On her love for glasses over contacts, her thoughts about using comedy to address Asian representation issues and stereotypes, and the one place she gets recognized the most
Ali Wong for The Cut/New York Magazine Photo: Shaniqwa Jarvis Comedian Ali Wong is thinking about your poor socks. Like many, she’s read Marie Kondo’s The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up — in which the Japanese home-organizing guru makes everyone feel bad about their socks by declaring their daily life “brutal,” likening their balled-up, tied-up status in your sock drawer to being in a continual “state of tension.
But I also wanted to write a funny book. There are some stories that aren’t in my stand-up set because they are too long and weird to tell on stage. It’s hard to spit them out in an hour-long stand-up set, and some of them are very dark. I thought this would be the place for it.I would love to dress like Beyoncé: some custom-print, neoprene onesie with no pants. But I think it would be distracting to perform with no pants on and my pussy hanging out.
Your outfit on your Netflix special stood out — it’s a little different from standard maternity wear. And then it was replicated to become a Halloween costume! How did you choose your outfit for the show? Fashion and style can be a big part of a celebrity’s image. Now that you’re more well-known, how do you approach how you think about style? Is there a public Ali versus a private one when it comes to fashion?
The reason I got into glasses because I was really into disposable contacts. But I’m Chinese, I’m cheap. I would try to keep them as long as possible. It backfired and I left them in way too long one time. You’re supposed to dispose of them every two weeks. But I kept them for a month. My eyes were all red and I thought I was going to go blind [from being] so cheap and leaving in these dirty-ass contacts for so long. My eyes were painful and red for so long.
Maybe that used to be true, but anyone who is paying attention can see that it’s changed. Look at Dao-Yi Chow, Hiro Murai, Chrissy Teigen, Cary Fukunaga, David Chang, Niki Nakayama, Alexander Wang, Kenzo Digital, Carol Lim, and Humberto Leon. There’s a growing number of Asian-Americans creating and innovating in what we watch, eat, wear, and think.
Steve Harvey made headlines earlier this month with an old comedy bit that presented Asian men as being unattractive. In your comedy set, you actually riff the other way. Was that purposeful — as a way to take down that preconception, perpetuated by Harvey and others like him?
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