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February 01, 2004
Black History Month: Korean American comedienne list
Well, everyone knows about Margaret Cho, but there's also:
- Tina Kim
Former television news reporter and anchor Tina Kim moved to the United States when she was four years old and grew up in Seattle, Washington. She is the youngest of four children and graduated from the University of Washington with a broadcast communications degree. "I wanted to be on tv and the only Asian woman I saw on tv was Connie Chung."
- Amy Anderson
Unlike her name, Amy Anderson is originally from South Korea. She was adopted and raised by Swedish people in Minnesota where her inevitable comedy career took flight. She spent six years in Minneapolis as a comedian, actor and writer before fleeing to sunny Los Angeles. Amy has an extensive background in theater, improv and sketch comedy and somehow managed to obtain a degree in classical music.
- Suzanne Park
Suzanne Park is a Korean-American comedienne who was born and raised in the foothills of Tennessee, where cow-tipping is fun for ages 3 and up. She began her stand-up career in NYC in October 1999. After only 6 months of performing on stage, she entered in the 2000 Boston Comedy Festival Standup Competition, where she was a semi-finalist and a runner-up.
You might be wondering what this has to do with Black History Month.
Not a damn thing.
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Bonus Round: Pen-Elayne on the Web: 'Tain't Funny, McGee.
Posted by Aaron at February 1, 2004 07:45 AM
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Hey, cool list. I'll check 'em out.
Bruce is trying to get me to take "M.C. Seoul" as my stage name. I think he's on to something, actually. Given that I am in fact the Whitest Little Asian Girl, this is multiply funny in more ways than I can really count.
Posted by: Karin at February 1, 2004 11:24 AM
Sorta related- I'm thinking of a comedian from the 90s. He was a Korean dude from Texas, I think. Big Texas accent and his name was Henry _______. Man, he was pretty funny, that guy. He had a joke about how the Yankees were all upset because the Japanese were buying up the country.
The punch line was: "somewhere there's an old indian sitting on a porch saying 'yeah, but at least they're payin for it;"
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Posted by: uppity-shinob at February 3, 2004 09:29 AM
Thanks for the lovely plug, Aaron! I'll have to check out those comedians' sites. Like I said in the essay, I'm woefully out of touch with modern stand-up, and I'm trying to remedy that.
Posted by: Elayne Riggs at February 4, 2004 11:14 AM
uppity-shinob, remember seeing the guy once. Think it was Henry Cho. . .
Elayne, Karin, no worries. I'm trying to get back into the stand-up thing myself.
Posted by: Aaron at February 4, 2004 11:51 AM