On September 26, 2019, it was announced that Yang was cast as Dr. In 2018, he played Bernard Tai in the romantic comedy film Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Yang's first dramatic role was as Dun "Danny" Meng, a Chinese immigrant who is carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers, in the 2016 action drama Patriots Day. He turned down the offer because it would have required him to quit Silicon Valley, which ran from 2014 to 2019. Prior to the announcement, he had landed a series-regular role on the Yahoo! Screen original television show Sin City Saints.
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For season 2, he was promoted to series regular. He appeared in three episodes and spent the money on a Prius so he could drive for Uber to earn money between the show's first and second seasons. He initially appeared on Silicon Valley in a guest role, making scale, then $900 per episode. He was a writer/consultant for the Harlem Globetrotters, and voiced roles in the video game Infamous Second Son. He played Tang-See in season 9 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and appeared in an episode of Criminal Minds as Nathan Chow, a high-school student who suffered a psychotic break. Yang made his television debut on the CBS series 2 Broke Girls in 2012, and his first late-night stand-up appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show in 2014. He eventually found acting representation through the Vesta Talent Agency. In the interim, he did stand-up sets around Southern California and signed up for acting classes. He was spurred to consider acting when a friend told him there was money to be made in residual checks from commercials. When Yang moved back to Los Angeles, he signed up with Central Casting, due to their low barrier of entry, and with various casting websites. There he met his mentor, Sean Kelly, a stand-up comedian who ran the venue and later created the reality show Storage Hunters.
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He stayed in the city afterward, where he sold used cars, DJed at a strip club, and seated customers at a comedy club to support himself while doing stand-up sets for free at The Comedy Palace. Instead, he returned to San Diego to finish his graduation requirements. Īfter graduation, he interned at the financial consulting firm Smith Barney in Beverly Hills, California, but found it unfulfilling and turned down its return offer. Yang did his first stand-up set at 21 years old as "Lowball Jim" at the Ha Ha Comedy Club in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. The commencement speaker at his college graduation was his future Silicon Valley showrunner and fellow UCSD alumnus Mike Judge. Yang graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a degree in economics in 2009. Yang enrolled at John Burroughs Middle School for eighth grade, then later attended Beverly Hills High School. His aunt and grandmother were already living in the US his parents joined them primarily to allow Yang and his brother, Roy, access to better schools.
In 2000, when Yang was 13, his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Los Angeles, California. His parents were both from Shanghai and later moved to Hong Kong.
Yang was born in Hong Kong during British rule.
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