The Hungover Games, Comedy Zen: Season 1, Dat Phan Live, Sake-Bomb, National Lampoon Live: The International Show
TV Shows
Last Comic Standing
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Trademark
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Hi-energy with lots of facial expressions
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Quote
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It's kind of funny how that happened. When I was a child, I had a dream of one day becoming very influential and being in the entertainment world. I really wanted badly for that to happen, and in the last couple of years, my manager told me I was nominated for the group of the Most Influential Vietnamese-American Individuals in the world, along with generals and ambassadors and surgeons. It's an honor. It's mind-boggling. I'm a college dropout; I'm a high school failure, someone who came from a homeless background, but I understand the American pop culture and doing comedy from my heart led me to be in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
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I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.
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When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.
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I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.
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Fact
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Has a star on Grossmont College's Walk of Fame.
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Tours the U.S. as a headlining comedian.
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Attended West Hills High School in Santee, California.
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Practices Northern Shaolin Green Dragon Kung Fu.
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Was inspired directly by Benny Hill and John Ritter. Indirectly, by Johnny Carson.
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Credits his mom for keeping him out of gangs as a child.
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Lived out of his car while homeless in Los Angeles/Orange County, before he made it on Last Comic Standing.
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Started stand-up comedy after taking a speech class in college.
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Included in The Smithsonian Institution's exhibition of The Top 10 Most Influential Vietnamese-American Individuals.
$500,000
