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This is a Chinese name; the family name is 吳 (Wu).
Kevin Wu (KevJumba)
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KevJumbaChinese name 吳凱文 (Traditional) Chinese name 吴凯文 (Simplified) Pinyin Wú Kǎi-Wén (Mandarin) Jyutping Ng Hoi-Man (Cantonese) Birth name Kevin Wu Ethnicity Taiwanese[3] Origin Houston, Texas, U.S. Born June 12, 1990
Houston, Texas, U.S.Other name(s) KevJumba Occupation YouTube celebrity Years active 2007 - Present Parents Michael Wu[4] Influences Dave Chappelle Kevin Wu Traditional Chinese 吳凱文 Simplified Chinese 吴凯文 Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Wú Kǎi-Wén Cantonese (Yue) - Jyutping Ng Hoi-Man Kevin Wu (traditional Chinese: 吳凱文; simplified Chinese: 吴凯文; pinyin: Wú Kǎi-Wén);[5](born June 12, 1990)[6] is an American comedian and YouTube celebrity who is best known by his YouTube username of KevJumba. As of October 2011, he is YouTube's seventh most subscribed comedian and eleventh most subscribed user overall.[7] He is currently on a indefinite leave from the University of California, Davis; however, prior his departure, he was a film major. The San Francisco Chronicle's Jeff Yang has noted that Wu is not a comedian in the conventional sense but that by "just talking [he] is, well, pretty hilarious" due to his deadpan vocal delivery, animated facial expressions and tendency toward unexpected digressions.[8] Wu previously appeared on The CW Television Network's short-lived Online Nation and co-starred with Jessica Lee Rose and Philip DeFranco in Hooking Up from HBOLabs (the online arm of HBO) in 2008.[9] In 2010, Wu and his father, Michael, competed as a team on the 17th season of The Amazing Race, placing seventh out of eleven teams.[4]
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Kevin's YouTube videos
Kevin Wu is known for posting humorous videos on YouTube. When Wu's "I Have to Deal With Stereotypes" video[10] was featured on YouTube's home page, his number of viewers began to increase.[11] In this video, Wu talks about stereotypes he must deal with as an Asian. He tries to disprove his cheapness by bragging about the recent purchase of a "brand new, top-of-the-line, TI-84 calculator". He acknowledges that this might make him nerdy but dismisses this stereotype too as he does not "make all A's...in school today [he] made a B+." He is then greeted by a voice that was supposed to be his mother calling him a loser and accusing him of shaming their family. Wu goes on to say he can prove the lack of his social life with the constant ringing of his cell phone. At this point, his phone indeed rings, he answers it, and the voice on the other end says, "Hey, why did you tell me to call you?"[12] Wu has collaborated with fellow YouTube comedian Christine Gambito (HappySlip), making five videos with her. Kevin Wu graduated from Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas, in 2008.[citation needed]
Following his video, "Butthash Hero", Wu introduced his father, PapaJumba, onto his YouTube channel, and his father made several appearances in candid video clips taken by his son. Responding to Wu's father's growing popularity amongst viewers, his father made a debut in "I Love My Dad", and has been featured alongside his son many times since. As of June 2010, Wu had more than 2,000,000 subscribers and more than 25 million views of his channel.[13] His combined video views total over 91.9 million. On February 26, 2008, the Los Angeles Times compared the web series Quarterlife's viewership to Wu's. At the time Wu was a "semi-well known YouTube blogger" and had received 450,000 views for a video describing how he broke his shin. Quarterlife, which had been picked up by NBC, had received only 100,000 views on MySpace and 50,000 views on YouTube.[14]
By May 29, 2008, Wu had become one of three East Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all-time most subscribed users with 187,000 subscribers and more than 5.9 million views.[15] By June 5, 2008, he had become the number one subscribed comedian on YouTube, and third most subscribed uploader overall.[8] Wu's videos have received replies from Ella Koon,[16] Jessica Alba, and Baron Davis.[17] In 2008, Davis created a "longest stare" contest for ibeatyou.com, a site that he and Alba's husband Cash Warren co-founded. The contest began with Davis challenging Wu, who then challenged Alba, who responded to the challenge.[18][19][20] On September 22, 2011, Wu had gained more than 2,000,000 subscribers he is the 11th most subscribed YouTube.
