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From Exchange Student to Comedy Success | EMOTIONAL DAMAGE

The Iced Coffee Hour

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How I Learned to Speak Mandarin

"I developed a defense coping mechanism where I would just play dumb," he says. "For good reasons, yes, I did very much behave very dumb" He moved from China to Ireland when he was eight and has lived there ever since. The book is published by Simon & Schuster at $24.99.

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