Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once

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The British approach to food and alcohol is boom and bust. Like, you don’t drink anything in the week and then the weekend you drink so much you potentially commit a crime. And most of the week you eat very plain, gentle food, and on a Friday you eat a vindaloo and ruin your night. This, for Wang, is what he loves about standup. One time, after a gig in London, a white middle-class couple from Essex came up to him – and the comedians Pierre Novellie and Nish Kumar – and said they had enjoyed the show in the main, “but enough of the race stuff, eh?” Wang found the comment, and the ensuing discussion, enlightening. In Malaysia, everyone had talked about race all the time: that’s what happens in a country that is highly racially diverse, where the largest ethnic group – the Malays – make up only half the population. In the UK, where 80% of the population is white British, the subject can remain more of a taboo. For my money, the best noodles in London are at Xi’an Impression by the Arsenal stadium. They have really amazing hand-pulled noodles with big pieces of beef, but they also do really good dim sum and very cheap corkage. There’s something magical about clams cooked in a sauce of onions, parsley and white wine. It’s so easy, but it looks so impressive.

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Wang won the 2010 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award [14] and, in 2011, Comedy Central's Funniest Student Award. In 2012, he was president of Footlights at Cambridge University, where he did a four-year engineering degree. [15] Wang has since performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe [16] and at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. [17] In 2017 Wang appeared in the podcast series Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown and Do the Right Thing. [20] [21] Being a comedian, Phil obviously explores all of these serious topics in an amusingly wry way and occasionally covers funny topics in a serious way. But that's the life of a comedian I suppose. Gotta keep the reader on their toes. All this is given extra credence coming from an open-minded internationalist than an archetypal Little Englander, and typical of the fascinating, honest and sometimes unconventional personal take that defines the book. He wants an open conversation about race and says it always makes him feel more human when he engages in that. I really don't know how to describe this book, it is a memoir but it is so much more than that, it's an insight and analysis of what it is like to grow up between two cultures. Phil writes about some quite serious topics but it never feels preachy or judgemental and I think the expert use of his comedic experience keeps what could have been a heavy read, light and interesting. That’s not to say he shy’s away from difficult topics because he doesn’t, he talks openly and with sometimes potentially contentious opinions such as when defends the sitcom ‘Mind your language’ or when he talks about his opinion on cultural appropriation.Another one of my favourite Task Master contestants, and who I’ve enjoyed watching on Roast Battle, and various other UK comedy panels shows. And the very enjoyable podcast Phil Wang hates horror (which inspired my pic).

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Phil Wang, Alex Horne (4 September 2018). Phil Wang Interview Taskmaster S7 - Dave (Video). UKTV. Event occurs at 1:37 – via YouTube. Each and every chapter is beautiful as a stand-alone insight but together, they beautifully interweave to a colourful tapestry of "how to be from two worlds at once". Sidesplitter is non-fiction book by Phil Wang based on various topics. Although it’s definitely not a memoir as he makes very clear!I love this book so much. It has something for everyone and it’s the book I never knew I needed until I had it. It’s the book that you didn’t realize you needed until you have it in your hand. Do not let the heavy volume scare you. It is well written, draws you in as you read about the diversity of Asians in America and their struggles.