Ken Jeong

Don’t forget, you can now order Snowman Chang at the NBC store!

Merry Changmas!

From AOLTV.com
by Maggie Furlong

‘Community’ fans know this better than anyone: Ben Chang is crazy, y’all.

Ken Jeong’s twisted character went from Senor Spanish teacher to study group stalker to possible daddy of Shirley’s baby (thank god little Ben Bennett was born black and tail-less), but we’ve got the exclusive first look of him in his new role: Greendale security guard.

Yes, the game is Chang-ing for ‘Community’ Season 3 (premieres Thurs., Sept. 22, 8PM ET on NBC).

Instead of still trying to be one of the gang, it sounds like Chang will be using his new-found power over the Human Beings to try to scare them into hanging out with him again. Or maybe he’s taken the search for Annie’s Boobs just a bit too far.

In an interview with Vulture, creator Dan Harmon teased a bit about Chang’s frightening new position of authority: “We have a story line that will detail his rise to power. I wanted to tell a story of acquiring power and what it does to you. It’s a little ‘Macbeth’ or ‘Scarface.’ Or maybe something from ‘The Wire.’”

He then went on to say that Chang’s guard duties will actually make the campus less secure (again — he’s insane), but that it will provide us with a cool genre spoof early on with a noir-style episode.

I visited the set yesterday and heard some more talk about his crazy detective work coming in Episode 4, titled ‘Competitive Ecology,’ which sounds like a noir Chang I’m totally on Chang for.

From RyanSeacrest.Com
Listen to the interview there.

By Jen Erenza
Posted on September 16, 2011 at 9:00 AM

Ken Jeong, who gained Hollywood recognition by playing the doctor on “Knocked Up” and as the crazy butt-naked villain in “The Hangover” visited “On Air With Ryan Seacrest” to tell us his journey to fame and his latest acting gig on NBC’s “Community“!

Former Doctor Kendrick Jeong recounts his journey from actually being a “really serious and pretty intense” general practitioner intern at Kaiser Permanente when he always knew acting was what he truly aspired to do in life. With past experience in acting, stand-up comedy on the side, and an audition for the movie later, he stopped practicing medicine to pursue his acting career!

But who knew coming into the studio that Dr. Ken would have a surprise patient working in the office! Mark, one of the “On Air” employees, realized that Ken was actually his doctor in Woodland Hills! Hilariously, he jokes to former patient Mark: “We’re not allowed to say it…foot fungus…we can’t say it out loud.” It was an embarrassing but funny encounter that he “met [a] former patient on air.”

After his first breakthrough performance, we will always remember his next and most recognized scene in “The Hangover” jumping out of the back of a car butt-naked! He admits that it was actually his own idea to bare it all! With these two successful films, he describes his journey: “‘Knocked Up’ opened the door and ‘Hangover’ just burst it wide open.”

His latest gig is acting as an all-around “pathetic annoying character” on NBC’s “Community” with friend Joel McHale. He describes the comedic TV show as “the best job day ever.”

As for the next ‘Hangover’ movie? He says it changed his life and would love to be a part of it! Catch Ken play his character “Chang” on NBC’s “Community” on Thursdays at 8/7c!

from Entertainment Weekly

Star Wars and Stand Up To Cancer — a.k.a. SU2C, the initiative founded in 2008 to help fund cutting-edge cancer research — have teamed up to create a special line of Star Wars-themed SU2C t-shirts called “Use the Force for Good.” And to commemorate the occasion, several celebs, including Emma Stone (Crazy, Stupid, Love.), Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live), and Ken Jeong (The Hangover Part II, Community), have banded together to share their love of the Star Wars universe. (It doesn’t hurt that the Blu-ray editions of the six Star Wars films hit stores this Friday.)

You can check out more of EW’s exclusive shots from Stone and Jeong’s involvement in the promotion below:

To mark the event — which coincides with the release of the Star Wars Blu-ray editions — a gaggle of geek-friendly celebs have gathered together to express their love of Star Wars and their commitment to SU2C. You can check out the video of Emma Stone, Zach Galifianakis, Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari, Bill Hader, Andy Samberg, Ken Jeong, Ed Helms, Jaime King, and Samuel L. Jackson below, along with some exclusive outtakes featuring Samberg, Stone, Hader, Rogen, Jeong, and Helms. Stone also discusses how the late Laura Ziskin, the producer of The Amazing Spider-Man who was instrumental in SU2C (especially its two national telethons), was the catalyst for her involvement in the organization. Check the videos out below:

The outtakes can be watched here.

The season starts September 26, and look who’s gonna be one of the guests…

From NYMag.Com

There are plenty of crazy characters on Community, but none is as genuinely certifiable as Ken Jeong’s Benjamin Chang. He began season one as a madcap, authoritarian Spanish professor, but by season two had devolved into an occasionally Gollum-like creature, a man who boasted of eating his twin in utero (no, really) and was also a lonely outsider longing to be let into the study-group clique. So what does Community creator Dan Harmon have in store for Chang come season three? We caught up with Harmon last week for the scoop, which you can find below — along with an exclusive Vulture preview of a new NBC.com video montage compiling some of Chang’s most memorable moments.

Harmon tells us that after drifting around a bit last season without a clear mission, “This season I hope to tell a more structured story about Chang.” Specifically, Jeong’s character will be a security guard when classes resume September 22. “We have a story line that will detail his rise to power,” he says. “I wanted to tell a story of acquiring power and what it does to you. It’s a little Macbeth or Scarface. Or maybe something from The Wire.” Will Chang be a corrupt fake cop? “He’s corrupt in the sense that the campus is less secure than if he wasn’t a security guard. But he’s mostly insane,” Harmon explains.

