Letterman/Ellen-Featured Comedian Joe Wong at The Hutong Saturday Night

Michael Wester | May 9, 2014 1:21 pm | 19 comments | 3944 reads

This just in: We've just learned Letterman and Ellen-featured comedian Joe Wong will be doing an intimate stand-up show for an audience of just 60 tomorrow night on the terrace bar at The Hutong in a ChopSchticks Comedy Club-produced show.

Chinese-American Wong was born in the northern province of Jilin but got his comedy start in the US, where he moved after getting a degree at Beijing's prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences (and who knew they even taught comedy?). Wong rose to comedy stardom via the American standup circuit as well via his multiple appearances on popular talk shows by David Letterman and Ellen Degeneres.

Tickets for this small-scale show will sell out, so advanced purchase is strongly recommended via Yoopay (which accepts foreign and domestic credit cards, PayPal and AliPay).

Tickets are RMB 200 in advance as long as they last. In the mean time we've grabbed a pair of complimentary tickets for you readers ... but you gotta work for it. The person who emails us their funniest joke to info@thebeijinger.com before 4pm today (we'll post the winners in the comments after 4) gets the pair.

Doors to Saturday night's show open at 7.30pm @ The Hutong and the show runs through 9.30pm.

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BumbleBeeTou's picture BumbleBeeTou Submitted by Guest on Mon, 05/12/2014 - 14:07

admin wrote:

"I could never get used to the strange questions they would ask me. 'If we were to contact your current employer, what do you think they would they say about you?'

I don't know, they'd probably say, 'Where is Joe? Is he still sick?'"

If that was his best effort, then god help me, I actually agree with Schwankert for once.

admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Mon, 05/12/2014 - 13:45

My favorite joke of his:

On a riff about his job at a pharmaceutical firm, where he used to call in sick frequently when he had interviews for other jobs:

"I could never get used to the strange questions they would ask me. 'If we were to contact your current employer, what do you think they would they say about you?'

I don't know, they'd probably say, 'Where is Joe? Is he still sick?'"

 

 

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admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Mon, 05/12/2014 - 08:46

Steven Schwankert wrote:

These jokes are funnier than anything you'll hear at the show Saturday night.

 

I found him really amusing. I'd say about a third of his material fell seriously flat, but the rest was hysterical.

The standing room only crowd at The Hutong seemed to agree.

 

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charlesliu's picture charlesliu Submitted by Guest on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 21:37

Q:Why was Joe Wong's appearance on David Letterman so unlikely?

A: Because Letterman never makes a mistake and gets the Wong guy.

Q: Why did Joe Wong bring bleach and a brush to the Ellen show?

A: So he can properly whitewash his jokes for her audience.

Q: How does Joe Wong not owning a dictionary mean that he's made it big?

A: Because he was able to find a job in China without needing to teach English.

admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 17:54

hoyasnaxa wrote:

Nice of you to shit all over joe wong schwankert. Emphasis on wanker.

 

Don't mind him, he's just cranky because he's stuck in the Hong Kong airport with a major rain delay

 

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admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 16:15

And our winners are ... (each have been notified by email)

 

#1:

Two Chinese exchange students arrive at the university cafeteria and ask what's available for lunch.

They are told there is pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs and fries.

They each order a hot dog and sit down at a table to eat.

After one unwraps the tin foil off his hot dog, he looks at the hot dog and asks his friend: "So what part of the dog did you get?"

 

#2

A man walks into a psychiatrists office wearing only saran wrap.

The psychiatrist says "i can clearly see your nuts"

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Paul Ryding's picture Paul Ryding Submitted by Guest on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 16:04

There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing.



There were 12 million, but Ryanair recently started flying there from Liverpool. *

 

* (people from Liverpool are thieves. RyanAir is a budget airline that flies mostly from Liverpool. Jokes are less funny when they need to be explained. I realise this now.)

Managing Editor, the Beijinger

admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 15:41

Yet another:

Two Chinese exchange students arrive at the university cafeteria and ask what's available for lunch.

They are told there is pizza, hamburgers, hot dogs and fries.

They each order a hot dog and sit down at a table to eat.

After one unwraps the tin foil off his hot dog, he looks at the hot dog and asks his friend: "So what part of the dog did you get?"

 

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admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 15:39

Another:

Two atoms are walking down the street together. The first atom turns and says, "Hey, you just stole an electron from me!"

"Are you sure?" asks the second atom.

To which the first atom replies, "Yeah, I'm positive!"

 

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admin's picture admin Submitted by Guest on Fri, 05/09/2014 - 15:38

Here's some of the submissions so far:

A local newspaper held a $200 competition asking for the best pun in the city. A masterful, but cocky, wordsmith instantly set about to try and win this competition.   A whirlwind of inspiration hit him and he wound up submitting an impressive ten entries in the hopes to score the prize money. Unfortunately no pun in ten did.

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