Stir-Friday Night reviews

"The recasting of Driving Miss Daisy as an Asian film, with the Green Hornet's Xato as the driver, is quick and hillarious. A job interview featuring [Quincy] Wong and newcomer Roddy Chiong turns into a maddening word association game that constantly plays off and into Asian and Asian-American stereotypes.

"Chiong, who graduated from Indiana University with a combined degree in telecommunications and African American studies, is particularly good. But he's exceptional in the last sketch, a laugh riot takeoff on dubbed martial arts films. In this piece, Chiong plays a young Chinese chef who takes on the Japanese restaurant mafia in an intraAsian food fight...

"Chiong's dancing talents come into play as he mocks and toys with martial arts moves. His expressive face and exquisite timing give the piece a spark well beyond the script."

Chicago Tribune

"YMII fulfills the potential only hinted at during Stir-Friday Night's runs last year at George Street Cafe and TurnAround Theater. The dancing and singing interludes (and the "amateur hour" atmosphere they lent) are gone The group, composed of Daisy Castro, Wayne Eji, Ken Hamada, Jennifer Liu, Ron Mok, Seema Sueko, Joe Yau, and Wong, has toughened its writing, sharpened its timing, and gotten damned funny overall.

"YMII is peppered widh yellow esoterica: references to Russell Wong (actor) and the National Association of Asian American Professionals (yuppie network), for example, might baffle non-Asian Americans. But the show just as often focuses on easily recognizable icons, and sends them up wickedly."

Entertainer

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