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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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.

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Then, the minute he walked out, the crowd gave him a standing ovation. “I saw this white guy high-five this Asian guy, and a Black guy was standing and this Black lady over here, Latinos over here and a Filipino right here,” he says.

“And I was just like, no, man, I’m not gonna do this.” He made the call on the spot. “What happened in the past is the past, but look where we are now.” That’s what he brought to his comedy special “Jo Koy: Blue in the Face ,” which premiered Sept.

15 on Netflix and completes the two-special deal he signed with the streamer in 2023. Koy edits his own specials, cutting two shows that each ran more than two hours down to 55 minutes and shaping the hour like a bookend around one idea: Keep your circle tight and celebrate the people who celebrated you.

The special is a contender in the Golden Globes ’ best performance in stand-up comedy on television category, and it will enter the Emmy race for outstanding variety special (pre-recorded) next year. Koy joined me for a conversation after a Variety Screening Series presentation of the special, and he came with plenty of stories.

He talked about the phone call he got from Voletta Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G.’s mother, who died in February 2025, after he performed an uncleared Biggie bit in “Live From Brooklyn” and had to pay for the songs. He described a day at Amblin when everyone from the lobby to a hallway lined with Indiana Jones memorabilia told him “Steven” loved “Comin’ in Hot,” leaving him to wonder whether they meant someone in accounting.

They meant Oscar-winning Steven Spielberg, and the meeting landed Koy the DreamWorks deal that became “Easter Sunday.” And of course, there’s his mother, the single mom who cursed out a man at a shoe store in 1984 for mocking her accent and who built her Filipino community by walking up to strangers at church. He also shared the origin of his stage name,

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