Joan Chen on Late Night (1988)

[@xxnlpullo]

She's so sweet and smart

[@KpxUrz5745]

Joan is so beautiful that I can't even think straight.

[@frogkic]

She’s absolutely stunning

[@seagreen6442]

She used to be a student in Shanghai Foreign Language Institute so she had an outstanding English language background when she arrived at the new continent. She is smart and international. In 80’s, some Chinese pretended to be inferior to the west by somewhat depreciating their own motherland, so to get some favour , such as friendship , acknowledging, identifying etc.from westerners. This phenomena has changed since China has developed so well in the past three decades. Chen Chong also has a luxurious home in Shanghai now, her home city in China, I guess, from some TV program, she dwells in San Francisco now, though. She is fine.

[@MrProfessorScientist]

He sounds like some patriotic immigration officer.

[@blakeu7709]

I guess you haven't met many immigration officers...

[@TigerQ]

No , Bastard.

[@seagreen6442]

I admire your nice humor.

[@yuouyang4207]

Kind of

[@WideII]

And creepy

[@lepetitchat123]

Waterloo bridge was a very popular film in China at the time. It was quite a tearjerker

[@farsea1542]

She has SO MUCH SWAG

[@davesurprenant5548]

I think it's amazing how well Joan Chen learned to speak English.

[@呀你可]

G Man like waterloo bridge?

[@honeyhoneymoonr8668]

She's great by nature.

[@corazhu4866]

She was an English major in college back in China.

[@TigerQ]

English , is the Easiest language in the world , not to mention she was 20 and unceasingly to talk with folks . Lots of seldom speak in English and just stuck in their community like Mexican community, Japanese community, Korean town community etc.

[@nobody-qv2qs]

Her families had studied abroad in united state since grandfather .

[@channieluv8152]

I didn't know her English is so good!

[@channieluv8152]

What a big surprise! She's marvellous～

[@emmasmith39768]

I had lived in the States before and now in Australia. I prefer staying in Australia because America is always full of people like him. The way Americans interact with you just makes you feel even more like an alien. They have no clue what they should or shouldn't say and they just think America is the best country ever and everything should just revolve around them. In general I just don't like the showy and overconfident attitude of Americans in comparison to the down-to-earth, considerate attitudes of Aussies.

[@seagreen6442]

Emma Thompson Some rich American can be very rude to common people. Rich, but rude in a stupid way! Stupid!

[@JinghaoTong]

@@seagreen6442 Totally agree with you! Even nowadays, when some Americans meet me, they still asked me super rude questions without thinking, with their fat belly and ridiculous overconfident attitude. I just met one last night, who was exactly the same as this video.

[@keno1069]

@@JinghaoTong I'm sorry you had bad experiences. Most of us are very polite and welcome people from all around the world.

[@Maria-qc7vk]

Agree.

[@zliu90103]

She is a charm. 很甜很优雅

[@JinghaoTong]

That was a really difficult time for China and the USA, you could see how did the host make fun of the American-Chinese actress who was famous for the movie: The Last Emperor. The way he interrupted her without respect and joked about the poverty of China was so rude and astonishing.

[@thearcane2]

I think American talk shows always handle guests from other countries pretty poorly, so I think Letterman's attitude is a reflection of that.

[@Larry-liu371]

She was radiant.

[@tigmite1]

Before Twin Peaks, she's still beautiful, too

[@tigertank06]

Wait, she was in Twin Peaks?

[@呀你可]

FJ Thomas omg i wanna see! please tell me when you found it!

[@mariobrosxsuper]

@@tigertank06 Yes she was in Twin Peaks

[@irubielmoreno6683]

Joan is amazing

[@sunshinehuang6448]

Her Grandmother was English Teacher and her take care Joen Chen Grow up in Shanghai of China .

[@PeterPonomarenko]

Pure grace.

[@summerhsia2485]

Their conversation somehow gives me cringe, as if she were from a remote, barbarian, extremely conservative country, interrogated by an immigration officer...

[@joy2000cyber]

I am from China which was a remote barbarian conservative country at the time. Letterman did homework about China, but the actress is from a very well educated family who know western culture and language very well. The actress majored in English from the best foreign language university of China herself. Then She accidentally became a movie star. She is just extremely privileged and lucky comparing to her peers in China

[@yong1960]

陈冲讲的英文真的好听。

[@sue4690]

Very good！

[@Starfishb]

She is charming, “keep your shoes on”, lol

[@lovepeace4259]

iconic

[@sweiland75]

Letterman is an awful interviewer. He makes it feel more like an interrogation.

