Jim Gaffigan's HILARIOUS Views on Asians!

I don't know and they're like, it's like fried tofu. I'm like fried and what diarrhea? I don't Jim that's disgusting Andrew don't talk about the hongdao son. Oh, man. How'd you know? I even wanted that Yeah, I mean fortune cookies are after all like some mystical Chinese genie So David that's not an aspect of Chinese food man that you're gonna defend, huh? America's Funniest Dad Jim Gaffigan has 20 minutes of Chinese jokes. That's a lot So we're gonna watch it through break it down. We're gonna see if it's funny insightful or maybe offensive Yeah I think anytime these gigantic American pop cultural icons have a lot of commentary on Asian culture or Chinese culture It is totally worth breaking down trying to understand what they were trying to say point by point joke for joke Make sure you like subscribe turning your notifications you watching the hot pot boys. Let's get in the first joke We need our food fast. That's the real appeal of Chinese food But Chinese food almost comes too quickly you're like, yeah, I will have oh there it is How'd you know I even wanted that? Yo, Jim Gaffigan does have a funny like Middle America every man dad delivery it does make everything funnier I mean long story short guys Everybody in the Western world, especially like older people is primarily only familiar with the Chinese takeout style Which is you know somewhat rooted in authenticity in the sense that Chinese do stir-fry a lot But that's like kind of coloring an entire cuisine with like a ton of different styles with just like one small subsection They happen to be particularly efficient and profitable for like foreign consumption, you know Yeah But I will give them credit that a lot of the Chinese restaurants that these people go to Probably serve primarily stir-fry dishes now this clip. I do believe is from 2008 So maybe since then Jim Gaffigan has had other types of Chinese food a lot more steamed braised You know soups and stuff. Well, it's sort of like saying, you know French food is just croissants and butter and it's like yeah for sure There's a lot of croissants and butter but French cuisine is also a lot more than that, too I prefer the Chinese restaurants that have the silverware on the table when you arrive because there's nothing more Humiliating than starting with chopsticks and having to turn to the waiter and be like, yeah I'm too white Do you have a shovel back there? Dude, it's referring to the spoon as a shovel is hilarious because Chinese people we do have spoons But more for like soup right and tongue but like man the shovel is really for like mashed potatoes And you know the funny thing is too. It's like and we're definitely not in Jim Gaffigan's like main I guess comedy show attending demographic, but it's still funny. Like the way he says that he's very talented I mean, I'll say this I Think in 2022 People who don't know how to use chopsticks are more just like struggling through it You don't I mean with the cross steaks or the knuckleball form But I do think it's a little different because back to the Chinese takeouts. They're so accessible It's either gonna be Mexican food or Chinese food for your cheapest real cooked food in America So like it's more accessible to a higher volume of people That means there's gonna be a higher volume of people eating Chinese takeout They don't know how to use chopsticks versus people Andrew at a $250 Japanese omakase They're probably gonna learn how to do it right like because it's just a different group of people Well also like do you want to be sitting in front of the sushi chef like not knowing how to use chopsticks? I'm embarrassed. I'm paying a lot of money for this I live in near Chinatown in New York cuz I'm Chinese Like most Chinatown's a lot of the restaurants in Chinatown have live seafood tanks in the windows And I'm always like do you want us to come in there are these sea monsters protecting your establishment? Cuz I a scare Yo, this is actually pretty funny Andrew I would never you know think to compare like the Loch Ness Monster and just like dinner I mean now that I think about it. Yeah, obviously some of the king crabs They do look kind of scary when they're just in the tank and they're literally this tall like in your face, you know But just growing up that's just more normal, you know, and then seeing the fish that close up So yeah, I mean to call them sea monsters is funny. It's funny Yeah I mean I think Jim Gaffigan is this like smart guy but still is very like Midwestern and a lot of people in the Midwest do not eat seafood like that so I could imagine a wall of it You know that they're showing which is by the way in 2022 not as common But I know it's like who's one-time King still does it? You know, you know, it just goes to show you like because everybody else is like wow, it's so fresh Look at it. The things is just in the window Think about it as a kid you walk in there with your parents and then you're looking at the tank and your parents are like Yeah, that's a good