A New American Comedy Star-Joe Wong

when it comes to Joe Wong, you can't help but mention CBS? David Letterman Show? (The David Letterman Show)。 This show, known as the highest ratings of late-night programs in the United States, has made Huang Xi one of the hottest stand-up comedies in the United States.

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On the evening of April 17th, 29, Americans were surprised to see a completely strange Chinese face appear on the Letterman show. He was quiet, short, with a slightly stiff expression, stiff movements and glasses. His mouth was typical Chinglish, which was in line with everyone's stereotype of China immigrants who came to the United States with the background of international students. Then, he waved timidly and opened his mouth. Hello, everyone, I'm Irish. ? The audience burst into laughter, and Letterman couldn't keep his mouth shut. This sentence made a good start, which made the audience accept Huang Xi at once and also opened Huang's humor.

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After less than 6 minutes of performance, Huang Xi shook one package after another, and the laughter and applause of the audience were endless, and the atmosphere was extremely warm, so that the eccentric Letterman could not help but walk to the front desk and shake hands with Huang Xi again and again after the performance, and congratulated him repeatedly in front of the camera and the audience. The video of the performance has been viewed more than 48, times on Youtube.

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Since then, Huang Xi's performances have been invited continuously, and there are almost weekly interviews with the media in the United States and China. He went to the famous twice in succession? Ellen Show? (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) and achieved success, in San Francisco? Shake the baggage? The Punch Line told jokes for an hour at a stretch, and he went to L.A. on behalf of Allen? Music awards ceremony? Interview and amuse red carpet stars. On February 15th, during the Spring Festival in China, Huang Xi will participate again? David Letterman Show? The recording, the program is scheduled to air on the 19th.

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and what is more expected is that Washington should? Association of Radio and Television Journalists? (The Radio Television Correspondents? At the invitation of the Association, Huang Xi will be the only comedian invited to perform jokes for President Obama and media representatives across the country at the Association's annual meeting in March this year. If these 15 minutes can be as successful as the Letterman show, Huang Xi will undoubtedly become the darling of the main streaming media, dumping comedy stars all over the United States.

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Before Huang Xi became famous

After Huang Xi became famous in World War I, his personal information quickly spread on the Internet, and he was introduced in detail on large information websites such as Interactive Encyclopedia and Wikipedia. In addition, readers interested in Huang Xi can also visit his personal website to inquire about his performance information. Huang Xi's latest performance will be held on February 12th and 13th before Valentine's Day and China New Year in Boston's old Cheers Comedy Club.

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In 1994, Huang Xi came to Rice University to study for a Ph.D. in biochemistry, and began to experience American humor at close range. It was also from that time that he tried to write and published some jokes, and conveyed the ridiculous, sad and deplorable stories that foreign students generally experienced but rarely expressed to the mainstream society in a humorous, self-deprecating, ironic and thought-provoking way.

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In 2, Huang Xi got a job in a biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and engaged in cancer research. In his spare time, Huang Xi began to pursue a very attractive and distant dream? Become a comedian. ? There has never been a shortage of China people in academic circles, but there is no voice of the first generation of immigrants from China in comedy circles, which has become a famous saying of Huang Xi. First, he attended one? Joke writing training class? , come into contact with the comedy circle in Bo. Then he collected jokes and kept creating, and finally got a chance to stage in the club in 22. During the first five minutes of performance, he was a little nervous, spoke very fast, and had a serious accent, which made the audience confused. However, he kept summing up and improving, and finally reached the final of Boston International Comedy Festival in 23.

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There are thousands of people telling jokes in clubs, bars and theaters every night in this country, but few of them can last for three or five years. Huang Xi had setbacks and valleys, but he persisted. Slowly, he won the recognition and welcome of the audience with his unique style and stood firm in the Greater Boston area. After three years of comedy performance, that is, in 25, Huang Xi finally waited for the noble people in his life.

