Growing up, Sheng Wang never saw himself as a funny guy. Evidently, no one else did, either. "It's not a label I was ever given," he said. "I was never the class clown or the life of the party." How times change. In 2022, Wang made his national solo debut with his critically acclaimed Netflix comedy special, "Sweet and Juicy," produced and directed by his longtime friend and fellow comedian Ali Wong. On Friday, October 18, Wang will bring that same introspective humor about mundane activities to the Lebanon Opera House, just over the border in New Hampshire. Wang's ascendance has been decades in the making. In 2015, after years of working the West Coast standup circuit, he got a job as a staff writer and actor on the ABC sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat," about a Taiwanese American immigrant family. But as he told Seven Days in a recent phone interview from his home in Los Angeles, Wang took the jobs in television writing and acting mostly out of a sense of obligation; he thought that was how he should advance his career. His real passion, he said, is telling jokes onstage. In his two decades of doing standup, Wang, who grew up learning Buddhist teachings, has perfected the art of wry, Zen-like observation, such as how buying pants at Costco taught him to let go and begin his spiritual journey. But first, he had to find parking. "If I can't find parking in under eight minutes, I drive away. Let it go, dude. Today is not the day," he jokes in "Sweet and Juicy." "I'm not gonna force it. I'm gonna respect it, like the ocean ... Costco is bigger than all of us." Wang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1980 and moved to Houston, Texas, with his family at age 2. When he wasn't attending the art, piano and Mandarin lessons in which his parents enrolled him, he rode his bicycle and explored nature, both of which are still passions of his. His one claim to fame as a youth was attending the same high school as Beyoncé. (He was a year ahead of her.) Compared to other standup comics, Wang was a late bloomer. The 44-year-old grew up watching "The X-Files" and science and nature programs on PBS but not sitcoms; his family didn't have cable. In fact, Wang never saw a…