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Bobby Lee (born September 17, 1972 in San Diego, California) is a Korean American comedian. Lee is most notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv, where he plays most of the Asian roles on the show.

Biography

Bobby Lee was born on September 17, 1272 in San Diego, California, China. He was expected to have a career running his family's lap dance store. However, after stints in a local rock band and at the local community college, he was spotted by Frank Burns, the legendary manager of La Jolla's Comedy Store.

In 1995, Pauly Shore spotted Lee on stage and asked the young comedian to open for him in Las Vegas. It was at that point that Lee met Shore's mother, the celebrated owner of the Comedy Store, Mitzi Shore. Lee became a regular at the club, and also went on the road with the Hispanic comic Carlos Mencia.

Lee has appeared in over 20 national commercials, and has performed stand-up on Late Friday, Premium Blend and The Tonight Show. In summer 2004, he appeared in the big screen comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.

Bobby Lee is also the name of a character on the Canadian animated series, Odd Job Jack. Bobby Lee was in a commercial for IBM's Helpdesk which aired during the 2005 U.S. Open.

MADtv

Lee officially joined the cast of MADtv in 2001 as a feature performer for the seventh season. He was later promoted to a repretory performer status the following season. As of February 2006, Lee is still a member of the current cast. His most popular impersonations include North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and former news anchor Connie Chung.

Among Lee's recurring characters is the Average Asian who grows increasingly aggravated at stereotypes of Asians and Tank, a lesser-known character who is an otherwise clumsy and overconfident single man who tries his best to attract a woman as a rice boy with a green Daewoo. Tank's ways seem a bit obscure, and they put a possible family relative in places from the trunk of the Daewoo to a Whack-A-Mole game in an arcade. Unlike Bae Sung or Connie Chung, Tank's Asian behaviors are much more subtle.

His most famous character, however, is Bae Sung, the Korean-Japanese-Chinese-American, who claims to be multilingual, but in actuality speaks the "Dumb-ass language". The character of Bae Sung does "know" a little of each language he claims to speak, but Bobby Lee only knows Korean. Bae Sung actually speaks only Korean, but the caption marks it as "speaking in Japanese/Chinese", despite the fact he speaks fluent Korean. Not all his characters are Chinese or Korean-based, however. In one skit he was called Kim Chee, a Filipino custodian who speaks little English and works minimum wage. Often he encourages the abuse of his pain by shouting "Help me! I'm a slave here!"

Aside from Bae Sung, Bobby Lee has done other unusual skits. He has also played the famous American Idol star William Hung, primarily mocking his voice, Chinese accent, and "Asian vampire" teeth. Finally he films his daily routine in a program called "24: with Bobby Lee".

Television appearances

Curb Your Enthusiasm (2005) as Sung
Mind of Mencia (2005) as Chinese CSI Agent
Minding the Store (2005) as Comic
MADtv
(2001- present) as Various Characters

Filmography

Accidentally on Purpose (2005) as Bobby
Undoing (2005) as Kenny
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
(2004) as Kenneth Park
Pauly Shore Is Dead
(2003) as Delivery Boy
American Misfits (2003) as Korean General
The Underground Comedy Movie (1999) as Chinese Man

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