11/23/2023 0 Comments Yumi nagashima![]() It’s a good question, and one Nagashima is answering across the country on the Comedy Here Often A Busload of Fun comedy tour. “And it’s not like people in places like Vancouver or Toronto don’t hear people talking just like me all around them all the time. “It’s authentic, it’s who I am,” she said. She prides herself on keeping her accent through it all. ![]() “But that’s comedy, and how I got the material for the album. “There was a moment in Whitehorse, where I think maybe they were laughing at me before they began laughing with me,” she said. She has also toured all over Canada, where not every audience is quite as familiar with the partying preferences of Australians in Whistler. No matter, most of her act is universal. Hers is an immigrant viewpoint coming from a place that has its own distinct outlook. In itself, this isn’t new territory, but she puts a spin on it that opens up whole new ways of looking at such topics. On My Name is Yumi, Nagashima gets into everything from racism to comparing pornographic preferences across international boundaries. “If that desire is to be a devoted housewife, OK too. But it’s especially heartening to me to know that Asian women see me doing standup comedy and they can feel more liberated to say anything they want to say the way that they say it, and not worry too much about it.” “My mother and her generation were told to support their husband or family, and didn’t have a chance to think about their own beliefs and desires, but you actually have choices to do whatever you want,” said Nagashima. Besides jokes about actually being a sushi server, Nagashima is hoping to inspire young Asian, and other, women the same way she was inspired by her mentor Leo Award-winning comedian, writer and producer Erica Sigurdson. If success is the best revenge, then Nagashima is dishing it out.Īfter having her fill of roles as “the sexy sushi waitress who is also a secret ninja killer,” she is out to bash stereotypes.
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