It’s a good question, and one Nagashima is answering across the country on the Comedy Here Often A Busload of Fun comedy tour. “And it’s not like people in places like Vancouver or Toronto don’t hear people talking just like me all around them all the time. “It’s authentic, it’s who I am,” she said. She prides herself on keeping her accent through it all. “But that’s comedy, and how I got the material for the album. “There was a moment in Whitehorse, where I think maybe they were laughing at me before they began laughing with me,” she said. She has also toured all over Canada, where not every audience is quite as familiar with the partying preferences of Australians in Whistler. No matter, most of her act is universal. Hers is an immigrant viewpoint coming from a place that has its own distinct outlook. In itself, this isn’t new territory, but she puts a spin on it that opens up whole new ways of looking at such topics. On My Name is Yumi, Nagashima gets into everything from racism to comparing pornographic preferences across international boundaries. “If that desire is to be a devoted housewife, OK too. But it’s especially heartening to me to know that Asian women see me doing standup comedy and they can feel more liberated to say anything they want to say the way that they say it, and not worry too much about it.” “My mother and her generation were told to support their husband or family, and didn’t have a chance to think about their own beliefs and desires, but you actually have choices to do whatever you want,” said Nagashima. Besides jokes about actually being a sushi server, Nagashima is hoping to inspire young Asian, and other, women the same way she was inspired by her mentor Leo Award-winning comedian, writer and producer Erica Sigurdson. If success is the best revenge, then Nagashima is dishing it out.Īfter having her fill of roles as “the sexy sushi waitress who is also a secret ninja killer,” she is out to bash stereotypes. Looking for something to do? Check out our comprehensive event listings.Article content Recommended from Editorial This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. I knew I had found something that really satisfied me, too.” “She loved it, and said I should really do comedy. “Then a friend cast me in a film with my accent and I did a funny line and people really liked it,” said Nagashima. With a degree in English literature and experience teaching English conversation to schoolchildren, there is no question of Nagashima’s fluency, but she still was subjected to constant rejection as she tried to score acting gigs in Hollywood North. She is certainly making a name on the national circuit with her direct content, in this case musing on different oral sex methods.Įarly on in Nagashima’s attempts to break into show business, she was told to lose her Japanese accent or face failure. Hundreds of thousands have tuned into her YouTube video Japanese Sweet Bite Technique.
When Nagashima noted immigrants get to truly experience Canadian multiculturalism at work when seeing “a white guy making Chinese food, or a Chinese guy making perogies,” the studio audience howled. Activate your Online Access Now Article contentĭedicated listeners to The Debaters with Steve Patterson on CBC had the joy of hearing comics Katie-Ellen Humphries and Nagashima throw down about the merits of food courts.
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