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Dreams & Dreamers General Humor Me Lifestyle Relationship

August 7, 2015

Video Series “The Great LOL of China”: Stereotype Bingo

“But wait? Are these things true?” “Ha! If people asked themselves that question, we wouldn’t…

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Dreams & Dreamers

July 11, 2015

Video Series “The Great LOL of China”: Chuanr

It may sound odd, but when I finally packed my suitcase and bought my one-way…

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Dreams & Dreamers

June 5, 2015

Video Series “The Great LOL of China”: Roommates

China-US roommates is finally out! This sketch had more props than almost all the other…

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Dreams & Dreamers

May 30, 2015

Video Series “The Great LOL of China” Ep1: China Goggles

In the summer of 2013, I was walking down the street near my apartment in…

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Arts and Entertainment Blogs General

February 4, 2015

Filming Television with Heroes

I sat beneath the bright lights onstage in a Tianjin TV studio. My hair was…

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Arts and Entertainment Blogs General Humor Me In Transition Language and Understanding Success

August 12, 2014

The Bones Beneath The Jokes

When you see a funny show on television or the Internet, all that the creators…

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Dreams & Dreamers Humor Me Language and Understanding

December 15, 2013

Mo Money Mo Fazhan: My New Video, My Sense of Humor.

As I study and perform more comedy in Chinese, sometimes I notice my sense of…

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Blogs Humor Me Language and Understanding Success

September 9, 2013

Why What’s Funny in China Might Surprise You

Jesse Appell will do anything for a laugh. “Food poisoning is funny. I got dysentery once.…

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Blogs Humor Me Success

August 2, 2013

How Chinese People “Fake It ‘Till You Make It”

One of the funniest things in any culture is when someone tries to pretend to…

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Arts and Entertainment Blogs Humor Me

May 7, 2013

What’s Not Funny in China?

People keeping track of what’s funny in China will often bring up the name of…

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