Phil Wang: I wouldn’t be a comic if I weren’t mixed-racePosted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Autobiography, Biography, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2021-09-12 23:43Z by Steven |
Phil Wang: I wouldn’t be a comic if I weren’t mixed-race
BBC News
2021-09-11
Helen Bushby, Entertainment and arts reporter
 Phil Wang says the face of “every Eurasian person I’ve ever seen sings with loneliness” |
Phil Wang, the stand-up comic you may recall for his viral video spoofing a Tom Hiddleston advert, has been baring his soul, or at least some of it, in his new book Sidesplitter.
Wang, 31, whose TV duties include Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and Taskmaster, insists it’s not a memoir, as his life doesn’t merit one.
“I haven’t escaped a gulag or revolutionised an industry,” he explains, adding memoirs are a “saturated market” anyway.
What he really talks about in his book of essays is the impact of being mixed-race, of being “from two worlds at once”.
But although it has its serious moments, Sidesplitter is eloquently laced with laughs and bittersweet observations…
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