Ken Cheng

Ken Cheng, also known as "Chengers", is a British born Chinese (BBC) professional poker player and comedian noted for his YouTube comedy character, Mark Liu, and reaching the final of the 2015 BBC New Comedy Awards.[1][2][3]

Cheng studied mathematics at Homerton College,[4] Cambridge University but dropped out to become a professional poker player.

He wrote and performed for the Cambridge Footlights, often known to refer to himself as a 'footlights regular', and he's also taken his stand-up performances the Edinburgh Festival. Cheng directed The Footlights International Tour Show 2015: Love Handles, which toured the UK, Paris and North America.[5][6] Towards the end of the international tour show, Cheng was detained in the Cayman Islands due to passport issues, and later as a result of a hurricane in the Caribbean.[7][8][9] He returned to UK in time for the final week of shows at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge.[10]

Reviewing the 2015 BBC New Comedy Awards for the comedy news, reviews and listings site Chortle, Steve Bennett stated that Cheng "deserved to win".[11]

On 22 August, Cheng won "Joke of the Fringe".[12]

In September 2017 his Twitter thread insulting the national flag of every country in the world received national media coverage. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "supermarkliu". twitter.com. Twitter. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  2. ↑ "Meet The Winner Of This Year's BBC Radio New Comedy Award". bbc.co.uk. BBC. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  3. ↑ "Ken Cheng: Chinese Comedian". camdram.net. Camdram. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "Cambridge Fresher looking to meet likeminded people VLOG". youtube.com/user/supermarkliu. YouTube. 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  5. ↑ "Footlights Tour 2015". footlightsontour.co.uk. Footlights. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  6. ↑ "Footlights Tour 2015". camdram.net. Camdram. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  7. ↑ "Cayman Islands Tourism Association". www.facebook.com.
  8. ↑ Wheaton, Vicki. "Cambridge Footlights come to Cayman - Cayman Compass".
  9. ↑ "Cayman Drama Society - Home". www.cds.ky.
  10. ↑ "Security Check Required". www.facebook.com.
  11. ↑ "BBC Radio New Comedy Awards 2015". chortle.co.uk. Chortle. 2015. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  12. ↑ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (22 August 2017). "Ken Cheng's pound coin gag voted Edinburgh fringe's funniest joke". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 August 2017.
  13. ↑ "This man just set about insulting every flag in the world and the results were hilarious".
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