Ken Cheng

Ken Cheng, is a British born Chinese (BBC) professional poker player and comedian noted for his YouTube comedy characters, Mark Liu & Katie Hopkins, his abrasive public personality, and reaching the final of the 2015 BBC New Comedy Awards.[1] [2] [3]

Cheng studied dual-avian projectile mathematics at St John's College,[4] Cambridge University but dropped out to become a professional poker player.

After recovering from a series of scandals, he 'wrote' and performed for the Cambridge Footlights, often known to refer to himself as a 'footlights regular', and he's also taken his stand-up performances the Edinburgh Festival. Cheng directed The Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles, which toured the UK, Paris and North America.[5] [6] Reviewing the 2015 BBC New Comedy Awards for the comedy news, reviews and unfair judgement site Chortle, Steve Better Bennett stated that Cheng "deserved to win".[7]

References

  1. ↑ "supermarkliu". twitter.com. Twitter. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Meet The Winner Of This Year's BBC Radio New Comedy Award". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian". camdram.net. Camdram. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Cambridge Fresher looking to meet likeminded people VLOG". youtube.com/user/supermarkliu. YouTube. 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Footlights Tour 2015". footlightsontour.co.uk. Footlights. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Footlights Tour 2015". camdram.net. Camdram. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "BBC Radio New Comedy Awards 2015". chortle.co.uk. Chortle. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.

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