Ken, congratulations on the "Crazy, Rich Asians" movie.
And doing very well.
Thank you!
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Look at that.
I'm crazy, I'm rich, I'm Asian.
Now.
There you are.
It is-- director John M. Chu said, it's more than a movie.
It's a movement.
So thank you everyone for making that movie a biggest hit.
It's one of my--
probably the favorite thing I've ever done in my career.
Oh, that's great.
Have more people of color on the screen,
to have more Asian representation.
Thank you guys, very much.
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Thank you.
That's great.
You get to wear outfits like that, too.
And I get to wear my own wardrobe.
Yeah, your own.
Yeah.
Love it.
So you went back to stand up, I understand?
Yes, yes.
I actually I just shot my Netflix stand up special like,
three weeks ago.
And I had the best time ever.
So it was so much fun.
I hadn't done stand up comedy in 10 years.
And it was my return to stand up.
And I see that you, actually, I'd
heard through the Netflix grapevine,
that you had done your--
That's right.
I hadn't done it in 15 years.
And I decided.
What made you decide?
And how was it for you to go back?
It was-- you probably figured a similar thing.
But it was initially very scary.
Where I started virtually from scratch.
I had made like, five or 10 minutes.
And then, over the course of eight months,
I really just grinded it out.
I did a lot of, like, a lot of clubs,
a lot of the improv, the Funny Bones and all these clubs.
Did casinos, dinner theaters.
I don't know, backyards.
I would do everything to try to get ready for it.
And by the time I shot it, I actually was ready for it.
It was one of the most fun things
I've ever done in my career.
And then I just, I really, really
can't wait for people to watch it.
It's very autobiographical.
It talks about my life from like being a--
I used to be a physician.
And like, being a doctor on, and how it led to me doing this.
So.
And where did you shoot it?
I shot up The Ice House in Pasadena.
Oh, that's a great place.
Yes.
And that's where I first got my start doing stand up comedy.
And actually, that's where my wife
saw me do stand up comedy for the first time.
And I really talking about my wife and her battle
with breast cancer.
She's cancer free and doing great.
So--
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In many ways, I--
in many ways, I dedicated my act to her.
Because it really is about family and love.
I actually call it-- the working title
is "Ken Jung: Full Circle."
So coming back full circle where,
you know, where I'm doing the club that I love the most.
And with the wife that I love the most.
I don't know.
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It's amazing because you're-- so you're doing stand up,
and someone in the audience had a seizure.
Yes.
And because you used to be a doctor, you actually--
you're a full service comedian.
You went out and took care of the person with the seizure.
Yes, and it wasn't from a bad joke.
Now, it was-- it was actually-- this is what really happened.
In the beginning of my set, and even in my own Netflix special,
I do some crowd work like an Asian Don Rickles.
You know, that's kind of how I do things.
I insult people as Mr. Chow.
Heh heh heh.
I stupid.
I do all these things.
And then someone in-- someone in third row was like, Mr. Chow.
Mr. Chow.
I was like, calm down.
I'll insult you later.
I'll get to you.
And she was like, no no.
Someone's passed out.
And I literally dropped the microphone,
jumped off the stage and went to help the patient.
It was like-- it was like Godfather III,
like Michael Corleone, "Just when I think I'm out,
they pull me back in."
You know?
It was so surreal and you had 550 people in Phoenix
like, being quiet and helping out this one lady who actually,
you know, she actually-- turned out
she had a petite mal seizure.
And she was passed out.
She was unconscious.
And I'm thinking of myself as a physician,
I may have to do CPR.
I was in doctor mode.
Very serious.
I was like-- and I did stuff with the American Heart
Association teaching hands only compressions CPR.
You don't have to do mouth to mouth any more.
And you do it to the beat of "Staying Alive."
That's a fact.
100 beats per minute.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin alive, stayin alive.
And I'm thinking to myself, am I going
to have to Bee Gee this girl?
I don't know.
And within minutes, like, the paramedic came.
And she's totally fine.
Seizure free.
And my whole point is, if you don't like my show,
you don't have to have a freaking seizure.
Just walk out.
I got the check, yo.