Raybon Kan

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Raybon Kan
Stand-up, television
Nationality New Zealand
Years active???-present

Raybon Kan (born 1966)[1] is a New Zealand comedian and newspaper columnist.

Early life and family

Kan's family moved to

World Universities Debating Championships, losing the final to the University of Oxford.[3]
While at Victoria University he won the Dominion Journalism Scholarship, and the Energy Law Research Scholarship. His article on energy law was published in the New Zealand Law Journal.

Career

Kan first came to media prominence writing

The Dominion newspaper in Wellington and performed stand-up comedy
on stage and on television. His television work included regular appearances on comedy sketch shows.

Kan was named Best Comedian by Metro and

Edinburgh Fringe. He has also performed in Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sydney. He was nominated for the inaugural Billy T Award
in 1997.

His movie reviews featured in

TV3
's Nightline nightly news programme. His New Zealand TV appearances include "Pulp Comedy", "Laugh Festival Gala," "Before Stardom", "Look Who's Famous Now", Skitz, "Test the Nation" (which he won three times), "The Great New Zealand Spelling Bee", Inside New Zealand, a documentary in which he trained for two months to be a casino croupier; and a profile in TV's 60 Minutes. In Australia he performed on "Hey Hey It's Saturday" and was interviewed by Bert Newton.

Kan wrote Five Days in Las Vegas in the early 1990s about his travels to the

Wheel of Fortune
. Another travel-based book America on Five Bullets a Day was published in 1998 and featured his love of tennis. A collection of his short writings was published by Penguin in 2004 as An Asian at My Table. For many years he continued to write a column in The Sunday Star Times.

He has film roles in each of "I'll Make You Happy" (directed by Athina Tsoulis),

spokesman for the Freedom Air airline
in New Zealand.

For a time, Kan was based in the United Kingdom, and in 2009 he performed his stand-up show 'Spermbank Millionaire' at the Edinburgh Fringe. The film he starred in, and co-wrote with Jason Stutter, Diagnosis: Death, was also released in 2009.

Personal life

Kan has returned to New Zealand. He continues to provide commentary on social issues in print media,

New Zealand Skeptics for his column "I see dud people," wherein he stated "I don’t want to get in the way of entertainers earning a crust, but it’s scummy to pretend to communicate with the dead to take advantage of grieving relatives."[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
  2. The Dominion Post
    . Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Romanos, Joseph (9 May 2012). "Wellingtonian Interview: Raybon Kan". Stuff. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  4. The Dominion Post
    . Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  5. ^ 'Car-sleepers camping at the bit for Key's help' NZ Herald 18 May 2016
  6. ^ 'If Chinese buy houses and pay you too much - you don't like it', NZ Herald 15 July 2015
  7. ^ "Bravo Awards". New Zealand Skeptics. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

External links

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