![]() You don’t have to like me, but just love what I did and love my hustle.” “Why don’t you find out what they did to get there? And maybe that’ll inspire you. “Sometimes we see people and we see how they’re successful but no one really wants to dig deep and find out the backstory,” Koy says. But through all of the rejection-including some by Koy, who turned down high-profile projects he felt were beneath him-he ultimately prevailed, producing three hit Netflix specials and an upcoming movie based on his life called Easter Sunday that he’s making with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. Koy’s long journey to success, which he chronicles with humor and depth in his new memoir Mixed Plate, contained more hardship and trauma than even some of the most troubled comedians out there. And I was willing to not do it until I figured it out, you know?” And give it a voice so people would relate to it and appreciate it. ![]() ![]() I wanted it to represent my mom’s culture and my culture the right way. But how can I tell people who I was without doing the basic comparison shit? Like, ‘Filipinos eat this, but white people don’t eat that, am I right?’ I wanted to do it the right way. “Because it was easy to be funny that way. “It was easy to go to the dick jokes,” he says of his early days performing comedy on the Las Vegas strip.
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