Joel McHale speech at Ken Jeong's Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony

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00:00Our next speaker is an actor, comedian, and television host.

00:06He stars in and executive produces Fox's hit comedy series, Animal Control, and also returned

00:11on FX's season 3 of The Bear.

00:14He will reprise his role as Jeff Winger in the upcoming community movie, Crime Scene

00:19Kitchen, and E's House of Villains.

00:25He was previously in the DC Universe series, Stargirl, on The CW, and as the voice of Johnny

00:30Cage in Mortal Kombat Legends, Battle of the Realms, and Queen Pins, a comedy based on

00:35a true story.

00:36I'm trying to speed it up for you.

00:37No, you.

00:38No, you.

00:39I'm kidding.

00:40His other projects include...

00:41You don't have to bring him out.

00:42That's what I'm saying.

00:43His other projects include Card Sharks, Twilight Zone, Mortal Kombat Legends, Scorpion's Revenge,

00:48The Happy Time Murders, as well as Netflix's A Stupid and Futile Jester, opposite Will

00:53Forte.

00:54Please help me welcome Joel McHale to the stage.

01:01Thank you for that reading of my Wikipedia page.

01:05That was...

01:06Wow.

01:07Ken, would it have killed you to wear a tie today?

01:12Good morning, fans of Ken Jeong, tourists, Jimmy Kimmel staffers on lunch break, people

01:22buying weed at the Pineapple, and people experiencing homelessness.

01:28Thank you for being here this morning.

01:32I first met Ken in 2006 when I sued him for malpractice because he left a clamp inside

01:37my stomach after a botched surgery.

01:42You're a monster.

01:43All right.

01:44I'm kidding.

01:45I'm sorry.

01:46I know I only have 35 minutes to tell you about my friend Ken Jeong and what he has

01:49pulled off in his short 81 years on this planet.

01:54I'm kidding, man.

01:55I didn't mean to call you short.

01:56All right.

01:57I don't know if you know this, but today is Ken's day.

02:02It is Ken's day.

02:05I know you think this is some snappy phrase cooked up in a Fox TV marketing meeting.

02:09It's not.

02:10I just made that up right here in this moment.

02:14First, as you know, Ken is a doctor.

02:20Everyone talks about this, especially him.

02:23But I'm going to say a little bit more about him being a doctor because it just gets said

02:28and then he gets introduced as a panel on a guest on a show or something.

02:32But I just want to say this.

02:33Okay.

02:34A young Ken Jeong went to Duke University.

02:37That is a hard thing to do, right?

02:41None of you went to Duke.

02:42You're in Hollywood.

02:43Okay.

02:44Then Ken went to med school at UNC.

02:46Harder to do.

02:48Then he did his residency at UCLA and he put in all those thousands of hours to be

02:54a doctor.

02:56Hard to do.

02:57And then you know what Ken said while he was doing that?

02:59He said, I think I'll go to some open mics.

03:04I think I'll audition for some commercials.

03:08That is also hard to do.

03:10And then just a little bit later, Ken literally burst onto the screen naked and screaming

03:17and commanding one of the biggest comedic performances in one of the biggest comedies

03:23of all time, The Hangover, guys.

03:28It didn't gross as much as Ted, but it was right up there.

03:33This is nearly impossible to do.

03:37It's like what Steph Curry did for the NBA.

03:40He's a little shorter, but still, this is why it's Ken's day.

03:44Say it with me.

03:46It's Ken's day.

03:48And in a few short years after that, Ken now is one of the most recognizable comedians

03:53on the planet.

03:55And this is why we are putting his name on a piece of brass and putting it in the Hollywood

04:00Walk of Fame.

04:02Not easy to do.

04:03It is Ken's day, everybody.

04:08I also want to say this is the most well-positioned podium I've ever spoken at.

04:13Sorry back there.

04:16Photographers, top billing, best seats.

04:19And also Nick Cannon has not been mentioned that he's here.

04:22Nick Cannon is here, everybody.

04:26All right.

04:28I met Ken for real in 2009 on Parks and Rec.

04:31Community.

04:32Okay, good.

04:33You guys passed the test.

04:34No, on Community.

04:35And here's why I love Ken Jeong.

04:38He was added to the cast.

04:40He was not in the pilot.

04:41He failed the audition.

04:43No.

04:44But NBC was dying to put him on a show, so somehow we got Ken.

04:48I don't know why we got so lucky.

04:50And that first day of shooting, first time we ever met, I walked up to Ken and said,

04:54what are you doing here?

04:56You're a movie star.

04:58And Ken said, for real, he said, I want to see my family every day.

05:04And I can't even make a joke about that because it was so moving and I was like, man, I should

05:10really do that.

05:11I didn't.

05:14And that's where I fell in love with Ken.

05:15And nobody on this planet works harder than Ken.

05:19He takes talent and work and puts it, I work very hard, and later on I'll be standing on

05:24Ryan Seacrest Star accepting offers, all right?

05:28Because I think Ken works so hard because he put the same effort into becoming a doctor,

05:32which if you screw up, you kill people, right?

05:35If you screw up as an actor, the worst thing that's going to happen is you'll be in 2009

05:40is all about Steve, 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.

05:46Not a big deal.

05:47The body of Ken's work is nuts, okay?

05:50Think about it.

05:51The Hangover series, 30 other films, animated films, The Masked Singer, I Can See Your Voice,

05:58stand up specials.

05:59He is the only reason why Thanos' The Snap was reversed and half of all creatures came

06:06back to life.

06:08This man works so hard.

06:10He cares so much about his art.

06:12He doesn't care how he looks.

06:16He doesn't care about his clothes, clearly.

06:21He's dressed as a raspberry chocolate today.

06:24And when he says, I'm ready for my close-up, the director says, no, no, no, we're good.

06:30We got it in the wide.

06:32That's how much he leaps off the screen.

06:35This is Ken's day, everyone.

06:40Say it.

06:41It's Ken's day.

06:42And now I'm almost done.

06:45The mayor of Hollywood's about to kill me.

06:47Ken, but your greatest accomplishment, and I know you're agreed, this is the greatest

06:52one, is somehow convincing his wife, Tran Ho, to marry him because she is a thousand

06:58times better than him.

07:00And I say that because it's the same situation with my wife.

07:04They have beautiful daughters, Zoe and Alexa, who are so much smarter than him.

07:09And he loves them.

07:10He won't stop talking about them.

07:12So this is such a cool day, Ken, and I am honored to be your friend and to be a part

07:18of it.

07:19And I'm not going to cry.

07:20And let's go sell some more peanuts.

07:21I love you, Ken.

07:22That was too long.

07:23It was way too long.

07:24I love you, brother.

07:25I love you, Ken.

07:26I love you, Ken.

07:27I love you, Ken.

07:28I love you, Ken.

07:29I love you, Ken.

07:30I love you, Ken.

07:31I love you, Ken.

07:32I love you, Ken.

07:33I love you, Ken.

07:34I love you, brother.

07:35Oh, God.

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