Yehee Son won’t be silent. This was how she began her comedy career; she accidentally heckled someone at an open mic event and the host asked, “Do you want to get up here?” That was in May 2025, and she’s already come a long way, appearing on “Kill Tony,” YouTube show “Soft White Underbelly” and at Joe Rogan’s Texan stand-up club, Comedy Mothership. The comedian, a South Korean-born U.S. citizen with cerebral palsy, may seem an odd fit for a stage owned by Rogan, a fact she herself admits. She didn’t go into her immigrant background while performing there — telling The Korea Times, “I care about my safety” — but she still spoke about her disability. She argues that she can’t ignore it, calling it the elephant in the room, but that it also helped her because it gave her a “niche identity.” She could offer a new perspective to audiences while still being funny and relatable. Of course, in some rooms she feels like she can talk about her dual national identities. She changes her set based on the demographics of a room, she explains. “A mostly white and middle-class
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