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Jenny Yang (comedian)

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Jenny Yang is an American comic and writer in Los Angeles. Yang is the co-founder and co-producer of Dis/orient/ed Comedy, a nationally touring comedy showcase of Asian-American women, as well as the co-host of ISAtv's Angry Asian America along with Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man.[1] Yang is regularly featured on BuzzFeed Videos on Asian American issues.[2][3] Yang was featured in the 2013 Showtime documentary Why We Laugh: Funny Women.[4][5]

Yang was born in Taiwan and raised in the South Bay of Los Angeles.[1] Dis/orient/ed Comedy was created by Yang, Atsuko Okatsuka, and Yola Lu, which debuted in 2012 at the historic David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.[6]

Education

Yang "graduated top of her class in political science at Swarthmore College, and was a PPIA Fellow for a Master’s in urban planning at UCLA."[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Wei, Clarissa. "Politically Charged Comedian Jenny Yang Doesn't Care If She Comes Off as Respectable". Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  2. ^ "When You Realize He Has Yellow Fever".
  3. ^ "Ask an Asian".
  4. ^ Why We Laugh: Funny Women, 2013-03-21, retrieved 2015-09-13
  5. ^ "Joan Rivers, I Kiss Your Ring: My Fancy Showtime "Funny Women" Documentary Experience [jennyyang.tv blog]". Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  6. ^ "About". Disoriented Comedy. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-09-13. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Bio