Name: Bobby Lee Skipped Mr. Chow's Wedding?? Why? lol
Uploaded: 2023-12-20T14:00:22.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee Skipped Mr. Chow's Wedding?? Why? lol' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-20. Transcript available.

I started the documentary about Mr. Chow.
I don't know if you know his story.
I love it.
Maybe one of the saddest stories I've ever heard in my life.
He's still alive.
What do you mean?
I just saw him.
His story is insanely sad, I'm telling you.
Oh, let me say a guess.
Go ahead.
He was Chinese.
Correct, he's Chinese.
Came here.
Yeah.
Oh, I have no money.
I make wonton.
And he became famous?
Not even close.
Okay, tell me.
His, I'm, spoiler alert for the Mr. Chow documentary on HBO,
but it's pretty incredible.
This guy got shipped away to boarding school when he was a kid.
His dad was like a famous, a famous theater actor, stage actor.
Pretty rare for the times.
Chow Yun-fat?
Chow Yun-sun.
Oh.
Chow Yun-skin.
Ni.
Whoa.
Yeah, his brother, brother.
Big fan of his movies.
And then they, and then his sister wanted to be an actor,
and it was so, just as rare for the time,
especially for Chinese people,
because you know the roles.
You talk about it in your stand-up act.
You know, racist Hollywood.
Every role was like, oh, I do the wrongry.
You know, like that was every role he ever got.
Yeah, yeah.
And so when he moved to London and was started to get in film,
was in popular films as he grew,
he hadn't seen his mother forever,
couldn't see his mom,
because his mom was back in China.
And anybody at the time that went against the Chinese government-
I thought you were going to say,
because his eyes were so slanty.
Well, that's true.
And anybody back against the Chinese government was blacklisted and killed.
So both of his parents-
Really?
His parents were murdered.
Yeah.
You know who else was murdered?
Brandon Lee.
Yeah, Bruce Lee's son.
Yeah.
Well, that was on accident.
No.
It was on accident.
No idea.
You think that had a tie to Rust and that whole thing?
No.
You think that was a reprise of Brandon Lee, Rust?
Simon Chow.
You know who he is?
Mm-hmm.
He was a producer of Bruce Lee movies back in the day.
And there's a conspiracy theory-
That he had Brandon Lee killed.
He killed.
And the sister's been in hiding.
Because maybe she's next.
Anyway, let's move on.
Chow's parents were murdered.
Yeah.
Amazing.
Oh, man.
So sad.
Then his wife, because of the shock of the murder of his parents, him and his
wife start
to disconnect.
Yeah.
And she goes, steps out of the marriage.
And when she comes back, she's dying of AIDS.
Insane.
Don't be lit.
That's 100% the truth.
His wife died of fucking AIDS.
Yeah.
After she stepped out of the marriage because he was disappearing because he
couldn't deal
with the loss of his parents.
Yeah.
So then he moved and started to really do the restaurant here in LA.
Because it started in-
Wow.
I want to watch the documentary.
It's crazy.
Dude, it's an instant.
Because I ran into him one time at the store.
And I'm not lying.
I knew who he was.
He was in Mitzi's bucket seat.
I don't know how he got there, but in the bucket seat?
Probably because he's Mr. Chow.
Yeah, Mr. Chow.
I get it.
He grabs me.
He goes, let me talk to you.
Kicks me outside.
He goes, come to my wedding.
I go, when?
Tomato.
Wow.
I go, tomorrow?
I don't fucking know you.
You gotta go to his wedding.
I never went.
Should've gone.
And I have a photo on my Instagram, if you don't want to believe me.
That was that night.
Of Mr. Chow.
Yeah.
Anyway, have you been there?
No, I've never been there, but I've seen that picture of you with him.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
What's your favorite Chinese dish?
I do-
Top three.
Kung Pao chicken, orange chicken, and I know it's like whatever, but fried rice.
Yeah, it's great.
Fried rice?
I know you were going to give me shit about that, but I love fried rice.
What did you want her to say?
Fried rice?
Peking duck.
No, no, Peking duck.
What did you want her to say?
There's beef and broccoli, Mongolian beef.
You know what I mean?
There's what?
Aren't these all the white ones anyway?
Aren't these because of us?
No.
When you go to China, they eat that?
No, this is all white people.
My favorite is, because it's got a little bit of your people in it.
Guess what it is?
Hmm.
Oh, uh-
Fuevos rancheros.
No.
Mushu pork?
That's it, yeah.
That was good.
That was really good.
What is it?
Mushu pork?
That's it.
Yeah, mushu pork.
Why?
Why?
Why?
Because it's kind of like a taco.
A burrito.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Do you like it?
Of course.
And that's the only time I like plum sauce is in Mushu pork.
I don't like it in any other area.
Well, now that we're stuck on some Asian stuff-
Tell me about everything.
I want to play you something, and I want you to close your eyes for a second.
Oh, is it Asian music?
It is Asian music.
Okay, go ahead.
I'll tell you what it is.
And it's amazing.
I knew it is.
I knew it is.
My brother.
Yeah.
Who's it about?
My mom.
It's a good song.
It's a great song.
He goes, he's probably going to cry.
It was great.
I saw you almost cry a little bit.
Yeah, it also-
Great song.
That's off.
Stevie Weeby's new album.
He sent it to me today.
Yeah.
