He just says whatever he wants to say, and he’s a trendsetter. He is ghetto fabulous, and he has no filter. Who was your biggest inspiration for Bon Qui Qui? This was when Myspace was hot, and all of the sudden my Myspace page started blowing up, and I was getting pages and pages of messages from all over the world-the Philippines, Australia, Atlanta, Ohio, New York, everywhere-asking, “When are you going to perform stand-up comedy here?” I only had 12 minutes of material so I was like, “I guess I better write more material.” I also did this impersonation of my “sister” who was trying to be a rapper, and that eventually turned into Bon Qui Qui. What do I do?” So I went on YouTube and typed in “Latina famous people” and was like, “Who can I copy?” I did Jennifer Lopez, Roselyn Sánchez and then Paula Abdul because she was at the height of American Idol. I don’t have any characters, and I don’t do celebrity impressions. My manager sent me out on this audition for MADtv, and I was like, “Oh, I’ve never done sketch comedy before. I started taking meetings, and I wound up getting an agent and a manager.So in one year, I went from having nothing in my life, nothing on the horizon and no opportunities to touring the country as a stand-up comedian headlining my own shows, and I was on a hit show on FOX. Between January and February it got four million views, and by March everyone in Hollywood had seen it.
Then this nail salon video blew up on YouTube, and this was when YouTube was brand new… when if a video was popular, everyone on the site saw it. Everything in my life was saying, “Well, you tried but you failed! Time to go home.” I was at that point in my life. At that time, I didn’t have an agent, I had no auditions, I had no money in my back account, and my unemployment checks had run out. The nail salon video came out in January 2007. If I start in London, I’ll end up in Vietnam.
#BURGER TYME HOW TO#
Then the nail girls would teach me how to count to 100 andbasic things like “thank you” and “you’re welcome.” It’s funny because any accent that I do now always turns into Vietnamese. And one of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I could impress my nail girls. I dated a guy in a gang there were drive-by shootings at his house it was unreal. But I always wanted to be a little chola chick. Yeah, I’m fromSan Jose, CA, which is very diverse, and I grew up around a lot of different types of people. Is it fair to assume you grew up in a diverse area?
#BURGER TYME MOVIE#
Shejust dropped a Bon Qui Qui Christmas album,which includes the first-ever Hoodmasclassic “ Deck the Ho’s,” she issoon going on touras Bon Qui Qui, she’s got another hour-long comedy special in the works, she’s developing a workplace comedy with NBC, and she’s even starring in a movie coming out in January, titled The Resurrection of Gavin Stone.īutAnjelahwas fully game to discussher greatest hits, including “Tammy” from Beautiful Nail salon, why Bon Qui Qui is still going strong and her increasingly frequent and nasty run-ins with keyboard warriors on social media. Meetingat the Hôtel Americano in New York City,Anjelahwas pleasantly warm (she’s a hugger)and seemed to bebusier than ever. Anyone can see themselves reflected in herarray of spot-on accents and impersonations, which isprecisely what makes her comedy so uproariously funny and, in a time of great racial and political strife, oddly healing.
No one is a punching bag in Anjelah’s comedy, wherein shediscusses cultural differences honestly and frankly. Her approach explains why her race-based standup resonates where it may get so many other comedians in trouble. I go, ‘If I were him…’ and then bring it back to me.” I never go ‘Oh, I saw this guy do this and that’ and make fun of him. “I typically talk about my life and a lot of personal stuff. “My comedy is never far-removed from myself,” Anjelah recently told us. Much of Anjelah’s standup material centers on her Mexican heritage and the diverse tapestry of characters in her life, like a Filipino grandmother who accidentally runs over dogs with her car (“Oi! Sorry, dog!”) and a chicken taco-snatching thug on the loose in South Central Los Angeles.
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