Comedian Bowen Yang's career skyrocketed after he landed a writer gig last year on NBC's nbcsnl Pride50
and entertains on comedy club stages. But in 2018, Yang returned to the halls of 30 Rock as one of the new writers on NBC's “Saturday Night Live.”
“I saw that there were people behind the scenes and working these very, very vital jobs in that system that were Asian,” he explained. “I thought going in that I had to have this very broad, very palatable sensibility that works for everybody," he said, “but then the stuff that I'm the most proud of, and probably even got the most success from, was outwardly an expression of queerness or gayness. That’s been a nice surprise."
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