Comedian Grace Yao appeared as a guest on LeMent Tonight, sharing her experiences growing up as a first-generation Canadian-American and attending a strict all-girls Catholic high school. She hilariously compared her time at St. Agnes Academy to a prison sentence, joking about the intense guilt instilled by the nuns and the “speakeasy” vibe of the confession booths. Yao also opened up about her relationship with her traditional Chinese mother, who initially tried to raise her as a boy because she wanted a son. She joked that she eventually managed to “buy off” her mother’s persistent guilt and stalking by moving far away and purchasing her a white Lexus.

Yao explained that entering stand-up comedy served as a form of therapy, allowing her to process her childhood trauma and get paid for it. During the interview, she participated in an improvisational game called “Ask Not,” intentionally giving terrible advice on topics like buying rusted-out junkyard cars and sending parents to the Titanic with nothing but a flashlight and a rope. Looking to the future, Yao discussed her upcoming aspirations, which include auditioning for acting and commercial gigs, utilizing her skills in Mandarin and martial arts, and producing a new stand-up show centered around female and mother-focused comedy.

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Hey, everybody. Welcome. It’s LeMent Tonight. special guest is Grace Yao. And of course we’ve got Gary Lymes, the Flea Tones. Thank you, Gary. No, Gary, no. So Grace Yao, let me say a little bit about Grace before we bring her out here. So Grace Yao talks about family relationships, observation of rules in life we all follow and are fed up with. She has bottled up beautifully her polite rage into comedy. Everybody, Grace Yao. Thank you, thank you. Oh, I can hit the applause button. Oh, I raised my hand here. Let’s get some applause for you, of course, right? Sure, that’d be great. You stayed up late tonight uh she’s supposed to be watching uh love island or something and she decided she’d talk to me yeah yeah tv broke tv broke um yeah so how are you doing tonight grace i’m i’m hot it’s hot here um
hot flashes don’t help. Yeah. Just feel like I’m incredible. I got stuck in an oven. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yeah. But uh, yeah. So um, yeah, Bob and I were talking about shame for some reason right before. My that’s always my second subject when I talk to people. Yeah. Very, very nice opener there. Um, But it was great. It’s great because I’m also a Catholic school girl. Yeah. Yeah. I still have the outfit. Shut up anyways. Yeah, it was a school for, it was a high school for girls only. It wasn’t bad. It really wasn’t that bad, really. I mean, it’s like where girls go. You know, they hang out, they gossip, they braid each other’s hair. You know, it’s kind of like that place called prison.
Yeah. Yep. I served four years at St. Agnes Academy of You Will Graduate If You Feel Guilty. Yeah, I graduated the class of I’m sorry, I’m a sinner. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. Oh my god, I think a really good. Sorry, sorry. You know, have you ever seen nuns? Like close up? Yeah, I have actually. Are you a Catholic schoolboy? No, I’m not. Okay. I just wonder what how would you get to see a nun? But you know, they have you noticed that nuns they don’t walk? You know, they glide in their habit and everything. And I just I used to think it was the Holy Spirit. Yeah, but looking back, it was just pure concentrated, like, I haven’t had sex since prom, you know,
they’re going on yeah and and somehow i don’t know what, what did nuns do? I mean, they’re probably on like catholic dating apps, just like swiping right on Jesus. Like, Oh, you know, yes, for Jesus. And somehow they all got, yeah, they all got matched with the same guy actually. So they’re all married to Jesus. Seriously. Uh, they’re literally called the bride of Christ. Yeah. Yeah. So isn’t it weird? Like we, we call them sisters. We calling them Mrs. Jesus. Cause they’re all married to Christ. Yeah. So anyway, you know, when nuns die, they should be like, they’re probably waiting for their honeymoon finally, you know, to go on a honeymoon. But, uh, I don’t know how many people know this, but there’s no marriage in heaven, according to the Bible. But it just means that when they die, they’ll probably end up at the pearly gates with St. Peter going, I’m sorry, but there’s no sex in heaven. Please put your vaginas in the basket.
