Name: Bobby Lee Doesn’t Know how to Make Kimchi
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee Doesn’t Know how to Make Kimchi' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-03-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bobby Lee Doesn’t Know how to Make Kimchi' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-03-12. Transcript available.

Dude, I'm trying to think, what is that role that you're in
that gets you to that crazy Academy Award, Webby?
I think it could be something-
Webby, Spider-Man.
The story of your life.
It's just you trying to just get skeed off your hands
from jerking off at night?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Spider-Man, Spider-Man.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't kill the spider, I'm a Spider-Man.
Little spider in the Spider-Man.
You're just a tiny spider in someone's home?
Yeah.
Spider-Man.
No, I think it could be for you would be like your story of your life.
Yeah.
Oh, I play myself.
The story of a little Korean man who grew up in San Diego
amongst all these goofy whites.
Yeah.
And you made it out alive.
Eating doodos with the dancing.
Yeah.
Eating doodos with what?
With the people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It could be your life.
What about the guy that invented kimchi?
Who's that guy?
Yeah, who is that?
Bring that guy up.
You could have done that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's probably a woman, huh?
Invented by a specific woman.
But the ancient Korean people.
So the kimchi.
We get to make up the story.
That's the best part.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You become the guy who started the kimchi revolution.
You began kimchi.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, let's make it up.
Cho-Cho.
Yeah, Cho-Cho?
No, Cho-Cho.
Cho-Cho, sorry.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I apologize.
The Cho-Cho.
The kimchi cowboy.
The kimchi cowboy, yeah.
I live on a beach.
The king of kimchi.
Yeah, yeah.
Cho-Cho.
Yeah.
No, and I'm on a farm, and I pick up some cabbage.
Mm-hmm.
What do we do with this?
No, it went bad.
It already went bad.
Oh, it went bad.
And all your cabbage is bad now.
Something's going on.
Something is going on, right?
And people are like, oh, just throw it away, right?
They throw it into the ocean.
I go, no.
You throw it into a vinegar thing.
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
I go, no.
We stick a hole, put it in the ground, right?
Put some vinegar.
I don't know how they make kimchi.
So it's hot.
How do they make kimchi, dude?
I mean, you should learn.
This is your past.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't make it at home.
I don't have a home kit.
No, you make a home kit.
What do you mean?
Wait, right now?
Yeah.
You don't?
I don't know how it's made.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah.
Bro, somebody can make you some of it.
Yeah, yeah.
What do you have to do?
You prep and salt the cabbage.
You wash and drain it.
And then you make the paste in a large bowl.
So you do all, yeah.
Gochugaro, garlic, ginger, onion, fish sauce, and sugar.
Form a thick red paste.
You stir it all in there.
Then you put it in there and you ferment it, right?
You pack the glass jar tight, pressing down, get all the air out.
And then you wait for fermentation.
You let the jar sit at room temperature for one to five days.
One to five days isn't insane.
Yeah, what?
Well, the more days, the more fermentation.
Once it smells sour and tastes to your liking, then you put it in the
refrigerator.
It'll continue to ferment slowly and it'll last for months.
But whoever created this, this isn't the first time he tried it.
This is like fucking 100 years of trying different ways.
Well, we got to figure out this.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's no way someone got that right the first time.
Oh, Koreans are pretty smart.
Yeah.
So what is this?
What did you have to put it in to ferment it in glass?
What did you use?
What did you use?
Like a light bulb or something?
What did you originally ferment?
It had to be a glass.
Yeah, something in the story.
Yeah, something in the story that you took the air out of it and you were able
to put the
cabbage in something.
What did you put it in?
Well, there must have been jars, right?
We had jars.
Ooh, jars of clay.
Remember that band?
Yeah.
Rain, rain on my face.
What about this?
What about this?
How about this?
We used jars as trash cans, right?
So then I was just, let's throw it away.
You worked for the trash company.
Yeah, I worked for the trash company, right?
And I took the cabbage and threw it in their jars, their trash cans, right?
Yeah.
And then I threw away salt, too.
Where did we get trash cans?
Let's throw away salt.
We threw salt, all the ingredients.
We're just throwing it away.
Well, you were taking salt from the ocean.
Yeah, yeah.
Let's throw it away.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
Put it in the trash can.
Yeah, the greedy ocean have too much salt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Here we go, right?
What else is in it?
Well, it's...
Water?
Throw water away.
We have too much water.
We throw it away.
Fish sauce.
Fish sauce.
Fish sauce.
Nobody eats fish sauce.
We have too much fish sauce in the village, right?
Throw it away.
We're throwing all of it away.
What else is in there?
Garlic.
Garlic and ginger.
We have way too much garlic here.
You're throwing everything away.
Oh, wait.
We put it in the trash can, right?
And we just...
And the trash guy doesn't pick it up for a long, long time.
One to five days, it sounds like.
Even longer.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For a couple of months.
