I was eating dinner at the Westfield mall in downtown SF the other day when I saw Bobby Lee. Bobby Lee! You know, of Mad TV. He plays every Asian character from Connie Chung to Kim Jong-il. You may have also seen him as an overeager college student in Harold & Kumar. I last saw him on screen in Chris Chan Lee's Undoing at the SF Asian American Intl Film Fest, where he had a brief role. He is 1/4 of the Asian American touring stand-up show and DVD The Kims of Comedy. (Not familiar with Bobby Lee? Watch this MadTV parody of Memoirs of a Geisha)
He sat down a couple tables away from me. I knew he was in town to promote his new movie Kickin' it Old School because Hyphen had an interview scheduled with him. I was way distracted from my meal (and usually it's hard to distract me from food) because I think he's hilarious. Just thinking about him kind of cracks me up. I thought about introducing myself to him. I guess I have an excuse since I'm the editor of a magazine, but I always feel lame about bothering famous people.
Anyway, there's a good story about Bobby Lee in Jeff Yang's Asian Pop column this week: Mad Man.
And stay tuned to Hyphen for our interview with him, coming soon.
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In non-Bobby Lee related news, I'll be speaking at Oberlin College this weekend for their heritage month celebration (which is a month early). They have a bunch of events scheduled through the month, which is themed "Arts, Activism and Asian America." I'll be speaking about ethnic media. Saturday, April 14th, 1:30 pm at Wilder Hall. Hope to meet some Hyphen readers there!
Posted by Melissa at April 12, 2007 10:05 AM
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