Remember the balding white guy who calls himself Ken Tanaka and claims he was adopted by Japanese parents? Today, a reader helped me confirm my worst suspicions about this character—that he's just another YouTube fakester.
Ken Tanaka is actually David Ury, an actor signed up with talent agency SecondPenny Entertainment. Here's his mug shot head shot. Besides his poor-little-adopted-Japanese-boy act, he's best known for this Verizon commercial titled Worst Job.
To get the full report, you can watch this Exposed! video.
By the way, I'm not mad about this guy's deceptive act. I think this is the beauty of YouTube—you can pretend to be someone you're not, play jokes on people, get jokes played on you, reminisce, contemplate, laugh, cry...but whatever you do, you can't post porn.
(Thanks, Angel!)
True dat. You can pretend to be someone else, ask for help, money, etc. but you still can't post innocent porn clips on youtube ;(
Posted by: Angel Dragon | July 18, 2007 at 12:41 PM
By the way, I'm surprised this exposure didn't happen before. It turns out he plays another character in youtube called "Karaoke Steve". Hes channel is currently set to private due to numerous death threats in the last hours, but you can watch some of this videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6bdRxoLU9Y
Posted by: Angel Dragon | July 18, 2007 at 01:24 PM