So Jeong stuck with his pre-med studies at Duke University and put acting on the back burner. There were so many factors in play at that time that medicine was just more appealing.” And you’re doing good, and you’re helping people. “You know? It’s a guaranteed, stable profession. He laughs, his enjoyment of the old joke still contagious even though he’s talking via telephone from his home in Los Angeles. “What do you call the guy who graduates last in your class at med school? Doctor,” Jeong says. Still, nearly two more decades would pass before Jeong, 41, would funnel that comic energy into a full-time career as a film and television actor, most notable for his role as Chow in “The Hangover” and “The Hangover Part II,” which opens Friday, as well as his part as the unstable former Spanish teacher Ben “Senor” Chang on NBC’s “Community.”įirst, Jeong would go to med school, become a doctor, moonlight for years in comedy clubs and, later, at a crucial moment in his career, find out that his wife, also a physician, had breast cancer. Buccaneer show - after the then-16-year-old posed in his swim trunks “like Lou Ferrigno,” performed a heartfelt cover of the Commodores’ “Three Times a Lady” and earned two standing ovations - everyone present on that night in May 1986 knew exactly how funny Ken Jeong was. “My close friends knew I was funny, but I was not like a class clown or anything like that,” Jeong says. That mock male beauty pageant at Greensboro, N.C.’s Page High School (home of the Pirates!) gave Jeong, a self-described “popular geek,” his first opportunity to risk making a complete fool of himself in public - but also to make people laugh. Chow who sprang stark naked from a car trunk in “The Hangover” - was born 25 years ago, on a high school stage, in a swimsuit competition to anoint the next “Mr. The uninhibited comedian inside Ken Jeong - you might remember him as the lunatic named Mr.
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