And I say that like very specifically, because I think like for Asian people in this country, we still have a lot of really deep connections to our own diasporas and our own individual cultures, like Korean culture, Chinese culture, Japanese culture, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. It started out as just like more of a straight stand-up show, like a showcase basically, but it really has evolved since then into being a real exploration of what it means to be Asian-American. Would you like to do one?” And so that is like the genesis of The Joy F*ck Club. And I was like, it is crazy that there is no show that is just an all Asian-American lineup when this festival had access to, so I contacted the festival and I was like, Hey, have you guys thought about doing an all-Asian show? and they were like, “You know, we hadn’t thought about that. So The Joy F*ck Club started because I was doing another comedy festival and I was looking at the lineup and I noticed that it was like me, Bowen, Ronny Chieng, Patti Harrison, Awkwafina, and Irene Tu - like a million Asian comics in San Francisco. To start, tell me a little bit about what The Joy F*ck Club show is. (Though Fire Island is coming out first.) What exactly is The Joy F*ck Club? Below, transcribed and edited for clarity, Booster explains, while also discussing why now was the time for his first hour-long special, what it’s been like going between acting and stand-up, why Fire Island is such a personal film for him - and why he doesn’t feel like he’s in competition with his former boss Billy Eichner’s own upcoming rom-com debut. It feels really great… It’s messy, but sometimes you’re getting the most real version of some of these stories and pulls from my life, before they’ve been shaped into, you know, a joke.”ĭuring Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival, Booster will be participating in a number of shows, including the all-LGBTQ+ Stand Out showcase on May 7th and a sold-out show called The Joy F*ck Club on May 8th.
It’s really fun - I feel like I’m 25 doing standup again. It’s a lot, and a situation which he says is a bit of a “monkey’s paw situation,” because of his dedication to stand-up right now, he’s in a “rebuilding phase” with his work on stage after filming Psychosexual: “I’m just sort of writing a lot of new material and testing out a lot of new stuff.
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It’s really about to be Joel Kim Booster’s time - as he tells Consequence, “June is going to be a big big month for me.” The comedian wrote and stars in the groundbreaking Hulu romantic comedy Fire Island on June 3rd, will appear in the Apple TV+ series Loot, premiering June 24th, and Netflix just announced that his first-ever hour-long comedy special, Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual, will debut on June 21st. This article is part of our coverage of the 2022 Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival.
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