Funemployed
Wu began a collaboration of web episodes with the Los Angeles-based filmmaking group Wong Fu Productions. The web series Funemployed, launched in the summer of 2010, stars Kevin Wu and Wong Fu Production's Philip Wang and includes other notable YouTube stars such as Ryan Higa (nigahiga), David Choi, and Kina Grannis. With so many fans of Wong Fu Productions, and Kevjumba, this series quickly took off and became a hit, reaching 500,000 viewers in only a few weeks. The series focuses on two good friends named Kyle (Kevin Wu) and Jason (Philip Wang), and how they are dealing with unemployment after Jason is laid off at work. Kyle is characterized as the typical laid back guy, who comes off as somewhat of a slacker, while Jason is characterized as the more studious hard worker of the two. The two eventually come up with an idea of how to make money, believing that YouTube is the key, an allusion to Wu's and Wang's real life success with YouTube videos. "Funemployed" eventually came to an end on July 27, 2010, with their last episode entitled, "Gave it a Shot". There were a total of eleven episodes and 30 sitcoms.[21]
Other work
In 2007, Kevin Wu appeared on the The CW Television Network's short-lived Online Nation. Online Nation compiled an hour of web clips, broadcast them during primetime, lasting four episodes. Wu, along with other popular YouTube personalities, is also paid to broadcast a streaming show on BlogTV. He has been a member of BlogTV since March 29, 2008, and as of November 2, 2008, he had produced 70 live and 23 recorded shows with over 300,000 viewers of the live show and 100,000 viewers of the recorded shows.[citation needed]
As of October 2008, Wu starred with Jessica Rose and Phillip DeFranco in Hooking Up from HBOLabs (the online arm of HBO), a scripted 10-episode web-based series. Hooking Up is set at a fictional university where the students spend most of their time emailing and twittering, but still manage to miscommunicate. It is his first work on a scripted production.[22] Guest appearances on Hooking Up will be made by Kevin Nalty, Michael Buckley, and other internet celebrities.[23] The entire cast of Hooking Up is composed of YouTube video bloggers in the hope of attracting a young, internet knowledgeable audience.[24] By the show's second day on YouTube, it had received more than 450,000 views. According to NewTeeVee.com, an evolving consensus is that for an online video to be a hit, somewhere between 100,000 and one million views are needed, giving Hooking Up a strong start.[25] Maria Russo of the Los Angeles Times felt that Wu was better looking than star DeFranco and wondered why Wu plays the "tired role of the East Asian friend who helps the white guy get the chicks,"[25] while Bobbie Johnson of The Guardian said that many web surfers had "scoffed at what they see as a cynical attempt to cash in."[26] On October 2, 2011, Kevin hosted Flicks on Cartoon Network during an airing of Around the World in 80 Days. He also hosted Flicks on Cartoon Network for the movies Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Mummy Returns. Kevin has also announced he will be starring in the independent film "Rock Jocks" with Justin Chon, Felicia Day, and Gerry Bedknob, which will be release in 2012.
In 2011, Kevin began performing with YTF – Yesterday, Today, Forever along with other Youtube personalities.[27] The group performed their first concert on October 9, 2011 in Honolulu, Hawaii.[28]
The Amazing Race
In May and June 2010, Kevin participated with his father in filming for the 17th season of The Amazing Race, an American reality television game show. Upon this announcement, it was also the first time his dad's name, Michael, was revealed, which was kept anonymous since his debut. Kevin officially announced his participation on Facebook on September 1, and on YouTube a week later.[29] The season premiered on September 26, 2010. Michael and Kevin's best placement was a third place finish in Leg 2 and Leg 6. Their worst placement was a last place finish (9th) in Leg 3, a non-elimination leg. They ended up in seventh place and were eliminated in Leg 7 after being issued two 30-minute penalties for using a cab to travel between tasks on the leg when they were instructed to walk; another team had also issued a similar penalty and checked in after them, but only had one half-hour penalty, resulting in Kevin and Michael's elimination.
