Entertainment
Over The Moon: How Margaret Cho helped Ken Jeong choose comedy over medicine – NEWS.com.au
Over The Moon: How Margaret Cho helped Ken Jeong choose comedy over medicine
Ken Jeong has had many scene-stealing roles in his second career, including that star-making turn in The Hangover trilogy and as the anarchic Chang in Community.And while many know that he was a real-life doctor specialising in internal medicine while doing stand-up comedy on the side before choosing acting full-time in 2006, what they may not know is that it was fellow Asian-American comic Margaret Cho who really encouraged him.
“I was inspired by Margaret. I got my start in comedy because of Margaret,”…
-
General10 hours agoAlleged Croydon Park gunman Artemios Mintzas charged with 25 offences
-
General23 hours agoThree youths in police custody after fire at Ashley Youth Detention Centre in northern Tasmania
-
Noosa News12 hours agoPerth Royal Show attendance slumps to 10-year low
-
General23 hours agoLiberal poll blow days after MP’s retreat to backbench