JiZO J:
YO!!! wasssssssssssssap Justkiddingfilms!
What's really going on homies? How y'all
doing today?
Joe: Im doing very delicious
Bart: I’m doing just fine, my good man.
JiZO J: Please tell us a little bit
about yourselves? Where did you guys grow
up? Where do y'all reside now? Do you
guys have a real name besides Unco Chin and
Unco Sam?
Unco chin = Joe Unco same = Bart
Joe: we grew up in the same city but didn’t
meet till college. Right now im in Monterey
park.
Bart: Yea, we even went to the same college;
and we’ve have had the same homies but we
just never really kicked it until
afterwards. I live in west LA now.;
JiZO J: I know the whole entire Asian
American world is trying really hard to find
out what's your actual ethnicity? Hahahaha,
can you give us any hints?
Joe: haha actually this issue goes deeper
then just plane curiosity. I’d like to first
ask all the people who are dying to know,
why does our ethnicity matter? We want to be
known for what we do instead of what we are.
Bart: Plus, if I told everyone that my mom
is black no one would believe me.
Joe: yea….. people have to check themselves
and think about why our ethnicity matters,
its not that we’re not proud… its just going
to be used for negative purposes and what we
want to do is unify the Asian American
community, not divide it by making other
people feel left out for not being our
ethnicity.
Bart: I don’t want people to feel left out
that their mom isn’t the same ethnicity as
mine.
Joe: u wish my testicle was yours!
JiZO J: Anyways, what influenced you
two to get into comedy?
Bart: Honestly, it’s the world. Everything
that we see in life, we see humor and irony
in things. Everything can be viewed
optimistically or pessimistically, and I
think just by our own nature we always see
the brighter side of things. Sometimes it
might seem like we don’t take anything
seriously, but in actuality, we take life
seriously enough to not take it too
seriously. If you know what I mean. Don’t
quote me I just copied Confucious.
Joe: one day as I was jacking off on the
internet, I started to see the comedy in
everything I did… until I made an explosion
from my nut sackaries, I understood that I
just had an epiphany…. But nah forreal
though. I don’t think there was ever a set
time we got into comedy because it’s just
that we’ve always been doing stupid shit.
JiZO J: How long have you guys been
comedians? Are you guys thinking about
making this an actual professional career?
Bart: Been comedians? I’m not too sure. I
like to think of myself as a philosophy and
pornstar put together.
Joe: Hahaha we don’t really view ourselves
as comedians because we don’t do stand up
and I don’t even know what category we fall
under. I guess we try to stay away from
labels because once you’re a “comedian” or
“rapper” or “dancer” or whatever… people
unconsciously treat you as your role rather
than a human being… god damnit my penis is
not a chocolate candy bar, treat it as a
private part. Professional career? In the
wise words of William hung…… I HAD THE NO
PROFESSIONAL TRAININ BUT I WANT TO MADE THE
MUSIC FOR THE LIVINGS!
Bart: Yea, its called being typecasted. We
don’t want to limit ourselves to a certain
genre nor do we want other people to think
we are only capable of a certain genre.
We’re just straight up multi-talentists. If
you want to put us in a category, that is
what our line of work would be called.
Joe: multi art-testicular-testicles
(_)_)=====D~~~
JiZO J: How do you flesh out your
material? Do you use everyday incidents, or
news items, or family stories -- or all --
to form your acts?
Bart: Didn’t I just tell you foos we get our
material from everyday life? Hahah I’m just
playing. Yea that’s where we get our
material . . . . from life.
Joe: yea its all about finding the irony
from everyday life. we just observe and
analyze the shit out of everything…
including this GOD DAYM INTERVIEW!!!! Ahaha
jk it depends on what our objective is…
sometimes we want to get a message out like
for clubbing 101 it was all about going to
the club to meet folks… so many folks here
in LA are cliquish.. whats the reason for
clubbin if everyones just gonna stick in
their own ass groups and go clubbin to drink
with the same ass people every week… I wish
LA folks were a bit more sociable… also its
about dudes ballin up and speaking 2 ladies
instead of standing by the wall and mad
dogging fools like they wanna fight… so
whenever we have a problem to present to the
public, we wanna do it with some humor… and
sometimes our skits are just plain stupid
nonsense fart jokes.
