| Intro | American comedian |
| Is | Comedian |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Humor |
| Gender | female |
Esther Ku is a Korean-American stand-up comedian, television personality, and actress. Ku is a cast member on the MTV show Girl Code and Wild ‘N Out. Ku is a comedian who frequently appeared on the Opie and Jim Norton Show on Sirius XM Radio. Ku was chosen as one of the ten best comedians for the 2006 NBC Stand-up for Diversity Showcase in New York City. 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”.
Background
The daughter of Christian missionaries, Ku was born in Chicago in the 1980s. She worked as a traveling sales rep for Sharpie and was fired for laughing too much. Recently in an interview she said that she was using this trainee position as a way for her to explore doing comedy while on the road. Eventually her bosses found out that she wasn’t serious about her job, noting on her performance evaluation that she laughed at inappropriate times.
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. Ku was also interviewed by veteran comedian Richard Lewis on NPR in a feature about the difficulties of becoming a comedian.
Typically Ku’s material is controversial and racially tinged.
Career
Ku is a cast member on the MTV show Girl Code. Ku has also become a cast member on the sixth season of Wild ‘N Out on MTV2.
In 2008, Ku competed on the nationally televised show Last Comic Standing 6 where she finished in eleventh place. In 2008, Ku was a finalist on Howard Stern’s Hottest Funniest Chick contest on Sirius Satellite Radio. She was also selected for NBC’s Stand-up for Diversity Showcase in 2006.
In 2011, Ku MCed an Asian Heritage show in New York which also featured Jenny Choi and Peelander-Z.
In 2015, Ku played Tracy on the The Jack and Triumph Show supporting Jack McBrayer and Robert Smigel.
Ku has been reviewed favorably in many media outlets in both English and Korean.
Ku was featured as a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on July 29, 2015.
Ku is the host of the Ku and the Gang podcast where she interviews comedians and comedic actors.[1]