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EXCLUSIVE: CAA signed Ken Jeong, and will steer his career in both film and TV. Jeong really hit my radar in a small role in The Hangover, and I can’t get enough with this Asian with Attitude. He rose to a bigger role in The Hangover Part II, and though they stuck him in a freezer they couldn’t kill him, and he’s back in a bigger role in the Todd Phillips-directed The Hangover Part III with Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms. Jeong will next be seen in the Michael Bay-directed Pain and Gain opposite Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, and he is voicing characters in Despicable Me 2 and the DreamWorks Animation film Turbo. Jeong is also a regular in the NBC series Community. He has even done Adidas commercials with Dwight Howard and Derek Rose, even though I’m fairly certain I could best him in a game of HORSE or in one on one. That is attitude.
He continues to be managed by Aligned Entertainment and lawyered by Chad Christopher.
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That’s Ken Jeong, M.D. Look it up. He’s an amazing talent with many gifts and much kindness.
The CAA office team is waiting for Ken to hang out with them.
So let me get this right… Old agent books Ken in:
PAIN AND GAIN, 2 coveted voice over jobs, all while being a series reg on a hit show and old agent gets pinked? Really? WOW
CAA feeds off other agencies work. They are desperate bottom feeders!
Katie P.: Community is a “hit show”?
Oh he’ll just get lost over there.
Ken seems like a really nice guy, and the story he’s told about his wife surviving cancer and telling him to go for it is inspiring, but that said, how does the asian community specifically respond to him? He’s reinforced some of the worst asian stereotypes, specifically THE WORST (granted, it was really his to reinforce, he was the guy with his junk hanging out on the big screen) and I know he makes non-asians laugh, but everytime he pulls his pants down for a laugh, i have a handful of asian friends who cringe and feel like they just got out back another couple hundred years….So im asking people who look like Ken Jeong, what do you think of him?
What’s the point of comedy if you can’t laugh at yourself?
I am Asian and I definitely cringe whenever Ken Jeong is on screen. He is definitely the Long Duk Dong of our generation and although I wouldn’t go as far to say that it’s humiliating – it just doesn’t help our cause.
It’s one thing if we had a few Asian men on screen who were “normal” to even “cool” with some Ken Jeong’s thrown into the mix but the industry loves to portray us as the court jesters. Even that guy in all the commercials, Aaron Takahashi, is an embarrassment in my book. Yes, there are a lot of Asian guys who look and behave like Ken Jeong and Aaron Takahashi. But there are many who are handsome, charming, sexy, physically fit, witty…the list goes on and on. There have actually been studies done in this country that revealed that Asian-American men are the most desirable because they consistently have the highest levels of education and make the highest median incomes compared to any other ethnicity.
Anyway, the powers that be in Hollywood seem to enjoy feeding this country a certain brand of Asian like McDonald’s enjoys feeding this country a bunch of heart attack inducing junkfood. None of this stuff is actually good for society but as long as the companies can make a buck out of it, who cares, right?
Jeong is shockingly not funny and is offensive to gays and Asians – of course his career is on a trajectory!
All funny comedy is offensive to somebody. And as a homo I’m not offended by Jeong’s hyperbolic character so you need to reword your sentence to say “offensive to some gays and Asians,” because you don’t speak for an entire community.
Jeong is effective in only very small doses. I don’t see him becoming a lead in anything.
This is a classic case of the big boys coming in (CAA) and snatching up talent from the Oakland A’s (UTA). Happens every time and will continue to do so.
I am shocked at some of these opinions. Ken is an amazing talent, his love for acting is portrayed in his work. Stereotypes are a part of Hollywood and life and there is typically humor in sterotypes if done correctly. Maybe we should live in a 100% politically correct world where laughter and comedy doesn’t exsist. Everyone can only watch pg documentaries, as long as they don’t offend anyone. But I for one think that would be a pretty boring life.