fish. Yeah, I would say that if you are like a coastal Asian for sure You are not scared of just picking one of those up like you would pick up a king crab from the back and you'd know How to avoid the pinchers and everything. He's just like man This came from 20,000 leagues underneath the ocean, but just I don't care Is it funny though that American seafood restaurants because there is a lot of American boils out there because you know They still eat so there's still a big coastline in. Yeah, but like they don't have them in the tanks That's different like they have them in the back Like there's something about being American where you're like, I don't show them all the food up front, you know But then again other steak restaurants would be like, oh, here's your piece of steak that you get to grill, you know Yeah, but they'll never like bring out the big-ass crab that you're about to even put it on the table No, it is true at Asian spots and or sometimes they might let it crawl around on the table. It's possible There is a weird sense of like yes, look at how alive this is and look how tasty it will be And I love Chinese food and I love the Chinese culture and I'm not just saying that because we're all gonna be working for them in six months David is America working for China ever since Jim Gaffigan made this joke Maybe like four or five years ago of you work at tick-tock or AMC or something like that Maybe um, Jim Gaffigan is really interesting Andrew because he's more like a minutiae like Seinfeld type of guy where he points out a little funny insights but this was a little bit more macro right like talking about the moves money and Treasury bonds and like a low currency which allows him to ship over goods and then US ships over US dollars and then they China takes the US dollars and buys more debt and Then theoretically China owns America's debt. The Chinese have an amazing culture. They do three thousand years ago They were doing brain surgery in China yet. They still haven't figured out dessert You ever go to a Chinese restaurant? I'm not talking about the fancy Chinese restaurant That is the tea ice cream that tastes like a pack of menthol cigarettes I'm talking about a regular Chinese restaurant where the dessert options. There's two right? There's sliced oranges. Oh Want to overwork the kitchen? Oranges what did a schooner just arrived from the Caribbean? Looks like our scurvies cured fellas. Yo, this was pretty funny, dude I'm so glad that he made this joke because I'm not gonna lie growing up at Chinese restaurants I thought the dessert game was weak, too I'm not saying there's there's there's restaurants out there now that offer Andrew don't talk about the home Don't saw man. I was not a fan of the red bean soup I I'm barely a fan of the sweet fungus soup. We just had that the other night. It's okay Listen, I get it. It's healthy. But yeah, it's not real dessert man like in the Western sense You know, what's the interesting thing? Is that like there are a lot of Chinese or Pan Asian dessert spots in 2022? But they really do not incorporate those into the banquet style restaurants. They're like hyper separated. Whereas Western restaurants they'll almost take like a dessert shop a pastry shop and Like a savory foods thing and combine it all into one in in the Asian world. Very very separate No, it's almost like uh, yeah, if you want a good dessert, you have to go down the street. They have a really good Mango dessert shop. Yeah, yeah Dessert shop. We will not be serving you that here. But here we just There's sliced oranges or there's the fortune cookie, which is not even a Chinese thing It's an American thing and we gave it to them and they're like we don't want it and we're like it's now part of your ethnic identity David Jim Gaffigan went off on the fortune cookie. That was a pretty funny bit But what did he get right and what did he get wrong? Okay, he did get right that they're definitely stale. I am NOT a fan of mass-produced Commercialized fortune cookies. It's not a legit dessert What he got wrong is that they actually come from Kyoto Japan in the late 1800s There was a cross-pollination between the JA and the Asian Chinese American community in like 1930s That's how it crossed over and I will say the one thing that's interesting Andrew because it is so Un-Chinese American to like really look into fortune cookies I noticed that sometimes white people even have more advanced rituals around them than we do Because what I remember one time I was eating with this white girl and she was like, you know I only eat the fortune if I like it then I'll eat the cookie cuz then it'll come true and I remember you like You know more about me then me. She was like, yeah I mean fortune cookies are after all like some mystical Chinese genie So, you know you crack it open you make a wish and if it's good, it'll happen Yeah, I'm sure Gwyneth Paltrow and goop could think of something crazy with the fortune cookie. The Chinese were very nice They were fascinated with my pale blonde children many