Asian American Commercial Watch: “Twins” for Taco Bell’s Spicy Chicken Cool...
An Asian guy rarely gets the girl in a TV commercial, but two of them each getting a girl? And in the same commercial? And the girls are white too? Not your typical TV commercial, but although I...
View ArticleAsian American Commercial Watch: Toyota Time – Spelling Bee
The theme of “Indian kids as spelling bee champions” seems to have a higher profile lately, especially with the recent movie Bad Words. This Toyota commercial includes an Indian kid showing off his...
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Ted Lieu for Congress 2014
Ted Lieu is currently a California State Assembly member in the California state legislature and he is running for Congress. Full disclosure: I think I have donated to to his campaign in the past, and...
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Samsung Experience Shop — Countdown to Upgrade
If you haven’t been to a Best Buy recently, it’s hard not to notice the Samsung store-within-a-store set-ups that Samsung has. As you may know, the Samsung Galaxy S5 launched a few months ago, and now...
View ArticleChloe Bennet’s Chinese Pop Music Video
After finding out that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. star Chloe Bennet was actually a popstar in China as a teen, I was curious and searched for some videos of her singing in Chinese, and here it...
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Priscilla Chan Gives First Television Interview
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy At the end of May Priscilla Chan – most known for being Facebook founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s wife – gave her first...
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What You Might Not Know about Ann Curry, Recipient of the 2014 V3con Vision...
By Eugene Hung This post is part of a series that will introduce 8Asians readers to some of this year’s V3 Digital Media Conference (V3con) honorees, speakers, panelists, and performers. The V3con...
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Progressive Insurance: Superport
In the latest Progressive Insurance commercial, actor Aaron Takahashi plays the role of a father waiting at the airport, playing around with his tablet, checking out insurance quotes online. The...
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Wendy’s New Strawberry Fields Chicken Salad
In the latest Wendy’s commercial, the fast food restaurant chain is promoting its latest creation: their new strawberry fields chicken salad. Not too surprising that the Asian American IT guy (full of...
View ArticleYouTube: If Asians Said The Stuff White People Say
Well, this video starring Jenny Yang and Eugene Yang was posted on YouTube by Buzzfeed Yellow back in the first week of June, but I still think of the video from time-to-time. I just took a look, and...
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Sullivan & Son Episode Review: “The Big O” and “Everybody Loved Frank”
Sullivan & Son is now in its third season, and it’s time to admit that it’s just not very good. It doesn’t suck most of the time, but it has sucky pieces in sufficient numbers to make it never as...
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Sullivan & Son Episode Review: “About a Boy, His Mom, and the Man They’re...
Season 3, Episode 3: “About a Boy, His Mom, and the Man They’re Dating” (originally aired July 1, 2014) Microsynopsis: Carol is at first shocked and then pleased to realize that Daryl (Charles...
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Sullivan & Son Episode Review: “Sexual Healing”
Season 3, Episode 4 (originally aired July 8): “Sexual Healing” Microsynopsis: Kunal Nayyar as Sanjay, also known as Neil from a Season 2 episode, returns to the bar to make amends as a recovering sex...
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Emily Chang to Join ‘Vampire Diaries’ for Season 6
From The Hollywood Reporter: The Vampire Diaries is adding a new character who may not be who she seems. On the heels of Eureka star Colin Ferguson joining the sixth season, The CW drama will be...
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Asian American Commercial Watch: Aaron Takahashi in Kmart’s “Yo Mama”
Actor, writer Aaron Takahashi is at the tail end of this Kmart commercial. It’s crazy to think that we’re in the middle of summer, and we’re already talking about back-to-school. Usually, when I think...
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The Daily Show: George Takei &‘To Be Takei’
The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook Actor and activist George Takei was on The Daily Show the other day to promote the documentary,...
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Sullivan & Son Episode Review: “Luck of the Half-Irish”
Season 3, Episode 5 (originally aired July 15): “Luck of the Half-Irish”? Microsynopsis: NASCAR racer Brad Keselowski returns for a second guest-star appearance, winning his first race in months after...
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Asian American Commercial Watch: ‘Maggie’& Samsung Experience Shop — Touch,...
Thanks to an 8asians’ reader, we came across this Samsung commercial starring Krista Marie Yu as ‘Maggie,’ a kind of socially clueless but technologically curious millennial trying to check out...
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8$: “Who is Arthur Chu?” Documentary Film
8$ is a series which occasionally highlights interesting crowdfunding projects. Every day, the 8Asians team is inundated by many worthy pitches. We are unable to highlight every one that comes our way,...
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Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci Leave ‘MythBusters’ After 10 Years
MythBusters fan-favorites Grant Imahara, Kari Byron, and Tory Belleci and are leaving the series after a decade. Grant took to Twitter to share his feelings after the announcement was made: Thanks...
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