Joel Kim Booster Biography and Wikipedia
Joel Kim Booster is a professional actor, writer, and comedian in the American entertainment industry. In addition, he is best recognized for his work in movies like; Trip, The Other Two, and Birthright.
Besides, he is a stand-up comedian and does a lot of shows. In addition, the multi-talented artist is also a published writer and has published the book named ‘Kate and Sam Are Not Breaking Up’.
Joel Kim Booster Age and Birthday
Booster is 34 years old as of 2022. In addition, he was born on February 29th, 1988 in Soth Korea. Therefore, he celebrates his birthday on the 29th of February every year.
Joel Booster Height and Weight
Booster has an average body height of 5 feet 8 inches ( 1.72 meters) tall. Additionally, he weighs 65 kilograms ( 142 lbs).
Joel Kim Booster Nationality
Booster holds an American nationality.
Joel Kim Booster Family, Parents and Siblings
Kim was born in Joonmin in Jeju Island, South Korea, Booster later he was adopted by an American couple as an he was young. Furthermore, he was raised in Plainfield, Illinois in a (conservative, white, Evangelical Christian family) and was as well home schooled.
He moved out and started to couch surf until he stayed with a family friend. Besides, his parents discovered out he was gay by reading his diary where he had described his sexual encounters with other boys.
Joel Kim Booster Gay, | Wife | Partner
Booster is known as a gay and he often talks about his sexuality in his stand-up. In addition, he has stated that he knew he was gay prior to he knew he was Asian. He publicly shared that he has bipolar disorder on July 21, 2020. Furthermore, he knew he was gay from childhood but kept away from the media.
Joel Kim Booster Career
Living in Chicago, he took a job as a copywriter and started to perform in theater and write jokes after work. Moreover, his stand-up career started in an unconventional fashion by opening up for plays in Chicago’s theater scene. Besides, he moved to New York in 2014 to pursue a career in comedy. Furthermore, he performed a set on Conan in 2016. Later, he appeared in his own Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents unique in 2017. Besides, he has written for the shows Billy on the Street, Big Mouth, and The Other Two.
He released his debut stand-up album, Model Minority on November 3, 2018. In addition, the material covers racism in the gay community, raised in Asian in a white community, and his own non-adherence to stereotypes about Asian Americans.
He released a stand-up unique on Netflix called Kim Booster: Psychosexual in 2022. Likewise, Abbey White of The Hollywood Reporter described the unique positively: (Psychosexual offers a hilariously biting deconstruction and also reconstruction of Booster’s identity onstage, a repudiation not only of himself as a representative or (role mode) for his many communities, but an affirmation that as a comedian, his only job is to tell jokes regardless of whether that speaks to any community at all).
Joel Kim Booster Education
He attended public school for the first time when he was 16 years old, which he described as his (first time being around non-religious people). Additionally, he studied theater at Millikin University for his bachelor’s degree.
Joel Kim Booster Accolades
Booster was called a Comic to Watch by many and one of Vulture’s 20 Comedians You Should and also Will Know and was named a Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Hollywood and Entertainment.
Joel Kim Booster Net Worth | Salary
Booster has an approximated net worth of between $1 and $5 million as of 2022. Besides, he has an annual salary of $8000-$80,000 Dollars approximately.
Television
- 2013–2014 Kam Kardashian
- 2013–2014 Funemployed
- 2016 Conan
- 2017 Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents
- 2018 Comedy Central’s Thank You, Goodnight!
- 2019 The Other Two
- 2019 You’re Not a Monster
- 2019 BoJack Horseman
- 2019 Sunnyside
- 2019–2020 Shrill
- 2019–2021 Big Mouth
- 2020 Search Party
- 2021 iCarly
- 2021 Bob’s Burgers
- 2021 Curb Your Enthusiasm
- 2021 Santa Inc.
- 2022 American Dad!
- 2022 Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual
- 2022-present Loot
- 2022 Stand Out: An LGBTQ + Celebration
Film
- 2018 The Week Of
- 2018 Viper Club
- 2022 Unplugging
- 2022 Fire Island
