Hollywood star Ken Jeong’s debut UK gig was a night of two halves. Or make that around five.
It included dirty gags, sentimental sections, medical anecdotes, celebrity gossip and a midway Q&A that should have been at the end.
The Asian-American is best known as giggling gangster Mr Chow in The Hangover franchise but was initially a GP.
At the start there was an amiably crude account of an odd amnesia case. It was no match for bestseller Adam Kay’s hospital memories, yet it set the evening’s smutty tone.
Chunks of material charted his progress from small parts to recent work as game-show judge on The Masked Singer alongside Robin Thicke.
His biggest gripe is fans blurring lines between reality and fiction and asking about his dodgy roles in front of his children.
He clearly enjoys his career. It was his idea to appear naked in The Hangover, joking about a subsequent MTV Award nomination — “it was for worst penis”. The result was entertaining if wildly uneven.
He finished by paying fulsome tribute to his wife, who overcame cancer just as he was breaking big.
Jeong’s love for her was evident. As was his love for a lewd quip.
