Although humor was not entirely new in Asian American culture, the Daniels’ latest film, Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) took humor to new levels precisely by parodying everything (from) everywhere: Asian American narratives depicting intergenerational conflict, Wong Kar Wai’s stylized films such as In the Mood for Love, cyberpunk culture (most notably The Matrix saga), American animation films (Pixar-Disney’s Ratatouille), Kung Fu movies… But parody is just one among the many types of a centuries-old genre: satire. Itself a mish mash of genres, satire has been approached as a literary mode of Cirque-du-Soleil flexibility. In my talk I will try and tease out the different uses that the versatile satirical mode has been put to in recent Asian American literature. In particular, I will engage in a close reading of the latest narratives published by two very different Asian American authors, Karen Tei Yamashita and Ling Ma. Satire, as I intend to show in my analysis, can be effectively deployed to capture and lambast the (ongoing) systemic racism in the US, the (ongoing) colonialist attitudes in the Americas and, last but not least, the perils of taking certain discourses to the extreme.