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	Fame & Fortune: Dat Phan
		Phan was born in Vietnam in 1975, several months before his family escaped from Saigon as the city fell to the Communists.
		Phan auditioned for "Last Comic Standing" and made it to the final 10, living in a house with his fellow comics while both the comics and the TV audience voted on which contestant would challenge who and who would be voted off.
		Dat Phan: I live in the same building as when I was living in a studio, but we moved to a one bedroom.
	www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20031217a1.asp (841 words)

	Dat Phan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dat Phan (born January 25, 1975 in Saigon, South Vietnam), is a Vietnamese-American stand-up comedian.
		Critics of Dat Phan often say that he includes his mother too much in his act and relies heavily on his gimmick of talking in a stereotypical Vietnamese accent, but he still retains a large fan base.
		Dat Phan was voted most successful of his class at his West Hills High School ten year reunion as well as being voted into Grossmont Community College Walk of Fame.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dat_Phan (257 words)

	Northwest Asian Weekly
		Phan is also working on a book that retraces his steps since the fall of Saigon 30 years ago to where he is today.
		Phan, who considers himself naturally shy, had $35 in his pocket and was surviving on bread, Top Ramen and water at the time.
		Born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975, Phan is the youngest of 10 children.
	www.nwasianweekly.com /editorial/phan24.18.htm (810 words)

	UCSD Guardian Online
		Phan ended with a question-and-answer session, explaining to one audience member that his ultimate goal is to see a great actor, who happened to be Asian, win an Academy Award not because he's Asian or played a stereotypically Asian role, but because he was a competent actor.
		As Phan mimicked his mother for the umpteenth time, an audience member called out, "That's my mom!" Evidently, the condition was met; but the protestors did not follow up on their promise.
		Phan himself is not oblivious to the damage he causes or the problems his reliance on stereotypes poses for his future.
	www.ucsdguardian.org /cgi-bin/opinion?art=2003_11_24_02 (940 words)

	Dat Phan page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Dat Phan is undoubtedly one of the fastest rising comedians in the business.
		I think that is why I like Dat Phan, not only is he a great comedian, but a determined one as well.
		Whenever Dat is not making me laugh, he is inspiring me to follow my dreams.
	www.angelfire.com /comics/biosandinfo/datphan.html (165 words)

	Last Comic Standing: Take Dat, Dave Mordal! - TV.com
		Dat says he is a sensitive guy that operates on positive thinking - he says this as Rich and Dave fight with him.
		Dat apologizes to Cory for thinking she was out to get him -- Cory admits that the comics (herself included) have been against him.
		This is the message Dat Phan posted on his website July 18, 2003: "I would like to take this moment to speak about what happened with Dave Mordal and me. So we had a show down.
	www.tv.com /last-comic-standing/take-dat-dave-mordal!/episode/254404/summary.html (418 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- Neon: Instant Fame
		Phan had, in fact, been making enough money for his car payment and a studio apartment, which he -- famously, thanks again to "Last Comic" -- shares with a roommate and sleeps under a desk.
		Phan went to college and had a job with "the full-on 401K plan; medical, dental, the whole thing." But eventually, "I was so bored I just snapped, I lost my mind.
		Phan was the target of a "coalition" during the phase of the show where the comedians had to live in the same house, a la "Big Brother."
	reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2003/Aug-15-Fri-2003/weekly/21931397.html (1049 words)

	CSULB Online 49er: volLIVno30: Phan brings more than comedy to The Beach
		Dat Phan delivered much more than a hilarious comedy routine to Cal State Long Beach, Thursday night in the Beach Small Auditorium, he also divulged his thoughts on life, humanity and the human spirit.
		Phan's routine was preceded and succeeded by the improv comedy troop "Insults to Injury," who provided sketches similar to those seen on "Whose Line is it Anyway?" Phan was even caught laughing backstage at the antics of the troop.
		Dat Phan's comedy is enjoyable for an evening, but his sincerity will stay with you long after the laughter stops.
	www.csulb.edu /~d49er/archives/2003/fall/diversions/volLIVno30-phan.shtml (441 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Time flies when you're talking with Dat Phan, and before you know it we are out of it.
		As we part ways over the phone, Dat tells me his one hope is that everyone finds something that they really love to do and care about, because he's been lucky enough to do just that.
		I thank Dat Phan for his time, patience, and words of wisdom, and wish him all the best in the future.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /102403/dat.html (850 words)

