Rice Piglet

Peter S. Kim opens Rice Piglet trying to figure out where a gay Korean man at 40 fits on the body-type menu. Friends reject “rice piglet” and inform him he is a “panda,” leaving him scanning the room for other chubby gay Asians and coming up empty. The aging check-in sets the tone for the set: Kim looks back fondly on his twenties before admitting that waking up at 40 and gagging on a toothbrush taught him his heart is gay while his throat has turned homophobic.

Self-produced and released on YouTube in March 2026 at just under 40 minutes, the debut special arrives after a winding path through Chicago sketch and Los Angeles TV rooms. Kim spent seven years as a data analyst in tech before moving to Chicago in 2012, earning a Jeff Award nomination at The Second City and a 2021 Just for Laughs New Face of Comedy spot. By 2026, viewers were more likely to recognize him from Fairfax, A Nice Indian Boy, Shrinking, or Curb Your Enthusiasm, or from writing on HouseBroken.

Much of the middle stretch looks back at growing up in Flushing, New York during the 1980s. Kim’s parents immigrated that decade, and his mother still refers to his longtime partner as a “roommate” while refusing to soften her weight critiques (“don’t buy your mom a thesaurus”). His late father gets a blunt tribute as an equal-opportunity ass beater whose reach covered a three-block radius, though he still could not beat generational trauma. The Korean evangelical church fares no better: Kim points out that worship ballads sound suspiciously like R&B slow jams about a 33-year-old homeless man, and wonders how uncles who accept the rapture draw the line at him getting sucked off.

When the set turns to romance, Kim contrasts pre-app dating on Craigslist (“a little too rapey”) and eHarmony (“not rapey enough”) with a decade-long relationship alongside a white Eagle Scout from Minnesota whose ancestors rode the Mayflower. Couples therapy stalls when he pitches costumes, and backcountry camping trips force him to tell his partner to reel the colonizer impulse back in after being asked to dig a hole to poop.