这个报道本身很搞笑

ByStander

美国深夜节目收视率冠军的「大卫赖特曼秀」，上月17日晚上破天荒邀请中国口音极重的黄西（Joe Wong）亮相，以英语讲美式笑话，近六分钟的演出，观众反应热烈。

黄西站定后的第一句话是：「大家好，我是爱尔兰人。」全场笑翻，赖特曼也跟着大笑，黄西知道他的笑话题材已触动敏感的美国流行文化神经。

黄西的表演片段在YouTube上的点阅数，两周以来已超过10万人次，留言评论褒多于贬，一致认为很好笑。大家开端打听这位戴着眼铐，满口中国腔英语的黄西究竟是谁？口音这么重，相貌又不出众的人，怎么能上全国电视节目，用英语讲美式笑话，还能让老美笑得东倒西歪？

今年39岁的黄西毕业于中国吉大，主修化学，1999年获取德州莱斯大学生化博士学位，翌年到麻州剑桥一家跨国基因制药公司任务。白天他是在实验室正经做研究的科学家，到晚上就摇身一变成演员，穿梭在新英格兰地区的酒吧、夜总会、俱乐部和大学礼堂，表演单口相声。

黄西在吉大时就喜欢写笑话和讲笑话，马克吐温与导演伍迪雷．阿伦的作品对他的启发很大，让他了解美式幽默与美式笑话。

到麻州任务后，他利用时间报名「笑话写作成教班」，经由这个管道接触到老板顿的喜剧圈开端表演，2002年第一次登台。他努力在笑话题材上不断创作，最早的听众是当会计师的太太金妍。他的移民题材配上货真价实的外国口音，很快就受到欢迎，打入2003年老板顿国际喜剧节的决赛。

专门帮「赖特曼秀」发掘人才的布瑞尔2005年在老板顿听了黄西的表演，认为他深具潜质，观察了三年后，2008年布瑞尔再到老板顿看黄西表演，觉得时机成熟，让黄西为「大卫赖特曼秀」试镜。布瑞尔说，他以多年经验相信黄西终究会大红大紫。当晚赖特曼非常欣赏这段演出，罕见地拉着乐得不知所措的黄西一起谢幕。黄西4日将在纽约参加全美最热门的喜剧「Comedy Central」电视频道试镜。这将是第一位英语非母语的第一代华人，应邀在这个全美最热门的喜剧频道上演出。

黄西说，直到一个民族能开自己的玩笑，嘲讽自己的领袖与政治社会，这个民族才算成熟。他希望能以第一代移民的身分说故事，「移民在社会中是无声的一群，移民社会中有许多有意思的事，也有许多被歧视与挣扎的事，因为语言与文化的障碍，自己表达不出来，又没有人帮忙表达」，黄西说：「我愿意做个移民的代言人，说出移民乐观、奋斗、坚强的一面。」

黄西的逗笑创作：

段子之一：「我是新移民，当年来美国后，我开着一辆旧车，车后保险杆上贴了不少标语贴纸，我都不懂，撕也撕不下来，我开了两年之后，才知道其中一张是『如果你不懂英语，滚回去』。」

段子之二：「我好不容易才获取公民资格，我得去上美国历史课，去回答 谁是班杰明．富兰克林？我都只有啊…的份。去年，我儿子在美国出生，我抱着他，『哇，你这小子一出生就已经是美国人了，我问你，你知道谁是富兰克林吗？』」

段子之三：「现在我车上贴了『车内有婴儿』的标语，这可算是一种恐吓，因为有一个大哭的婴儿和唠叨的老婆，我再也不怕死了。」

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raise3

赞一下“直到一个民族能开自己的玩笑，嘲讽自己的领袖与政治社会，这个民族才算成熟”。。。国人有时候过于敏感了

戒急用忍

这个在我看来是极大的成就了。。。。惭愧啊，好多老美的笑话俺都还听不懂，人家已经开始逗老美乐了。。。

dara

赞一下“直到一个民族能开自己的玩笑，嘲讽自己的领袖与政治社会，这个民族才算成熟”。。。国人有时候过于敏感了
raise3 发表于 2009-5-5 13:29

赞赞赞赞赞, but that need free speech first.