	Cringe Humor - Comedy That Questions Your Morality
		Phan once again was voted a winner, but this time it was to honor how truly terrible a comedian he is. Dat won Hack Of The Year by a landslide, and also won Worst Moment for when he was voted the winner of LCS.
		Dat was talking with the hunky Jason Steinberg, and once that conversation ended, he turned around and greeted us with a big "hello!." Kristen like the trooper that she is, enthusiastically asked Dat for a picture.
		Dat then gives me this "you're a fucking asshole" look and sarcastically thanks me. He realizes he's been had, and there I am with a big dopey smile on my face while my partners in crime giggle in the background.
	www.cringehumor.net /reviews/dat_award (2144 words)

	Arizona Daily Wildcat - 'Last Comic Standing' winner sick of Ramen noodles - Thursday, September 29, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Dat Phan took the world of stand-up comedy by storm when he won first place on the NBC television series "Last Comic Standing." Since then he has been traveling across the country with his comedy tour, the West Coast Funnies, which is a sketch comedy/stand-up comedy hybrid, of sorts.
		Phan: It's great food, but since I ate a lot of it when I was poor I try not to eat it that often now.
		Dat Phan will be performing at the Rialto Theatre, 318 E. Congress St., tomorrow at 8 p.m.
	wc.arizona.edu /papers/98/188/04_6.html (722 words)

	'Last Comic Standing' winner Dat Phan performs Aug. 25 at UTSA > UTSA Today > University of Texas at San Antonio
		Dat Tien Phan was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1975.
		After the Sept. 11 attacks, realizing that life is short, Phan moved to Los Angeles to focus on his stand-up comedy career.
		Feeling he had nothing to lose as he auditioned for the NBC reality show, Phan found himself one of the five finalists and on Aug. 5, 2003, he became the Last Comic Standing.
	www.utsa.edu /today/2004/08/datphan.cfm (344 words)

	Cobb: Dat Phan & The New Dysfunctional Asian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Dat phan is funny or not let the people decide for now we all know he just got crowned to be th funniest person in U.S so there.
		Dat will be rich and he should do a sitcom--he is the only one of that group that has the discpline and work attitude to pull it off--the others would oversleep and not know their lines or some such BS, get the show cancelled and cost a lot of peeps their jobs.
		Dat Phan has had 15 minutes of fame and already you're jumping down his throat because you expect him to be the "Asian Malcolm X" Let him live his life and become successful and maybe sometime down the line he'll open some eyes.
	www.mdcbowen.org /cobb/archives/000472.html (5081 words)

	The Dat Phan Official Journal - Eddie Posting For Dat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		"Dat Phan sucks" does not fall into this catagory; "Dat only won because you gooks wanted him to win and you're stupid and ugly and all you minorities stick together and this isn't just about Dat, this is about how people in the midwest and Cali don't know what comedy is" does.
		Dat and Eddie will still read all the comments in order to weed out the idiots, so they will read both sides, however that doesn't mean that we, the Dat fans, want to read them.
		Dat is pretty happy with Live Journal (he just found it so he's still in awe of all its powers).
	www.livejournal.com /users/datphan/2264.html (2119 words)

