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This is a picture of Kenny Byerly. If you like looking at pictures of Kenny Byerly and would like to see more of them, click here. About KennyKenny Byerly (above) has written for Cartoon Network's Out of Jimmy's Head, as well as Mad magazine and McSweeney's. He has written, produced and starred in the web shows Vlog Star, Kenny Bloggerly's Internet Life, and the Mike and Kenny series of sketch videos. Online shorts include "Wicker: The Best Thing Ever," "My Friend Mike" and "American Shopper," He has also performed stand-up comedy.
Byerly is an alumnus of the MFA screenwriting program at the USC School of Cinema-Television, the CBS Diversity Institute Writers Mentoring Program, the NBC Diversity scene showcase and the WB writers workshop.
Born to a Chinese-American mother and a Caucasian-American father, Byerly combines the fierce work ethic of a Chinaman with the martial-arts ignorance of the white man. Raised with one foot in each world, Byerly’s Asian childhood included mandatory piano lessons, Chinese school, extracurricular math classes at Kumon, chopstick use, and cash-filled red envelopes on Chinese New Year; meanwhile, his Caucasian upbringing offered the All-American experience of disappointing one’s father with humiliating athletic performances. Growing up, Byerly witnessed firsthand how culture clashes can pervade an interracial marriage, as his parents fought bitterly over whether to whip him with a leather belt or a traditional bamboo stick.
Byerly has been writing since childhood. As a teenager, he self-published a ’zine of short and serialized fiction, along with short humor pieces. In high school, Byerly won a national writing competition with his treatment for an episode of Seinfeld. At UC Berkeley, he spent several years as a writer and editor for the popular campus humor magazine, the Heuristic Squelch. He also ran for student government on the platform of being half-white and half-Asian—“just like Berkeley.”* Contact Kenny Byerly at kennybyerly@hotmail.com. *According to UC Berkeley’s website, the ethnic makeup of UC Berkeley’s admissions since 1999 have hovered around 35% white, 40% Asian, with other minorities making up the rest. Thus, whites and Asians were pretty much the dominant ethnic groups on campus, resulting in this joke being hilarious. Stuff
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