{"id":61466,"date":"2021-09-12T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T23:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61466"},"modified":"2021-09-15T18:20:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T18:20:18","slug":"phil-wang-i-wouldnt-be-a-comic-if-i-werent-mixed-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61466","title":{"rendered":"Phil Wang: I wouldn\u2019t be a comic if I weren’t mixed-race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Wang: I wouldn\u2019t be a comic if I weren’t mixed-race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
2021-09-11<\/p>\n

Helen Bushby<\/strong><\/a>, Entertainment and arts reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Phil Wang<\/a> says the face of “every Eurasian person I’ve ever seen sings with loneliness”<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Phil Wang<\/a>, the stand-up comic you may recall for his viral video spoofing a Tom Hiddleston advert<\/a>, has been baring his soul, or at least some of it, in his new book Sidesplitter<\/em><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wang, 31, whose TV duties include Live at the Apollo<\/em>, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown<\/em> and Taskmaster<\/em>, insists it’s not a memoir, as his life doesn’t merit one.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t escaped a gulag<\/a> or revolutionised an industry,” he explains, adding memoirs are a “saturated market” anyway.<\/p>\n

What he really talks about in his book of essays is the impact of being mixed-race, of being “from two worlds at once”.<\/p>\n

But although it has its serious moments, Sidesplitter<\/em><\/a> is eloquently laced with laughs and bittersweet observations…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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