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How to American An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents

Jimmy O. Yang

Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's "I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I figured it was better to disappoint my parents for a few years than to disappoint myself for the rest of my life. I had to disappoint them in ord...

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Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

Yang's memoir was highlighted as his own written work; he said he read it quickly, found it very engaging, and described it as a lengthy book he rifled through in half a day.

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Later, a talk with comic and actor Jimmy O. Yang... and wrote the memoir How To American, An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents.

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Yang's memoir was highlighted as his own written work; he said he read it quickly, found it very engaging, and described it as a lengthy book he rifled through in half a day.

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Later, a talk with comic and actor Jimmy O. Yang... and wrote the memoir How To American, An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents.

I love reading books but I get distracted very quickly and I'm like oh man now I gotta read the script and the book that's a lot of pages but then I rifled through the book in half a day it was so engaging.

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His memoir was referenced as a personal account titled How to American, An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents, with a note that Mike Judge wrote an introduction for it.

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He has numerous standup specials and he wrote a book called How to American, An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents.

He's had numerous standup specials, and his memoir is called How to American, An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents.

Mike Judge wrote an introduction to your book, your memoir, How to American.

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