Have you got one? Come on, don’t be shy. Now you know the secret. Now pretty much in heaven we’re all just Ken and Barbie dolls. Just nuns out there going, I stayed celibate to end up in eternity smooth. But anyway. Yeah, so that’s me. Catholic school girl. Lots of therapy. Anyway. Now, you really think that there’s no sex in heaven? Well, true. Just because there’s no marriage doesn’t mean… I mean, maybe it’s just all, you know, like some kind of crazy orgy up in heaven. Yes, actually. Yeah. Or maybe it’s just people… It’s like, you know… plastic sandpaper. Everybody’s just rubbing up against each other with their smoothness. What do you think? Yeah, rug burn. That’s right. I got some cloud burn going on because I’m up in heaven. Right. That’s interesting. So you spent four years at Catholic school. Now, I mean, the interesting thing as you talk about it is if it’s
kind of bad and good. It’s not like you’re angry about it. It’s kind of like you’re, you survived and you’re kind of, you know, it’s kind of quizzical to you, it seems like. Yeah, I’m not angry about it. I’m just like, I can’t believe, I can’t believe what they, they, what I went through. I can’t believe so So you’re saying basically you didn’t buy into all the rhetoric is what you’re telling me. Yes, pretty much. Yes. So what rhetoric would you, were the pieces that you, all the Catholics that I know, they always just take the pieces they like and then they leave the pieces they don’t like. So which pieces did you like? I liked the confessional booth. You know, you go in, there’s like a little peephole, you know, you can fly the door open. I mean, it just reminded me of like a 1920s speakeasy. Okay. Yeah. So I always… Just the physical nature of it? Or was it, do you like pouring your soul out to another person that you may or may not know? Oh, no, no, I didn’t. I would go in there when no one’s in the other little room. Yeah.
Isn’t that kind of like, you know, it’s kind of weird because you could draw a comparison between the glory hole and confession. Yeah. And they’re also called a Judas hole. Oh, really? I’ve never heard that one. Explain. I must have had something to do with Judas. Okay. So basically you shouldn’t necessarily always trust who’s behind the door there, behind the other side? Yeah. They could turn on you and say, Grace, give me 10 Hail Marys and… Bloody Mary. Community service. Oh, yeah. Well, it’s up so high, I don’t know how people would actually use it for anything else. Oh, okay. I’ve never given confession, so I’ve seen the box, but I’ve never been in it. I’m always afraid to, when I’ve been in a Catholic church, I’m always afraid to go in there because I certainly don’t want to give my confession. Oh, I think it’s going to be on your bucket list now. Uh-oh. You got to try it just once.
I’ve only seen the ones in movies and on Seinfeld and whatnot where it’s like right there where they’re leaning against each other, basically. You said it’s high up, so it’s above where your head would be while you’re sitting down, I’m assuming. Oh, you’re sitting down and it’s like where your head is. Yeah. Oh, okay. Interesting. So open the door before they open the door. Who’s behind there? So did you have to give confession while you were in high school? It was an option. Oh, they didn’t make you do it like, well, Grace, we haven’t seen you by the confessional recently. You might want to go in there. I’m sure you’re not been really that great. I mean, it’s obvious. Thank goodness. It wasn’t a grade. So it was just. Your clothing alone tells me you need to be in there. The what alone? Your clothing. My clothing alone.
You’re you’re obviously breaking some of the dress codes here at the academy. Oh, the little plaid uniforms that look like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Probably for those girls who would, you know, roll up their their little skirt belts. Mm hmm. One too many times, and it made it like really, really a miniskirt. Uh-huh. Probably they were in confession. Probably in trouble, huh? Yeah. Hmm. So I don’t want to necessarily talk about Catholic stuff all night. No offense. If you want to talk more about it, if you have like a proclivity to only talk about Catholic things, we can. But if not, I have some other questions. Let’s go to the other question. I’ll take other questions for 400. OK, so. So we were talking earlier, I said, if you had anything to plug, you can go ahead and say it. So is there anything you want to mention here at the now or. I like to get it out of the way and then we’re going to come back to it at the end, but like to get it out of the way. Yeah, let’s get it out of the way. Thank you, mom.
