Honest Truths and Growing Up Asian
Reporter
SBS’s latest comedy podcast brings together the millennial wisdom of comedian, writer and actress Jenny Tian and stand-up comic and host of SBS’s Love Me Love My Anxiety, Kevin Jin.
This laugh-out-loud series is a quippy, back and forth banter between two friends trying not to screw up their adult lives, with each episode wrapping up with some well-intentioned but perhaps misguided advice.
Jenny Tian is a comedian, writer and actress who has appeared in Celebrity Letters and Numbers on SBS, triple j and The Feed. A regular on the stand-up comedy circuit, she is best known for her comedy on TikTok and brings her dry wit to this exploration of one-sided relationships we have with personalities on social media.
Hosts Jenny Tian and Kevin Jin. Image courtesy of SBS.
Tian says a parasocial relationship will give listeners an insight into their lives.
“When I heard that I get to chat with one of my best comedy friends…I got very excited. We have the most ridiculous conversations and I'm glad some of that stupidity got recorded,” Tian says.
Throughout the six-part series, Tian and Jin make observations on dating and growing up Asian-Australian, including trading uncomfortably honest truths like having a secret second doctor for sexual health questions, turning up at the wrong funeral, and being an adult who owns only one fork.
Co-host Kevin Jin is a Sydney comedian and host of SBS podcast 'Love Me, Love My Anxiety' which explores what it’s like navigating the world of dating and relationships. He has performed to sold-out shows at the 2021 and 2022 Sydney Comedy Festival and was a RAW Comedy National Finalist in 2018.
He says this new podcast gives him an opportunity to “chat about dumb stuff with a good mate.
“It was a lot of fun riffing and jiffing with Jenny. It's the most millennial thing that I have ever done, and I hope that it one day haunts my professional and or personal life,” he says.
A key part of each episode is a piece of well-intentioned advice on modern dilemmas like how to quit your job, how to be popular in the office and how to make a long-term marriage sexy again - despite both hosts having zero expertise on the topic.
Tian says her advice comes with a cautionary warning, “I rate my advice-giving skills a strong zero out of ten, so don't take our advice but absolutely still listen to the podcast.”
All six episodes of The Parasocial Social Club are available to watch on SBS On Demand and YouTube, or listen on SBS Audio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other streaming services.