Jenny Yang, a Los Angeles-based writer and stand-up comedian, will speak about ethnic humor and finding your voice and career after college in a presentation on Wednesday, April 20, at 4 p.m., in the Bradford Auditorium, KJ. The presentation is sponsored by the Days-Massolo Center and is free and open to the public.
Yang produces the first-ever, mostly female, Asian American standup comedy tour, Dis/orient/ed Comedy, and The Comedy Comedy Festival: A Comedy Festival, a comedy festival showcasing the best in Asian American comedic talent.
Taiwan-born and Southern California-raised, Yang is a frequent collaborator on viral Buzzfeed videos that have amassed over 20 million combined views, and digital comedy platforms including Comedy Central (“White Flight”), Cracked.com, Fusion, Anna Akana and Whitney Rice.
Drawing from her former career in politics, Yang is a regular commentator on politics and pop culture with contributions featured in National Public Radio, The Guardian, NBC News, BBC News, Al Jazeera America, Southern California Public Radio, ISAtv and Pivot TV.
Yang was dubbed one of Los Angeles’ “most fascinating people” of 2015 in LA Weekly’s annual “People” issue. She was also a featured standup comic on Joan Rivers’ 2013 Showtime documentary “Why We Laugh: Funny Women.” (jennyyang.tv @jennyyangtv).
