David Cross says his Charlyne Yi comments were from “asshole redneck racist character”
It’s better to address being called a racist sooner than later, but David Cross’ apology posts in response to Charlyne Yi’s tweets about that time he affected an Asian accent and challenged her to a “karate” fight have moved past expressing regret to reconstructing the encounter, crime procedural-style. Cross’ initial reply to Yi’s claims suggested they might have “both misremember[ed]” the incident from 10 years ago, though he stressed that her recollection wasn’t entirely accurate. Now in a two-tweet post titled “A Fruitless Endeavor Part 2,” Cross has clarified that if he did say “ching-chong, ching-chong” to Yi, he did so in character—not on stage anywhere, but at the Shreveport hotel bar where they first met.