Jenny Yang

Jenny Yang is an American comic and writer in Los Angeles. Yang is the co-founder and co-producer of Dis/orient/ed Comedy, a nationally touring comedy showcase of Asian-American women, as well as the co-host of ISAtv's Angry Asian America along with Phil Yu of Angry Asian Man.[1]

Not to be confused with Jenny R. Yang, an American lawyer and former EEOC Chair.

Early life and education

Yang was born in Taiwan and raised in the South Bay of Los Angeles.[1] Yang "graduated top of her class" in political science at Swarthmore College, and was a PPIA Fellow for a Master’s in urban planning at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)."[2]

Career

Yang is regularly featured on BuzzFeed Videos on Asian American issues.[3][4] Yang was featured in the 2013 Showtime documentary Why We Laugh: Funny Women.[5][6]

Dis/orient/ed Comedy was created by Yang, Atsuko Okatsuka, and Yola Lu, which debuted in 2012 at the historic David Henry Hwang Theater in Little Tokyo in Los Angeles.[7]

gollark: What if they just terminate it?
gollark: 8!? Wow, that's 40320.
gollark: But I just had you factorize a number instead, as a basic test of "ability to solve simple problems using a computer".
gollark: I was considering a maze as the "challenge" to uninstall potatOS.
gollark: DOWN WITH SECURITY THROUGH OBSCURITY!

References
  1. Wei, Clarissa. "Politically Charged Comedian Jenny Yang Doesn't Care If She Comes Off as Respectable". Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  2. Bio
  3. "When You Realize He Has Yellow Fever".
  4. "Ask an Asian".
  5. Why We Laugh: Funny Women, 2013-03-21, retrieved 2015-09-13
  6. "Joan Rivers, I Kiss Your Ring: My Fancy Showtime "Funny Women" Documentary Experience [jennyyang.tv blog]". Retrieved 2015-09-13.
  7. "About". Disoriented Comedy. Archived from the original on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-09-13.
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