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  • I was born in Hong Kong.

  • Any Hong Kong people?

  • Couple of us? Awesome, man.

  • For you guys that haven't been following the news, Hong Kong is a part of Japan.

  • I'm joking, obviously.

  • But I said the same shit in Kansas City, and people were like, really?

  • Wow.

  • We learned something new today, Bill.

  • I did a show in Kansas City, I don't know why either.

  • People are very nice in Kansas City.

  • I'm not gonna say they're racist or anything like that, but they're just curious.

  • They're watching me like they're watching an episode of National Geographic.

  • And a pack of giraffes just ran by.

  • And they're like, oh, never seen one of those in real life.

  • Looks majestic.

  • This one kid in Kansas City came up to me after the show.

  • Very nice kid. This is what he said.

  • He was like, Jimmy, thought you were really funny, man.

  • I don't mean to offend you.

  • That's when you know you're about to get offended.

  • He's like, I don't mean to offend you, but when I first saw your poster,

  • I thought you were gonna play the violin.

  • I was like, I do, motherfucker, just not right now.

  • Shit.

  • Keep it a secret.

  • See, I gotta say,

  • I got some of the nicest crowds in the business.

  • I rarely ever get heckled. And one time I was talking about how I used to play the violin.

  • Old Chinese lady sitting in the front just stood up and screamed out, first chair or second chair?

  • And I was like, thanks, ma'am. Fifth chair, actually.

  • Fifth chair. It wasn't very good.

  • It wasn't good.

  • I grew up very stereotypically in Hong Kong. I grew up very stereotypically in Hong Kong.

  • Like, my real name is not even Jimmy.

  • That's my English name.

  • My real name is Man Xing. In Cantonese,

  • Man Xing. It stands for 10,000 success. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • I have very ambitious parents. And now

  • I'm telling dick jokes and doing tai chi on stage.

  • Jimmy was just kind of like an arbitrary English name that just sounded easy. And my dad, he named himself Richard.

  • I was like, Dad, why'd you name yourself Richard?

  • He was like, because I want to be rich.

  • It makes so much sense.

  • And then they named my older brother

  • Roger after the James Bond actor Roger Moore.

  • Yeah, but my brother hated that name.

  • He was like, man, it makes me sound like an old white guy. So eventually he changed his own name to Roy.

  • So now he sounds like an older white guy.

  • And now his full name is Roy Roger, which is the oldest white guy to ever white.

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I was born in Hong Kong.

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