for giving me lots of material to talk about. Oh yeah. And you can find me on Instagram. My handle is grace. Yeah. Underscore. Double O. Really? There’s zero, zero. I just wanted the James Bond thing, but it’s four, zero, zero. Is that because of your mother? Does she have some kind of crush on James Bond or something? Absolutely not. I don’t think she even knows who he is. Really? So what, So why – so what is your mom – what’s the worst thing your mom’s done? Has she embarrassed you or what is she – has she punished you? Has she, you know, guilted you into, you know, taking care of her and paying for her car or something? Yes. Yep. All of that. All of that. What kind of car does she have? I’m just curious. Asian. What kind of car does she have? Yeah. If you’re paying for it, I’m just curious what –
Is it a Kia Soul or is it like a BMW? What are you buying for mom? She has a Lexus. Hey. Well, that’s a lot of guilt. But now I feel light. I’m all good. Well, you figured I’ve evened up with a Lexus? Absolutely. Let me see. Birth equals a Lexus. I think that’s going to be their new marketing. Yes. I mean… Everyone could do this. Easy. You can pay your way out of guilt. Yeah. Well, I mean, that’s kind of what a lot of people do. It works. That’s why. What kind of Lexus is it? Can I even get that specific? The model? It’s white. Okay. I don’t even know all the Lexus names. Me neither. Me neither. I think they’re all, they’re not numbers, are they? I’m trying to think here. No. No, of course not. Now you have me like, I better look it up. Like a Lexus 350. I don’t know what they are. I’ll have to look it up myself. Are you looking it up? I’m looking it up. I have a friend who just got another question. Why don’t I have to look up stuff?
Well, what else did she do? I mean, is your mom still hassling you, even though you got our Alexis? No, it works. Oh, really? I’m telling you. Get to your mom, Alexis. Okay. I’m going to put these keys in your hand, and you’re going to shut the hell up. Yes, yes. Is that what you said? No, of course not. Oh, okay, good. Does she live near you or did you move far away? I moved far away, thankfully. After the Lexus, she just dropped it off and you’re like, see ya. Yeah, I moved far away. She was still stalking me. So I was like, okay, here’s some Lexus. Calling your mother a stalker is really apropos. I mean, she did give birth to you. I think she has some connection. She has a right to…
I didn’t say a right. I just said a connection. Yeah, it’s called the umbilical cord. Invisible umbilical cord, yes. Oh, my goodness. When did your life turn around? So you had, obviously, through high school, you had some trauma with your mother, even into your adult life, to the point where you’re buying her off and moving far away. When did your life change? become good? When I got into stand-up comedy, of course. Oh, okay. Well, I guess we can talk about that. Yeah. So tell me about that. So you bought your mom off, you know, you packed up the station wagon, you moved far away, and then you’re like, next stop, the Yuck Yuck Hut. Yuck Yuck Hut. Okay. Yeah. i don’t know i don’t know what it’s called near you. Ah, okay. Honey bone. I don’t know. Yeah. Um, and then, and then someone was getting, giving a class for all female identifying people who want to take a stand-up class. And I was like, that sounds safe. Uh, and it’s a lot cheaper than therapy so
I thought you meant it was cheaper because it was all female for some reason. I’m like, that doesn’t sound good. No, you just take the class and then find free open mics. Oh, wow. You can have as much therapy as you want. I mean, every day of the night if you want. Yeah. Do you think it’s helped you? Oh, absolutely. Oh, good. In what ways would you say – what’s the most – the best way it’s helped you if you say – do this, you know, cause I got a bad back. And if you hang upside down for three minutes every day, you’re going to feel great. What is, what is that equivalent? It’s equivalent to all that stuff that you wrote in your diary or your journal. Now you can take it up on stage and get paid for it. Give me an example.
Oh, let’s see. Um, like when I was well, okay. So my parents, um, yeah, I wasn’t their favorite child. So how many brothers and sisters do you have? Well, I was the only child. Oh, was there, was there a dog or something? Not even a dog. It was just me. It was just gerbil. They loved the gerbil. They hated me. Um, Yeah. So, and they’re, they’re very, my mom’s very traditional. So, you know, having a boy is like really good. So having a grace, not so much. Yeah. She could have dressed you up and, you know, kind of steward you in that direction. How did you know? Yeah. Yeah. And then, um, uh, she, she was like, I cut your hair. And so she, she did, she cut my hair and gave me, I don’t know if you can even call them bangs, but, but, um, she loved it. She loved it. Cause all, all her friends were like, and this was when I was young. So all her friends were like, Oh, what’s your son’s name? How old is your son? And my mom was so happy because now she had a boy, you know? Yeah. What did she call you? Gray or something? Those is gray.
