Jo Koy on ‘Blue in the Face,’ Steven Spielberg, Biggie’s Mom and Learning What His Name Really Means at Long John Silver’s

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Jo Koy had a speech ready when he walked onstage in Stockton, Calif.

It was his first time in the Central Valley city, and before taping the two sold-out arena shows that became his new Netflix special, he went looking for its Filipino history. He found plenty: “No Filipinos allowed” signs on restaurants, water fountains Filipinos weren’t allowed to drink from and the Little Manila neighborhood later split by a freeway. “There were a lot of fucked-up things that happened,” he tells me, before apologizing for the language. “It just really sucked.”

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