Oct 8, 2026 · 12 min · 12 segments
Comedian, Jo Koy, joined the show. He has a new comedy special "Jo Koy: Blue in the Face,"streaming now on Netflix. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy…
So, uh, the one thing that I know about you, uh, like the one, the, the one commonality that most people know about you is that you're Filipino.
Now, I don't know if you lived in the Philippines, and I know that Filipinos are not a monolith, so I apologize if this is an insensitive question, but I've been to the Philippines a couple of times, and I love it.
Beautiful people.
It's a beautiful country.
It, it's lovely.
But the one thing that stands out to me in my mind from being in the Philippines is, like, every meal, no matter what it was, including breakfast, had french fries.
And so I don't know if-
...
[laughs]
Hey, man.
D- d- keep your french fries.
Bring me a platter of lumpia, man.
I lived there when I was, like, from the age from 5 to, uh, uh, 11, so I was there for almost six years, and some of the best years of my life were, uh, living in the Philippines.
So o- o- one thing that I think is really great about comedy, and, and I've talked about this with a lot of people from different cultures, Hispanic comedians, Black comedians-
Like, the, your experiences, and I, I read a, a piece with you in Esquire and you were, like, really angry about somebody saying to you, "Are you gonna do another story about your mom?" But to me-
So, uh, the one thing that I know about you, uh, like the one, the, the one commonality that most people know about you is that you're Filipino.
Now, I don't know if you lived in the Philippines, and I know that Filipinos are not a monolith, so I apologize if this is an insensitive question, but I've been to the Philippines a couple of times, and I love it.
Beautiful people.
It's a beautiful country.
It, it's lovely.
But the one thing that stands out to me in my mind from being in the Philippines is, like, every meal, no matter what it was, including breakfast, had french fries.
And so I don't know if-
...
[laughs]
Hey, man.
D- d- keep your french fries.
Bring me a platter of lumpia, man.
I lived there when I was, like, from the age from 5 to, uh, uh, 11, so I was there for almost six years, and some of the best years of my life were, uh, living in the Philippines.
So o- o- one thing that I think is really great about comedy, and, and I've talked about this with a lot of people from different cultures, Hispanic comedians, Black comedians-
Like, the, your experiences, and I, I read a, a piece with you in Esquire and you were, like, really angry about somebody saying to you, "Are you gonna do another story about your mom?" But to me-
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