No, it was my Chinese name, so… Oh, okay. Okay, well, I guess there’s gender identifiers in Chinese names, I would imagine. Mine wasn’t very gender identifying, so… You’re like Boy George or something? I was, yeah, beyond my time. I’m just joking. Well, that’s interesting. So, yeah, yeah, I was… Your mom tried to pass you off as a boy, as a child. Yeah, yeah. When did you finally get to be a girl, I guess? I will never have short hair ever. Okay, interesting. Yeah, yeah. That’s funny. My mom always, I have an older brother. My mom wanted me to be a girl. Okay. But she never like forced me into the, you know what I mean? She just would say it. Well, we have Bob, but we really wanted a girl. So did you try to please her? I don’t know. I certainly doesn’t sound like that. I had anything near your experience just to be, you know, no, I don’t know. I don’t think so.
We got along really well, but I just, you know, in hindsight, I do remember these things. But I’m, what do you want to say? It may have contributed to my aloofness. Because a lot of people would describe me as very aloof. And so I think that’s probably part of that. Because I really don’t pay a lot of attention to a lot of things. Just whatever you don’t want to hear, you just don’t pay attention to. Apparently. Yeah. My wife will tell you that too. Maybe different. I don’t know. I’d love to talk to your wife. We probably have a lot in common. She just thinks I don’t listen at all. So yeah, but no, that’s, that’s horrible. I mean, I’m sorry that you’re. Oh, it was, it was, you know, the seventies and eighties. So yeah. Yeah.
It just went over my head. Everybody looked like a boy. I know. Like you can dress in boy clothes. You can dress a girl in boy’s clothes, but you don’t really put a dress on a boy back then. So it’s like no one really, yeah, I didn’t really know any different except for like. You just kind of rolled with it. I rolled with it. I was like, well, I’m not a boy, but that’s weird. Yeah. Did you ever say I’m not a boy in your mind? Like, shh. I probably did. Yeah. He’s like, you’re killing the illusion, kid. Yeah, totally. Yeah. So when when was it that you kind of rebelled against that? Hmm. Oh, I think it was middle school. I I just went punk. You know? Oh, gosh, I know.
I know. Now, were you, because you said your mother’s Chinese. So this all happened while you were in the States or whenever? Were you in China for a while and then came over the States? No, I was born. Yeah, I’m here in the U.S. So I never, I mean, I visited China, but nope, it was here. So you were born in the United States and everything. And then your mom’s just from China. So you’re a first generation Chinese. For your family. Yeah, kind of. I’m Canadian, but came to the States. Oh, gotcha. You came through. Oh, well, you’re one of those Canadians. Yeah. That explains a lot. Oh, does it? Yeah. What does it explain to me? What does it explain? Suri. Suri. Are you Suris? Mm-hmm. Yeah. And you have a very, you know…
you know, Canadian attitude towards things, it sounds like. Very polite. Very polite. Overly polite, yes. Very ragey inside, yeah. Yeah, but angry, yes. But you don’t want anybody to really know it unless it slips out. So when was the last time you beat up a mom? Never. Never slips out? Okay. You’re just going to take that with you to your grave. Well, to heaven. And then you’ll join the party with Jesus. Hey, I did not swipe right. I am. Yeah. Gary’s going to play a quick song here and then we’re going to play a game. How’s that sound? Oh, fun. Okay. Let’s hear this song. Are you ready? I am ready. Wow. Let’s hear it. Hey, Gary, take it away. I’m tired of it. Okay. You want to guess what that song was? I have no clue. Oh, good. Well, then we’ll leave it like that. Okay. So let’s go. I have no clue. Just kidding. So I’ve got, let’s play a game here. These are all improvisational games. I’ve got one called world gone mad, where we talk about crazy things in the world today, which has become, I thought it was a throwaway category, but,
this last year or two has not been that way. What a story where I will ask you to tell a story on a random topic that I pick and I will critique you along the way. Mind Guck, I’ll come up with a crazy piece of trivia and then we’ll talk about that. For instance, did you know that on average 18,000 new species are discovered each year? Oh yeah. Great. Another one called you’re the expert. You need to pretend that you’re an expert. I will tell you what field you’re an expert in and then you have to, uh, convince me. Okay. Words for you. I’m going to give you an identity and then you respond to random words that I will tell you. For example, I’ll say you’re a Benedictine monk and I say the word calligraphy and then you come back to something where the last one is ask not.