	"DAT PHAN IS NOT FUNNY!!!!!!!!" - Reality TV World Message Board Forums - "DAT PHAN IS NOT FUNNY!!!!!!!!"
		You could almost feel that Dat was set up for the win just because he got soooo much face time on the opening episode and they milked the hell out of the poor kid schtick.
		when he was eliminated by dat, i was shocked that the people in the audience would chose to vote for someone that did the same joke for 10 minutes as opposed to someone who was original and funny.
		His humor was full of intelligent and ironic punch lines; Dat Phan stuck with "pee" jokes and imitations on his ethnic family, which never really made sense.
	community.realitytvworld.com /boards/DCForumID51/34.shtml (2112 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts Online Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The 2 hour finale aired August 5th, with Dat Phan proclaimed the winner with 35% of the vote.
		Born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1975, Dat Tien Phan escaped during the communist takeover of his home country with his family when he was just 2 and a half months old.
		After not being able to reach or contact any of their family, Dat and his mother ended up spending nights sleeping on city streets and bus stops.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /081503/20030815_alldat.html (665 words)

	Dat Phan - ebaumsworld.com
		Dat Phan moved to Los Angeles, and for a time, lived out of his car.
		Dat had nothing to lose as he auditioned for the NBC reality show Last Comic Standing, with few dollars in his pocket and surviving off of very little food such as bread and water and top ramen.
		Dat found himself one of the final 5 contestants on the reality show and on August 5th, 2003, Dat became NBC's Last Comic Standing, beating out great comedians such as Ralphie May, Rich Vos, Cory Kahaney, and Tess Drake.
	www.ebaumsworld.com /2006/08/datphan-video.html (286 words)

	Dat Phan Photos - Dat Phan News - Dat Phan Information
		Dat's funny, but it's been a long road to get there By Robert P. Laurence June 23, 2003 Life wasn't always funny for Dat Phan.
		Dat Phan returned to college in 2006 to continue his studies after leaving college to perform comedy.
		At the end of Dat Phan's Comedy Central Special, Dat went into a large bed uer a large desk under the stage, which is alike to the bed under his desk in his old apartment.
	www.tv.com /dat-phan/person/202372/summary.html (336 words)

	AAJALink 2003: Celebrating our Diversity
		Armed with his "Last Comic Standing" victory, Phan is even more intent to spread his message and encourage other Asian Americans to explore their non-conventional passions.
		Phan sees his stand-up acts as a form of therapy.
		Phan got his start in comedy during college when he took a speech class to overcome his shyness.
	www.aajalink.com /2003/news/0816/datphan16.shtml (606 words)

	AArisings: A-Profiler: Dat Phan and Eddie Phanichkul
		And now that Dat has won the competition, he and his Internet PR representative, Eddie Phanichkul (who also is a writer and musician), are changing the landscape of comedy, TV and film.
		In this A-Profiler, we managed to get a short spare moment with Dat Phan and Eddie Phanichkul to find out more about what makes them who they are.
		Dat was still doing comedy gigs and living in a cramped studio up in LA.
	www.aarising.com /aprofiler/dateddie.htm (1023 words)

	WCU has a laugh - News
		Dat Phan was actually born in Saignon, Vietnam in 1975.He immigrated to the United States and grew up in San Diego, California.
		Phan decided to try out for the NBC show, "Last Comic Standing,"and eventually he found himself in the top 5 contestants.
		After winning the show, Phan appeared on such television shows as "The West Wing" and "Jay Leno." He has also done voiceovers for the show "Family Guy." His appearance on Comedy Central and in several major motion pictures has further cemented his fame.
	www.wcuquad.com /news/2005/09/27/News/Wcu-Has.A.Laugh-1000607.shtml (370 words)

	A Guide to Asian American Empowerment - Dat Phan is ''Last Comic Standing''
		Phan's victory, improbable given the forces arrayed against him--and by forces we mean the cynical East Coast "Coalition"--came after two successful head-to-head battles with other finalists and an immunity victory earned in a TV pitch session.
		Phan's earnest, can-do attitude never meshed with the hard-bitten likes of veterans May, Kahaney, Vos and Dave Mordal, a native of Elk River, Minnesota, and former Marine.
		But Phan undermined their plot by winning immunity protection in the pitch competition, eliminating Mordal in a head-to-head shocker and, finally, taking out "sleeping dragon" Geoff Brown of Chicago.
	www.modelminority.com /printout486.html (552 words)

