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KevJumba
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Kevin Wu (born June 12, 1990) is an American monk and retired American YouTuber who was best known under his former username KevJumba. He is currently a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). The San Francisco Chronicle's Jeff Yang has noted that Wu is not a comedian in the conventional sense but that by "just talking [he] is, well, pretty hilarious" due to his deadpan vocal delivery, animated facial expressions and tendency toward unexpected digressions.
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Kevin
- Family name
- Wu
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Houston
- Occupation
- television producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Kevin Wu aka KevJumba.jpg
- Residence
- Sugar Land
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- Commons category
- KevJumba
- ethnic group
- Taiwanese people
- date of birth
- 1990-06-12
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 2007-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Background
- YouTube career
- Background
- ''Funemployed''
- JumbaFund
- After YouTube
- Other works
- ''The Amazing Race''
- ''Hang Loose''
- Filmography
- See also
- References
- External links
Kevin Wu (born June 12, 1990) is an American monk and retired American YouTuber who was best known under his former username KevJumba. He is currently a member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). The San Francisco Chronicle's Jeff Yang has noted that Wu is not a comedian in the conventional sense but that by "just talking [he] is, well, pretty hilarious" due to his deadpan vocal delivery, animated facial expressions and tendency toward unexpected digressions.
Wu previously appeared on The CW Television Network's short-lived Online Nation and co-starred with Jessica Lee Rose and Philip DeFranco in Hooking Up from HBOLabs (the online arm of HBO) in 2008. In 2010, Wu and his father, Michael, competed as a team on the 17th season of The Amazing Race, placing seventh out of eleven teams. In 2014, Wu starred in crime drama film Revenge of the Green Dragons (executive produced by Martin Scorsese). In 2013, Wu ceased production of YouTube content. In 2016, Wu returned for a brief period of time on social media. In November 2020, Wu created an account on Twitch, originally titled cybermuse.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “KevJumba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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