An APASA x Speakers Special: Ali Wong

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USC APASA and SPEAKERS is excited to present to you a conversation with Ali Wong, also in collaboration with ISA, SAGE, and PAC!

Join us as we walk through Ali Wong’s life and career!
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APAHF is a series of events to showcase our history, culture, and community. Put on by the Asian Pacific American Student Assembly and our 27 member organizations, it highlights and raises dialogue on various aspects of what it means to be Asian Pacific American.

This year’s APAHF theme “You Belong” revolves around the isolation that can stem from distinct “hyphenated” identities of our Asian and American selves. This sense of identity is highly predicated on geography — what being Asian American means in America is different from what it means in one’s country of origin, or even within different regions of America itself. But despite this disparity of experiences, there is unity and shared struggles nonetheless. And on a campus as diverse as USC’s, all of us have a place to belong.
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Ali Wong is a stand-up comic from San Francisco, now living in Los Angeles. Her first Netflix stand-up special BABY COBRA was filmed when she was 7 months pregnant. According to the New York Magazine, “The special’s arrival on Netflix is the sort of star-making moment that unites the tastes of the unlikeliest fans.“ Elle applauded it as a “comic genius gem” while Vogue called it “The special that everyone is talking about.“ Emily Nussbaum hailed it as “funny and refreshingly rude.” The day before its premiere, Wong’s interview with Marc Maron on his podcast WTF was released. He called the special “the most honest, rawest, funniest special I’ve seen in years. “She soon after became a very popular Halloween costume. Fans, both male and female, dressed up in Wong’s iconic red glasses, black and white striped dress and pregnant belly. The Smithsonian has asked Wong to donate the actual dress, shoes and necklace she wore in the BABY COBRA, to the Museum of American History in Washington, DC.Ali’s second stand-up special, HARD KNOCK WIFE premiered on Netflix on Mother’s Day, 2018.

Her feature film, ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE, which she co-wrote and co-stars in, debuted on Netflix May 2019 to wide critical acclaim. In the first four weeks, it was seen by 32 million viewers. This Halloween, fans have continued to dress up as Wong in the striped dress, in the leopard dress and as her character, Sasha Tran, from ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE.

Tickets to see Wong headline live are now known to sell out within two minutes. She recently sold out an unprecedented 13 shows at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. She is currently on her MILK & MONEY standup tour that continues to sell out nationwide. Her book DEAR GIRLS: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life was released October 2019 and became an instant New York Times Bestseller. According to Vogue, “[Wong] spins a volume whose pages simultaneously shock and satisfy…Dear Girls is not so much a real-talk handbook as it is a myth-puncturing manifesto.”

Randall can also be seen in They Came Together opposite Paul Rudd, Neighbors opposite Zac Efron, Sex Tape opposite Jason Segel and The Interview opposite Seth Rogen and James Franco.