Jo Koy had a speech ready when he walked onstage in Stockton, Calif.
\n\nIt was his first time in the Central Valley city, and before taping the two sold-out arena shows that became his new Netflix special, he went looking for its Filipino history. He found plenty: “No Filipinos allowed” signs on restaurants, water fountains Filipinos weren’t allowed to drink from and the Little Manila neighborhood later split by a freeway. “There were a lot of fucked-up things that happened,” he tells me, before apologizing for the language. “It just really sucked.”
\n\nThe plan was to open by hitting all of it hard. Then, the minute he walked out, the crowd gave him a standing ovation.
\n\n“I saw this white guy high-five this Asian guy, and a Black guy was standing and this Black lady over here, Latinos over here and a Filipino right here,” he says. “And I was just like, no, man, I’m not gonna do this.” He made the call on the spot. “What happened in the past is the past, but look where we are now.”
\n\nThat’s what he brought to his comedy special “Jo Koy: Blue in the Face,” which premiered Sept. 15 on Netflix…
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