JiZO J: Do you write anything other
than comedy? If so, tell us about some of
your other writing work.
Bart: Actually, none of our comedy is
written, it’s mostly improv. Other than
that, I write a lot of Shakespearean plays
and haiku poems.
Joe: our comedy is improv with a sprinkle of
outline just to give it some theme or
structure.. I like to write music/lyrics and
short stories… I also like to cyber sex
online while I jerk off… nah but forreal, I
like to write a lot of random short stories.
JiZO J: Do you guys ever fear that
you possibly couldn't be funny for your
audience?
Joe: we really never did this with pleasing
the audience in mind… it was just… DO IT..
and see what the hell happens… we did this
as an experiment to see how the audience
will like it. But fear was never something
that came to mind because we approach
everything with uncertainty and see for
ourselves if the audience likes it or not…
if they don’t, then we just do another one..
that’s all
Bart: plus my mom thinks its funny, and
that’s all that I care about.
JiZO J: Who came up with the Unco
Chin and Unco Sam's character? You guys are
really good at making the Vietnamese FOB
accent? Did you surround yourself with FOB's
when growing up? LOL
Joe: yea we always did the accents but we
never had a name for it… I thought of uncle
something for us because u know how in Asian
culture we call close family friends UNCLE!
And since bart was in the military I was
like “how bout UNCLE SAM??!?!” he was like…
S A M E! …. Lol so that’s how the name came
to be… for mine, Mr. chin was a character
that I flipped the camera upside down and
wrote a face on my chin.. so that’s why he
was MR CHIN.. I just added the uncle to
match with bart.
Bart: Yea, I thought using “uncle” was tight
cause in Asian cultures everybody just be
calling everybody unco and auntie, so we
just wanted to be the friendly characters
that everyone could be homies with. . . .
.plus, since all our homies are so close, we
kick it with each other’s parents too; and
pretty soon that pimp-ass Vietnamese accent
just starts rubbing off.
JiZO J: Where can we get that really
funny looking white hat Unco Sam is wearing?
Hahahahaha, I already got a couple of
myspace messages asking about it?
Bart: Haha I dunno, I just pulled it out the
ass crack of my closet. Maybe there’s some
more in there.
JiZO J: Are you guys secretly
advertising for "Jack in the box"? I heard
"a hot eggroll crunchy style, deep fried..."
very appetizing...
Joe: LOL nah man that’s just trying to say
blowjob but sugar coating that into a rated
G blowjob… A HOT EGGROLL CRUNCHY STYLE DEEP
FRY IN HER MOUUUUTH!
JiZO J: Regarding "Real Gangster TV:
Episode 1"... Man, this has to be one of
most hilarious youtube video I have seen.
How did you come up with that idea? You guys
really know how to keep it gangsta for realz!!!
Keep it HOOD homies!
Joe: we grew up with a lot of thugs… in an
era where that gangsta style shit was real
wide spread… we had experience with a lot of
wannabes as well so it just came natural, we
had to do something about dudes that we
remember who just TRIED way too hard to be a
gangster… we just wanted to show how stupid
it looks when dudes wanna act like thugs and
ruin their life gang banging it away… I mean
I have friends that do dirt… but I want to
make fun of them to show em how much they
fucking themselves over. If we can make that
style funny instead of cool, then youngsters
would see how stupid it is to act that way…
morale of the story… this is your asshole
(o), this is your asshole in jail (O)
Bart: Yea man, we just wanted to show how
real gangstas are. Real gangstas make people
laugh, and laugh them too death.
JiZO J: In your myspace blog, you
guys seem somewhat frustrated with the
current representation of Asian Americans
characters in Hollywood? Can you elaborate
on this? Do you believe things are starting
to change at all or are we simply not
heading towards the right direction?
Bart: I definitely don’t think Asian
Americans are represented accurately in
Hollywood. I think this goes back to what I
was talking about earlier: typecasting.
