Bowen Yang Is ‘Beyond’ Nervous for His Parents to See His Raunchy Comedy “Dicks: The Musical” (Exclusive)

The ‘Saturday Night Live’ standout says he isn’t sure if the outrageous movie is “on their radar,” but jokes that a "Chinese auntie" will "blow my cover"

Bowen Yang isn’t sure he’s ready for his parents to see his outrageous new comedy Dicks: The Musical.

The movie, about two adult business rivals (co-writers Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson) who realize they’re twins and conspire to reunite their long-divorced parents (Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane), is filled with blush-inducing sex scenes, crude humor and flying genitalia.

The Emmy nominated Saturday Night Live star, 32, plays God, the movie’s narrator who also does drugs and joins the ensemble cast for a show-stopping, NSFW musical number. It’s all extremely irreverent.

So just how nervous is Yang for his mom Meng and dad Ruilin to take all that in?

“Beyond what the human brain can chemically render,” he jokes to PEOPLE. “I have no idea if it’ll even land on their radar, but I’m sure some Chinese auntie will stop them at a Costco and tell them about it and blow my cover.”

Joking aside, Yang previously told PEOPLE in 2021 his parents, both immigrants from China, are now supportive of his career in show business, even though they hoped their son would become a doctor. (Yang took pre-med courses when he was an undergraduate student at New York University.)

"There has been a nice shift where they go, ‘Great job,’” he said of their take on his fame.

"They've just been encouraging in the purest sense. It's not like I'm getting [SNL] sketch ideas from them, and they know what the boundaries are," he added.

“They know that has been hard won for me, and that it means a lot, and it means a lot to them too. They think, 'Wow, he pulled it off.' And my mom said to me recently, she was like, ‘Bowen you're very lucky to be doing this.’ And I was like, ‘I know mom.’”

Case in point: getting to join the cast of Dicks, which was based on a live show created and staged by Yang’s longtime friends Sharp and Jackson. Yang, “loved [it] and had seen [it] so many times,” he says.

Plus, he got to work with comedy legends Mulllally and Lane and hip-hop superstar Megan Thee Stallion. “There were a million reasons to be thrilled,” he adds.

Costar Lane, meanwhile, previously told PEOPLE he "wasn't sure about" what to make of the movie when he got the script. “It was outrageous,” he said.

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Once he met with Sharp and Jackson, however, “I fell in love with them,” he added. “This whole young generation, they’re not really concerned about what you think, what your judgment is about what they’re doing.”

“To be a part of something like this in a time when books are being banned and there’s a whole 'Don’t Say Gay' campaign . . . I just thought, for that reason alone, it is worth doing,” continued Lane. “It’ll be interesting to see what that reaction will be. There are people just waiting to be offended.”

Dicks: The Musical is playing in select theaters now and opens wider on Friday.

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