I’ll pose questions to you and you need to give the worst advice possible on the topic. Which one would you like? Or I’ll just randomly pick one. That’s a lot. Um, what were the first two? Okay. I can shorten the list. Yeah. I can see it. Yeah. Whatever the phone, a friend, no phone, a friend. I don’t have any friends. So none of those jumped out at you that you’re like, Oh, I want to do that one. It did. Um, but I forgot what it was already. What were the first two? What was the premise? Huh? What was the premise? It’s before the monk thing. What was before the monk thing? Benedictine monk. You are the expert. I will, I’ll tell you that you’re an expert in a field. And then you’re going to just make up all these facts. Cause you’re the expert. No, the one before that, then it was, well,
One before that, Guck Yeah? Mind Guck? So I’ll come up with a crazy piece of trivia, and then we’ll talk about it, whether it’s true or not. And maybe you’ll come up with a crazy piece of trivia. No, I don’t like any of those. Okay. No? The one before that? Wait a minute. Yeah, the one before that. Let’s go. We’re going back through the list. Yeah. Trivia? No trivia. Oh, no trivia. Yeah. Which one then? You want me to just pick one? Okay. You pick one. All right. Ask not. I like this one. Okay. I’m going to give you questions, and you are going to give me the worst advice possible. Oh, okay. This is your challenge, right? You don’t want to give good advice. You want to give really bad advice. Okay. I’m thinking about buying my mother a new car. Oh. What car should I get her?
Okay. It sounds like we went over this before. Well, you definitely want to get advice. Yeah, go to the junkyard. You know, it’s like thrifting. And it’s what people it’s in now, you know, thrifting for clothes, furniture, you need a thrift. That’s cool. So get her the the like, like a rat rod or something. A rusted out rust bucket. Yeah, it’ll make her feel just right at home. Possibly she’ll get tetanus by opening the door. Well, get her some gloves. You know? Get her some fancy gloves. Silk, possibly silk. She’ll love that. Silk gloves and a rusted out lemon is what you’re saying. Yep. I believe you. That was very convincing. Yeah, recycle. I was thinking about giving my mother a trip to see the Titanic. Do you think that’s a good idea?
Well, I’m guessing she’s really good at scuba diving. It’s far down there. I mean, just get her a flashlight, a good flashlight. She can find her way all the way down. And probably like a long rope. Oh, okay. You don’t want her to stay down there is what you’re saying. Right, right. So she can tug on it or you can pull her back out. Oh, okay. I think the Titanic’s like, you know, it’s a good, you know, thousand feet or something. I know. Maybe more. Yeah, it might take her a few days. Xander, look that up for me real quick. How far down the Titanic goes. So a good flashlight, not a cheap one, not like one where you have to have that square battery or anything stupid like that. You’re talking about good lithium ion flashlight and a rope.
Whatever they use under the water. Yeah. And whatever the whatever those ropes are that go under. Exactly. Exactly. But she’ll have a great time. Maybe just some surgical tubing. She could tie around her waist or something. Yes. Very important. Long, long. So now you haven’t talked about your dad. So Father’s Day is coming up. What would be the good Father’s Day gift to get somebody? What do fathers need? Another remote? What would that control? Nothing. That’s the best thing. But they feel like they’re in charge. Ah. The commander remote that makes them feel like that they’re actually doing something even though it doesn’t do anything. They just want to push buttons and be in control. Maybe it says you’re the best every time you push a button. Always. Always.
You know, kind of like those, yeah, those buttons that say things. You’re the best. You’re the best. You’re the best. There you go. You’re in control. You definitely thought of that idea. Well, that sounds like a pretty good gift. I mean, is that on Timu or where we find that at? Everything’s on Timu. Unless you want to pay more. Oh my goodness. So are you a Timu shopper? You’re an expert Timu shopper? Is that what you’re telling me? I’m a download Timu shopper. Yes. I know it’s very bad for the environment and everything else. My kids tell me they would never shop on Timu. Really? They’re just not going to ever watch this interview. Yeah. Well, what do you expect, right? Are you a Timu shopper?
