speaking chinese to a wall, but he's simply practicing. ( laughter ) >> reporter: 23-year-old jesse appellrforms stand-up comedy in beijing, 7,000 miles from his massachusetts home. we met appell at this tea market where he tests his jokes. ( laughter ) >> and the shops are small enough they would have a hard time getting past me if they didn't like the jokes to get out of the room. >> reporter: he came to china on a fulbright scholarship to study comedy. ( laughter ) >> in beijing, they do cross-talk, you have two people on stage and they go back and forth and back and forth like abbot and costello style. but the thing about stand-up, it comes from the west. >> reporter: "west "as in america. appell says it's chinese comedian joe wong who deserves credit for importing stand-up. seven million people tune in to see wong crack jokes on china's state tv. he realized he had a knack for stand-up while studying in the u.s. why do you think stand-up comedy is becoming more popular in china? >> i think one of the reasons is because young people now have their own individuality. like, when i was gr

i'm attorney jesse ralph on behalf of respondent nhi hoang. the appellant recites as reasons for contest of respondent's permit, one, harassment, two, illegal eviction notices, three, fraudulent contract, four, lack of notice of violation and five, inconsistency with an executive directive. in fact, even if one harassment to a legal eviction notices and/or three, a fraudulent contract have occurred, all of which respondent denies. those reasons are irrelevant to this proceeding. contrary to appellant's position, respondent has been remained subject to dbi's may 22nd and june 3rd, 2014 notice of violation. appellant is not entitled to any benefit from the referenced executive directive because she has actively interfered with and has knowingly refused dbi's attempts to perform its task 3, quote, perform a site visit and research to verify that there are no code violations including life, safety, and fire code violations. accordingly, dbi did and has not exceeded its authority in issuing the challenged permit. the appellant here has failed to present any evid

jesse square garage and mexican museum parcel to the project sponsor. this is a necessary step to enable the mexican museum become a reality. also, this is an action which you had already approvedment the appellantsour opinion are now trying to delay the project and actionses here today are without merit. as you just heard from your city staff the appeals do not raise a new issue not previously considered. it should be rejected by the city. this is a waste of your time and a waste of our time. please vote no on the a meal. we want to see the mexican museum built. thank you very much. [speaker not understood]. >> next speaker, please. >>> good afternoon, everybody. my name is juana [speaker not understood]. i am mexican and that is why i am here. i am [speaker not understood] to hear every time the mexican people or the mexican community wants to do something good, every time we can face people who are against us. and i think it's time to remind people who don't know or who don't want to remember that this land was part of mexico. and [speaker not understood] every time we want to do something for our community for good because you weren't always complaining about the latino community. so, [speake