Jenny Yang (comedian)

Jenny Yang is an American comedian, writer and actor from Los Angeles.

In 2020, Yang was selected as one of Variety's “10 Comics To Watch”[1] and Vulture's "Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2020".[2]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Yang created Comedy Crossing a charity stand-up comedy show held inside the Animal Crossing video game and watched live via Zoom. Since June 2020 the show has raised nearly $40,000 for causes related to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Early life and education

Yang was born in Taiwan and raised in the South Bay of Los Angeles.[3] Yang graduated in political science at Swarthmore College and was a PPIA Fellow for a Master's in urban planning at University of California, Los Angeles.[4]

Career

Yang is regularly featured on BuzzFeed videos on Asian American issues.[5][6] Yang was featured in the 2013 Showtime documentary Why We Laugh: Funny Women.[7][8]

Between 2013 and 2018, Yang produced Disoriented Comedy, a nationally touring comedy showcase of Asian American women. Created by Yang, Atsuko Okatsuka and Yola Lu, the show debuted in 2012 at the David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.[9]

In 2014, Yang was the co-host of ISAtv's Angry Asian America along with Phil Yu, founder of the Angry Asian Man blog.[3]

As a television writer, Yang has written for season 1 of HBO Max's Gordita Chronicles, the final two seasons of Fox's Last Man Standing and E!’s late-night talk show Busy Tonight with Busy Philipps.

References
  1. "Variety Announces 10 Comics to Watch for 2020". 12 August 2020.
  2. "The Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2020". 19 October 2020.
  3. Wei, Clarissa (6 May 2015). "Politically Charged Comedian Jenny Yang Doesn't Care If She Comes Off as Respectable". Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  4. Bio
  5. "When You Realize He Has Yellow Fever". YouTube.
  6. "Ask an Asian". YouTube.
  7. Why We Laugh: Funny Women, 2013-03-21, retrieved 2015-09-13
  8. "Joan Rivers, I Kiss Your Ring: My Fancy Showtime "Funny Women" Documentary Experience [jennyyang.tv blog]". Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  9. "About". Disoriented Comedy. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
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