No, I’ve never purchased anything off T-Mobile, to be honest with you, but I’m not a purchaser. Okay. I have people for that. Oh, that’s right. Of course. I don’t do that. I don’t. Yeah. I’m like a mob boss. I just sit in the back and tell people and then that comes to me. Anyone that hosts a show definitely needs people to work for them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got people. You do all that stuff like Gary and the band, all those kind of people. Yep. So Timu gets an A-plus then from you, I guess. If you had a preference between Alibaba, Timu, and Amazon, what’s the ranking? You know, I don’t know who’s listening. I better not say anymore. No one likes any of those. What are you talking about? No one likes Jeff Bezos. No one likes Alibaba or Timu or Shein. They’re all evil. What about this new thing called Whatnot? Have you seen this where you sell things? They sell things. It’s basically the home shopping network, but online. Have you seen this? That’s new to me. Maybe I shouldn’t introduce you to it. But it’s selling stuff, not buying stuff, right?
Well, yeah, but have you ever, you haven’t tried, you haven’t seen it or tried it. So I don’t know. I have not seen it. What advice could you give me on using whatnot? What not, um, what not to sell next time? Um, you can sell your wife on it. What? I think that’s a whole different website. Goodness gracious. Well, I don’t know about whatnot. I don’t know what you can and can’t sell. Okay. Well, uh, on that note, I think that, I think that, uh, Mr. Beast, I think brought whatnot into the world. And so I don’t know if that’s what he did, but we’ll have to look into his background. Oh, it’s a Mr. Beast thing. Dang. Okay. But, uh, Gary’s going to play us a little tune and we’ll come back and wrap things up. Sounds great.
Drink. Yeah. Thank you, Gary. The help you talk about people buying your stuff and then they all turn against you. So Grace. Yes. You, you mentioned your Instagram. Was there anything else that you wanted to, uh, tell people about? I mean, you do open mics. You said, are you gonna be anywhere or should they look for you? Or do you have like uh like like Prince, they have your own symbol or something. I wish I did. No, I don’t have anything coming up. I kind of like… What’s your mom got you doing? Are you doing laundry or anything for her? What was that? Are you doing laundry or anything for her? No. She’s very far away. I don’t have to do laundry. Are you doing tech support for her when she calls up and she can’t get things working? No? No.
That doesn’t work too well. Oh, okay. Yeah. I don’t know. I’m just asking. I always end up being tech support for my folks. And so I’m just, I don’t live that close. True. Yeah. I just have her call my kids because I call my kids for tech support. Oh my goodness. I, I’m kind of, what she asked me, I’m like, let me ask my, you know what? I’ll just have, Your grandkids call you. Oh, okay. Yeah. Now, have you ever thought about doing your act as a man? Just to kind of throw back to the, maybe you start out looking like a man, and then as you go through the act, you take off your hat or whatever. Oh, wow. Yeah, if I could get my voice that down deep. Oh, you don’t have to worry about that. No, I don’t.
Yeah, no, I have not. That would be new for sure. I’m just thinking out loud here. I don’t know. Just from talking to you tonight, I’m like, hey, that sounds like a gimmick that would work. You come out like with a baseball hat on and like a hockey jersey or something. And, you know, you talk about, you know, I’m the apple of my parents eye because I was a boy, you know, we’re Chinese and I get showed around. And then, of course, you slowly reveal that that was traumatic and terrible. And you’re not a boy. So when I take off my hat, my hair falls down. Yeah, exactly. Start looking like a striptease about that. Well, I wasn’t going to get that far into things. I was just thinking a hockey jersey and then, you know, maybe you have something nicer, more feminine on underneath the hockey jersey. I don’t want to get, yeah, I wasn’t going in that direction, Grace. Come on now, you’re making me feel bad. No, my brain went in that direction. Yeah, I guess so. Pops come in, they go, excuse me. Well, there you go. Have you tried stripping instead of comedy? I don’t know, maybe.
