Michael Yo’s 2018 album, Blasian, encapsulates his unusual ethnicity and serves as a fecund spring from which great comedy flows. He’s a gregarious storyteller who derives a lot of humor from his distinctive family dynamic and his hard-to-pigeonhole identity, what he calls “two polar opposites [residing] in one body.” “White women love blasian dudes,” Yo observes, “because I’m a starter black. I’m a gateway drug to blackness!” He also has a knee-slapping routine about modern music—especially rap and R&B—versus 1990s music; he’s much more into the latter, for many hilarious reasons. Yo is one of those comics who excels in many formats—celebrity news and gossip television, pop-culture-oriented radio—and has a TV sitcom in the works about his biracial family. by Stranger Writer Dave Segal