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Self-Hating Esther Ku on 'Last Comic Standing'

Alvin Lin - May 23, 2008

Here is a recent clip [1] of Esther Ku's act. Basically she's a walking disaster, just like that confused girl Gina Choe [2] on "America's Top Model." What kind of insecure person makes a career basically being self-racist or self-deprecating and saying how much you hate yourself, who you are, and your family? Have you ever heard a black comedian base his/her career on how they hate being Black, how they love watermelon/chicken, and the only good thing about being black is it helps them get into the NFL?

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Read this Boston Globe excerpt [3]from this comedian:

"The Korean-American comedian started with the words, ''I don't really like being Asian, but I'm kind of stuck with it." That, at least, received a few titters. But when she continues, ''The only good thing about being Asian, really, is it helps you get into college," the crowd stays silent."

One of her jokes in a video [4]: "People always tell me, 'you don't have Asian eyes'. I say, 'no -- I look like regular people.' "  See for yourself. [5]

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Links
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft_kY5KgCnE [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1T0Lj7AnrM [3] http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/03/20/between_the_lines [4] http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1305255411 [5] http://www.angelfire.com/comics/funnyku/welcome.html [6] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/race [7] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/performing-arts [8] https://hyphenmagazine.com/categories/culture