Asian Americans keep getting the same ass
roles that aren’t even accurate. Just like
any other ethnicity, there are Asian
skaters, Asian surfers, Asian “manly-man”
George Clooney the Rock type, and Asian
thugs. I know some Asian thugs that are so
hard that will make some of the toughest
thugs piss in their panties. But are any of
these other type of Asians represented? Hell
nahw. Take a look at fast and the furious
one for example. The Asian “thugs” in the
movie wear leather pants and sequin shirts
with dragons on them. That’s some Ricky
martin shit. All the Asian thugs I see wear
dickies, ben davis, chucks, and cortez’s.
look at the movie 21. the true story was
actually about a bunch of Asians at MIT, but
who gets the lead role in the movie? once
again they misrepresent them by casting a
Caucasian guy. My bad im ranting . . . its
just so frustrating that Asian Americans are
so misrepresented all the time
Joe: Asians are definitely misrepresented in
Hollywood. But so are the Indians, blacks,
Mexicans and so on… Hollywood is racist as
fuck because they cater to the majority
(middle class whites). Lets take the last
samurai for example, no one has a problem
seeing a white guy in samurai armor. People
take this dude serious and no ones laughing
that some white kid is the “last samurai”…
Lets turn the tables around and put an Asian
dude in a cowboy outfit… what happens?.. it
turns into a comedy (shanghai noon)… would
anyone take an Asian cowboy serious? Ahaha I
wouldn’t… The situation isn’t so much just
“racism”… its mainly about MONEY and how
much buying power the Asian community has.
The more we support Asian entertainers,
there will be a demand for our people to
take lead roles. we have to work the system.
Things are changing, not as fast as I want
it to but they are.. if you remember in the
90’s the representation for Asians was
pretty bad… it was even fuckin worse in the
80’s. I felt like that era was all about
exploiting Asians… its definitely changing
because I meet Asians in the industry
everyday that are taking initiative to make
a difference. It’s a collaborative effort,
we all need to be involved in our own type
of entertainment and make up our own shit…
like how your doing with your website
showcasing all our talent… it’s a good thing
because it gets folks updated with what type
of Asian entertainers are out there… WE NEED
TO UNIFY AND WE NEED THE SUPPORT OF PEOPLE
ITS NOT GONNA WORK WITH JUST ARTISTS PUSHING
HARD… WE GOTTA FIND A WAY TO GET THE GENERAL
PUBLIC INVOLVED
JiZO J: Here is a good question for
you guys: Who would be your current Asian
American role models today? Can you even
think of any?
Bart: Ken Watanabe is pretty gangster. I
like Russel Peters too cause he aint scared
to speak his mind. I also like how Will
Demps represents his Korean side. Anybody
that stays true to their roots and reps
Asians to be strong the way they should be
I’m down for.
Joe: bruce lee will always be the
Asian
American role model… his philosophies very
close to the justkiddingfilms manifesto
ahaha.. I like is that he emphasizes
flexibility.. I try to stay away from rigid
thinkers and hard knuckle heads that are
anal as fuck… also William hung is my mutha
fuckin #1 hero.. forreal though, hes so
positive, despite everyone making fun of his
ass he just keeps going… I mean in his own
weird world he succeeded as a musician…
people were laughing at him but he made the
best out of the situation.. that’s one down
syndrome ass motha fucka with a cool ass
spirit…
JiZO J: Any plans to make it to
"Comedy Central" or "Mad TV"?
Bart: That would be dope if we got a
contract to do our own show or to be on one
of those shows. We are definitely trying to
go as far as we can and reach as many people
as we can with our comedy.
Joe: man if we can have a just kidding TV
show I will find the fattest bitch and fuck
the shit outta her
Bart: In my spare time I like to put on my
ninja suit and fight crime. Then afterwards
I make smores and try to get marshmallows in
my braces. Buddha say, “Girls like guys with
sweet braces.”
JiZO J: Good luck to justkiddingfilms
and make sure you don't forget your peeps at
JiZO-Entertainment. com when you make it to
the top! And keep on doing tha Disco Dancing
Yo!
