MJ Standup Korean

COMEDY
HerSTORY
MJ Standup Korean is a Professor Emerita and former Dean of an art college who has turned comedian. With a luscious career as a global Korean contemporary artist featured in museums, galleries, and biennales around the world, known as the artist Mina Cheon who does global peace work known as “Polipop,” political pop art, she takes the stage as a standup comic performing all around New York with art history jokes and observational, satiric, dark romantic comedy that is message-driven, once a professor, always professing. She is a cultural producer and curator and has mounted thematic comedy shows in art and cultural spaces, including the premier of bridging art and laughter for peace-building at KODA NY, K-Comedy Night at the AHL Foundation Annual Gala NY, and upcoming “A Banquet for Weddings and Funerals: A Comedy Show about Life and Death” at the Portobello Banquets, NJ. “MJ’s Hour: K-Comedy Art Activism” at Whitman College in Washington is an interwoven cultural comedy hour and art show that includes topics of Korean shame, New York sex, Asian stereotypes, global geopolitics, life and death, art and comedy, and art history jokes. She joins the team at Stand Up NY, a premier comedy club in New York, to help expand their creative programming. While her past academic career served faculty and students, she retired and happily serves comics as a living.
Host, “Let’s Go Mental,” a free open mic for standup comedy, co-sponsored by GuberJokes.com and Stand Up NY, Hotel Edison, Times Square (ongoing)

Producer of BOOM MIC, creator and organizer, promoting female comics' leadership and community building, original co-op system with comedy hosting by a rotating list of female comics, Dacia Gallery LES, a part of the Friday Night Mics LES, LaughPack Productions, sponsored by Stand Up NY (ongoing)

Producer and Curator, Host, “ECHO MIC” show, Westside Comedy Club (2025)

Producer and Curator, Host, “Art and Comedy Event: Peace-Building with Laughter,” KODA House, NY (2025)

Producer and Curator, Host, “K-Comedy Night: Art and Laughter,” AHL Foundation Annual Gala, NY (2025)

Producer and Curator, Host, “A Banquet for Weddings and Funerals: A Comedy Show about Life and Death,” Portobello Banquets, NJ (2026) Spots: The Stand, Eastville, Broadway Comedy Club, Grisly Pear Midtown, Stand Up NY, Succulent Comedy Show, Starr Struck Comedy Show, LaughPack Productions Show (2025)

Competitions Showcase: Industry Room, Broadway Comedy Club; Comedy Idol, Westside Comedy Club; Comediq.us, St. Marks Comedy Club (2025)

"MJ's Comedy Hour: K-Laughter Art Act-ivism," Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington, a part of the "To Make Us Free: Witnessing Activism at Whitman & Beyond" exhibition at Sheehan Gallery and Maxey Museum (2026)
MJ
MJ loves hosting comedy shows and lifting other comics.
Comedy Content: Korean identity, divorced, 52, dating online, art history jokes, geopolitics, global peace Comedy Style: observational, satiric, dark romantic comedy, message-driven, once a professor, always professing Upon hitting over 200 mics and shows, MJ realized you are either born a comic, like you are born an artist, or not... it just is. Always knew about being an artist, happy to learn -- was also a comic...
Being an artist and being a comedian, it's an artistic exploration and creative process. You can make art, or you can make comedy, which involves writing, original thinking, ideation, creativity, imagination, presentation, performance, and public reach, pretty much the same thing...


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