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**** (out of 5) Don’t let the bowl cut fool you. Atsuko Okatsuka doesn’t think of herself as cool, and definitely not cool under pressure. A simple query from a teen-ager can make her crumble. So how could she ever hope to cope if there were an actual intruder in …
If you think married people are grown-ups, then hear Atsuko Okatsuka out, because in her set on The Late Late Show, she’ll explain why single people are the true adults in the room.
Born in Taiwan to Taiwanese and Japanese parents, Atsuko Okatsuka is a stand-up comedian, actress and writer. Since putting out her first hour comedy special in 2018 as part of Hulu’s Comedy InvAsian series, she has made the shortlists of comedians to watch by both New York Magazine’s Vulture site …
It’s easy to just rattle off the headliners and say go to them. In fact, several of the biggest names performing this week at the 2019 New York Comedy Festival already have sold out their shows! Here are shows you still have a chance at seeing last-minute, as well as …
Stand-up comedians love starting or ending their sets with thunderous applause. But what about an honest-to-goodness earthquake? That’s what happened to Atsuko Okatsuka on July 5, 2019, when a 7.1-magnitude quake began rumbling just after she took the stage at The Ice House in Pasadena, Calif. The quake was even …
