KevJumba
KevJumba (Kevin Kai-Wen Wu) was inspired to put comedy videos on YouTube by the stand-up performances of Dave Chappelle and James Lau Wu. He chose YouTube because of his lack of resources and an audience. When Wu's "I Have to Deal With Stereotypes" video was featured on YouTube's home page, his number of viewers began to increase.In this video, Wu says that the three stereotypes he must deal with as an East Asian are that he is "cheap", a "nerd", and has "no social life." He tries to disprove his cheapness by bragging about the recent purchase of a "brand new, top-of-the-line, TI-84 calculator". He acknowledges that this might make him nerdy but dismisses this stereotype too as he does not "make all A's...in school today [he] made a B+." He is then greeted by a voice that was supposed to be his mother calling him a loser and accusing him of shaming their family. Wu goes on to say he can prove the health of his social life with the constant ringing of his cell phone. At this point, his phone indeed rings, he answers it, and the voice on the other end says, "Hey, why did you tell me to call you?" Wu has collaborated with fellow YouTube comedian Christine Gambito (HappySlip), making five videos with her. Kevin Wu graduated from Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas, in 2008.
Following his video, "Butthash Hero", Wu introduced his father, PapaJumba, onto his YouTube channel, and his father made several appearances in candid video clips taken by his son. Responding to Wu's father's growing popularity amongst viewers, his father made a debut in "I Love My Dad", and has been featured alongside his son many times since. As of June 2010, Wu had more than 1,000,000 subscribers and more than 25 million views of his channel.His combined video views total over 91.9 million. On February 26, 2008, the Los Angeles Times compared the web series Quarterlife's viewership to Wu's. At the time Wu was a "semi-well known YouTube blogger" and had received 450,000 views for a video describing how he broke his shin. Quarterlife, which had been picked up by
NBC, had received only 100,000 views on MySpace and 50,000 views on YouTube.
By May 29, 2008, Wu had become one of three East Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all-time most subscribed users with 187,000 subscribers and more than 5.9 million views. By June 5, 2008, he had become the number one subscribed comedian on YouTube, and third most subscribed uploader overall. Wu's videos have received replies from Ella Koon, Jessica Alba, and Baron Davis. In 2008, Davis created a "longest stare" contest for ibeatyou.com, a site that he and Alba's husband Cash Warren co-founded. The contest began with Davis challenging Wu, who then challenged Alba, who responded to the challenge.
JumbaFund On July 24, 2008, Kevin began JumbaFund, a YouTube channel dedicated to raising money for charity. As a partner, Kevin receives money every time someone views one of his videos. Kevin posted on his websitethat he 'wants to bring Jumbafund back'. He says that in the past, the videos posted on Jumbafund were quick and impersonal, and that he wants to find more meaningful ways to donate the hard-earned money his viewers earned by watching the JumbaFund videos. He has also said that he wants to involve his viewers, to give it to people who need it. He has created a forum in which his fans and viewers can give ideas on what videos he should make and post on Jumbafund and says that whoever's idea he chooses will be featured in his videos along with him.
Following his video, "Butthash Hero", Wu introduced his father, PapaJumba, onto his YouTube channel, and his father made several appearances in candid video clips taken by his son. Responding to Wu's father's growing popularity amongst viewers, his father made a debut in "I Love My Dad", and has been featured alongside his son many times since. As of June 2010, Wu had more than 1,000,000 subscribers and more than 25 million views of his channel.His combined video views total over 91.9 million. On February 26, 2008, the Los Angeles Times compared the web series Quarterlife's viewership to Wu's. At the time Wu was a "semi-well known YouTube blogger" and had received 450,000 views for a video describing how he broke his shin. Quarterlife, which had been picked up by
NBC, had received only 100,000 views on MySpace and 50,000 views on YouTube.
By May 29, 2008, Wu had become one of three East Asians under the age of 21 to be in the top five of YouTube's all-time most subscribed users with 187,000 subscribers and more than 5.9 million views. By June 5, 2008, he had become the number one subscribed comedian on YouTube, and third most subscribed uploader overall. Wu's videos have received replies from Ella Koon, Jessica Alba, and Baron Davis. In 2008, Davis created a "longest stare" contest for ibeatyou.com, a site that he and Alba's husband Cash Warren co-founded. The contest began with Davis challenging Wu, who then challenged Alba, who responded to the challenge.
JumbaFund On July 24, 2008, Kevin began JumbaFund, a YouTube channel dedicated to raising money for charity. As a partner, Kevin receives money every time someone views one of his videos. Kevin posted on his websitethat he 'wants to bring Jumbafund back'. He says that in the past, the videos posted on Jumbafund were quick and impersonal, and that he wants to find more meaningful ways to donate the hard-earned money his viewers earned by watching the JumbaFund videos. He has also said that he wants to involve his viewers, to give it to people who need it. He has created a forum in which his fans and viewers can give ideas on what videos he should make and post on Jumbafund and says that whoever's idea he chooses will be featured in his videos along with him.