KevJumba and DCP
KevJumba signed with Digital Content Partners (DCP) in 2008 for his management and has been one of DCP's premiere resources for content and income. DCP helped produce most of KevJumba's online advertising campaigns.[citation needed]
YouTube chronology
KevJumba channel
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# Video Release date 1 "Backyard" February 5, 2007 2 "Stereotypical Names with Ben" February 24, 2007 3 "Horny S** Addicts on Youtube" (deleted) March 3, 2007 4 "I Have to Deal with Stereotypes" March 8, 2007 5 "My Dog Jackie and Japanese Porn" March 10, 2007 6 "I Need Medical Attention" March 13, 2007 7 "Only in America pt.1" (part 2 never released) March 20, 2007 8 "I Respond to Questions and More Stereotypes" March 24, 2007 9 "Peer Pressure and Bleached Hair" March 28, 2007 10 "Kevjumba Responds to Haters" April 6, 2007 11 "Be Happy" April 14, 2007 12 "Superstitious?" April 26, 2007 13 "I Hate the SAT" May 4, 2007 14 "The Real Me" May 14, 2007 15 "What's Your Addiction?" May 26, 2007 16 "I need help with the Females" May 29, 2007 17 "Tampa and the Dentist" June 12, 2007 18 "Typical Male Teenager" June 21, 2007 19 "Stupid Questions" July 7, 2007 20 "Finding KevJumba pt. 1" August 24, 2007 21 "Finding KevJumba pt. 2" August 24, 2007 22 "Ladies Man?" August 29, 2007 23 "Put It in Purse" September 18, 2007 24 "Fun Time at the Hospital" September 22, 2007 25 "High School" November 1, 2007 26 "Real Men Trick-or-Treat" November 2, 2007 27 "Butthash Hero" November 16, 2007 28 "The Mac Is Great for Porn" (deleted) December 7, 2007 29 "The Good and the Bad" December 13, 2007 30 "Merry Christmas from Angel Fire" (deleted) December 24, 2007 31 "Monica Lewinsky Is a Hottie" (deleted) January 10, 2008 32 "Five Facts About KevJumba" January 16, 2008 33 "KevJumba is Crippled" (deleted) February 20, 2008 34 "Ask KevJumba" March 22, 2008 35 "I Challenge Baron Davis" April 8, 2008 36 "The Stare: Jessica Alba Responds!!!" May 6, 2008 37 "College Here I Come!" July 29, 2008 38 "Toronto Propane Explosion from My Angle" (deleted) August 11, 2008 39 "Back to School" August 21, 2008 40 "I Love My Dad" August 28, 2008 41 "The Next Big Music Artist" September 18, 2008 42 "'Youtube Live' (Live Your Life Parody)" November 18, 2008 43 "What I Hate About College" December 19, 2008 44 "Gifts from my Parents" January 2, 2009 45 "Asians Just Aren't Cool Enough?" April 10, 2009 46 "JumbaFund" May 15, 2009 47 "Elbow Zit" May 18, 2009 48 "Girls are Like M&M's (reuploaded)" May 25, 2009 49 "My Dad is not a DILF" September 3, 2009 50 "What we HATE about Each Other" September 24, 2009 51 "A Christmas Greeting" December 24, 2009 52 "Most Exciting Job EVER!" February 12, 2010 53 "Ridiculous Lyrics!" March 5, 2010 54 "Asians Aren't Short!" April 9, 2010 55 "Stadium EXPLOSION!" April 13, 2010 56 "FITNESS Trainer!" April 23, 2010 57 "Alpha Kenny Body" April 29, 2010 58 "KevJumba vs. IYAZ" July 27, 2010 59 "Dance to this Song (Official)" August 3, 2010 60 "My Dad is Asian" August 31, 2010 61 "Amazing Race - Support TeamJumba! " September 7, 2010 62 "That's not ****!" September 14, 2010 63 "I Hate Tiny Boats" September 29, 2010 64 "Were not Ghana Make it" October 14, 2010 65 "I Forgot My Buttpads" October 22, 2010 66 "Jumping off a