Before becoming a famous comedian and actor, Yang worked as a DJ at a strip club, which he wrote about in his book, How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2018, he said, "I was a DJ at this extremely seedy strip club and the owner was a biker gang guy and it was run by ex-cons and the doorman used to be in the Aryan brotherhood. Reading that stuff back, I can't believe how far I came, because I could have totally gotten sucked into that life. I was a very good strip club DJ and the owner actually offered to open a strip club for me to run. So it's one of those forks in the road; it could have really gone the other way." Imagine a world without Yang's acting! We are so glad he chose the path he did.