of them wanted pictures with my kids they didn't really ask they just grabbed a kid Can I have a picture with this one? I guess you're gonna And when they were done with the picture they would rub my blonde kids head cuz you know, they're my kids But they're also lucky objects And after this happened a couple times I was like, hey we should charge, right Okay, so this is pretty funny if you've ever been to mainland China Andrew They do sort of exotic eyes foreigners and I would say overall definitely It's like a mixed bag but maybe it's more on the positive side in the sense that I notice a lot of foreigners really enjoy it like they like taking Photos with everybody or the tour groups even in America or obviously, you know villagers in China They're like pretty excited to meet somebody who looks very different from them Yeah, and I know that we tend to think that Western people whether it's white or black people traveling to Asia they get more attention, but I would say in a similar sense like if there was like a group of like Harajuku Japanese school girls walking around like any city in America. Some people would be like, oh, can I take a picture with you? Like this is something I've seen but I've never met this type of person I would say in America a little bit less so because you've been like exposed to everything But Andrew like you said harajuku girls or even like kpop looking guys going around Latin America I could totally see people stopping with them. Even if they weren't familiar with exactly who they were I mean these are just images of people that you've seen in media or read in a book or you've seen on TV or in a movie for a couple times In your life and then you finally see a person who is like that in person and they seem like a nice Person that you can have an interaction with so you want to take a picture But definitely I mean it comes from a lack of exposure. I would personally obviously Never do this myself. I could see the pros and cons, you know If I was an exotic looking foreigner in China But it's probably still better than the faces that people are gonna make to us when we come over to the West China was fascinating and exhausting. I brought my kids to the Great Wall. We saw the terracotta warriors We walked through the Forbidden City. We rode in a rickshaw and when we were leaving I asked my five-year-old I said, what was your favorite part of China? And he said I like that time. We saw the truck with the pigs on Because at one point we're stuck in traffic in this truck pulled up and it had pigs in cages That was his favorite part After the 15-hour flight And I remember when that truck pulled up because I remember looking at those pigs and feeling sorry for them But those pigs looked happy there. It was almost like the pigs were looking at me and my five screaming kids going Well, at least we're not that slob Long story short Andrew he is referring to the different I guess like Regulations or normalized practices around transporting livestock in China versus America. Yeah. I mean I have seen this I think in China I saw a stack of chickens on a back of a truck, but I will say the first time I saw Horses being transported in America I thought it was interesting when I was a kid because I just assumed that horses ran to the destination Like when they were getting transported like they would just like I don't know walk there I thought I didn't know they were gonna get transported in the back of like a truck Andrew I will tell you this one time and I'm sure that you know, there's regulations against it now I remember one time I was at a nightclub in China, like maybe 15 years ago and There was a tiger Doing flips on a bucket. They would never bring a tiger into a club nowadays Yeah, there was a tiger for the second anniversary of a new Beijing radio station Still remember it was that baby face. I've loved Asia. I wish I was Asian, but I can't get in that kind of shape Look at me. I don't know how you Asians do it. It doesn't make sense. What if we only ate rice and never gained weight? Let's do that That probably sounds racist because well looking like this everything sounds racist Comes with the skin complexion yeah, I thought this joke was funny because obviously he's referring to like kind of Asian metabolism and he's also using some self-deprecating jokes while also Acknowledging some of kind of the current narrative of like everybody being woke where he's like a white guy So any joke that he makes is gonna be like offensive and racist, right? Yeah, I think Jim Gaffigan is really interesting because Andrew he's like very schlubby looking on one side But he's actually super hyper astute and sharp on another side So it's kind of like an interesting combination. I will say this Andrew It is true that in Asia, especially maybe lower income people They're gonna eat a little bit of protein and veggies and a lot of rice particularly in China So there is you know some truthiness to just only eating rice, but obviously it's not true for everybody They also walk a lot out