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Anna Faris Is Unqualified

Ken Jeong Pt. 1

Anna Faris Is Unqualified

Anna Faris

Personal Journals, Comedy, Unqualifed, Annafarispodcast, Comedy Interviews, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Annafaris

4.511.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ken Jeong (Dr. Ken, Hangover) is truly a national treasure. Listen in as Anna, Sim and Ken discuss Ken's remarkable transition from successful medical doctor to comedic superstar, and why practicing medicine is a lot like acting. There is also another hysterical, improv-packed “Dealbreaker" series, and more #FYS than in any other episode to date. And sure to stay tuned til the end for a surprise finale! Join us tomorrow for more fun when we take some listener calls in Part 2!

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0:00.0

She's a qualified, a qualified, a qualified, a qualified

0:29.0

I can. Hi. You're so sweet and kind to be here. I always feel like it's kind of a burden to

0:39.0

come up to this weird house with all these fucking weird like taxi-adermy things. I haven't even

0:45.6

showed you the weirdest shit yet, but thank you so much for being here. No, if anything, that's

0:51.4

kind of the allure of it too. So to come here and just see me as cool. And I'm going to abuse him.

0:58.4

So I know a lot tonight because he's really fucking pissing me off. He just asked me if I knew how to

1:04.4

turn the lights out. I didn't ask you. Yes, you did. I kind of did. You're right. Yeah, you totally did.

1:10.4

Fucking dick. Okay. So thank you. It's much better now.

1:14.4

Okay. All right. So Ken, I want to ask you, I don't normally dive into someone's personal biography.

1:26.0

Mostly because I'm not very interested in other people's stories. But my own.

1:33.6

Can you continue to be fast? But I really want to dive into yours. Do you mind? Oh, please. Yeah.

1:40.5

Okay. So you were born in Detroit. Yes. And when did you move? Oh, yeah. I moved to North Carolina

1:47.8

when I was four years old. So my dad is, he's now retired. He was an economics professor and he got his

1:55.7

gross. He got his degree. He got his PhD in economics at Wayne State University. And then

2:05.4

so, and he did his, I think, post-grad work and predominantly African American college in North Carolina,

2:13.2

in A&T in Greensboro, North Carolina. And he was a professor there for almost 35 years or 38 years,

2:20.6

something. And then you went to, and I really want to tap into this. So you went to Duke.

2:28.6

Was that a dream? How, like, how, because it's one of, yeah, at that time, although I'm a hater.

2:37.6

And I'm going to tell you more about that later. Sorry, not to. Everyone,

2:42.5

we're 90% of the people I encounter, like, hate you. So it's all good. I love you so much.

2:50.8

I'm used to the hate. So it's okay. But now when I was in, when I was in high school,

2:57.0

like I just, I wanted to be a doctor. And so, did you tour the campus when you were a kid?

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