Talk:Ken Jeong

Criticism

It's a common complaint in the Asian American community against Ken Jeong that he engages in active yellowface. His characters like in Community and Hangover build off the "Yellow Peril" stereotype (it's like an ape for African Americans). That hurts other Asian American actors who want to play real roles on movies instead of a yellow buffoon.

A section criticism might be worth including. Alternatively his style of his comedy and the roles he has done tend to play to stereotypes could be noted and the reader left to draw their own conclusions rather than including the criticism in a more direct manner. He needs to let himself have more positive roles so fellow Asians could have a chance to be represented fairly instead of taking on over the top, unfunny, cheesy ventures all just to get attention and money. -- Horkana (talk) 15:46, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't think there have been notable crticisms of him. 71.184.251.201 (talk) 22:56, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Furthermore I don't think he acts in a stereotypical fashion. Just because he does not often play portray positive role models often does not make his roles stereotypical. The only thing stereotypical about his characters that I can think of is Chow's accent in Hangover, which is a pretty minor thing in the grand scheme of things. CapnLilNemo (talk) 18:19, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

The only criticism appears to be from the original poster. I can't find anything negative about him.

Here are some sources of criticism: [1] [2]

Grammar

It's "is a Korean-American comedian", not "is an Korean American comedian" ("a" instead of "an", plus a hyphen between "Korean" and "American"). Someone allowed to edit semi-protected entries please correct that.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.226.111.167 (talk • contribs)

First Film

Uncle P was Jeong's first film, not Knocked Up. According to resources, it was made in 2005 and may have been re-released or officially released in 2007 before/during Knocked Up (even if it wasn't, Uncle P is technically his debut -- like it or not). Watching it, you can clearly see it was older than 2007. He played the "bag boy". You can view some sources below to verify/research this (please correct the sentence about Knocked Up being his debut film in the article since for some odd reason it is edit-protected as if he's too important/popular/controversial to be touched):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365880/

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie/uncle-p/?silentchk=1&

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocked_Up

http://www.answers.com/topic/uncle-p

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7429451

63.131.4.149 (talk) 06:48, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Dr. Kuni

The Dr. Kuni sentence is written poorly. The character "Dr. Kuni," doesn't need to be in there twice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.187.154.97 (talk) 01:41, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Name in Korean?

Is there any sources out there as to how his name is officially spelled out in Hangul? It'd be helpful to include into the article. Rebel shadow (talk) 19:49, 11 July 2010 (UTC) It states "Jeong was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Korean immigrants Young and D.K. Jeong, who was a professor at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina for 35 years.[3][4]" but since he is only 41, he's been a doctor since he was 6? Maybe it's 3.5 years? Or he's much older than he looks... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kriemel3 (talk • contribs) 22:25, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

2011 Billboard Music Awards

"Ken Jeong will host the 2011 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on May 22" needs to be changed to "Ken Jeong hosted the 2011..."

Jaketcetera (talk) 14:45, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Pronunciation

It should be difficult for many to guess how the name is pronounced. If somebody can describe that by exact comparisons to common English words, I would put it into the International Phonetic Alphabet. --Hans Dunkelberg (talk) 14:23, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

Name in Korean!!

정강조 is his Korean name. It should be included under (or above) his name in english... I would add it but I don't have enough wiki cred.

Edit request!!

His TV credits need to be updated. I just watched him appear in an episode of Mary Shelley's Frankenhole that aired March 18, 2012, titled "Maly Sherrey's Hyralius, Mutant Monster!" and his role was the Hyralius character. That is from season two, episode 9 of the series. Thanks. 71.198.161.171 (talk) 04:42, 19 March 2012 (UTC) Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 13:41, 19 March 2012 (UTC)

Trojan Alert!!

The website www.drken.net contains a trojan horse (computer virus), please remove from list — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justin.ere (talk • contribs) 12:29, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

Additional Movie Credit

Ken Jeong's contribution as industrial developer Neal Lymann in the 2010 movie "Furry Vengeance". He played a large role as Brendan Fraser's boss. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.61.4.23 (talk) 02:43, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

was he on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ?

there are some stories claiming this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.176.108.8 (talk) 06:24, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

I don't think so. He is alive now with his own TV show. Tar62800 01:26, 20 October 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tar62800 (talk • contribs)

Dead reference link

The 3rd reference in this article (a reference to his license) is a dead link that currently shows the message:

   THIS SERVICE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE

I have no idea if there is a different site that does work, or what the best procedure is to deal with such a dead link.

Energya (talk) 13:11, 10 August 2015 (UTC)