And pretty beautiful relationship I have with the Lee family that he would send
it to me
and not you to promote on the show.
Can you show this to Bobby on Bad Friends?
He can't text you, but he'll text me.
But his new album is available now.
Oh, it's really good.
And it's on what?
It's on-
It's on-
Probably Spotify?
No.
What's it called?
Bandcamp?
Bandcamp.
Yeah, it's on Bandcamp.
And the link will be in the description for all the fans.
Please support our Lee family.
It's actually some-
There's some bangers on there.
What's that track called again?
It's for his mom.
It's called Oma.
Chigae.
It's kimchi chigae, which is a soup.
So mama soup.
Yeah, yeah.
Basically.
Oh, that's pretty awesome.
That's so awesome.
I remember talking to him.
Like almost a year ago.
And he wanted to make more music and get back into it.
And so now to see his whole album's out, it's really cool.
There's Stevie Weeby Lee.
That's Bobby's brother's new music, new album out.
Go check it out on Bandcamp.
Very good.
Isn't that nice?
Didn't you connect with your brother a little bit through music?
Huh?
You don't talk-
Do you talk to him about this stuff ever?
Well, you know, him and I, you know, we're both musically inclined.
My brother took a different direction musically.
What do you mean, like more of a hip-hop vibe?
Yeah, more hip-hop vibe.
Because, you know, I didn't grow up with, he, for some reason, in his class, he
hung out
with a lot of black dudes.
But in my class, we didn't have any.
Oh, they weren't accepted by you.
No, we had one guy.
I forget his name.
I think it was Steve Havy or something.
Not Harvey.
Steve Harvey.
Steve Harvey.
I gotta tell you, that guy's doing well.
I forgot his name.
I forgot this guy's name.
Show me Poway!
But he stole, I remember he stole my He-Man.
And never gave it back.
Why is that to be a black guy stealing something story?
Why?
You couldn't have done a He-Man story?
No, I know.
That's my thing.
I mean, I'm so sorry.
That's the only story you remember from him?
Yeah, he stole my He-Mans.
Multiple?
You had multiple He-Men?
Well, I had Skeletor, He-Man, all the other characters.
Well, you're probably a little rich little brat.
I would've stole it from you, too.
And he wouldn't give them back.
I'm like, come on, Steve Harvey.
I forgot his name.
You have a little mustache back then?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But my point is, and then my brother had, you know, a crew, and they listened
to hip-hop.
And the only influence I had was my cousin Paul would tell me about the Velvet
Underground
and other bands, you know what I mean?
And so that's my influence.
But I wish I had more of a hip-hop vibe, but, you know, I don't.
Oh, it's okay.
And I apologize.
Have you checked in on your mom since we've done the therapy sessions, by the
way?
We text every night.
So I haven't called her physically now.
Is she still going?
Yeah.
Is she happy with it?
I haven't gotten the details, but she still likes it, she said.
That's great.
I don't want to dive into it because I don't want to get involved.
It's not, the results aren't up to me.
No, I understand.
I'm just saying, but it's good to know if she's happy going.
If she goes and she likes it, God bless.
God bless.
But, you know, the results aren't up to me.
And so-
Just like your addiction, you have to let, it's not up to you, right?
And my career.
It's not up to you.
It isn't up to me.
You just try your best and see what unfolds.
And guess what, guys?
It's unfolded very good, my life.
Very well, yeah.
At 52 years old, to just see, you know, Monday night I went to dinner with a
bunch of Korean
actors and stuff.
Yeah.
They're on fire.
You, what, physically?
Yeah, and I was, like, putting water on them.
That's a weird dinner.
What?
Protesting.
They were protesting.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, just, like, in the Vietnam War, those monks, yeah, they, we had
dinner and they
just lit themselves on fire.
I'm like-
Cool dinner party.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And there was no point of it.
I'm like, what do you, what's the cause?
Like, we don't know.
You're like, I'll get the check.
Yeah, yeah.
These guys are lighting themselves on fire.
I go, just get in the heat.
But my point is, is that, so I was with some, at dinner with a bunch of young
Asians in the
business.
Yeah.
And they're all, like, talking about their deals, you know, and all the great
things that
are happening in their lives.
And, you know, and I, for once in my life, went, I hope you guys don't die.
No, no.
But once in my life, I was like, God, I'm just so proud of this group.
They don't have that.
They don't have a gold plaque from YouTube?
No, they have Oscar.
But my point is, no, they don't have Oscar.
Nobody there has an Oscar.
I know, I know, they don't.
Yeah.
But my, but they, you know, they're doing their own thing and I'm like, you
know, I'm
just kind of watch, because, you know, when I started, there was no opportunity.
It was so fucking hard.
Here we go.
But, you know, with them, it's nice.
And it was so easy for me.
That was the difference, I think.
It was a cakewalk for everybody else.
I'm not doing that right now, dude.
No, don't roll your fucking eyes.
You know who used to do that?
Mr. Ferguson used to do that.
My fucking biology teacher.
Every time he would ask me a question in fucking high school and I didn't know,
I never knew
that he would just roll his eyes.
You asked a question and he would.
No, he would always, because I was always doing something.
Stupid.
Well, I don't know, but he'd be just like, you know, Mr. Lee, you know what I
mean?
What is the, you know, the mineral sign or whatever it is.
The mineral sign or for a.
see why he rolled his eyes.