‘SNL’ castmember Bowen Yang shares a piece of ‘cultural contraband’ from his youth

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'”Yang says he never thought SNL would hire “an effeminate Asian man” for that show, but he was happy to be proven wrong. '”In addition to his work on SNL, Yang had a part in Wicked, and is co-host of the popular podcast Las Culturistas with his friend Matt Rogers. The two hosted a satirical awards show — the Las Culturistas Culture Awards — on Bravo/Peacock. The thing that made me love culture was the way that it gets digested, which happens to be what SNL kind of is. And so we just kind of made a stream of consciousness list of nominees and categories for theoretical Las Culturistas culture awards.