there I always try and sample the local food when I visit all these different countries in Taiwan I had a tea egg Which is essentially a hard-boiled egg that's cooked in tea. And now that that might sound gross, but it was It was very gross But it was the best alternative I was with my friend She was like you can either have the tea egg or you can have a thousand year old egg And I was like, well I can think of like a thousand reasons Not to have the thousand year egg So I started eating the tea egg a bit in and the yolk was green And it wasn't st. Patrick's Day or anything And I was like is this This is you know, cuz you know like some food when it turns green. I don't know that's concerning That's when you usually stop. I looked around everyone was continuing to eat their tea egg and I was like, you know what Taiwan? They got good medical here. Oh Okay, man, some Taiwanese people do not get triggered by the tie yet on the tea egg slander I actually think in a weird way Andrew the Taiwanese version has you know Like a lot of star anise the Hong Kong version a little bit more soy sauce braised. Anyway, that's semantics Let's not get into that Andrew the thousand year old egg that he's referring to that He refused to eat Andrew is actually an unfertilized duck egg that is cured with salt ash Clay and lime and that's actually how you get to this almost like ripe cheese blue cheese type vibe. It looks weird though Yeah I don't blame people for being weirded out by the color of the thousand-year-old egg at first obviously is not actually thousand years old But like the colors of the egg are literally just inverted So it's like if you go on your phone and you want to invert your colors to a black screen That's how the that thousand-year-old duck egg looks, you know the Pete Don But yeah, I mean overall guys, uh, it is kind of a weird egg It even like I feel like for even for kids it might take some time to get used to but it's kind of like chicken feet Like Feng Tao, it's one of those things where you appreciate it when you get older but when you're a kid, you're kind of like You gotta get at least a middle tier version to high tier version though Like a bad Pete Don is no good But now, you know, I didn't really like Pete Don when I was really young, but now I love it, especially with tofu Asian country obviously very complex and unique but like there's there's mysteries in all of them Right, you know like in Taiwan, you know They are Chinese people, but they it's the country is called the Republic of China But it's not China And they get angry there. This isn't China. We're Taiwan and we're Chinese Okay, okay Yo, man, I'll just say this it is complicated I don't even want the comment section to go this way or that way It's just complicated It's it's funny though. And I actually feel like Jim Gaffigan knew it was complicated So when he was writing the joke, he just said like 70% of the joke, but he couldn't really finish it So then he just left it at that and it didn't this is not the craziest Mike most mind-blowing insight Right. A lot of people have kind of said this over the years but I think for him to kind of craft a joke about it is funny and it's really impressive because I don't think he's like Spent his whole life studying China or Asia or anything He just like went there for like a month and just like thought of all this stuff So, you know very prolific very talented comedian Taiwan I had a Soup dumpling for the first time now and I heard that they're like we're gonna get soup dumpling and I'm like great All right, thought there was like soup with dumplings in it Nope It's a dumpling with soup in it Because you know who I think we're all were tired with Eating soup a normal way Right, you know, it's like well, how exhausting was that? Soup dumpling which I don't know who that's for. You know, it's like do you like dumplings and also burning your mouth? Because then you're gonna love our soup dumpling who I Don't even I I don't even think that was the initial idea like that was I think the person was given a Different assignment and like the boss came back and he was like I did I put all the soup in the dumplings If your dad didn't own this company, I Think it's funny that he was able to make jokes about soup dumplings. Obviously, I think anybody who's had one Thinks it's delicious. But yes, it can burn your mouth But it's funny for him to like delve into the back of the mind of like how they were created and and obviously that's not The even close to the actual origin story, but it is funny So I'm just gonna break down the XLB the Xiaolongbao right now Xiao means small long is referring to the small steamer basket and bao means bun and Traditionally in Shanghai where they were invented they like sort of are steamed in these like tiny little baskets Probably the most disgusting food item I've tried in Asia is the stinky tofu which is You know sure, you know, it's not for everyone It's like you have to really like tofu and enjoy the smell of a public restroom First of all calling it