Playing Favorites With Jo Koy | Esquire Philippines - video Dailymotion

What is Jo Koy’s favorite Tagalog phrase? Get to know more about the Filipino-American comedian. #EsquirePHVideo

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00:00Mahalquita, that's my favorite. I flew 20 members to the Philippines and they're all my nieces and

00:11nephews. We stayed at the most beautiful places and flew the best plane and I fed them every day

00:20and I you know let them just live out their best life but most importantly I let them realize just

00:28how good they got it. I always have to say Eddie Murphy as a kid that one just triggered me so fast

00:34I was like oh my god he's amazing and then of course Richard Pryor was you know he was just beautiful

00:40he was beautiful to watch because the way he was with tell a story with absolutely no fear

00:47and then there's others Dennis Wolfberg I love him, Louis Anderson, Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence,

00:54Jamie Foxx. There's too many. That's not fair. The Forum, Los Angeles, I sold it out six times. I'm the

01:01first comedian to ever sell it out six times. Man, Madison Square Garden, Moa Arena, oh Seattle,

01:10Seattle because that's where I saw Eddie Murphy when I was a kid and I performed in the same arena

01:14that he performed in so that was crazy to sell out the same arena that my idol sold out and to be

01:20able to I remember sitting there in the chair as a kid going I can't believe this many people are here

01:24and then I sat in the same chair with my son and went Joe this is where I sat when I saw Eddie Murphy.

01:29That was it that was the greatest moment of my career. There's a young lady uh and her husband

01:36that come they come and see me all the time uh her name is Mindy and uh she has an an old DVD of mine

01:46that I made by hand on a DVD burner and I saw that's how I was making my extra money. I would pay

01:54I would charge people five dollars a DVD and she bought one and to this day she still has it. Oh man

02:00my sister's mongo shrimp man favorite comfort food I'm just gonna say pizza it's it's my favorite. Oh my

02:09god just seeing my son uh turn into a man is my favorite I love it just seeing him and then of

02:19course he's so funny so him being funnier than me is man I shine I shine so bright but one thing I

02:28love the most to wear oh sweats and shoes running shoes so but sweats double extra large always oh um

02:37that's a good one Joe Torrey Joe Torrey said uh it feels good uh when they laugh but remember

02:45uh when they're listening that's even better