"Funniest Comedian KAYA YANAR vs BOWEN YANG"

KAYA YANAR

Kaya Yanar (born 20 May 1973 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German comedian, best known for his comedy show Was guckst du?! (Whatcha lookin' at?!...

Kaya Yanar (born 20 May 1973 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German comedian, best known for his comedy show Was guckst du?! (Whatcha lookin' at?!). He was born to Turkish-Arabic immigrants from Antakya. While at school he once told his teacher that he wanted to be a comedian, which made the teacher laugh. In an interview with German talkshow host Johannes B. Kerner Yanar described his childhood as a more liberal one and stated that despite his Turkish nationality, he cannot speak the Turkish language. After graduating from Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium (a school in Frankfurt) he studied phonetics, American studies and philosophy but left university prior to graduation. In his one-man comedy show Was guckst du?!, Yanar toys with well-known cultural stereotypes both as host and main performer. For one of his best known sketches about an East Indian, Ranjid and his pet cow (and substitute best friend) Benita, he practiced pidgin-English for months, which he learned from some Indian friends of his from university. He also parodies the stereotypical way Turkish migrants use to speak. Furthermore, he toured through Germany with solo programmes. Fixations of his programmes "Made in Germany" (2008), "Live und unzensiert" (2009) and "All Inclusive!" (2013) were broadcast by German TV station RTL. He also presented the ZDF-Show "Kaya Yanar testet Deutschland – die Multi-Kulti-Show (2007)" as part of a theme week focusing on integration. Because of his great success being without precedent for an artist with Turkish migration background in the German-speaking countries at the time of his appearance, Yanar is considered as a key figure and trailblazer for the acceptance of multicultural issues. Since December 2012 Yanar is godfather of the "Heinrich-Middendorf-Oberschule Aschendorf" in the project "Schule ohne Rassismus – Schule mit Courage" ("School without racism - school with courage"). In 2014 RTL started broadcasting his show ""Geht's noch?! Kayas Woche"", a weekly current affairs programme with a mixture of stand up comedy and political satire. Kaya Yanar is also a member of the jury in the German "Comedy Grand-Prix"; an annual comedy contest which is broadcast on TV to seek the "best German comedian".

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BOWEN YANG

Bowen Yang (Chinese: 楊伯文; born November 6, 1990) is an Australian-born Chinese American actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer based in New York Ci...

Bowen Yang (Chinese: 楊伯文; born November 6, 1990) is an Australian-born Chinese American actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer based in New York City. He co-hosts a comedy pop-culture podcast, Las Culturistas, with Matt Rogers. He also posts pop-culture lip-syncing videos on Twitter. Since September 2018, he has been on the writing staff of Saturday Night Live (SNL). Yang was promoted to on-air cast for SNL's 45th season, in September 2019, becoming its first Chinese-American, third openly gay male, and fourth-ever cast member of Asian descent. Yang was born November 6, 1990, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, to a family that had emigrated from China in the 1980s. His father, Ruilin, was raised in a rural part of the Inner Mongolia region of mainland China, growing up in a straw and mud hut. Ruilin's parents were illiterate, but he read books for hours by candlelight, compromising his eyesight, and eventually got into university—a rarity so soon after the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), which effectively shut down universities. Bowen's mother is an ob-gyn (obstetrician and gynaecologist). The couple moved to Brisbane so Ruilin could earn his doctorate in mining explosives. Bowen has an older sister. The children spoke Mandarin in their home, and attended Chinese Sunday school. The family moved to Montreal, Canada where Bowen first discovered Saturday Night Live (SNL). When he was nine, they moved again to Aurora, Colorado. As a child, he was drawn to late-night comedians and hosts David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. Yang's high school calculus teacher, Adrian Holguin, was also his coach for Smoky Hill High School's improvisational comedy group, Spontaneous Combustion. Yang graduated from high school in 2008 and was voted "Most Likely to Be a Cast Member on Saturday Night Live" in his yearbook..

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