Joel Kim Booster Biography
Joel Kim Booster is an actor, comedian, producer, and writer from the United States. His stand-up career began in an unusual way, opening for shows in Chicago’s theatre scene.
Joel Kim Booster Age
He was born Kim Joonmin on February 29, 1988, in Jeju Island, South Korea. He is 35 years old as of February 2023.
Joel Kim Booster Family
Kim Joonmin was born and raised in Jeju Island, South Korea. As an infant, an American couple adopted Booster. He grew up in Plainfield, Illinois, in a “conservative, white, Evangelical Christian family” and was homeschooled at first.
Joel Kim Booster Partner
Booster is gay, He has asserted that he discovered he was gay before discovering he was Asian. On July 21, 2020, Booster revealed publicly that he suffers from bipolar disorder.
Joel Kim Booster Career
Booster got a job as a copywriter and started doing theatre and writing jokes after work. His stand-up career began in an unusual way, opening for shows in Chicago’s theatre scene. In 2014, he relocated to New York to pursue a career in comedy. In 2016, he appeared on Conan. In 2017, he appeared in his own Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents special. Booster has also written for Billy on the Street, Big Mouth, and The Other Two, among others. Model Minority, his debut stand-up album, was released on November 3, 2018. The content discusses prejudice in the LGBT community, growing up Asian in a white community, and his own refusal to conform to stereotypes about Asian Americans.
Booster has been in a number of films, including Viper Club, a YouTube original film starring Susan Sarandon, The Week Of on Netflix, and Shrill on Hulu, starring Aidy Bryant. He co-starred as Jun Ho in the one-season NBC comedy series Sunnyside. In 2019, he co-hosted a Comedy Central digital series called Unsend with Patti Harrison. He appears on NPR’s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! as a regular panelist. In 2019, he co-hosted the Earwolf podcast Urgent Care with Joel Booster + Mitra Jouhari with comedian Mitra Jouhari. Booster appears alongside Eliza Skinner on the December 8, 2020, episode of The George Lucas Talk Show.
Booster authored and starred in the Hulu-exclusive 2022 romantic comedy film Fire Island, which was inspired by Pride and Prejudice. Margaret Cho, Bowen Yang, and Conrad Ricamora co-star in one of the few popular homosexual films with a largely Asian American cast.[In 2022, he released Joel Kim: Psychosexual, a stand-up special on Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter’s Abbey White praised the special:
Joel Kim Booster Net Worth
Kim has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
Kim Booster Movies
2023 Glamorous
2023 Is It Cake?
2022–present Loot
2022 American Dad! Geric, Gold Top Nuts Son,
2022 Joel Kim Booster: Psychosexual
2022 Stand Out: An LGBTQ + Celebration
2022 Celebrity Jeopardy!
2022 The Great American Baking Show
2021 iCarly
2021 Bob’s Burgers Life Coach
2021 Curb Your Enthusiasm
2021 Santa Inc.
2020 Search Party
2019–2021 Big Mouth
2019–2020 Shrill
2019 The Other Two
2019 You’re Not a Monster
2019 BoJack Horseman
2019 Sunnyside
2018 Comedy Central’s Thank You, Goodnight!
2017 Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents
2016 Conan
2013–2014 Kam Kardashian
2013–2014 Funemployed