He believes Filipino nurses and other community members are ignored by mainstream media, leading to feelings of invisibility.

“they go to work at a hospital 14 hours a day and then when they come home they turn on the TV and they watch a TV show about a hospital and not one Filipino nurse is on that show”

He believes that the visibility of performers like Jo Koy has normalized Filipino identity within the comedy landscape for the broader public.

“I knew what he did for me when I started doing comedy I knew that when I did comedy you've seen Russell so this isn't [ __ ] weird to you anymore and this is from someone who wanted to do comedy if I didn't do comedy and didn't want to which is so many people out there they look at you and they thin”