Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as

always for clicking and listening along. I am extraordinarily excited to bring in my conversation

today with SNL star Bowen Yang, one of the funniest, smartest, and most charming people you'll ever have the good fortune to sit down and have a conversation with.

He's come so far in his life.

I don't think most people realize he kind of burst onto the scene on Saturday Night Live.

Of course, he's had movie roles, including most recently a huge role

in Wicked and the second Wicked movie, part two that's coming out this Thanksgiving. But, man,

his parents are from China. They're immigrants to the United States. They actually went from

China to Australia, then to Montreal, and then to Aurora, Colorado in the suburbs of Denver,

where I think the breakdown in Bowen talks about it is he lived for only six months in Australia,

then he lived from zero to nine in Montreal, nine to 18 in Colorado, and then went to New York

to go to school, NYU. But always kind of dreaming

of performance, loved S&L. But his family, his father is from Inner Mongolia, literally grew up and

lived as a young man in straw in mud huts. Bowen Yang is one generation removed from that.

And he talks about his parents, who he loves,

but has a fraught relationship while he's growing up because he's gay. And that is not something

that his parents are ready to accept or come to terms with. And in fact, try to help him change.

You'll hear about that incredible part of the story. Always with a good sense of humor

about it. Just a really fun conversation. He's in a new film that is called The Wedding Banquet. It's a remake of a

1993 Ang Lee movie, and he'll tell you all about that. But obviously, we talk about SNL-50, what it was

like to be there, the 50th anniversary

as a guy who grew up loving the show and now was on the show to be surrounded by the people

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