The comedian and filmmaker stop by to discuss their upcoming American television series, created by showrunner Charles Yu and based on his novel of the same name.

Its protagonist is Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang), an unassuming waiter who's always dreamt of being the hero but despairs of forever being relegated to, as he sighs, "a background character in someone else's story.

The result, which often takes the form of a spot-on pastiche of police procedurals, is one of the most ambitious, meta shows of the year. Jimmy O. Yang and Chloe Bennet in "Interior Chinatown." Credit: Disney / Mike Taing Unknowingly trapped within a police procedural,

The Chinese-American actor related to the storyline of the new Disney+ satirical comedy series. Read more at straitstimes.com.