Phil Wang

Philip Nathaniel Wang Sin Goi[lower-alpha 1] (born 22 January 1990)[3][4] is a British-Malaysian stand-up comedian and comedy writer who is a member of the sketch comedy group Daphne,[5][6][7] and co-creator of their BBC Radio 4 series, Daphne Sounds Expensive. He currently hosts the comedy podcast ‘BudPod’ with fellow comedian and Footlights alumnus Pierre Novellie.

For the filmmaker, see Wong Fu Productions.

Phil Wang
Phil Wang, Glastonbury Festival, 2019
Birth namePhilip Nathaniel Wang Sin Goi
Born (1990-01-22) 22 January 1990[1]
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England[2]
MediumStand-up, television, radio
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge
Websitewww.philwang.co.uk

Early life

Wang was born in Stoke-on-Trent to an English mother from Stoke and a Chinese-Malaysian father of Hakka descent from Sabah.[8] One week after his birth, his family returned to his father's home town of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia, where his parents had first met in 1982. His mother, a trained archaeologist, had moved to Malaysia as a volunteer with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Wang's maternal grandfather was from Derbyshire and became the manager of a tea estate in Assam, India, where his mother spent part of her childhood.[9]

Wang grew up in Malaysia, where he was taught in Malay, Mandarin and English.[9] He took GCSEs at Jerudong International School in Brunei.[10] When he was 16, his family moved back to the UK, to Bath, Somerset. There he attended Kingswood School. He then studied engineering at King's College, Cambridge,[11] where he was also president of the Cambridge Footlights.[12][13]

Career

Wang won the 2010 Chortle Student Comedian of the Year Award[14] and, in 2011, Comedy Central's Funniest Student Award. In 2012, he was president of Footlights at Cambridge University, where he did a four-year engineering degree.[15] Wang has since performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe[16] and at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.[17]

Wang has appeared in The Rob Brydon Show, Comedy Up Late, About Tonight, It Was Alright in the 70's, Room 101, Have I Got News for You, Unspun with Matt Forde, Would I Lie to You?, Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, The Dog Ate My Homework, Hypothetical, Outsiders, and Insert Name Here. He has also acted in the sitcom Top Coppers. In January 2018, he took part in Comedy Central's Roast Battle, hosted by Jimmy Carr, in which he battled friend and fellow comedian Ed Gamble: Wang won the battle.

Wang has also written for The Guardian.[18]

In 2016, Wang appeared in the short film Sarah Chong Is Going to Kill Herself as Davith.[19]

In 2017 Wang appeared in the podcast series Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown and Do the Right Thing.[20][21]

On 4 July 2018 it was announced that Wang would be one of the contestants in series 7 of Taskmaster.[22] Tasks he won included 'Make the best noise' and 'Most surprisingly beautiful thing'.

Wang is currently working on a stand-up comedy series for BBC Radio 4 titled Wangsplaining.[23] The pilot episode aired on 19 May 2019 on BBC Radio 4.[9]

In 2020, Wang appeared on Kevin McCloud's Rough Guide to the Future.[24]

In December 2020 and May 2022, Wang appeared on Have I Got News For You.[25]

In May 2021, Wang hosted a new podcast called Phil Wang Hates Horror, which was released on Audible.

Wang's Netflix comedy special Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang was released in August 2021. His first book, Sidesplitter: How to Be from Two Worlds at Once, was published in September 2021.[26]

References
  1. In this Malaysian Hakka Chinese name, the surname is Wang (王). In accordance with custom, the Western-style name is Phil Wang and the Chinese-style name is Wang Sin Goi.
  1. "Aisling Bea and Phil Wang head to Netflix". Chortle.
  2. "Interview: Phil Wang – The Comedian Who Isn't Afraid to Make You Laugh About Race". weareresonate. 2 March 2017.
  3. Insert Name Here (BBC), Series 3, Episode 2. (First broadcast 27 November 2017.)
  4. Phil Wang, Alex Horne (4 September 2018). Phil Wang Interview Taskmaster S7 - Dave (Video). UKTV. Event occurs at 1:37 – via YouTube.
  5. "Edinburgh comedy 2015: what to see". The Telegraph. 12 August 2015.
  6. "My Comedy Hero: Phil Wang on Leslie Nielsen". The List.
  7. Edinburgh festival 2015: 10 comedy acts to watch, The Guardian
  8. Wong, Gabby (2 March 2017). "INTERVIEW: Phil Wang – The comedian who isn't afraid to make you laugh about race". Resonate. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  9. Wang P (2019) Phil Wang: Wangsplaining, BBC Studios.
  10. "How JIS Brunei enabled these students to enter the world's elite universities". Study International News. 19 October 2018. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  11. Gil, Natalie (14 September 2015). "Learn from our mistakes: freshers' week regrets". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  12. Stuart Goldsmith (13 February 2017). "Episode 197 – Phil Wang". The Comedian's Comedian (Podcast).
  13. Rohan Banerjee (18 July 2017). "Phil Wang on engineering comedy, Footlights, and why Brexit is a cock block".
  14. "Wang wins – Chortle student king crowned". Chortle. 18 August 2010.
  15. Simon Bajkowski (27 March 2011). "That's Number One, Wang". The Tab.
  16. "Phil Wang – Edinburgh Fringe 2015 – British Comedy Guide". British Comedy Guide.
  17. Stephanie Bunbury (23 March 2015). "Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Phil Wang engineers a laugh with 'high-status' comedy". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  18. Wang, Phil (31 July 2014). "Phil Wang: Impossibly wise or offensively stupid – Chinese people in US films". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  19. "Sarah Chong Is Going to Kill Herself (Short 2016)". IMDb. Retrieved 29 April 2023.
  20. Guide, British Comedy. "Series 7, Episode 1 (Bleed The Radiators) – Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown". British Comedy Guide.
  21. "Do The Right Thing on acast". acast.
  22. Taskmaster Series 7 | Coming Soon | Dave, retrieved 5 July 2018
  23. Bennett, Steve. "Radio 4 shows for Phil Wang and others : News 2019 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide". www.chortle.co.uk.
  24. "Kevin McCloud's Rough Guide to the Future". Channel 4. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  25. "Have I Got News For You". Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  26. "Phil Wang: Philly Philly Wang Wang and Sidesplitter". Digital Spy. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
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