My Attempt at Stand Up Comedy in Cantonese - No One Laughed
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- My visit On Lok in SF's Chinatown resulted in my attempt at Standup Comedy (in Cantonese). No one laughed though... either they didn't understand my Chinese or I wasn't funny. Anyway it was still fun and now I know what it's like to bomb in front of a crowd.
OMG! I totally get your story on "look yee". If I am correct, I believe that is a Toi Sanese translation to Cantonese for police. When I was very young, a cousin kept saying "look yee" & I thought he meant police. However, he meant "6th auntie". I was so confused! @ the time when you grew up in SF...there were many Toi Sanese speaking immigrants! LOL I was correct! I made these comments before watching your entire video. You should sing Sam Hui's song on playing MJ! Tim, I'm impressed! That was great you were able to learn so much Cantonese in 4 months!
Well, actually I learned enough to get started and then when I came back to SF I just kept it up. My mother passed in 2005 and she was the main person who helped me along after I came back. I miss her terribly.
When I was in HK I went out to have tea with a friend. When we sat down they asked, "What kind of tea do you want?" She replied, "We want 'water first.'" In Cantonese it sounded like "suiew seen." "Water first" was what I heard. It sounded exactly like water first. After lunch we walked outside and I asked, "Why did they serve us tea?" And she said, "It's a tea house, what do you mean?" "You told them we wanted water instead of tea." And she said, "No, I didn't." Talk about confused. It turns out that there is a type of tea that is called "suiew seen." They don't serve it in SF tho,
@@TimHGuitar I never heard of that tea. I believe "suiew seen" means water angel. I'm going to check on that. I can imagine how much you miss your mother. Mine passed away in 2007. My dad passed in 2000. I miss them tremendously. I've never been to SF. Heard the Chinatown there is great! I live in Boston. My parents & I moved here from NY when I was 7. I couldn't believe how small the Chinatown was!
@@TimHGuitar Ok I checked on the translation of "suiew seen" . Water Lily
Hi Tim, I was surprise that you are a Chinese and speaking Cantonese. I wonder if you came from Hong Kong?
HI Leo - I was born in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1952. In 1973 at the age of 21 I decided to re-learn my original language which I spoke until I was 5. So I went to HK for 4 months and forced myself to speak Cantonese once again. Since then I've been trying to keep it up. Here is a new post where I sing a Danny Chan song with English lyrics which I wrote...
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@@TimHGuitar Hi Tim, did you ever meet Bruce Lee when he was in US in 60's?
No, but I know a bunch of people who did. I was too young to study Gung Fu back then but my brother took Wing Chung and knew some folks. When I studied Tai Chi in the 70s my teacher knew him and had a lot of stories about Bruce Lee. Apparently he was a pretty good dancer back in the day.
@@TaiChiBeMe Indeed, he had taught people cha-cha before he became a kung Fu teacher in US. Can you share some stories that you heard about Bruce Lee please?
Well, one thing I heard was that when he was young his friends thought that he was a little bit too proud of his abilities and so one day he challenged Master Wong in Chinatown to a duel. The match turned out not to Bruce's liking. It wasn't definitive as to who won the match; I guess Mr. Lee thought the duel would be easier.
In any case the consensus was that he was a bit too proud. After that he said, "I'll show you." At some point he left San Francisco, and as my Tai Chi master told us, "Well, later on he did show us."