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Esther Ku in 2010 |
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Medium | Stand-up, television |
Years active | 2002 – present |
Subject(s) | Asian culture, |
Website | http://www.funnyku.com |
Esther Ku is a Korean-American comic.[1] Ku was chosen as one of the ten best comedians for the 2006 NBC Stand-up for Diversity Showcase in New York City.[2] Ku has also been a featured regular performer in the Boston International Comedy Festival and the New York Underground Festival. She has been called the Asian Sarah Silverman.[3] Ku recently MCed an Asian Heritage show in New York which also featured Jenny Choi and Peelander-Z.[4]
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The daughter of Christian missionaries, Ku was born in Chicago in the 1980s. She was fired from a job at Sharpie's for laughing too much, which she says caused her to explore doing comedy.[5]
Ku has claimed that comedians need to be prepared to deal with the failure of a joke; she says that she does so by poking fun at herself.[6] Ku was also interviewed by veteran comedian Richard Lewis on NPR in a feature about the difficulties of becoming a comedian.[7]
Typically her material is controversial and racially tinged.[8]
In 2008, Ku competed as a finalist on the nationally televised show Last Comic Standing 6.[9] She finished in eleventh place. In 2008, Ku competed as a finalist on Howard Stern's Hottest Funniest Chick contest on Sirius Satellite Radio.[10] She was also selected for NBC's Stand-up for Diversity Showcase in 2006.[11] She has been reviewed favorably in many media outlets[12][13] in both English and the Korean language.[14]