As any student of a foreign language knows, a lot of what’s being said in a conversation is really what’s not being said. Satire, as an style, takes this one step further: if communication is about what’s not being said, therefore, an article that really did say what a satirical article seemed to be saying […]

One of the funniest things about the last month has been that I never know what I will see in my e-mail inbox when I wake up in the morning. While usually I am dealing with spam from old clubs from Brandeis I no longer attend, I am now occasionally contacted by people who have […]

In April, when I was still in college, I received news that I would indeed be heading to China to study comedy and I took the chance to tell my professors of my plans, hoping we might have the chance to keep in touch if they needed a set of eyes in China for any […]

In the past few weeks, I’ve been getting calls from television stations around the country to do Laowai-Style related things—some of which I am doing and will post about soon! I had my first chance to visit with the people who make television here in China this afternoon. I went to visit a company called […]

Earlier this week, my friend Terry Hsieh asked if he could interview me for the video podcast for the publication World of China. Of course, I was happy to trek down to the Nan Lou area by the Drum Tower and answer a few questions about my project. In a trendy coffeehouse that offered wheels […]

Wow, it’s been a crazy few weeks! I apologize for the break in between posts, but it’s been busy. In the last twenty-something days, I have: ·      Filmed a show to be broadcast soon on Chinese television; ·      Travelled to Tianjin with my Xiangsheng troupe and watched my fellow students and my master perform, as […]

Laowai Style has really taken off! Firstly, I’ve been feature on China Personified, where I have been contributing the comedy blog for the last month or so. The founder of CP, Mable Chan, has been very supportive and is working hard on my (and CP’s) behalf to see if we can make something more of […]

IT’S HERE! LAOWAI STYLE IS OUT! CHECK OUT THE VIDEO! After the amazing time I had making “Laowai Style” last week, putting it online and getting a chance to show my friends and family the result of my work was reward enough. But after I posted the video and sent out emails to my friends, […]

Today, we filmed “Laowai Style” (Foreigner Style), a parody video of the famous Gangnam Style video that has caught fire across the world, China included. Our fourteen hours of shooting, travelling, singing, and dancing was the culmination of a week’s worth of effort wherein I prepared the lyrics, recorded the music, send the sound off […]

On Monday I joined in on a rehearsal of Bilingual Improv Group, or BIG. BIG has improvisers from all over the world, not only from China, but from New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and many other nations I’ve not yet been able to pin down accents from. Playing with them has been a blast […]