Comedian Jimmy O. Yang -- whose Amazon comedy special “Good Deal” premiered earlier this month and whose Netflix series “Space Force” is slated for a release this week-- says that for him, this is where a dose of laughter comes in.
He said he’s aiming to shore up some levity and unity at this time, which can be a delicate, fragile task when racial humor is involved. If not deployed correctly, comedians risk reducing an entire community, who’s already dealing with a heightened amount of misconceptions, to a contextless, simple depiction.
Laughs come first, of course, but Yang said he isn’t ignorant of the value that prioritizing Asian American representation has, given the strides made in the industry. Asian American characters seemed to have become more vivid, as well, and Yang believes it’s got a lot to do with the louder voice the racial group now has in the industry. Yang’s “Silicon Valley” role, which had been accused of having little depth in the earliest seasons, gained its own complexity over the show’s six seasons, he said.
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