- I procrastinate, I'm a procrastinator.
It's a problem, you know?
Like I haven't finished writing this joke yet,
to be honest.
(audience laughing)
Sheng Wang, thank you all so very much, everybody.
- [Emcee] What are you saying to them?
- Thank y'all.
Thank you guys.
- Yeah!
Oh my god, that was great, right?
- That one felt good, that one felt good.
- It was perfect! - Good, okay.
- It was perfect!
Hi, I'm Ali Wong and I am--
- Here with Sheng Wang.
Hello. - Here with Sheng Wang.
Sheng and I are very old friends.
He's the godfather of my children
and I'm very honored to be directing
Sheng Wang's very first standup comedy special.
Thanks so much for being here and working on this today.
It's been a long time coming.
Let's have fun.
(audience applauding)
♪ The bigger the boom ♪
♪ The bigger the bang ♪
♪ The bigger the boom ♪
♪ The bigger the bang ♪
♪ The bigger the boom ♪
♪ The bigger the bang ♪
- Trying to have good posture, it's hard, you know?
My whole life,
I have slouched because I'm super humble.
(audience laughing)
I've slouched for so long, it feels normal.
It feels comfortable.
It feels like I'm sending the right message.
It's like, hey, hey, hey,
hey, nobody hurt this guy.
(audience laughing)
No, man, he already broken.
(audience laughing)
- It was really, really magical
to watch this guy who I've believed in
and known to be such an incredible,
and unique, and different voice,
and such a skilled, hardworking standup comic,
and such a good human being just kill it tonight
and flap his wings and go.
It was amazing.
So, Sheng and I have known each other for a long time.
We used to eat together a lot to save money
and we would cook meals together in New York.
- Vegetables.
- But we used to go get this chicken in Chinatown.
- Pre-cooked chicken.
- And for a whole half chicken,
it was $3 and 50 cents.
And we're probably pretty radioactive now
and maybe that kept us protected from COVID.
- That's true.
We haven't caught COVID yet.
- We used to eat that chicken.
- That 3.50 chicken.
We struggled together.
- My god, the things we used to go through
when we were starting out.
We did this one show in Boston
and we made the mistake of sleeping at this house
full of standup comics.
- It was a house full of comedians and improv people.
- We slept on a twin mattress on the floor
that was so stained.
You didn't need the black light.
- It was lit, it was lit already.
- It was lit already, pre-lit.
Shades of every color.
- Shades of pubes.
- Yeah. - Every shade of pube.
- Benetton pubes.
It was crazy.
- Every creed and color.
This is getting deep.
I can't control if other people want to shoot hoops,
but I can tell
if I don't want to play with somebody right away.
Like, one red flag is if they look fit.
(audience laughing)
I'm like, oh, you healthy, huh?
Okay.
That's good for you.
I bet you got skills,
but that's not what this is about.
(audience laughing)
No, man.
Me and my friends, everybody,
we all here because we got diseases.
(audience laughing)
High blood pressure, high cholesterol,
fatty liver, diabetes.
We're not here to play games.
We're here to delay death.
I've always wanted to put myself out there as a standup
'cause that was always what I felt like was my thing.
So this has been several years in the making,
and I've been patiently waiting,
and I'm so happy that Ali got to be part of this.
- I think there's very few standup comics
who blow up from a standup special.
A lot of times,
they get famous from like a sitcom or a movie.
I think it's a very rare and unique thing
to have people discover you
through your first hour standup comedy special.
I know this is gonna be one of those moments.
Sheng Wang!
(audience laughing)
Sheng Wang's First Stand Up Comedy Hour on Netflix
is now streaming.
- [Sheng] I was touching my hair.
- [Ali] It's okay.
(upbeat hip hop music) (Ali laughing)