[@WalterLiddy]

Meh - when a guest isn't offering much by way of elaborating on anything, all he can do is keep asking questions. Chen is nice, and very beautiful, but she didn't have much to say and seemed to be still learning English.

[@ultrustic]

Tell jokes is Letterman's forte, but his shows don't do well on vetting questions and feed to the guests. Thereby it helps leading the guest to fully tell the story. Never known for carrying questions either, so it doesn't help as the segment looks disjointed like many of the previous ones. Letterman's best guests tends to be story tellers who know how to liven up.

[@JinghaoTong]

@@WalterLiddy What's wrong with you? That was an invitation for her, if he wanted to ask questions, he should learn how to listen carefully. Haven't you seen how rudely he was when he interrupted her suddenly just after she said the first sentence? It's shocking in 1988, man could talk like that with a lady, in 2020, these audiences would get angry for his rudeness. By the way, what a big deal of English, she could express herself and got her citizenship, but she didn't get any respect.

[@lexia4016]

@@WalterLiddy racist

[@nanachen8701]

陈冲真的很国际化啊

[@mingnache8682]

美丽，可爱，聪明，多金😄

[@amelietrue]

She is so patient with him.

[@二蛋李-d7z]

did it has subtitle?

[@wuersen]

She so fine

[@slothochdonut3099]

Her English is quite fluent and not much accent!

[@hayleyxu6436]

美

[@LegoMatt222]

"PUT IT DOWN!"

[@seagreen6442]

Do not lie. There were cars in China many years ago.

[@TdyYrLove]

And Shanghai of all places. It is not like she grew up in some rural remote town in the northwest region of China.

[@seagreen6442]

那是她年轻因此还可爱。那外套太邋遢了。像个流浪街头的人。

[@dorianthorn4938]

I love Joan, but Letterman is annoying the hell out of me

[@purplegypsylady777]

David letterman is so pervy

[@paisaoang5969]

When all people around the world speak the same language, the world will be much more peaceful.

[@ctcole77]

SUPER HZZZZZOOOOOOT!

[@chonglouis3615]

she looks like another Chinese movie star Xiaoqing liU

[@虾豆猫咪游南美]

Fortunately u don't speak Chinese! After you hear Liu's Speaking, you'll totally change your mind...

[@fj6955]

陈冲太美了！

[@zengchisheng9839]

Feng Jiaxin 和年轻时候的刘晓庆很像

[@HyborianAge]

She's cute is she the girl on twin peaks?

[@Scorpiotide]

HyborianAge yes! Mesmerizing

[@Claudia-bo5vf]

She didn’t know about coat check?

[@kli7867]

I agree letterman sounds like an immigration officer. In 1980s, some US citizens have bias about China and Chinese. Nevertheless, at that time they can not image how great China is going to be now. At moment Who doesn’t want a Chinese tourist to come to shop in their countries? I think Chen hasn’t answered all her questions positively and showing much of affection for her birth city or country. If I were interviewed at my 20s, I may answer questions politically wrong; in fact, trump is over 70 yr now, his interview answers sometime makes me cringe. Now if I was interviewed by letterman with the same question, I would ask him to respect any non US culture or human beings. However, letterman’s current interview is less sarcastic and showed is more professional than in 1980s.

[@unclezebulan9404]

Shhhhh. Shut up. You are stupid and you talk too much.

[@aleksandra2520]

Poor boat people joke at the start 😆

[@physxme]

Keep your shoes on LOL

[@vincente.tiemersma279]

That sucking foot segment is one uncut or regular version of Last Emperor

[@cmhan3244]

大卫莱特曼这么恶心啊。紧张兮兮的却依然无理和傲慢。

[@leocooks25]

comment s.d.jones

[@hujulia2262]

有中文字幕就好了

[@shelleyjin8965]

这种视频，好恶心！

[@Chunnuanhuakai]

你酸得額心

[@yulanluo7328]

扭扭捏捏，装少女状， 恶心

[@laichunzhang-2710]

Yulan Luo 那时候确实年轻哈哈哈😄

[@wingf241]

当时20岁你没听清么

[@yulanluo7328]

@@wingf241 去大学二三年级看看，正常二十岁的女生是什么样子。她这扭捏状，12岁的女娃才会有吧。

[@seagreen6442]

不像纯真少女

[@艺术人生]

也許你也是個女人吧？可是就算是，我認為你也無需在這裡去酸她。跟她比，你最多是黃瓜！