Dat Phan
Birthday: 25 January 1975, Saigon, Vietnam
Birth Name: Dat Tien Phan
Height: 165 cm
Dat Phan is the Original Winner of NBC's "Last Comic Standing" and is a Headlining Comedian touring live across the U.S. He has made numerous TV and movie appearances including "Th ...Show More
I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.
I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.
It's kind of funny how that happened. When I was a child, I had a dream of one day becoming very inf Show more
It's kind of funny how that happened. When I was a child, I had a dream of one day becoming very influential and being in the entertainment world. I really wanted badly for that to happen, and in the last couple of years, my manager told me I was nominated for the group of the Most Influential Vietnamese-American Individuals in the world, along with generals and ambassadors and surgeons. It's an honor. It's mind-boggling. I'm a college dropout; I'm a high school failure, someone who came from a homeless background, but I understand the American pop culture and doing comedy from my heart led me to be in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. Hide
When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or y Show more
When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put. Hide
I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was Show more
I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile. Hide
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