Ken Jeong

How Ken Jeong Celebrates His Daughters’ Differences

... — an actor, a (real life and TV) doctor and a husband. But his biggest role to date is dad. “There is something special and different about being a father to twin daughters,” the Dr. Ken star , 47, tells PEOPLE of 9-year-old Alexa and Zooey for this week’s issue. “I have not one but two ‘Daddy’s little girls,’ and you have double that dynamic in a lot of ways,” he continues. “It really is just double the sweetness. There’s something to be said about that.”. Want all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs? Click here to get those and more in the PEOPLE Babies newsletter. Peter Yang. The Korean-American funnyman says he and his wife, Vietnamese-American Dr. Tran Ho — a breast cancer survivor — encourage their daughters to celebrate their differences. “I didn’t have any preconceived expectations, so I figured that they would have unique and diverse personalities, and they do. So to me, irrespective of gender, it’s really about listening to your kid,” Jeong says of parenting. ...

Chicago Stage Skills Pay Off For Suzy Nakamura On 'dr. Ken

... period of time. “It’s all about paying your dues, so you can have an overnight success — even though it took about 30 years.”. Nakamura has appeared in more than 100 TV episodes on scores of shows, finally finding a successful run as the wife of the title character (Ken Jeong) on “Dr. Ken” (7:30 p.m. Fridays, WLS-Channel 7). It was that continuous time spent working in front of live audiences that Nakamura says made her more confident as a television or movie actress. “TV and movies are much more literal media. With theater, you often create this reality with very little to provide the audience, in the way of sets or props. “You take the whole audience with you on a theater journey. They don’t look at a sparely decorated stage and say, ‘Is that really a house? Is that really a car?’ You tell them what to believe and they believe it,” added the Lane Tech grad. In reminiscing about Second City, Nakamura recalled the huge impact the late improv mecca’s doyenne Joyce Sloane had on both her career and the careers of ...

The Reinvention Of Ken Jeong

... I definitely want it more emotionally grounded. I know what the show is now and the show is family.”. Lisa Rose via Getty Images. Ken Jeong with his wife, Tran, and his daughter, Zooey, on the set of "Dr. Ken.". Despite earning strong ratings for the show’s Friday night slot, the first season of “Dr. Ken” also caused an impassioned critical uproar. Its Metacritic score of 26 is one of the lowest ever. This is somewhat at odds with a previous show Jeong starred in, “Community,” which never found a large audience but was critically adored. The actor is incredibly proud of “Community” himself, calling it the best comedy in the last decade along with “30 Rock” and “Arrested Development.”. “The last thing I want to do is another ‘Community’ because, let’s just do ‘Community’ then,” Jeong said with a laugh, adding that he’s still holding out hope ...

Tv This Week, March 26-april 1

... Under the Stars” at the Hollywood Bowl on this new episode of “Great Performances.” 9 p.m. KOCE. The 2003 death of a rising college basketball star, and the scandal that ensued, are probed in the 2017 documentary “Disgraced.” 9 p.m. Showtime. Country music’s Chris Stapleton, Darius Rucker and Brett Eldredge prove you can go home again in the new concert special “Hometown Heroes.” 10 p.m. CMT. Funny fellow: A comic’s comic is profiled in the 2016 documentary “Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg.” 10 p.m. Starz. And then there were four — the Final Four, that is — at the semifinals of the “2017 NCAA Basketball Tournament.” 3 and 5:30 p.m. CBS. The gals are gettin’ all gussied up in the specials “Say Yes to the Prom: Countdown to Prom 2017” and “Say Yes to the Prom.” 7 and 8 p.m. TLC. Hello, darlings! Gal-pals Patsy and Edina (Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Saunders) make the leap to the big screen in the 2016 comedy “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.” 8 and 11:30 p.m. HBO. A single mom fends off the advances of her ...