stinky tofu is like probably the biggest undersell I've ever seen That's not stinky that is like it's not stinky doesn't make you gag I don't know and they're like it's like fried tofu. I'm like fried and what diarrhea. I don't Jim that's disgusting. Oh man, yo Fried and diarrhea is a crazy way to describe it. I mean, this is a very polarizing dish I would say if you get it at the night market in Taiwan Obviously, it's a lower quality version if you get it at a restaurant It might be only 5 out of 10 stinky and 10 out of 10 flavor that you savor But it very very polarizing dish and even amongst other Asians I know at the 626 night market in LA Andrew. They removed it for a while. They had it with the The fans, you know to try to blow it away, but after a while they just gave up They're like, you know what man the sponsors they don't want this listen It's a jarring smell and I think that you have to eat a lot of it to fully appreciate it Even me I wouldn't like lean towards I'm not like looking forward to ordering it all the time, right? But man like it is dry it's not like a durian stinky It's next-level durians like whatever but like the the stinky tofu is I Don't know if that's one side of like Asian culture or Chinese culture or you know Whatever time when he's culture that I'm gonna be dying on a sword for are you saying you're not going to the grave? Defending stinky tofu. That's David. That's not an aspect of Chinese food man that you're gonna defend, huh? You don't want to stand up for it We all have hills in our lives that we're willing to die on but you're a limited you can't die on every hill Stinky tofu chou tofu not one of the hills. I'm gonna lend My soul too. There's an apparent shortage of napkins in all of Asia There is It's just a cultural difference. He asked for napkins in Asia and they're like so suspicious They're like it's like you asked for their pin code to their credit card or something. What do you need them for? I don't know wipe my mouth But that's just the Asians are better at eating, you know Westerners were just like, oh shoot missed my mouth again Whereas Asians are like I can do it with two sticks better than you You guys have a fork and you miss still I? Thought this joke was funny because he starts off talking about how there's a shortage of napkins in Asia Because it is true at a lot of Asian restaurants. So they just give you really thin light napkins or no napkins at all necessarily, uh or not a lot to start off with but then he flips it into using it against how Americans eat like You know very messy. So, you know, I thought that was a good like comedian trick Still some debate whether a napkin is a tissue in Asia too, right? You know like sit down at a restaurant they give you a box of tissues I'm like, I don't know I don't have a cold I was in Beijing sat down in a restaurant and look to the right. There was a roll of toilet paper Bad as the food here You know what? You're gonna need this You're gonna need a right here at the table Ironically went in the bathroom. No toilet paper Yo This story is actually pretty funny about having toilet paper given to you at the cheap restaurant on the table to wipe your hands in Your mouth Andrew and then him going to the bathroom in Beijing and it not having any toilet paper. I'm not gonna lie This is a very Beijing thing I wouldn't even say it's fully like Shanghai, but it's just like I could totally imagine a an astute funny Western eyes comedian Just writing like a hundred pages about Beijing in like two weeks Yeah, just the culture there Andrew. You kind of got to carry your own Kleenex toilet paper hybrid things with you, and I'm not sure exactly why that is but it is I mean, I guess I could see from a Economical standpoint, there's so many people in China that if they had like rolls of toilet paper I don't know maybe and this is more at like, you know, the middle and lower middle like stalls You know, like not any nice restaurants gonna give you probably everything you need nowadays However, you know at those type of restaurants. Yeah, maybe people will take the toilet paper or something or maybe a little wasted I don't know. There's so many like Practical reasons why they wouldn't do that and are you saying the toilet paper game in China's like not that deep? It's not that advanced man I don't I don't really see a big push for like Charmin extra soft for apply super cloud Technology for your butthole with lotion and people are about their toilet paper in the u.s. They got opinions It's weird, you know the squat toilet That's what it's called squat toilet, which is like no toilet It's like even calling it a toilet is dishonest. It's just a hole Right, that's where my adventurous I love cultures stops Like the whole toilet. I'm like, I'm out. I'm out. You know, I mean, you know it and I was like in Beijing And I was like, you know what? I'll wait. I'll wait till I get to Hong Kong. Yeah I'm just gonna I don't first of all, I don't know if I can physically do that I don't know if I can do that and I can't do