Background
The daughter of Christian missionaries, Ku was born in Chicago in the 1980s.
The daughter of Christian missionaries, Ku was born in Chicago in the 1980s.
Ku is a cast member on the Music Television show Girl Code and Wild "North Out. Ku was chosen as one of the ten best comedians for the 2006 National Broadcasting Company 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".
She worked as a traveling sales representative 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 National Public Radio in a feature about the difficulties of becoming a comedian. Typically Ku"s material is controversial and racially tinged. Ku is a cast member on the Music Television show Girl Code.
Ku has also become a cast member on the sixth season of Wild "North 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 National Broadcasting Company"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.
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.