Sheng Wang

Sheng Wang (born January 9, 1980, in Taipei) is a Taiwanese American stand-up comedian who was a staff writer for the ABC sitcom series Fresh Off the Boat from 2015 to 2018. He grew up in Houston, Texas, where he graduated from Bellaire High School, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Business at the University of California, Berkeley from 1998 to 2002. After graduating, Wang began practicing stand-up in San Francisco and New York City.

Wang was a featured performer at the 2007 Montreal Comedy Festival, and on January 28, 2011, Comedy Central Presents aired his first thirty-minute special on national television. In January 2011, he won top honors at NBC Universal's Seventh Annual "Stand Up for Diversity" comedy search, including a one-year talent holding deal with the studio. He appeared on Comedy Central's John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show in 2012, competed in the 2015 season of Last Comic Standing, earning a spot in the top 10, and released an album titled Cornucopias Are Actually Horrible Containers in 2015.

From 2015 to 2018 he worked on Fresh Off the Boat as a staff writer, story editor, and executive story editor, and appeared as "Hank" in two episodes. In 2019, Wang appeared on the HBO Special 2 Dope Queens and performed at Clusterfest opening for headliner John Mulaney. In September 2022 he released his first Netflix special, Sweet & Juicy, the first comedy special directed by Ali Wong; The New York Times noted that Wang "has a droll and relaxed delivery, which makes the focus and inventiveness of his material land even better." He lives in Los Angeles, California, and has cited Mitch Hedberg, Maria Bamford, Dave Attell, and Robert Hawkins as inspirations.