黄西-英语相声 演讲稿.doc

2009年4月17日晚上破天荒邀请中国口音极重的黄西(Joe Wong)亮相，以英语讲美式笑话，近六分钟的演出，观众反应热烈。黄西一炮而红。 Good evening, everyone. My name is Joe Wong. But to most people, I am known as Who? Hu is actually my mothers maiden name, and the answer to my credit card security question. 各位晚上好，我是Joe Wong（黄西）。但是对很多人来说，听到我的名字，会问“谁”?Who（同音“Hu”）恰恰是我妈的娘家姓，也是我信用卡安全问题的答案。 But joking aside, I just want to reassure everybody that I am invited here tonight. 但是玩笑归玩笑，我想让大家放心我今晚的确是受到邀请来的。（这里是隐指Salah夫妇闯入白宫欢迎晚宴的新闻） I grew up in China. Who wouldnt? 我在中国长大。谁不是呢？（这是用自己的自大讽刺美国人的自大） As my childhood memories are totally ruined by my childhood. When I was in elementary school, as part of the curriculum, I have to worked at a rice paddy, right next to a quarry where they use explosives to break rocks. And that is where I learned that light travels faster than sound, which is almost as slow as a flying rock. 而我童年的所有记忆都被我的童年给毁了。读小学的时候，作为课程的一部分，我要去稻田里劳动，稻田的旁边是一个采石场，他们用炸药炸石头。也就是在那里，我知道了光的传播速度要比声音快，而声音的速度就和石头飞的速度差不多慢。 My dad was a grumpy guy, but occasionally he would tried to cheer me up with jokes. But he doesnt do it right. When I was seven, one day he said to me, Hi, son, why is tofu better than centralized socialist economy? So, five minutes later, I said, Why? He said, Because I said so! 我爸爸是个脾气很怪的人，但偶尔他也想用笑话来逗我玩儿。可是他又做不好。我七岁的时候，有一天他问我，“嘿，儿子，你说为什么豆腐比社会主义计划经济要好？”（风马牛不相及）我想了五分钟，然后问他“为什么呢？”，他说“因为我说好就是好！”（笑点在于：豆腐，计划经济以及极端的父权。豆腐和经济放在一起本来就没有可比性，就好像这种“我说了算”的父权也根本不可理喻，让人又好气又好笑） I came to the United States when I was 24, to study at Rice University in Texas. That wasnt a joke, until now. 我24岁的时候来到美国，在Texas的Rice University求学。这不是个笑话，不过现在是了。 And I was driving that a used car with a lot of bumper stickers that are impossible to peel off. And one of them said, If you dont speak English, go home! And I didnt notice it for two years. 我当时开了辆二手车，保险杠上贴了好多贴纸（就类似我们的“熊出没注意”那种），贴的很牢，就根本不可能撕下来。其中一张写着“如果你不说英文，就滚回家去”。（，这句话有歧视外来移民的意味）而我两年后才看到它。 And like many other immigrants, we wanted our son to become the president of this country. And we