One other tidbit: An early story about Chang in his new role will be told noir-style. Meanwhile, despite a bit of redemption for Chang at the end of last season — Shirley named her new son after him — Harmon says viewers should keep their sympathies somewhat in check. “He is genuinely insane,” he says. In case you need proof, the video below should do the trick.

My favorite blooper ever is at the end on this Community Season 2 Gag Reel preview. I still can’t get it right. — Ken

from EW.com

The last thing you want to do in the middle of summer is to think about school. Unless, of course, that school is Greendale Community College. Then you want to think about it a lot. Let us gather for today’s lecture about the NBC comedy Community, titled “Bloopers and Blunders: Failing Is Funny.” Your instructors include but are not limited to: Donald Glover (Troy) and Danny Pudi (Abed), who sample a questionable liquid from a Troy and Abed in the Morning mug; Alison Brie (Annie) and Chevy Chase (Pierce), who show you how to beat up a beat; and Jim Rash (Dean Pelton), who demonstrates the art of a buzzy entrance.

More bloopers — along with deleted scenes, commentary tracks, and a paintball finale featurette — can be found on Community: The Complete Second Season DVD, which is being released on Sept. 6. If you prefer to laugh up close and personal with the cast, head down to Comic-Con on Saturday, when Joel McHale & Co. will appear on a panel. Watch the blooper clip below.

from GQ: Just the Two of Us (and Ken Jeong)

When you and your bodacious girlfriend (who, if you’re lucky, looks like Kate Upton) jet off for a summer romp, pack a bag full of slimmed-down cords—and not much else. You’ll look sexy, and she’ll keep those starry eyes locked on you—even if you get photo-bombed by funnyman Ken Jeong.

From HollywoodReporter.Com

Doctor-turned-actor Ken Jeong is the breakout comedy star of 2011, and among the most unlikely stars ever.

“The times, they are a-changin’,” says Ken Jeong, the unlikely star whose movies Transformers: Dark of the Moon and The Hangover Part II collectively broke the billion-dollar mark this week in global grosses. His new comedy Zookeeper is expected to add another $20 million domestically when it opens this weekend.

Times sure are changing for Jeong, a shortish, roundish 41-year-old doctor who moonlighted at standup comedy clubs and first won fame as the angry gangster Mr. Chow, who pops out of a car trunk in the first Hangover film in 2009 and returned in the sequel.

“Ken is one of the most fearless comic actors I’ve ever worked with,” Hangover director Todd Phillips tells The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s such a danger to him. Anything can happen when you see him in a movie, and audiences feel that. I’d envisioned Mr. Chow as an older character, but I saw a YouTube video Ken made and said, ‘We’ve got to see this guy.’ In the script, we had him in slacks with no shoes or shirt. Ken said, ‘Y’know, maybe it would be funny if I did it naked.’ We slipped a nudity waiver under his door, ‘cause we were shooting it the next day. Ken will do anything. It’s one of the all-time great comic entrances.”

“Leaping from the trunk was his chest-burster moment,” says Roger Ebert’s Movie on Demand blogger Jeff Shannon, referring to the monster that shockingly bursts through a man’s chest in Alien. “Nobody saw it coming.”
Now you see Jeong everywhere – hosting the Billboard Music Awards, collecting the Breakout Comedy Star of the Year award at the July 29 Just for Laughs comedy conference and playing the mad Spanish teacher Senor Chang on NBC’s Community, whose third season begins in September. “I never thought Mr. Chow would be someone we’d bring back in a sequel,” says Phillips. “I’m not sure we’re gonna make Hangover 3, but if there was one he would absolutely be in it.”

“He’s blowing the lid off of politically correct politeness,” says Shannon. “He’s also doing comedy that has nothing to do with his ethnicity [Korean-American].” Says Phillips, “He likes to play with comedy stereotypes. There’s a funny outtake in Hangover II when he says, ‘Alan [Zach Galifianakis], you’re using the chopsticks all wrong, it’s offensive to Chinese people!’ In Hangover, when Alan falls out of the car, Ken did a totally improvised line, ‘Ah, ha! It’s funny, because you’re fat!’ It wouldn’t have been funny if Bradley [Cooper] said it, but it’s funny because he’s fat.”
Jeong, who played an irritable doctor in 2007’s Knocked Up, practiced as a real one on his dehydrated colleagues on Hangover II’s Bangkok set. “He was like an on-set medic,” says Phillips. Jeong also made an amusing video for the American Heart Association, showing how the disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” provides precisely the right 100-beat-a-minute tempo to perform CPR and save heart-attack victims’ lives. “Another One Bites the Dust” will work, too.

Jeong’s career isn’t about to bite the dust – in fact, he can’t escape his newfound fame. “There’s always someone yelling out a Chowism,” he told Conan O’Brien. “A middle-aged man in a convertible is staring at me deadpan. I’m at an ATM. He goes, ‘Toodle-oo!” But with one sci-fi smash, a buddy comedy, a family comedy, and a cult TV show going, we won’t be saying “Toodle-oo” to Ken Jeong anytime soon.

From CineMovie.tv

Kevin James and Rosario Dawson star in ZOOKEEPER but it’s Ken Jeong who steals the show as usual in this clip from the talking animal movie.

Ken Jeong is having quite a summer as quirky characters in two of this summer’s blockbusters, The Hangover Part 2 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and now he’s playing another wild role in THE ZOOKEEPER as Venom, one of the zoo’s animal handlers.

In Zookeeper, the animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes (Kevin James). Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship – animal style.

The film also stars Rosario Dawson and Leslie Bibb and features the voices of Cher, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, and Sylvester Stallone.