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We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. We hope to have your ears permanently plugged with the best in aural comedy.Whiting Wongs – Paris Is Too Chinese For Me with Jimmy O. YangPablo: Silicon Valley‘s Jian-Yang has gotten backlash in some circles for what people might view as a racist caricature. And in an age where Kumail Nanjiani is now a leading man years after he refused to do accents and Aziz Ansari makes entire TV episodes about that topic, it can seem insensitive without context. But to the actor who portrays Jian-Yang, Jimmy O. Yang, the answer to this ethical dilemma is nowhere near a binary choice. As he goes into great detail in a must-listen episode of Dan Harmon and Jessica Gao’s podcast about race in Hollywood, Yang has a lot of respect towards those actors for making that choice. But as an immigrant who he says sounded exactly like Jian-Yang when he arrived in America, Yang explains how touchy it can be to portray immigrants onscreen. Whether it’s a character whose ethnicity means almost nothing (Ken Jeong in The Hangover) or everything (Matthew Moy in 2 Broke Girls) to the part, Asian immigrant portrayals often get lumped into being considered racist, which, of course, could be seen as racist in itself. And that’s what Yang points out has happened with Jian-Yang, originally a 2-line role that he has expanded into this season’s antagonist. Released with little fanfare under one of the worst titles in recent memory, Whiting Wongs is nevertheless one of the best new podcasts of the year and this episode is an excellent jumping-off point. Whiting Wongs is a show where you can ask the question “Was it racist that King of the Hill’s Kahn Souphanousinphone was created and voiced by a white man?” and g... (Splitsider)