Bowen Yang’s career has risen since he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live , with the 34-year-old seeming racking higher profile roles as time goes on. Even before this 50th season of SNL (which is airing amid the 2024 TV schedule ), his roles TV and movie roles were already taking shape, and he hosted (and continues to run) a commentary-driven culture podcast with best friend Matt Rogers called Las Culturistas . As Yang continues to become a household name, he revealed that he still struggles with the advice that SNL alum Tina Fey gave him in regard to fame.
The Nora From Queens alum joined the NPR podcast Wild Card to chat about a little of everything. When asked about what he’s learned to be careful of career-wise, Bowen Yang referred to the aforementioned Mean Girls writer’s words about the ups and downs of maintaining authenticity as a famous person. As the comedian explained, the comments haunt him: Ugh.
This is really something that I've dwelled on for the past, oh, two, three months? Tina Fey came on my podcast, and she — in a very playful, so brilliant way — was railing against me for sharing my real opinions on movies on the podcast and just my real opinions in general. As someone who is a fan of the Fire Island star and a self-declared "Reader" (a specific type of fan of the podcast), I've seen his words get picked apart in real time. One of the most recent instances was when during the award-winning podcast, he called SNL "cringy," which he defined as.
