Category Archives: TV

Meet Heejun Han, Your (Rumored) American Idol Semi-Finalist

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Ernie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=C4Xtlo6lCnQ#! Oh man, remember when we started posting about the token Asian American contestants on American Idol when people regularly watched the show? Yeah, I don’t either. But hey, why break the trend now? This years rumored American Idol 11 … Continue reading →

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Top Chef’s Dale Talde Opens New Restaurant Appropriately Named Talde In Brooklyn

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Moye

Dale Talde of Top Chef hasn’t been forgotten yet. His pan-Asian restaurant, Talde (Wow, where did he get that name?) is officially a go in New York. Gothamist has a sneak peek: “The restaurant is now officially up and running, … Continue reading →

Posted in (simple), Entertainment, Food & Drink, TV | 1 Comment

Kung Fu Master Teaches Dance

Posted on January 20, 2012 by John

Every once in a while, I’ll get an email or a blog posting about a commercial I blogged about, like the McDonald’s commercial. The actor I highlighted, Vince Foster, sent a shout out thanking for profiling him and wanted to … Continue reading →

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Asian American Commercial Watch: Southwest Airlines’ “Celebration”

Posted on January 17, 2012 by John

http://youtu.be/fNHUEB168Po I was watching the New England Patriots pummel the Denver Broncos this past Saturday and saw this commercial. I’m a fair weather Patriots fan, having grown up in Western Massachusetts. I remember as a teen when the Patriots lost … Continue reading →

Posted in Entertainment, Sports, TV | 4 Comments

Asian American Commercial Watch: McDonald’s – Egg McMuffin of Boyfriends

Posted on January 9, 2012 by John

I was watching one of my favorite shows last week, Modern Family, and came across this McDonald’s commercial for the egg McMuffin. To my absolute surprise, I see a young couple with an attractive Asian American young adult professing his … Continue reading →

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Australian Comedian Plays Overbearing Asian Mom in HBO’s Angry Boys

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Dino-Ray

With his new HBO show, Angry Boys, Australian comedian Chris Lilley is following the grand politically incorrect tradition of Chapelle’s Show and Da Ali G Show by skewering pop culture and testing audience’s offensive threshold when it comes to tackling … Continue reading →

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Yo-Yo Ma Honored in 34th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

Posted on December 30, 2011 by John

Earlier this past week, CBS aired the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors celebration, which took place earlier in December. Yo-Yo Ma was one of the six honorees, which included singer Barbara Cook, singer and songwriter Neil Diamond, saxophonist and composer Sonny … Continue reading →

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Kickstarter’s Co-Founder & CEO Perry Chen On NBC Rock Center

Posted on December 29, 2011 by John

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy I had heard of the crowd funding site Kickstarter before, initially from a TechCrunch article on raising money for a project to make an iPod Nano wrist watch … Continue reading →

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Paul Qui, My New Top Chef Crush

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Moye

Good bye, Dale Talde. And hello, Paul Qui. This Austin based “chef-testant” is competing on the current ninth season of Top Chef and I’m already rooting for him to win the final prize. Don’t get me wrong: it was hard … Continue reading →

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Asian American Commercial Watch: 8Asians’ Edward Hong in StreamateParty.com

Posted on December 27, 2011 by John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRbIo2sYKQ&feature=youtu.be NOTE: Before you start playing this video, this probably is NSFW. We have an internal email list at 8Asians, and our very own Eddy Hong let us know that he stars in a new commercial for StreamateParty.com.  I love … Continue reading →

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Asian American Commercial Watch: Bank of America’s Uwajimaya profile

Posted on December 23, 2011 by John

http://youtu.be/EZVycYwiJN8 I saw the thirty second version of this Bank of America commercial while watching cable news this past week, and was blown away. The commercial is about a small Seattle-based Asian grocery and gift store chain Uwajimaya and about … Continue reading →

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