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Kevin
Wu was born on June 12, 1990 in Houston, Texas and graduated from Clements High
School in 2008. Kevin is best known by his youtube username of KevJumba. As of
Dec 2011, he is youtube’s seventh most subscribed comedian and tenth most
subscribed user overall. But there is someone who noted that Kevin is not a
comedian in the conventional sense but that by “just talking is, well, pretty
hilarious” due to his deadpan vocal delivery, animated facial expressions and
tendency toward unexpected digressions.
Kevin also has another youtube account
going by the username JumbaFund, which donated all of its earnings to a charity
that viewers suggested. Kevin donated over 5,000 dollars to a charity in Kenya,
which later built a school after him, to build a new school in a span of 5
months from all of the profits he made through JumbaFund. He recently cited
that he would now donate all earnings from this point on to Kenya in order to
help finish and pay off the costs of the new secondary school being built
there. In 2010, Kevin and his father competed as a team on the 17th
season of The Amazing Race, placing seventh out of eleven teams.
I
was introduced to Kevin through one of Wong Fu Productions’ video call “Screen
Test”. Same as Wesley, I was struck by his magnetic tone. I did a quick search
on Kevin on youtube and found a lot of videos of his. Apparently he is rather
popular. These are some of his vids that captured my attention:
My New Son Jeremy Lin (ft. Jeremy Lin & PapaJumba)
Kevin
released a web series call Funemployed in Summer 2010, featuring Philip Wang of
Wong Fu Productions, along with other youtube stars such as Nigahiga, David
Choi, Kina Grannis and Chester See. With the large number of fans, the series
quickly hit 500,000 viewers in just a few weeks. The series came to an end on
July 2010, with the last episode “Gave it a Shot”. There were a total of 11
episodes and 30 sitcoms. It was fun to watch (watch it here!).
Kevin
was also featured in some other vids and web series such as “When It Counts”
Ep. 3 & 4 (Wong Fu Productions), music video “Dance To This Song” (David
Choi), which apparently is the theme song for the mini-series Funemployed.
Recently he released his own movie called “Hang Loose (Trailer)” which is now available
on youtube as well.
Subscribe
to KevJumba's channel on youtube, or to visit www.kevjumba.com
for more of his funny vlogs.
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