Early life and education

Jeong was born in Detroit to South Korean immigrants, Young and Dong-Kuen Jeong. His father was a professor at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. Jeong was raised in Greensboro and attended Walter Hines Page High School, where he took part in the High IQ team, played violin in the orchestra, and was elected to student council. He graduated at 16 and his achievements earned him Greensboro's Youth of the Year award. He completed his undergraduate studies at Duke University in 1990 and obtained his M.D. degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995.

Career

Medicine

Jeong completed his internal medicine residency at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans while developing his stand-up comedy. Jeong is a licensed physician in California.

Acting

Jeong won the Big Easy Laff-Off in 1995, of which NBC president Brandon Tartikoff and The Improv founder Budd Friedman were judges, and they both urged Jeong to move to Los Angeles. He began performing regularly at the Improv and Laugh Factory comedy clubs. After moving to Los Angeles, he initially practiced medicine for several years as a physician at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Woodland Hills.

Jeong's background in theater and improv has led to several television appearances, including NBC's The Office, HBO's Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He made his film debut in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up as Dr. Kuni, which proved to be his breakout performance. From that point forward he was able to transition from medicine into a full-time career in the entertainment industry. Subsequently, he has appeared in Pineapple Express; Role Models as King Argotron; All About Steve; The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard; Couples Retreat; and as Mr. Chow in The Hangover, The Hangover Part II, and The Hangover Part III. He co-starred in Zookeeper and Transformers: Dark of the Moon, released in summer 2011.

Jeong played Señor Ben Chang on the NBC sitcom Community and was nominated for the show's "Male Breakout Star" at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards. He was nominated for two 2010 MTV Movie Awards, winning the award for Best WTF Moment and for MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for The Hangover. In fall 2010, Adidas basketball began a wide-ranging marketing campaign in which he starred as "Slim Chin", alongside NBA stars Dwight Howard and Derrick Rose. On May 22, 2011, he hosted the 2011 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on ABC and was featured in a Hands Only CPR PSA campaign from the American Heart Association on June 15, 2011.

Jeong won a Streamy Award for "Best Guest Appearance" for Burning Love.

In 2013, he appeared in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain (2013), as Johnny Wu, a motivational speaker, and returned, in a significantly expanded role, as Mr. Chow in The Hangover Part III.

In an unusual, if informal, partnership, Jamie Foxx and Jeong have each agreed to star in movies written and produced by the other. Foxx has agreed to take a lead role in a new movie Jeong will produce called After Prom. Jeong will star in All-Star Weekend, a comedy Foxx is developing at his production company about two friends who find themselves fans of opposing NBA stars.

In 2015, Jeong stars, writes and executive produces the pilot of his new ABC medical comedy, Dr. Ken, as a frustrated HMO doctor juggling his career, marriage and parenting, but succeeding at none of them. On May 7, 2015, the series was ordered by ABC to debut in the '15-'16 TV season starring Jeong, Suzy Nakamura, Dave Foley, Tisha Campbell-Martin and Jonathan Slavin.

Personal life

Jeong's wife, Tran Ho, is Vietnamese American, a family physician and a breast cancer survivor.

Jeong became engaged to Ho around 2003 or 2004. They have twin daughters (born 2008).

Jeong was encouraged by his wife to quit his job as a physician and pursue acting full-time; Jeong states that "I had just finished filming Knocked Up, and it was life-changing. But I didn't have the courage to go for it until she persuaded me. Medicine is a hard-won skill, and acting can be a fickle profession, so I tried to be realistic. Now, I'm a spoiled actor. I get weekends off and hiatus weeks — time I never got as a doctor".

