Ashton young[]
Ashton young, is a korean-american comedian, actor, model and youtuber, mostly known in the industry as one of the many famous gay comedians. He debuted in 2012 with his comedy special "About me." which not only got attention from korean fans, but also international fans, as his fame kept growing and growing with each comedy special, which in 2022, he got into the kpop industry as he was spotted supporting his juniors in the music industry.
2012 : "About me", rise to fame[]
Ashton at 23 really wanted to be a comedian so, he gathered his friends as he setted up his first stand-up comedy show titled "About me.", and it went pretty well. And the live-action comedy special was first released on DVD, and it sold out well as people said he should continue his career, which he did as he did multiple fansigns in the Lotte Department Store in seoul.
2013-2019 : Best years, Coming out[]
He kept making comedy special after comedy special with hits like "I'm right, your wrong, shut up.", "Asher's chaos", and his most famous one being "Class young 101". He even won "Best Stand Up Show" at the National comedy awads, everything was going great for him, until 2019.
He released a video coming out titled "I'm gay." in a music video type way. Which fans were having mixed reactions, 50% were excited and proud of the 30 year old comedian for coming out, but 50% werent suprised, but still proud, as they already thought he was giving hints about his sexuality from his comedy specials. Still fans are proud of him till this day.
2020-2022 : Slowly involving in the kpop industry[]
Ashton continued his comedy profession, but on twitter during 2020. But then in 2021, he came back into the spotlight for his newest comedy special "Clean water bandit", it was the fans favourites and not because of it having like a tv-serieis type intro, but the overall concept of the special.
In 2022, he slowly began to involve with kpop idols, starting with the chinese-british singer Chen wang who he have been close with before during the "I'm right, your wrong, shut up" comedy special and him writing the demo for the theme song on "Clean water bandit". And the duo went viral after they danced to Whip it (3x) on tiktok, and fans predict he might slowly be involved with kpop interviews as well.
But in the middle of 2022, he slowly dissapeared again
2023 : ???[]
TBA
Videography[]
- About me (2012)
- Asher's chaos (2013)
- Life's so dull (2014)
- Sit down and chill (2015)
- I'm right, your wrong, shut up (2017)
- Class young 101 (2019)
- Clean water bandit (2021)
- Lights, Camera, Action (2022)
Awards[]
- Best stand-up show for "Life's so dull" (The national comedy awards 2014)
Trivia[]
- In a interview in 2020, ash mentioned how he really wanted to host a korean awards show besides from western ones
- He's always known for his big stages and also adding more feel to the performances, like big props, or confetti.
- His secret talent is dancing, and he showed that a lot, mostly on "Class young 101" with his tribute to gay icons.
- He listened to Finekiz when he was in his 20's.