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  • Hey everybody, I have some impressions for you all.

  • Okay, first impression.

  • That was a hot girl pooping.

  • Second impression.

  • That was the economy.

  • That's all I know about it.

  • And for my last impression.

  • Stop, guys, that was nothing.

  • No, stop, I've literally never done that before.

  • No, I spent a lot of time alone in my room learning how to do that.

  • Growing up, I was like, oh my God, oh my God, I can't be like every other Asian person.

  • So I forced myself to become every Asian dude from California.

  • I have so much racial self-hatred and like, of course I do.

  • In the United States, there is a critically acclaimed, widely taught children's book, I was forced to read nine million times, Tiki Tiki Tembo.

  • The first sentence of that book is, there once was a Chinese boy named Tiki Tiki Tembo, no saw Rembo, Cherry Berry Ruchi, Pit Berry Pembo.

  • No, there wasn't.

  • I have a Chinese brother, his name is Kevin.

  • And when this white author was confronted by it, she was like, "Oh my God, I'm so sorry, I don't speak Chinese. I just wrote down what I heard my neighbor say."

  • So we're going to do a group experiment, where I'm going to say real Chinese, and then at some point I'm going to switch to not quite Chinese.

  • But I won't tell you when, you tell me when.

  • (Speaking in Chinese) Hello, my name is Wu Junyi. I love eating watermelon.

  • (Speaking in Chinese) And I heard this book is called Tiki Tiki Tembo, No Saw Rembo, Cherry Berry Ruchi, Pit Berry Pembo.

  • I've told that joke a million times. You are the first group that has gotten it.

  • Obviously not.

  • So now I have this, now I have this complex where I'll do anything. I feel so bad about myself.

  • I'll do anything to get a white person to like me. Like I've learned crazy, like how to beatbox. Tell me, tell me, why the f*** do I know how to do this?

  • Thirteen? Thirteen years old, I could do this?

  • You want to know why?

  • It was to train for bar mitzvahs.

  • I was in a closeted, label-less relationship with this white Jewish woman, who a year into our relationship was like," I love you so much, you mean the world to me, do you want to be my squirrel friend?"

  • She said squirrel friend, because girlfriend was too scary.

  • And I, instead of being like, goth, I went...

  • So I don't have like a lot of gay pride. I have a lot of gay regret. I realized I was like transmasc.

  • Like last year, I identify as non-binary. I take they them.

  • And every morning I look in the mirror and I'm like, "Oh my god, am I seriously the same gender as Demi Lovato?"

  • And I'm just like complaining. When is the fun part of all this?

  • Because I tried coming out and that was, I was like, I came out to my dad, I was like, "Hey, I'm trans."

  • And my dad went, "Well, I'm driving!"

  • This moment could have really been about me, but it was really, it really became about him.

  • I was like, "You know, I'm thinking about taking tea."

  • And he went, "Oh, oh, you don't like your body? Well, well, do you think I like my face? Do you think I like my skin, my eyes?"

  • I had to pause coming out to be like, "No, dad, don't be sad. You're so sexy."

  • And then the whole conversation was him being like, "I wish you were normal," which is, sorry.

  • No, he does not. He never cared.

  • He did not care about me being normal.

  • When he let my Chinese grandma raise me, she taught me weird. I was very weird.

  • She raised... she would whisper in my ear at eight years old, she'd go, 'You want to know why white people are in wheelchairs?

  • Because those____ were shorts in the winter."

  • And she would say that to get me to wear at least two pairs of pants every day to school. Jeans over jeans. I was like, like the stiff legged freak.

  • Everyone made fun of me. You can't feel bad for me. I was a serial killer.

  • I'd walk in like, "You laugh at me now. We'll see who's laughing when one of us is in a wheelchair."

  • I've literally always been so cutthroat.

  • It's a problem. I'm in the world's worst rivalry.

  • In college, I took a storytelling class.

  • For a field trip, we went to a moth story slam. I performed.

  • A girl in the class went up right after me.

  • She won the whole thing. For the rest of the year, everyone was obsessed with her.

  • Everyone was like, she's going to be famous. She's such a good performer.

  • I said, "I'm the one who's going to be famous. I'm the good performer."

  • It's been six and a half years, and I'm... Look, JFL is a huge honor.

  • It's just that that girl is literally the United States Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman.

  • Canadians, if you don't know her, she was this poet who performed at the presidential inauguration.

  • And people sort of say that she united the country.

  • Michelle Obama said she changed her life.

  • She hosted the Met Gala. She's been on the cover of Vogue.

  • If she becomes a staff writer on Big Mouth, I'm telling myself!

  • You know, she's running for president in 2036. She's going to be president.

  • And she would say that in college. She'd be like, "You know, maybe one day I'll be the first black woman president."

  • I was like, "That's pretty confident. That's really confident."

  • Because when I was in college, my big dream, I was like, "Maybe one day I could be like an Asian Jack Black."

  • Anyways, do you guys think that when Malala got really famous, there was also someone in the back? Like, ugh!

  • I'm Serena Wu. Bye. Thanks so much.

Hey everybody, I have some impressions for you all.

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