Dat Phan

Dat Phan (born January 25, 1975) is a Vietnamese-American stand-up comedian. He first rose to fame in 2003 after defeating runner-up Ralphie May to win Season 1 of NBC's stand-up comedy competition reality show Last Comic Standing. According to the show's host Jay Mohr, Phan was the surprise winner of the competition. In the fall of 2004 he returned for the third season, dubbed "Battle of the Best," which pitted contestants from season 1 against season 2; he and May were eliminated in the fifth round.

Phan was born in Saigon and immigrated to the United States as a child with his mother and nine other siblings, enduring financial hardships throughout his childhood. He grew up in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego, California, then spent his teenage years in Santee, a suburb of San Diego. He dropped out of Grossmont College to pursue comedy and was later voted into the college's Walk of Fame.

Beyond stand-up, Phan made cameo appearances in Hollywood films such as Cellular (2004), Love Is the Drug (2006), The Hungover Games (2014) and Kong: Skull Island (2017). Dat Phan Productions released the DVD Dat Phan: Live and the CD You Touch, You Buy in January 2010, and began pre-production on a movie titled Yellow Fever. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Family Guy and The Tyra Banks Show. Phan has endorsed the Jade Ribbon Campaign, established to fight against hepatitis B and liver cancer.