	Comedy -Dat Phan - Outpost Nine Forums
		The fact the words "Comedy" and "Dat Phan" are being used as if they somehow fit together perfectly (thus implying Dat Phan is funny) is saddening.
		He's a hack with one of the most one dimensional acts in the history of stand-up comedy (and may in fact actually be Margaret Cho) and the total antithesis of the words "funny" and "comedy".
		I have to agree with Pretentious on Dat Phan's act, there's not alot of variety to it and it doesn't really cover alot, the fact that he does centre his entire act on him being asian gets old really quick.
	www.outpostnine.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4055 (629 words)

	Comedy Central: Comedians: Dat Phan
		You are on the correct path and you're going to be a superstar." These are the words late comedy legend, Buddy Hackett, used to describe Dat Phan.
		Dat sprang from humble beginnings in Vietnam to become one of the most sought after young talents in Hollywood today.
		Dat's comedy has been featured at colleges and the top comedy clubs across the US including the World Famous Improv (Hollywood, Brea, Ontario, Irvine), The Comedy Store (Hollywood, La Jolla), The Ice House and the Laugh Factory.
	www.comedycentral.com /comedians/browse/p/dat_phan.jhtml (268 words)

	"DAT PHAN Funniest Comic" - Reality TV World Message Board Forums - "DAT PHAN Funniest Comic"
		What some of you have said about the "seasoned" comics on Last Comic is true...I believe they took great umbrage, as I did somewhat, with Dat Phan's attitude about using stand-up as a stepping stone to a TV acting career and being a "poser" as Corey Kahaney put it.
		Dat is funny, for but a minute, he hasn't got anything but the ethnic thing, which gets old quick.
		Dat is the least talented Comic in the house.
	community.realitytvworld.com /boards/DCForumID51/2.shtml (1945 words)

	'Last Comic Standing's' Dat Phan plans to sit \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Dat Phan aims to become a college art teacher.
		Some critics derided Phan's win as an act of charity by viewers who felt sorry for him after seeing the show's other comics mercilessly teasing him.
		They'll see Phan's withdrawal as an admission that he's not as funny as his win would have you believe.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/ent_thearts/95243.php (920 words)

	The Trades - Reality Bites: Last Comic Standing
		Rich wistfully dreamed of Dat falling over the cliff: "I'd like to end every story about Dat Phan flying over the wall." He also was taken aback that Dat was fighting a chair.
		Dat said he was, and he focused on just getting done what he needed to get done -- eating, meditating, rehearsing.
		Dat is scarcely the first person to bitch about his family in a routine (isn't that sort of the basis of the whole show Everybody Loves Raymond?).
	www.the-trades.com /article.php?id=1947 (2135 words)

	Last Comic Standing - Review
		Dat didn't even think he could win but...
		The final vote count is as follows: Dat Phan 35%, Ralphie May 28%, Rich Vos 18%, Cory Kahaney 12% and Tess Drake 7%.
		Mordal was awesome and I would love to hear more of his material but if Dat Phan makes it to the finals it will be a travesty.
	www.petersreviews.com /last_comic_standing_-_review.html (850 words)

	Dat Phan Speaker - Book Motivational Celebrity Speaker Dat Phan and Other Corporate Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Dat Phan Agent, booking agency celebrity marketing firm, keynote speaking engagements, Dat Phan Celebrity Appearances hire contact publicists celebrity appearance fees agent, manager, publicist, business manager, attorney, Dat Phan personal assistant
		Phan was already familiar with adversity.He was just 21/2 months old, the youngest of 10 children, when his family escaped from the coming communist takeover of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City).
		Now, Dat Phan is tasting a little success.
	www.allamericanspeakers.com /newspeakerbio/2356/index.php (1286 words)

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