And then I walk out of my hut and I go, God, the trash man had not fucking come
here for like two months.
We throw all this stuff away, right?
And then I go out.
I go, I bet you money.
And I open up the lid.
Yes.
And it's like on Breath of the Wild.
Whenever you open it, it's like...
And you cook your meal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you cooked your meal and it's ready.
And I look down and I go, don't look delicious.
Yeah.
Right?
Well, you're starving.
You haven't eaten in days.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I haven't eaten in days.
There's a famine.
Yeah, there's a famine.
Yeah, yeah, there's a famine going on.
It's a cabbage famine.
It's a cabbage famine.
Because I threw it all away.
Everyone's like, where did all the cabbage go?
Right?
Bobby threw it away.
Where's all the garlic and the fish sauce?
He threw it away.
Right?
Then I open it up and I look down and I go, I'm so hungry.
I'm going to eat this garbage.
Right?
So I stick my hand in there.
I pull it out.
I take a bite.
I go, delicious.
And that's the end of the movie.
You think so?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
No.
Why do you always end it?
No, no, start it.
That's the beginning.
That's the beginning.
I like it.
Because there's a sequel, dude.
What's going on in the sequel?
What?
Nuh, there's not a sequel.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Soy sauce.
I discovered soy sauce.
Whoa.
That was you too?
Yeah, it was me too.
Same guy.
Yeah, dude.
Right?
Yeah.
And orange chicken is the third one.
That one you definitely did.
Yeah, yeah.
What do I do with all these oranges and chicken?
Just an abundance of oranges.
Yeah, but that's the third one, right?
I have somebody oranges and chicken.
I don't know what to do.
Right?
This is a chicken.
He has an orange stuck in his throat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My chicken always eats oranges.
Right?
Yeah.
Well, I have to eat it anyway.
And then a car hits him.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, you know, this is, that's where I, the third one, the orange chicken one is
where I won my Oscar.
We got to call Netflix.
I think some of this stuff is going to get made.
You will win an Oscar.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the Academy Award goes to orange chicken, Bobby Lee.
It could happen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Spielberg goes up there with you.
Orange chicken was invented by Chef Andy Kow in 1987 for Panda Express.
Also, Panda Express created orange chicken?
In Hawaii.
Yep.
In Hawaii.
The Hunan flavors with battered fried chicken for the American palate.
Iconic, sweet, tangy, slightly spicy dish known today.
It is good.
Shout out, Andy Kow.
Shout out, Andy Kow.
Hero and a legend.
Is Andy Kow still alive?
He's on that Panda Express to heaven, dude.
Yeah.
Sorry.
One stop.
It's not real.
Andy Kow was one of 11 people who died in a shooting massacre at a dance studio
in Monterey
Park, California, January 21st.
That is not real.
There's no way.
That is not real.
Yeah, people didn't like it.
It is real.
Orange chicken.
Wait a minute.
It is real, dude.
That's a, Andy died with an idol of, that's not real.
That's the same guy that invented orange chicken, got popped.
He was 72 at the time.
It looks like he couldn't win.
Well.
What?
Well.
Somebody didn't like it.
It always gives me heartburn.
That's nuts.
It's good.
It's insane.
So good.
I love orange chicken.
All right.
Especially if you don't know about it and somebody gives it to you and you don't
know about it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love that.
I'll take some Kung Pao.
I like Kung Pao.
If I ever have amnesia, take me to get orange chicken, dude.
All right.
I'll wake you right back up.
Well, no, just because there's no better feeling than that first time that you
get introduced to orange chicken.
Remember when you didn't know about it and then you knew about it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
It changed your life.
Mine is August 6, 1987.
Orange chicken day.
Orange chicken day.
That's when I knew about it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
When did you know about it?
When's my D-Day?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was probably around the same time, I would bet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I cried.
How about you?
I'm at the mall.
April 14th, 2024.
Oh, recently.
Took me a minute.
Yeah, it took you a minute.
Couldn't really come down to it.
The old Easter orange chicken.
Yeah, Easter orange.
So you had never heard about it before then?
Heard, never ingested.
Right.
Knew it existed, never was interested.
Yeah.
And then when you did it, what?
I've been a Kung Pao guy for years, but I will dive a little bit of orange.
Yeah.
A little bit here and there.
What's the one with the cashews in it?
Are there peanuts or something?
That's, that's, that's, that's, that's Kung Pao.
Kung Pao, that's Kung Pao.
Kung Pao, that's good.
Yeah, Kung Pao's great.
That's good.
It's named after Ding Bozohan.
Yeah.
You know, the Qing Dynasty official and governor of the Sichuan province.
Yeah.
Gong Bao.
That's a name that we don't use that much.
That's the movie that you're in.
Gong Bao.
Gong Bao.
What do you mean, Ding?
Yeah.
Ding's a great name.
I know, but we don't see a lot of people named Ding.
More Dongs than Ding.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.