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In that year, Eddie Brill, a talent scout of Letterman Show, watched Huang Xi's performance and thought it was something that could be made, so he asked Huang Xi to send him some personal information and videos of the performance, and there was no news from him. For another three years, Huang Xi insisted on telling the audience about his interesting stories and discoveries as an immigrant, husband and father, and Brill reappeared in 28. This time, he thought that the time was ripe for Huang Xi to appear on the Letterman show. Under the guidance of Brill, Huang Xi arranged several selected jokes in a certain order to make them more rhythmic. As a result, on April 17, 29, Huang Xi made a blockbuster on Letterman show and laughed at all sentient beings.

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Looking back on the seven years that he has gone through on the road of performing arts, Huang Xi said that there are no know-how and shortcuts, but only hard work and persistence. Over the years, he has maintained the habit of recording interesting things and inspirations at will and creating them immediately. He quoted Jerry Seinfeld, a famous comedian, as saying: If one of the ten jokes makes the audience laugh, it will be a success. Huang Xi himself has accumulated hundreds of successful jokes over the years, which shows his rich creation. Years of performance experience also enabled him to walk on Letterman's stage calmly and confidently at the critical moment, which was not very nervous because he was sure that he could finish the speech smoothly.

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Huang's humor

Many people think that Huang Xi's long pause and innocent expression between shaking the baggage are a carefully arranged comedy effect. He said that this is related to the atmosphere at the scene. Some people understand the meaning as soon as they listen, and they laugh when they open their mouths. Some people have to react for a while, and then they laugh.

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Anyone who has seen the video of Huang Xi's performance can feel a unique style. Huang's Western-style humor has no dramatic movements, exaggerated expressions and props, so it can be said that there is no form. The essence of Huang's humor lies in the content. The real struggle, mental journey, difficulties and discrimination faced by Asian immigrants are not well known or concerned by the mainstream society. Now, through Huang Xi's excavation, collection, arrangement and creation, these eternal bits and pieces have attracted the attention of the American people with a brand-new look and aroused their interest in understanding.

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Humor requires the courage and ability to laugh at yourself. Huang Xi's jokes are full of self-mockery, but this is not a means to please the audience by belittling yourself. Self-mockery is a sign of maturity. Huang Xi cited the course of black comedian to prove his idea. Black people make jokes about the discrimination they suffer, so that the mainstream society can understand their experiences and inner thoughts, and thus get sympathy and more fair treatment.

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As a comedian with high IQ and high education, Huang Xi's baggage shakes with wisdom, which means a bit of a brain teaser. For example, who is Benjamin in the immigration exam? Franklin? Huang Xi's reaction is: Ah, he is the reason why the store in our community was robbed (there is a portrait of Franklin on the hundred-dollar bill). What is the Second Amendment to the Constitution? Huang Xi's reaction is still the same, but the implication is different (the amendment guarantees the right of citizens to hold guns). Those who reacted were amused and laughed, while those who didn't, of course, didn't know the mystery of American life.

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in Huang Xi's view, telling jokes and shaking the baggage is an evocative intellectual game, so he doesn't agree to compare him to American? Small Shenyang? . Although there are many stories and jokes about China immigrants, they are all American jokes, a tradition from Mark Twain, full of wisdom, thinking and irony. Besides, there is something about Woody? Allen's rambling temperament is quite different from the domestic stand-up comic dialogue in which operas and songs are often played. Maybe Zhou Libo, who was a smash hit last year? Haipai qingkou? It is more in line with Huang Xi's American jokes.

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Huang Xi is still struggling to write more jokes, and more and more performance invitations make him feel pressure. Whether he will be engaged in comedy full-time in the future is not clear to Huang Xi himself. After all, he has a house to provide and a child to support. Facing the reality, he has only two efforts. He is one of the thousands of China people around us in Qian Qian who are pursuing the American dream. His dream is very unique and once out of reach, but he is getting closer and closer to that dream step by step, which is what makes him different. I am glad to have such an opportunity to sit next to a warm and interesting person and chat about a realizing legend in ordinary life on such a cloudy and snowy day. This really ugly but impressive person not only let the American people, but also let us know that we can be so silent, but we can also be so humorous.