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#038 | Korean Comedian Pursues His Dream - But at What Cost? ft. Danny Cho Part 2
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#038: This is part 2 continuing our conversation with Danny Cho, LA born-and-raised Korean American who quit his six-figure consultancy job to pursue comedy. He hosts the Noonchi Podcast with Bobby Choy. He does standup comedy IN KOREAN and has been fostering the Korean standup comedy scene for years now. He’s the ONLY Korean-American comedian whose doing comedy in Korea, in Korean.
Check out Part 1 here!
In this Part 2, we get in RAW, DEEP, and HARDDD about his comedy career path.
- How he got into comedy full-time in 2007 leaving his consultancy job
- In 2017, he went to live in Korea and do gigs in Asia, in places like Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Guam, Saipan
- In 2019, he started teaching standup comedy to Koreans in Korean!
- How he felt about his consultancy job - this guy was a professional in finance and he left it!
- Choosing one’s passion over some other professional career path
- Dealing with regrets and self-doubt in pursuing one’s passion without being able to provide for one’s parents
- Did he mess his life up???
- The struggle of the children of immigrants who wants to pursue their dreams over a financially stable career path at odds with their parents’ expectations
- COMEDY IS TOUGH. It takes YEARS of consistent practice and work for anyone to build a 1-hour special.
- Anything worthwhile endeavor/passion/dream demands you put a lot of time in
- If you have a profitable career path and you want to switch to something else, do the Ken Jeong route. Don’t quit your current work until you get a big break.
- “The smart thing to do is give up your successful job when you have something lined up."
- For your identity crisis: “I don’t know what to tell you...Voice it out, but suck it up. Don’t be a ****ing victim.”
- "Nobody knows what the right answer is..If you’re lost, we all kind of are… make sure you have a good circle around.”
- "NOBODY HAS THEIR S**T TOGETHER."
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