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“To make it short and sweet, Henry does all of the designing, and I look pretty in the shoes,” Han said.īae laughed this off, saying, “Everything is a collaboration, a conversation.

Bae leads shoe design Han spearheads operations. The two run their brand out of their beloved Bushwick. “To me, that’s the most beautiful thing to achieve-for queer people who don’t have a community to know that we are everywhere.”īae and Han met on Facebook the pair became especially close after Bae moved to New York in 2015. “There are people in Oklahoma and Kansas who get to know that there are other people out there who are living an authentic life,” Han said. Han added that “a lot” of the people writing in after the Emmys “are reaching out from small areas in the US.” The SYRO (pronounced “See-row,” like “zero” with an “S”) co-founders stress the importance of their chosen families and queer community in New York but recognize that’s not a resource for LGBT folks who don’t live in big cities. We work on making accessible heels in an accessible size range at an accessible price for as many people as possible, so all of our heels are always made in black.” “Unfortunately, those ones are sold out we only have them available in black. “We have so many people asking about the shoes today,” Bae said. There’s a whole generation of young Asian queer people looking at this moment like, ‘He did it, I could do it.’”īoth Bae and Han said they were neck-deep in congratulatory DMs and notes the morning after the Emmys and have seen a spike in interest since Yang name-dropped the label. We’re seeing it with so many other celebrities, and to see an Asian face from New York carry it off the way he did is incredible. “Not only did the shoes look fabulous on him, it kind of shows how with red carpets, the Emmys, and Hollywood, gender queerness is breaking in. Just watch, it’s…iconic.“I think the first thing I thought was, ‘Wow, queer Asians are supporting other queer Asians,’” Han said. Written by Yang and Torres, the, again iconic, sketch pairs Yang and Cecily Strong as Sara Lee management who have to confront an employee (the iconic Harry Styles) about using the company’s Instagram account to post horny comments. This sketch from 2019 probably wasn’t technically eligible to factor into Emmy voters’ decision to nominate Yang this year, but it is nonetheless iconic. “Everyone’s talking about me! No one’s talking about the water!” Yang wailed before performing the iceberg’s new single, “Lover Boy.” Turns out, there was a lot churning beneath the surface for the most infamous chunk of ice in western history, as Yang’s unhinged performance revealed. “This is always a really weird time of year for me,” he said, referencing the anniversary of the tragedy.

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“If someone’s personality is punching an Asian grandma, it’s not a dialogue.” We got some laughs about Yang’s thirst for Steven Yeun and his scrapped 20-minue performance of Gay Passover Bunny, but the take-home was serious: jiāyóu, do more.Ī couple months later, Yang returned to Weekend Update with another iconic impression, not of an actual person this time, but of the iceberg that sank the Titanic. “What can I say to help how insanely bad things are,” he told Jost, sounding genuinely fed up. In the wake of this spring’s dramatic rise in anti-Asian hate crimes-including the massacre of eight Atlanta area spa employees by a white gunman-Yang again joined Colin Jost on Weekend Update to parody the memes that masquerade as meaningful action on social media these days. But then, what the hell is she ever too pleased about? Unfortunately, it seems Lebowitz herself was none too pleased with the performance.

Not only was his cadence and inflection perfect, he somehow managed not to break in the face of Kyle Mooney’s hysterical impersonation of a hysterical Martin Scorsese.

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As pals like Joel Kim Booster and Julio Torres send their congrats, we decided to take a look back at some of the sketches that undoubtedly earned Yang his nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.Īfter her divisive Netflix series introduced Fran Lebowitz to a whole new generation, Yang stopped by Weekend Update to deliver a spot-on impression of the notoriously cantankerous New York fixture. Yang has been responsible for some of SNL’s most viral, meme-able and talked-about sketches of the past couple years. Of course, no one who has been watching the show recently should be surprised. Now, he’s reached another milestone, becoming the first featured player ever to be nominated for an Emmy. Bowen Yang on Saturday Night Live (Photo: Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)īowen Yang already made Saturday Night Live history when he was cast as the show’s first Chinese-American featured cast member in 2019.

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