The San Francisco Chronicle's Jeff Yang has noted that Wu is not a comedian in the conventional sense but that by "just talking [he] is, well, pretty hilarious" due to his deadpan vocal delivery, animated facial expressions and tendency toward unexpected digressions.

[4] In 2014, Wu starred in crime drama film Revenge of the Green Dragons (executive produced by Martin Scorsese).

[7] Wu graduated from Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas in 2008 and attended the University of California, Davis for two years before dropping out.

When Wu's "I Have to Deal With Stereotypes" video[11] was featured on YouTube's home page, his number of viewers began to increase.

At the time Wu was a "semi-well known YouTube blogger" and had received 450,000 views for a video describing how he broke his shin.

[18] In 2008, Davis created a "longest stare" contest for ibeatyou.com, a site that he and Alba's husband Cash Warren co-founded.

[26] Wu launched the JumbaFund YouTube channel in 2009 with the mission of donating all of its earnings to a charity that viewers suggested.

Wu uploaded the videos from his trip onto the Jumbafund channel upon his return to the US and donated over $5,000 in ad revenue to The Supply.

However, in February 2012, Wu has stated that he will dedicate the channel's annual revenue entirely to completing the Jumba Lenana Academy.

Jumbafund ended up donating more than $50,000 to the construction of the school and Wu has expressed his intent to continue covering the facility's operational costs.

[30][31] On August 20, 2022, Wu began posting videos of his music to his YouTube channel that now goes by KEVIN instead of KevJumba.

[citation needed] As of October 2008, Wu starred with Jessica Rose and Philip DeFranco in Hooking Up from HBOLabs (the online arm of HBO), a scripted 10-episode web-based series.

Hooking Up is set at a fictional university where the students spend most of their time emailing and twittering, but still manage to miscommunicate.

[36] The entire cast of Hooking Up is composed of YouTube video bloggers in the hope of attracting a young, internet knowledgeable audience.

According to NewTeeVee.com, an evolving consensus is that for an online video to be a hit, somewhere between 100,000 and one million views are needed, giving Hooking Up a strong start.

[38] Maria Russo of the Los Angeles Times felt that Wu was better looking than star DeFranco and wondered why Wu plays the "tired role of the East Asian friend who helps the white guy get the chicks,"[38] while Bobbie Johnson of The Guardian said that many web surfers had "scoffed at what they see as a cynical attempt to cash in.

Wu has also announced he would be starring in the independent film Rock Jocks with Justin Chon, Felicia Day, and Gerry Bedknob, which was released in 2012.

[43] Tim Dang, the Producing Artistic Director of East West Players at the time, called Wu "a great example of the 'next generation' taking the lead to raise the visibility of Asian Americans through new media and the art of comedy.

"[43] In May and June 2010, Wu participated with his father in filming for the 17th season of The Amazing Race, an American reality television game show.

Hang Loose is a comedy in which Wu, who stars as himself, goes to Hawaii for his sister's wedding but finds himself on a misadventure with his future brother-in-law (played by Dante Basco) that changes his life.

[45] Other notable actors in the film include frequent collaborator Justin Chon as the main antagonist, BJ.