About a week ago, my little eye spotted a hilarious video on Youtube. The video featured, comedian, Ken Jeong who took an internship in Vogue. My gosh, I loved him even more, so I wanted to get top know him a little bit better! If you are as interested as I am, these are some facts you should know about him!
- Ken Jeong was born on July 13, 1969.
- He was born in Detroit.
- His parents were South Korean immigrants.
- He was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, and attended Walter Hines Page High School.
- When he was in school he took part in the Quiz Bowl team, played violin in the orchestra, and was elected to student council.
- He graduated at 16 and his achievements earned him Greensboro’s Youth of the Month award.
- He attended and graduated from Duke University in 1990. He got his M.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 1995.
- He completed his internal medicine residency at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans while developing his stand-up comedy.
- Ken is a licensed physician in California but he no longer practices because he gave it up to become an actor and comedian.
- Ken won the Big Easy Laff-Off in 1995, of which NBC president Brandon Tartikoff and The Improv founder Budd Friedman were judges, and they both urged Jeong to move to Los Angeles.
- He made his film debut in Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up as Dr. Kuni.
- He has appeared in Pineapple Express, All About Steve,The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, Couples Retreat, The Hangover, The Hangover Part II, and The Hangover Part III. And in other movies.
- In 2015, Jeong starred, wrote, and executive produced the pilot of his new ABC medical comedy, Dr. Ken, as a frustrated HMO doctor juggling his career, marriage and parenting.
- His wife’s name is Tran Ho and she is Vietnamese American. She is also a family physician.
- They have two daughters!
