Joel Kim Booster

Booster is one of the sharpest comic minds working right now, and Fire Island is the proof. Writing, producing, and starring in a film that reframes a literary classic through a queer Asian-American lens, and landing Emmy attention for it, is a triple threat that most performers only dream about. What I admire is the confidence to make his specific perspective universal rather than niche. The persona is all razor-edged self-deprecation, but underneath the bravado I sense a real precision about structure and timing. He's the kind of voice that widens what mainstream comedy is allowed to look like.

Name (English)

Joel Kim Booster

Name (Japanese)

ジョエル・キム・ブースター

Reading

じょえる・きむ・ぶーすたー

Born

February 29, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

South Korea

Occupation

actor / comedian / screenwriter

University

Millikin University

• Official sitehttp://www.ihatejoelkim.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ihatejoelkim/
• Xhttps://x.com/ihatejoelkim
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel%20Kim%20Booster
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60048482

Tags

• actor
• comedian
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-16

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