Asian Jokes

Alia Ceniza Rasul
Comedian, Tita Collective

Alia Ceniza Rasul is an award-winning Filipina artist based in Toronto. She is the current artistic director of Bad Dog Theatre and is a member of the Tita Collective. Her work centres the narratives of the Filipin* diaspora. She has recently published her first collection of poetry “Super Important Filipina Thoughts” and has come off a sold-out run of her debut solo show “Moro Girl”  which won the Patron’s Pick at the 2022 Toronto Fringe.

Franco Nguyen
Comedian, Writer, Actor

Franco Nguyen is one of the co-creators, writers and stars of TallBoyz. He is a Bob Curry Fellow, and was a cast member of the Second City Touring Company Toronto and the Bad Dog Featured Players. His critically acclaimed one-person show “GOOD MORNING VIET MOM” had sold-out runs at the Toronto Fringe Festival, the Next Stage Festival and was picked up by Cahoots Theatre for a cross-country tour. He has been featured in the Huffington Post, CBC’s Exhibitionist and Thời Báo Media (hay quá!). You can watch him now on the third season of the award-winning series TallBoyz (CBC), as the voice of Allan on Uprooted: The Plantdemic (CBC GEM), and the reboot of the Kids in the Hall (Amazon). Franco lives in Toronto with his wonderful partner Thao, his toddler son Felix, and his soon to arrive daughter (name: TBD).

Rob Michaels
Writer, Director, Actor

Rob Michaels is an Iraqi-Canadian writer, actor, and director. He has written for Roku’s original series Children Ruin Everything, CTV’s Roast Battle Canada, the mobile game for the FXX series Archer, and has his own project in development. He also recently directed his first feature film with Vortex Media. He has performed with The Second City, and his sketch comedy channel Wishful Genies has amassed millions of views through features on Funny Or Die, 9GAG, CBC Comedy, and Al Jazeera. 

Celeste Yim
Writer, Comedian

Celeste is a staff writer for Saturday Night Live. Celeste was a 2021 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow and the 2019 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Canadian Women Artists’ Award for Playwriting.

Celeste is an alumnus of the National MFA Playwrights Festival produced by Theater Masters and the Bob Curry Fellowship at The Second City Toronto. Celeste is a member of the Television Academy, The Writers Guild of America, and The Dramatists Guild of America.

Celeste received a B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.F.A. from Tisch School of the Arts.

Celeste uses they/them pronouns.