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Dat Phan
Dat Phan in 2010 at The Punchline in Sacramento, CA
Born	(1975-01-25) January 25, 1975 (age 49) Saigon, South Vietnam
Medium	Stand-up, television, film
Nationality	American
Years active	2003–present
Genres	Observational comedy
Subject(s)	Everyday life, self-deprecation, racial stereotypes^[1]
Website	datphan.com

Dat Phan (born January 25, 1975) is a Vietnamese-American stand-up comedian. He first rose to fame in 2003 after defeating runner-up Ralphie May to win Season 1 of Last Comic Standing.^[2]

In Fall 2004, he returned for the third season dubbed "Battle of the Best" which featured contestants from season 1 against season 2. He and May were eliminated in the fifth round.

Early life

Phan was born in Saigon.^[3]

He immigrated to the United States as a child with his mother and nine other siblings. They suffered financial hardships throughout his childhood. He grew up in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, California then spent his teenage years in Santee, California, a suburb of San Diego. Phan was voted most successful of his class at his West Hills High School ten-year reunion^{[citation needed]}

He dropped out of Grossmont College to pursue comedy. He was later voted into Grossmont College's Walk of Fame.^[1]

Career

In 2003, he entered the first season of NBC's stand-up comedy competition reality show, Last Comic Standing.^[1]^[3] He was picked on by the other contestants due to his relative youth in the comedy world.^{[citation needed]} According to the show's host Jay Mohr, Phan nonetheless was the surprise winner of Last Comic Standing and has subsequently made cameo appearances in Hollywood films such as Cellular^[3] and Love Is the Drug.

Dat Phan Productions released the DVD Dat Phan: Live and the CD You Touch, You Buy, in stores January 2010, and began pre-production on a movie titled Yellow Fever.^[3]

In 2011, Phan was featured in the DirecTV campaign, "The Whale."^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.^{[citation needed]}

Phan has endorsed the Jade Ribbon Campaign established to fight against hepatitis B and liver cancer.^[3]

Filmography

TV appearances

Last Comic Standing 1 (2003)^[1]^[3]
Good Morning, Miami (March 20, 2003)
Comedy Central Presents: The Commies (2003)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (August 6, 2003)^[3]
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (August 8, 2003)
The Award Show Awards Show (2003)
Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn (December 2003)
The Wayne Brady Show (January 29, 2004)
Comedy Central Presents: Dat Phan (2004)
Danny Phantom (2004)
The West Wing (February 18, 2004)
Last Comic Standing 2 (August 12, 2004)
Super Bowl XXXIX
Last Comic Standing 3 (2004)
Family Guy Episode 59 - Breaking Out Is Hard To Do (July 17, 2005)^[3]
Asian Excellence Awards on May 28, 2007, nominated for Outstanding Comedy Performance
Comedy Zen (2007)
BET ComicView (December 11, 2007)
The Tyra Banks Show Racial Stereotypes (September 30, 2009)
DirecTV The Whale (July 20, 2011)

Filmography

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Curran, James (2 January 2008). "Locally raised comedian Phan grateful to be working". North County Times. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
^ "'Last Comic Standing' winner Dat Phan plays Fort Myers". The News-Press. Retrieved 2018-10-20.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Pang, Angela (16 September 2008). "Dat Phan Joins Jade Ribbon Campaign". AsianWeek. Archived from the original on 11 March 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2010.

Duck, Allison (September 30, 2009). "Dinner at The Peppermill with Dat Phan". Las Vegas Weekly.
Duck, Allison (September 21, 2009). "Dat Phan Homeless to Hilarious". Las Vegas Weekly.
Bloom, Stephen (March 10, 2010). "Dat Phan From Homeless to Headliner". Sacramento Press. Archived from the original on April 16, 2010.
Attanasio, Ed (May 8, 2010). "Now Dat's Funny". Life on the Edge.
"PHANtastic: "Last Comic Standing" winner aims to entertain Guam Audience". Pacific Daily News. Guampdn.com. ^{[dead link‍]}

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Seasons	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Winners	Dat Phan John Heffron Alonzo Bodden Josh Blue Jon Reep Iliza Shlesinger Felipe Esparza
Other contestants	Ant Ty Barnett Doug Benson Rebecca Corry Lavell Crawford Dante Gerry Dee Mike DeStefano Debra DiGiovanni Bil Dwyer Joey Gay Todd Glass Gary Gulman Tim Harmston Ralph Harris Corey Holcomb Gabriel Iglesias Sean Kent Kristin Key Matt Kirshen Jay London April Macie Mary Mack Kathleen Madigan Ralphie May Bonnie McFarlane Dave Mordal Eddie Pepitone Tammy Pescatelli Chris Porter Tommy Ryman Jimmy Shubert Amy Schumer Rich Vos Gina Yashere

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