purety

我看了那个视频
不好笑
他说得不多，说得很慢，而且互相之间的连贯性很差
观众确实有在笑，不过不像是因为内容，更像是因为他一身典型中国人的打扮而笑。
说难听点，又有点接近在媒体上抹黑中国人的嫌疑

ByStander

这个在我看来是极大的成就了。。。。惭愧啊，好多老美的笑话俺都还听不懂，人家已经开始逗老美乐了。。。
戒急用忍 发表于 2009-5-5 13:32

关键是你不在老板顿

h-share

7# ByStander


very funny.

yanjun

看过，很不错，他很不容易。:(13):

bayliner1979

Hi everybody. So... I'm Irish. I read a report recently that a man reaches his sexual peak at age 18 but I didn't know this... until I was twenty five. So the world will never know what a stud I was. No one took a bite out of this peach when it was ripe.

I'm not good at sports, but I love parallel parking... because unlike sports, when you are parallel parking, the worse you are, the more people that are rooting for you.

I'm an immigrant and I used to drive an old car with a lot of bumper stickers that are impossible to peel off. And one of them said, "if you don't speak English, go home!" I didn't notice it for two years.

I worked really hard to become a U.S. citizen and I have to take these American History lessons where they asked us questions like:

"Who's Benjamin Franklin?"
I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?

And the second one was:
"What's the 2nd Amendment?"
I was like; ahh... The reason our convenience stores get robbed?

"What is Roe vs. Wade?"
I was like ahh... Two ways of coming to the United States?

I have a family now, but I used to be scared of marriage. I was like wow... 50 percent of all marriages end up lasting on forever!

I just had my first child last year. I was really amazed at it. I was in the delivery room, holding up my son, thinking to myself, "Wow... He was just born... And he's already a U.S citizen."

So I said to him, "DO you even know who is Benjamin Franklin?"

Now I have a sign in my car that says ”Baby Onboard.”

This sign is basically a threat. It just says that I have a screaming baby and a nagging wife and that I am not afraid of dying anymore.

Thank you very much!
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Implicit explanations to audience with culture difference:
1. Ben Franklin's picture is on the US $100 bill.
2. Second Amendment refers to the US Constitution for the right to keep and bear arms.

"Roe vs. Wade" is a famous court case that you'll learn about in history class that deals with abortion.

Joe Wong used this case in a form of a question: What is Roe vs. Wade? To which he cleverly delivered the punchline "Two ways of coming to the United States".

Roe is used as a play on words to describe "row", as in using a boat to "row" to the US.
The denotation of wade was used, the definition meaning "to walk in water".

bayliner1979

bayliner1979

humbletrader

I really like him! genuine humor!

dara

我看了那个视频
不好笑
他说得不多，说得很慢，而且互相之间的连贯性很差
观众确实有在笑，不过不像是因为内容，更像是因为他一身典型中国人的打扮而笑。
说难听点，又有点接近在媒体上抹黑中国人的嫌疑
purety 发表于 2009-5-5 13:37

come on. It is not easy.

You can speak chinese jokes to people around you to see if they laugh or not, needless to say English.

I had a typical example for this, 10+ years ago,  I attended a course by some chinese women professor(graduated from MIT, came to US around 1983), she tried to talk a joke to the students, but none of us laughed, I still remember it that she said "let's say it again". Come on, how can anybody laugh for the second iteration of the same joke 1 minute later.

ILoveRice

说难听点，又有点接近在媒体上抹黑中国人的嫌疑
purety 发表于 2009-5-5 12:37

抹黑了中国人什么？

很多中国移民，尤其是早期的非技术移民， 的确在美国待了很久也不会讲，更别说看英文了。

上世纪80，90年代来美留学的，18岁还是virgin的不在少数吧？

至于回答移民官的提问，我看更像是在讽刺（如果一定要把这个包袱想得很尖锐的话）美国的入籍政策。

take it easy.  在人家的国家用人家的母语讲几个可以让人家发笑的段子，也不是件容易的事。上升到国人形象的层面用不着。几年前加拿大有个叫“大山”的，在中国讲相声讲得滴溜溜转，也没见加拿大人出来批评他。

Poo

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Poo

his driver's license joke is much better than on David's show. may be because he is nervous

ByStander

澄清一下．我觉得ＷＯＮＧ很不错．他讲的笑话也很好．我只是觉得＂老板顿＂很搞笑:(13)::(13):

focusonsth

Ding

olderfrog