Ali Wong is back with her first special for Netflix since 2018. Of course, her first two specials, Cobra Baby and Hard Knock Wife, have helped launch Wong into the mainstream, and she has become a prominent figure in the comedy community. And now we have the first look at the trailer for her latest special, Don Wong.
This special marks a first for Ali Wong. She’s not pregnant while she’s doing it, which is something she makes note of during the trailer. We don’t get to see her onstage in the trailer, but we do see her pre-show rituals. Additionally, we get to see just how dedicated her fan base is with audience testimonials, including some fans who came dressed in Ali Wong cosplay. It’s an effective glimpse behind the curtain that should tide fans over just enough until the special comes out next week.
She was a main cast member on the ABC television show American Housewife. Previously, she appeared on Are You There, Chelsea?, Inside Amy Schumer, and Black Box. She also wrote for the first three seasons of the sitcom Fresh Off the Boat. Wong voices title character Roberta “Bertie” Songthrush, a polite songbird and aspiring baker on the critically acclaimed animated series Tuca & Bertie and new student “Ali” on the hit series Big Mouth.
Wong was included in Time‘s 100 Most Influential People of 2020.
After graduating from college, 23-year-old Wong tried stand-up comedy at Brainwash Cafe. She soon moved to New York City to pursue comedy, and began to perform up to nine times a night.
In 2011, Variety named her one of the “10 Comics to Watch”. Soon after, she appeared on The Tonight Show, John Oliver’s New York Stand Up Show and Dave Attell’s Comedy Underground Show. She was also cast as series regular in the NBC comedy series Are You There, Chelsea? and appeared on Chelsea Lately. After that, she was in VH1’s Best Week Ever and MTV’s Hey Girl in 2013. Additionally, she starred in Oliver Stone’s Savages, opposite Benicio Del Toro and Salma Hayek, and as Kate in the film Dealin’ with Idiots.
Ali Wong will join Amazon’s Paper Girls series, based on Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s graphic novel.
She will join series leads Sofia Rosinksy, Camryn Jones, Riley Lai Nelet and Fina Strazza. Stephany Folsom and Christopher C. Rogers will co-showrun. Vaughan, Chiang, Plan B, Christopher Cantwell and the showrunners will serve as executive producers for the series, which is set to film in Chicago this year.
Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world. As they travel between our present, the past, and the future — they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate.
Wong will play Adult Erin, the woman twelve-year-old Erin Tieng (Nelet) grows up to become. When the two Erins finally come face-to-face, they are forced to confront the gap between their childhood hopes, dreams, ambitions and the reality of their grown-up life.
Ali Wong: Don Wong hits Netflix on February 14th.
