Huang Xi’s social evaluation

It mainly focuses on immigration themes, and its English has a strong Chinese accent. His talk show is completely different from the gushing talk of blacks and whites in the United States, and has another kind of comedy charm - all the simplest words, with dull expressions and stiff movements, talking about things that require using your brain. Only those who can understand the dry humor. The most unique thing is that he uses pauses and silences to control the audience, allowing them to figure out the meaning of the joke during this interval, or this wordless silence itself becomes part of the performance. People laugh out of silence, which is something only a comedy master can do.

Amy Anderson, a Korean comedian who works on the Comedy Central channel and in many TV commercials, also said that most of the Asian comedians currently active in the national comedy circle in the United States are Korean, and only Chinese Americans are few and far between. "Perhaps Chinese people are more serious than Koreans," he said. She, who also knows Huang Xi, said that it is really interesting to show Huang Xi as a newcomer.

Having worked in the comedy circle for 12 years, she said that Asian comedians must work hard to break away from ethnic stereotypes and come up with their own style, otherwise they will be regarded as unoriginal over time. Be eliminated. "Professional Asian actors are often put under a microscope," she said, "There is such an unfair double standard in the American comedy circle."

Jimin Yu deeply agrees with this. , as a Chinese comedian, he often joked about his Chinese background in the past: "I grew up in a small town in Oregon, where there were only three minorities: a Chinese, a black, and a smart person. When I went When my white girlfriend rang the doorbell, her father opened the door, looked at me and said, "Sorry, we didn't order takeout from a Chinese restaurant." Later, Hollywood began to require him to use a funny Chinese accent to act, insisting not to be ugly. As a Chinese, he decided to change his own path and adapted the play "Paper Son" based on the bitter past of his father who was hit by the "Chinese Exclusion Act" and had to buy a birth certificate, which made people laugh after watching it. Tears' performance won him praise from talented people, and he was no longer just an "Asian comedian".

He smiled bitterly: "The American comedy circle is very harsh. What is funny is funny, and what is not funny is not funny. Regardless of ethnicity, innovation is the only way for comedians to survive."