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Youve said that it takes a smart person to play stupid.
Im much more pensive than the internet has made a lot of people.
The certainty is a poison for me, like, Twitter especially.
So its more fun to play that as a stupid person.
Especially when you started, your act had a good amount of self-deprecation about your looks.
Ive struggled a lot with body-image issues because of the way that Asian-American men are viewed.
Its connected to masculinity as well.
I am not as confident as the person I portray myself to be onstage.
I still have a lot of fucked-up things going on in my head.
I usually go back to that frame of mind when Im thinking about something thats funny.
How can I mythologize this concept?
Im fine with that, but its definitely changing.
