Yoshi Obayashi Live at the Juke Joint

Yoshi Obayashi is a standup comedian who has opened for such legendary comics as Dave Attell, Russell Peters, Jim Norton and Patrice O’Neal. (Also many podcast episodes, including Joe Rogan, Tom Segura, Jon Ronson and many others shows). 

While attending the infamous institution The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, Yoshi learned to treasure the values of free speech. He may also have called one of his fellow Greeners a “godless communist” during one heated class conversation.

Yoshi was employed for four years in adult retail businesses in Seattle; even after getting teargassed during the WTO riots, he still worked his night shift. Eventually, he reached the highest echelons of the industry, working for prestigious yet controversial studio Evil Angel. There, he produced DVDs for famed porn directors Rocco Siffredi, Joey Silvera, John Stagliano, John Leslie and Christof Clark.

When Evil Angel’s owner John Stagliano was prosecuted for obscenity by…