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  • I was born in Hong Kong.

  • Any Hong Kong people?

  • A 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 like they're racist or anything like that, but they're just like, curious.

  • Like 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, I've 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, I 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 lile "I don't mean to offend you, but when I first saw your poster, I thought you were going to play the violin."

  • I was like, "I do motherfucker. Just not right now. Shit. Keep it a secret."

  • See, I got to 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.

  • (An) 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.

  • It wasn't good.

  • I grew up very stereotypically in Hong Kong.

  • I grew up very stereotypically in Hong Kong.

  • Like like my real name is not even Jimmy.

  • That's my English name.

  • My real name is Man Xing. In Cantonese, Man Sing.

  • It stands for 10,000 success.

  • 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 did 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.

I was born in Hong Kong.

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