Just because Bowen Yang doesn't put pressure on him, that isn't to say that he's just used his time on "Saturday Night Live" to be funny. On a "Weekend Update" segment of the show in March 2021, he delivered a funny but also fiery monologue about fighting the rise of Asian-American hate crimes in the United States (via NBC News). In part of the segment, he said, "I see my friends donating and that's great, but then I also tell them, 'Do more,'" he added. "Like, OK, you're ordering from Chinese restaurants? 'Do more.'" Towards the end of his impassioned bit, he said, "Look, I'm just a comedian, I don't have the answers," but he's still working to make things better (via the Los Angeles Times).
Yang — who has a surprising net worth — told Rolling Stone a bit about how the challenging monologue came together. When they were writing it, his co-writer Celeste Yim told him, "OK, what do you want to say? Your only job is to not lie. It's to tell the truth." After that "SNL" moment went viral, Yang has been using the "tell the truth" metric, saying "I think that's a decent blanket rubric in terms of my own way of expressing things publicly: Tell the truth." That's a motto we can get behind. Yang has also been outspoken about other issues that have hit the "SNL" home — for example, he was not shy about expressing his thoughts about Elon Musk hosting the show. We're excited to see what this comedian has store.
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