Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

I've got a great one for you this week.

I don't mind saying with the hilarious Ken Jong.

He's got one of the most unusual, improbable, extraordinary stories in all of Hollywood.

As you may know, Ken was a practicing doctor. He went to Duke University. He went to University of North Carolina Medical School.

Did his residency in New Orleans moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a doctor for

seven years before going to an audition for a movie called Knocked Up. Judd Apatow, the director

of that 2007 movie, wanted an actual doctor who happened to also be funny to play the part

that Ken Jong got.

That kind of introduced him into the world of real show business.

He'd been dabbling in it.

He'd been interested in it.

He'd been doing stand-up comedy on the side while he was a doctor.

But that role in Knocked Up launched him.

A couple of years later, he shows up in The Hangover as Leslie Chow, and who could forget that role? Unforgettable. We talk a lot about that. We talk about his building through community,

that great TV show on NBC, also getting his own sitcom, Dr. Ken. He's done so much,

including The Masked Singer, a new season now, 14 seasons in for Ken Jong in that show since it premiered in 2019 as a panelist there.

And also, how about this?

He was in K-pop Demon Hunters, the Netflix cultural phenomenon, the animated show, the animated movie where he plays Bobby, the K-pop band's manager.

I just have to say, a great guy to begin with.

I think the fact that he didn't really launch his Hollywood career until he was 40.

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