that name. That's for sure You know, I mean it was just like it was too much Man one of the favorite things under about mainland China. It's the squat toilet I know a lot of expats really can't deal with it. You have to get you know in the Asian squat position Theoretically, it's actually more anatomically correct, but it's just I could see for Western people Andrew You know, that's why he said he's just gonna hold his poop until Hong Kong You know, that was pretty funny where he says, you know what? This is where I draw the line of I love to travel and I love to learn about different cultures So he's acknowledging listen guys, I love different cultures, but this is it man I got to go poop and I got to go poop the way I'm used to going poop I can't do this. I get it the first time I squatted. I didn't really like it You got to aim I have have I gotten some stuff on my pants before There's a learning curve. There's a learning curve and you do kind of have to be flexible Sometimes you got to hang on to the side. It's not my preferred way to poop I do think it's changing in 2022 for sure I don't think they're building that many more new squat toilets, but for show still around in mainland Hey, China's a very practical place So if they can build a squat toilet with less materials and less wastefulness and less building for cheaper You know cuz it's cheaper. I don't know. I see them doing it Yeah, the Beijing before the last time I was in Beijing There was a smog alert. So everyone was wearing the masks, you know, I was a lot of surgeons here You know, there was the masks, you know, you'll see you'll see masks for different reasons, you know They can in different countries, you know Like in China, they wear the mask because there's all the pollution in Korea. They wear the mask because of the Chinese pollution And Japan they wear the mask because they're crazy Yo, this one was funny because these are sort of stereotypes that you wouldn't think that like Jim Gaffigan would know about Just visiting Asia for like a few weeks, you know He's talking about the Chinese pollution in Beijing then that same Chinese pollution floating over to Korea I'm sure everybody in Korea super mad about it but they're gonna mask up to and then of course the Hilarious joke Andrew that everybody laughs at the Japanese people are just crazy all in all Andrew We did not even get a cover all of Jim Gaffigan's Asian jokes or Asian American jokes He had a whole special called the Asian American. We just mostly covered the Chinese ones Andrew Were they funny were they insightful or were they offensive? Alright, so on the funny scale I would rate it. I I laughed man. I give it a 5 out of 5 funny on the insightful scale I would say maybe 3.5 4 out of 5 It's wasn't mind-blowing insights, but the way he crafted some of the jokes was good. Obviously, he's a professional He's super rich and famous and he's one of the comedic his joke crafting ability and ability to be prolific is like a 10 out Of 10. Yeah, I mean and he's just prolific to make that many jokes about you know, Asian culture and not offend them Um, is it offensive? Yeah. No, I wouldn't say it was offensive really at all guys If you're offended by Jim Gaffigan, you're gonna be offended by all that. You don't even want to turn on other comedians then Okay, so I do appreciate that. He took the time to make the jokes. He probably consulted with people and He has a whole special called Asian American. That was so weird to see this, but he performed in Seoul Korea So is it weird that he like has not necessarily more insightful because the topics aren't super hard-hitting But like in a way more Asian material than some Asian American comedians I think it goes to show you man all you Asians out there. There's a lot of material in this we've been telling you guys that's why our channel is like 70% about Asian culture because I'm like guys There's a lot of intellectual property here to work off of and Jim Gaffigan sees it So I think if you're a funny person, there's just uh, there's just a lot of jokes to be had I definitely think all Chinese Americans who have like 10 minutes. It's worth watching like these great American pop cultural icons Analyze your culture from outside of perspective Obviously, it's coming from a narrow set of experiences and only the reps that they've seen Obviously, they haven't gone out and lived like everybody's life. But uh, it's definitely funny Please let us know in the comment section below what you thought of his jokes what you thought of our analysis And is this like a good way to like kind of like see how Western people perceive Asians? All right, everybody. Thank you so much for watching the hot pop boys. Please click subscribe Let us know if there's other videos or other things you want us to react to we might be watching other Comedians make jokes about Chinese people and let me tell you this They not might not be as nice as Jim was. Alright guys, so let us know what you thought Thank you so much for watching until next time we out. Peace