Nothing to see here. Nothing to see here. Maybe, you know, because they have those pole dance classes where people learn how to pole dance. I don’t know. They do. Have you ever wanted to? Oh, my God, no. Are you kidding me? I’m rickety. I hear it’s great exercise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t think it would work out for me. I already have joints dislocating just by walking down the street, so I don’t need to wrap myself around a pole and do it, so… All right. I got loose joints. That’s what they are. Loose joints. Loose joints. Yeah. I think I have tight joints. They just crack. Oh, my gosh. No, mine just pop out of place. And then everything swells up. And then you got to go to the doctor and everything. Oh, gosh. Yeah. Terrible. Men’s.
Menopause? Men? men Menopause? No, unfortunately, it’s been happening to me since I was in high school so yeah so it’s a lifelong problem. Gotcha, gotcha. Not that we need to go there. So, Grace, you’re not liking the striptease and or the transformation. We’ll call it the the Grace Yao transformation Act. What do you got coming up? I mean, what are you thinking about doing? Where’s the future for Grace Yao? I wish I could tell you. You tried to tell me. I wasn’t listening. I said, I wish I could tell you. Oh, okay. Good. I don’t know. Just looking to possibly put on a show myself. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like a one-woman type show? No, I’ve done one of those. Okay. What was it called?
It was called a one-woman show. It was called When I Was a Boy. Yeah. Oh, dang. It was so long ago. What was it called? Word Search. Word Search, yeah. Oh, okay. Searching for words. Searching for words. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So what’s the new thing then? I just want to host a few comics, hopefully in the mom genre or female genre, mom genre. Yeah. with a few like guest male comics. Just throwing around those ideas. What’s the name of that one? Mom’s Night Out. Okay. Mama Palooza. I don’t know. Two moms, one dork. How about that? Two moms, one dork. The guy would be the dork. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s just an idea. I’m just throwing out ideas for you here, Grace. Oh, we’re all just, I’m just throwing out ideas too. Oh, okay. So you’re going to host a show with mostly moms and then maybe some doofus. Yeah, those are the best. We’re all having fun by then, you know? Okay. Well, that’s good. Two drink minimum. Two drink minimum. BYOB. Interesting.
Yeah, if I do it, yeah. At an HOA? I know, right? Oh, I did cul-de-sac comedy. Grace Yao’s cul-de-sac comedy. I know. Welcome, everybody, to the cul-de-sac. Gather around. There’s hot dogs and beer. Men over there. That’s right. That’s right. Yeah, this is another improv game. um yeah if it’s a bar, yeah, to drink minimum um i’m also auditioning for acting gigs, so. Oh my gosh, we didn’t even get into that you know are you gonna act like a little boy? You got practice in that i’d love to act like a big boy. I can’t do a little boy um Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. I’m terrible. Or a man. Then I’d be trans, right? Yeah, whatever. Yeah. So have you had many acting gigs? I’ve had more commercial gigs. Really? Film-wise, like little… Teemu? What was that?
Timu? You’ve been on some kind of Timu commercials or something? Do they make commercials? I don’t know. Do they? I have no idea. No. Ooh, they would probably not pay a lot, actually. Yeah. Well, they give you credit. That’s right. Oh, we’ll pay you in tchotchkes. Oh, fantastic. I love tchotchkes. More credit just to get more junk. You want to act in films, not necessarily just commercials. I enjoy all of it. Oh, okay. Yeah. I’ve been on really fun commercials. What special talents do you have? Because you know there’s a category on your resume. It’s special talents. And people like, say, horseback riding and stunt driving, and they don’t know how to do any of it. Yeah, that’s me. What have you put on yours? Drag riding? Driving? Dancing? No. Aikido? I put that on mine. Pole dancing? I put that on mine. Aikido, is that martial arts? Martial arts, yeah. Yeah, I would put I don’t sing and I could speak Mandarin. Mandarin?
Really? What else can I do? Snowboard, if they need that. Wow. Just things like yoga. Beginner jujitsu. Leave the beginner part off if you’re putting on your resume. Just say jujitsu. Yeah. They don’t ask for level. Levels, yeah. Don’t ever give them the level unless they really want you to press for it. Yeah. So how would you say… Good night, everybody, in Mandarin. Which way do I want to say? That’s like good night. Yeah. Goodbye would be. There you go.