A 2019 Interview With Ali Wong Is Going Viral After She Slammed an Unnamed White Male Comedian Who Said She’s “So Lucky” to Be  “Female and a Minority”

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As one fan so poignantly pointed out, Ali Wong had some Beef with an unnamed comedian she encountered while she was pregnant with her second child in 2018.

A clip of the actress and comedian’s 2019 interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show has resurfaced on TikTok, where Wong’s incredibly well-put retelling of an uncomfortable interaction has gone viral.

While she wouldn’t name the comedian — who she identified as a white male — she did reveal that he was “not a very successful comedian.”

“I don’t even know if you would know who he was,” she told Noah.

She explained that he approached her while she was pregnant with her second child in 2018 and touched her belly with “his fat, sweaty hand,” which she described as “so gross to begin with.”

“It’s like, why don’t you finger me while you’re at it?” she quipped. “This is so not okay. Just because I’m pregnant doesn’t mean it’s okay for you to touch my belly.”

She then added that the comedian told her, “So this is your shtick now,” referring to her pregnancy.

“Getting pregnant is not rainbow suspenders,” she said. “It’s not a schtick.”

The comedian then told her she was “so lucky” because she receives “all of this attention because [she’s] both female and a minority.”

“Yeah, because, you know, historically, that’s always been the winning combo for recognition and success,” she clapped back, eliciting laughter and applause from Noah and the audience.

She continued, “And he was like, ‘You know what I mean! Like, me! I’m just another white guy. And I was like, ‘Be a better white guy!,'” before citing successful white male comedians Jimmy Kimmel, Will Ferrell, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney as examples.

While she joked that she “could go on for 35 days” naming successful white male comedians, and Noah posed the idea of doing “another show just for successful white comedians,” the former Daily Show host said, “just be a funnier white guy. Like, that’s it.”

Fans have flooded the comments section of the TikTok with requests to reveal the unnamed comedian’s identity, with one fan writing that they “can’t stop thinking about who the comedian was.” Even the official Spotify Podcasts TikTok account is curious, as they commented, “Seriously, who was it?”

Some fans have posed their guesses, but only time will tell if Wong will dish on the name herself.

Watch the clip of the interview above.