There's this joke that Anna Drezen wrote for Melissa Villasenor, where Melissa plays every teen-girl murder suspect on Law & Order.' And there's this joke in there that is like, We stabbed her as a joke, but she took it the wrong way and started bleeding!'”
“Everything is telling me that I should not do this, and yet I still do it. That is nightlife for a lot of gay people and the worst thing nightlife can be, which is compulsory.”
“I think the sooner you take responsibility for what reaction you want to get out of an audience, the better.”
“I thought of myself as a very goal-oriented person. The more I've aged, the more I'm like, well, maybe I'm not that ambitious.”
“I was 8, and I was probably too young for it, but that's when I started to watch SNL.' That's when I got a sense of what American humor was.”
“When I go to Fire Island, it's always sort of the same thing. Everyone is coexisting, and isn't that nice? But also, the risk of people co-opting what is a queer invention is okay, as long as it's not for capital.”
“I wouldn't have been born if my parents had stayed in China. Which is kind of funny. But it also just kind of fills me with this existential dread.”
“Margaret Cho is definitely one of the people, like just watching or hearing her stand up back in the days when stand-up albums were pretty prolific. Seeing her in Carnegie Hall was pretty revolutionary for me to be like, 'Oh, this Asian person talking about her sexuality.'”
“I'm not setting too many expectations for myself. I'm just trying to create opportunities for something interesting.”
“You know, you might not think that Wigglytuff can, like, throw a thunder or lightning-type move at you. But, oh, just you watch.”
“If someone's personality is 'punch an Asian grandma,' it's not a dialogue. I have an Asian grandma. You want to punch her? There ain't no common ground, mama.”
“I spent freshman year trying straightness on for size and failing miserably.”