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Knocked Up	Dr. Kuni
2008	Step Brothers	Employment Agent
2008	Pineapple Express	Ken
2008	Role Models	King Argotron
2009	The Hangover	Leslie Chow	MTV Movie Awards for Best WTF Moment Nominated - MTV Movie Awards for Best Villain Nominated - Teen Choice Award Choice Movie Villain
2009	The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard	Teddy Dang
2009	All About Steve	Angus
2009	Couples Retreat	Therapist No.2
2010	How to Make Love to a Woman	Curtis Lee
2010	Furry Vengeance	Neal Lyman
2010	Despicable Me	Talk Show Host (voice)
2010	Vampires Suck	Daro
2011	Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son	Mailman	Cameo
2011	Zookeeper	Venom
2011	The Hangover Part II	Leslie Chow	Nominated - Teen Choice Award Choice Movie: Male Scene Stealer
2011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Jerry Wang
2011	The Muppets	Punch Teacher Host	Cameo
2013	Pain & Gain	Jonny Wu
2013	The Hangover Part III	Leslie Chow
2013	Rapture-Palooza	God
2013	Despicable Me 2	Floyd Eagle-san (voice)
2013	Turbo	Kim-Ly (voice)
2014	Birds of Paradise	Vinnie (voice)	Direct-to-DVD
2014	Penguins of Madagascar	Short Fuse (voice)
2015	Advantageous	Han	Also producer
2015	The Duff	Mr. Arthur
2015	Ktown Cowboys	Himself	Cameo
2016	Norm of the North	Mr. Greene (voice)
2016	Ride Along 2	A.J.
2016	Killing Hasselhoff	Chris	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1997	The Big Easy	Dr. Tang	Episode: "Night Music"
2001	The Downer Channel	Store Owner	Episode: "1.2"
2002	Girls Behaving Badly	Series regular
2003	Cedric the Entertainer Presents	Asian Thunder	1 episode
2003-2005	MADtv	Various characters	4 episodes
2004	Significant Others	Gynecologist	Episode: "An Ache, a Fake & Forgot to Brake"
2004	Crossing Jordan	Steve Choi	Episode: "Slam Dunk"
2004	Grounded for Life	Owner	Episode: "I'm Looking Through You"
2005	Two and a Half Men	Male Nurse	Episode: "Woo-Hoo, a Hernia-Exam!"
2005	The Office	Bill	Episode: "E-mail Surveillance"
2005	Mind of Mencia	Ken	1 episode
2006	Three Strikes	Roido's Interpreter	Episode: "Pilot"
2006	Entourage	Coffee Shop Manager	Episode: "The Release"
2007	The Shield	Skip Osaka	Episode: "Back to One"
2007	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Man in Jersey #1	Episode: "The Anonymous Donor"
2007	Boston Legal	Coroner Myron Okubo	Episode: "The Innocent Man"
2008	'Til Death	Dr. Park	2 episodes
2008	Worst Week	Phil	2 episodes
2009	WWE Raw	Host/Himself	Episode: "3 August 2009"
2009-2011	American Dad!	Dr. Perlmutter / Butch Johnson (voices)	3 episodes
2009	Party Down	Alan Duk	2 episodes
2009	American Gladiator	Chuck Norris	1 episode
2009	Men of a Certain Age	Kuo	Episode: "Pilot"
2009-2015	Community	Señor Ben Chang	92 episodes TV Guide Award for Favorite Ensemble Nominated - Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Male Breakout Star
2010	Players	Rufus Ramsey	Episode: "Induction Day"
2012	Mary Shelley's Frankenhole	Hyralius (voice)	Episode: "Maly Sherrey's Hyralius, Mutant Monster!"
2012	Burning Love	Ballerina	2 episodes Streamy Award for Best Guest Appearance
2012-2014	Bob's Burgers	Dr. Yap (voice)	3 episodes
2013	Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness	Woo (voice)	2 episodes
2013-2014	Sullivan & Son	Jason	2 episodes
2013	Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale	Kelly's Manager	Television special
2013	Maron	Himself	Episode: "Sponsor"
2013-2014	Turbo FAST	Kim-Ly (voice)	2 episodes
2014	Hot in Cleveland	Doctor	Episode: "Stayin' Alive"
2014	BoJack Horseman	Dr. Allen Hu (voice)	Episode: "Downer Ending"
2015	Glee	Pierce Pierce	2 episodes
2015-present	Dr. Ken	Dr. Ken	Series lead; also creator, writer and executive producer
2015	Robot Chicken	Richie Cunningham (voice)	Episode: "Ants on a Hamburger"
2016	Wheel Of Fortune	Dr. Ken	1 episode
2016	Fresh Off the Boat	Gene	Episode: "Bring the Pain"

Music Videos

Year	Title	Role
2016	Boombox	Laura Marano's Director

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