Ken Jeong

Chicago Stage Skills Pay Off For Suzy Nakamura On 'dr. Ken

... more confident as a television or movie actress. “TV and movies are much more literal media. With theater, you often create this reality with very little to provide the audience, in the way of sets or props. “You take the whole audience with you on a theater journey. They don’t look at a sparely decorated stage and say, ‘Is that really a house? Is that really a car?’ You tell them what to believe and they believe it,” added the Lane Tech grad. In reminiscing about Second City, Nakamura recalled the huge impact the late improv mecca’s doyenne Joyce Sloane had on both her career and the careers of so many others. “Alumni of Second City say this a lot: ‘Joyce Sloane gave us a ticket to the rest of our lives.’ What a watershed moment it was to start at that theater. Joyce knew it, and so did we. She knew we could use the Second City name for the rest of our lives.”. Her character Allison figures prominently in this week’s “Dr. Ken” episode, a case of miscommunication in which she “thinks Ken wants to renew their wedding vows and that’s not really the case. But let’s just say, anything that adds a bit ...

How Ken Jeong Celebrates His Daughters’ Differences

... I’ve already been so fortunate as a parent to experience that. And both are equally important, and that’s because I’ve never wanted them to follow in [my] footsteps,” he says. “It’s not like I’m like, ‘You’ve gotta be a doctor and a comic,’ but [rather] find your own passion and your own love, and we encourage them to be unique in their own way.”. A post shared by Ken Jeong (@kenjeong) on. Feb 3, 2017 at 9:09 pm PST. Although his daughters’ interest are very different, they both enjoy a good laugh, just like Dad. “They actually like old Community episodes. It’s crazy. They were just born when I started doing the show,” Jeong shares. “It’s a very sophisticated sense of humor. It’s funny, they say, ‘Is it okay that we like other aspects of the show more than just your scenes?’ ”. “It’s great to share moments that weren’t necessarily intended for them, but the three of us are bonding over a shared sense of humor and form of comedy, which is really cool,” he adds. “I never thought in a million years that we’d share those things. The Hangover is a different story. They will never watch that — ever.”. For more about Ken ...

Tv This Week, March 26-april 1

... Country music’s Chris Stapleton, Darius Rucker and Brett Eldredge prove you can go home again in the new concert special “Hometown Heroes.” 10 p.m. CMT. Funny fellow: A comic’s comic is profiled in the 2016 documentary “Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg.” 10 p.m. Starz. And then there were four — the Final Four, that is — at the semifinals of the “2017 NCAA Basketball Tournament.” 3 and 5:30 p.m. CBS. The gals are gettin’ all gussied up in the specials “Say Yes to the Prom: Countdown to Prom 2017” and “Say Yes to the Prom.” 7 and 8 p.m. TLC. Hello, darlings! Gal-pals Patsy and Edina (Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders) make the leap to the big screen in the 2016 comedy “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.” 8 and 11:30 p.m. HBO. A single mom fends off the advances of her martial-arts instructor turned stalker in the new thriller “Fatal Defense.” With Ashley Scott and David Cade. 8 p.m. Lifetime. Has he had all his shots? A single woman ...

The Reinvention Of Ken Jeong

... Hangover.” Jeong hasn’t disappeared from the American limelight since. Despite his early successes in medicine, being an actor was Jeong’s real dream, hence why he refers to himself as a “late bloomer.”. Jeong currently has a sitcom on ABC , “Dr. Ken,” that focuses on his life pre-bloom. The show recently returned for its second season after a retooling process by Jeong, who not only stars as the titular medical professional, but is also a creator, writer and co-executive producer of the series. “This year, it’s really, really personal,” Jeong said, later continuing during the conversation, “Last year I think we were very joke-driven, because I just wanted to prove that our show could be funny. This year, it’s definitely not that at all. I definitely want it more emotionally grounded. I know what the show is now and the show is family.”. Lisa Rose via Getty Images. Ken Jeong with his wife, Tran, and his daughter, Zooey, on the set of "Dr. ...