[3] Yang graduated in political science at Swarthmore College and was a PPIA Fellow for a Master's in urban planning at University of California, Los Angeles.
[4] Before entering comedy, Yang worked for the Service Employees International Union, becoming a director before leaving due to poor work-life balance, getting into standup to "get some of my sanity back".
Created by Yang, Atsuko Okatsuka and Yola Lu, the show debuted in 2012 at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.
[3] As a television writer, Yang has written for season 1 of HBO Max's Gordita Chronicles, the final two seasons of Fox's Last Man Standing[5] and E!’s late-night talk show Busy Tonight with Busy Philipps.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yang created Comedy Crossing a charity stand-up comedy show held inside the Animal Crossing video game and watched live via Zoom, which raised over $30,000 for causes related to the Black Lives Matter movement.