After every video I make, my mom calls to give me her input. Usually to point out the things I shouldn’t have talked about or mentioned in my video. I used to find these calls slightly annoying, but now I’m starting to find them entertaining, and even reassuring. What I realized is… If my parents are CONTENT with the things I say in my videos, then I’m doing something WRONG. I’d be playing it safe. Let me explain.

My parents are immigrants from Taiwan, and they tried to raise me based on their traditional values. Growing up there are things we were never exposed to. When these “things” did accidentally come up, it was extremely uncomfortable. For instance, have you ever watched a movie with your Asian parents and a random, unexpected sex scene pops up? You could cut the tension in the room with a mother effing chainsaw. Our parents wanted us to be as far removed from these things as possible.

Because of this, we end up learning about sex, drugs, and everything else through our peers and not our parents. Then we have to go through life lying to our parents, pretending we never drink, have sex, try drugs, masturbate, like were all purists or something. Granted, some of us really are 100% clean and never partake in these things, but the majority of us aren’t.

In my videos, I strive to be as honest as possible. Which has lead to videos where I talk about drugs, sex, drinking, even masturbation. I know there’s a certain level of uncomfortableness that occurs when I talk about these issues, but if I never talked about them, I’d be lying. I’m a 21-year-old Asian American male and I’m part of a new generation of Asian Americans. I want to represent that as much as I can in my videos.

So the next time my mom calls to tell me she’s embarrassed to show my videos to her friends, I’ll know I’m doing something right.

So then I remembered that funny little incident and locked it away in my mind somewhere. When it came time to film a video I decided to flesh that idea out. Then I asked Justin Chon to play that role of a drunk wingman. He did it exactly how I imagined. You may have seen Justin in Twilight as Eric Yorkie, Wendy Wu with Brenda Song, Crossing Over, or Just Jordan. It was a lot of fun to shoot this video. Justin Chon actually got drunk while filming, which may have resulted in a lot of the raunchier stuff towards the end (including the now infamous “kiss”).

Here are a bunch of deleted scenes we couldn’t fit into the video.

And here is the actual video:

Love you guys,
Kevin

As you can see, the new video was a lot of fun to make. I really don’t tell my parents how much I love them, since I’m a crappy son, but that’s what inspired the video. Hopefully they know now :)

If you haven’t seen the ACTUAL video yet, watch it below. If you have, feel free to watch it again!

So yeah, go tell ur parents how much u love ‘em.
-Kevin

I want to eat a big fat steak right now… All i can eat is smoothies, ice cream, and jello, which was awesome for like half a day.

Kevin

My recent video “Caught” was fun to make, and it has an interesting backstory to how it was created, so I thought i’d share it with you guys…

I first shot the scene with the old, Indian guy in my video over a month ago. Gerry Bednob plays the convenience store clerk (You might have seen him in 40-yr old Virgin, Zack and Miri make a porn, Walk Hard, and a gang of other movies.) I met him on the set of a movie I did with him called “Rock Jocks,” and I fell in love with his hilarious, raunchy personality and wanted to use him for something. So i wrote this “jacking off” joke based off of his character. After I shot the scene with him though, I wasn’t sure what to do with it…

At the same time, I also had this random clip of my dad in a Flintstones costume, which I shot over two months ago while I was back home in Houston. I originally shot this clip cause I found out Hollywood was doing another movie called Akira (A popular Japanese Anime) and they wanted to cast Zach Efron in it. So I said… Eff that S***!! if Hollywood’s gonna do that, I’m gonna do a remake of Flintstones and cast my Dad!!

But after i shot it I never used it, cuz i found out there wasn’t much buzz about the movie Akira anymore and decided it would be too similar to my other video “Asians aren’t cool enough.” So I just kinda had this clip of my dad in a flintstones costume sitting in my computer…

Now I have these two funny, individual clips and I had to figure out a way to combine them into one video without making it seem like I had two completely unrelated things that I threw together. This has happened on other occasions as well (See “Sex and Tutors” and “Girls are like M&M’s” for good examples).

After a long night of brainstorming/writing, I was able to connect both skits. So I shot the vlogging parts the next day, spent a few days editing, and “CAUGHT” was formed.

if you haven’t seen it yet, you can watch it below. If you have, well then… watch it again :)

Love u,
Kevin

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Kevin

Kevin

I went on tour with Ryan Higa, Andrew Garcia, D-pryde, Maribelle Anes, and Jayesslee. It was fun getting to bond with these super nice and talented people over the trip. Here’s some pictures.

The Aussie Gang (don’t know why my tongues stickin out):

KevJumba/Jayesslee/Ryan Higa

The Sydney Crowd

The support from Australia was insane, being on stage out there was unforgettable. This video clip below is in Sydney, and it was so HYPE opening the show, especially with the music and everything.

Next is a video of an unreleased song that we decided to start performing for this Australian tour. The song is made by Chester See, Ryan, and I. It’s about how douchebags always get the pretty girls! (Were shooting the music video for this song this week so stay tuned!)

Everytime I go to Australia, it’s an amazing experience. I hope to go back again soon. Thanks to all you peeps from down under for showing us love.

Where should I go next?
Kevin

It makes me smile watching it, so hopefully it will do the same for you.

Stay tuned,
Kevin

If you haven’t seen the video yet, watch it here.
If it makes you giggle, feel free to share it with your peeps ;)

F***ing love you guys,
Kevin