Bridge in Norway" October 29, 2010 67 "I Fell in Love with a Russian Babushka" November 5, 2010 68 "Russian Mystery" November 11, 2010 69 "Shed a Tear (Official)" November 13, 2010 70 "Getting Jiggy with the Jumbas" November 30, 2010 71 "KevJumba VS Globetrotters" December 2, 2010 72 "What We HATE About Each Other pt. 2" December 16, 2010 73 "AWKWARD" January 20, 2011 74 "Sex and Tutors" February 7, 2011 75 "Never Say Never: The Kevjumba Story (In 3D)" February 23, 2011 76 "ASK KevJumba 2" March 11, 2011 77 "DRUGS" April 29, 2011 78 "KENYA" May 24, 2011 79 "NICE GUYS" May 31, 2011 80 "BDAY" June 12, 2011 81 "CAUGHT" July 2, 2011 82 "Mama's Boy" July 10, 2011 83 "Wingman" July 31, 2011 84 "I'm not cool" August 26, 2011 85 "Confidence" September 13, 2011 86 "2,000,000 Subscribers" September 24, 2011 87 "Friend Zone ft. Jamie Chung" October 18, 2011 JumbaFund channel
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# Video Release date 1 "JumbaFund" May 1, 2009 2 "Sushi Boats and X-Men Origins (Ep. 1)" May 4, 2009 3 "Scaring Floormates (Ep. 2)" May 7, 2009 4 "Freshmen 15 and JumbaFund Update (Ep. 3)" May 11, 2009 5 "Wolverine Haircut (Ep. 4)" May 19, 2009 6 "Scaring Floormates pt. 2 (Ep. 5)" May 21, 2009 7 "I love Kayla Reyes! (Ep. 6000000)" May 29, 2009 8 "We earned $1708 dollars for May! (Ep. 7)" June 2, 2009 9 "Dance Party in Class! (Ep. 8)" June 7, 2009 10 "I Shock Jesus! (Ep. 9)" June 13, 2009 11 "Michael Jackson (Ep. 10)" June 26, 2009 12 "Summer and Ending Hunger (Ep. 11)" July 4, 2009 13 "Ask KevJumba pt.3" July 21, 2009 14 "My Dad is so Asian (Ep. 12)" July 28, 2009 15 "Invisible Children and DILF Bloopers! (Ep. 13)" September 6, 2009 16 "Surviving Second Year (Ep. 14)" October 28, 2009 17 "Robot On The News (Ep. 15)" November 5, 2009 18 "Quick Update and Scary Roommate (Ep. 16)" December 6, 2009 19 "Fourgy? No Thanks! (Ep. 17)" December 11, 2009 20 "BLOOPERS: a Christmas Greeting" January 7, 2010 21 "I Have a Unibrow (Ep.18)" February 3, 2010 22 "I'm Gonna Be A Dancer! (Ep.19)" February 24, 2010 23 "Look at my Face! (Ep.20)" April 9, 2010 24 "Dad STOP Dancing! (Ep.21)" April 23, 2010 25 ""Dance To This Song!" KevJumba, Wong Fu Productions ft. David Choi – Preview " April 26, 2010 26 "Funemployed! (Ep. 22)" May 17, 2010 27 "Goodbye Internet! (Ep. 23)" May 24, 2010 28 "Hello Internet! (Ep. 24)" July 18, 2010 29 "Iyaz Playing Ping Pong! (Ep. 25)" July 27, 2010 30 "Summer! (Ep. 26)" August 9, 2010 31 "I'm Bringing Sexy Back... And JumbaFund (Ep. 27)" June 12, 2011 32 "I Can't Have Kids! (Ep. 28)" June 17, 2011 33 "Kevin After Dentist (Ep. 29)" July 6, 2011 34 "Preparing For The NBA (Ep. 30)" August 29, 2011 35 "Caring (Ep. 31)" September 9, 2011 36 "Partying with A-Trak in Brooklyn (Ep.32)" September 20, 2011 37 "My Band / ISA (Ep 33)" September 23, 2011 38 "Friend Zone ft. Jamie Chung (Preview)" October 15, 2011 39 "BLOOPERS "Friend Zone" October 19, 2011 DCP Produced Videos
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# Video Release date 1 "DCP Produced Video – The Stare: Jessica Alba Responds!!!" May 6, 2008 2 "DCP Produced Video – The Next Big Music Artist" September 18, 2008 3 "DCP Produced Video – Gifts from my Parents" January 2, 2009 References
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