[2] He showed an early flair for public performance which he continued at Wellington College[3] and was School Council President and proxime accessit to dux.

[4] He attended Victoria University of Wellington's law school, and earned his LL B(Hons) and was admitted to the Bar.

Kan was named Best Comedian by Metro and North and South magazines on repeated occasions in New Zealand.

He has also performed in Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sydney.

Kan wrote Five Days in Las Vegas in the early 1990s about his travels to the United States where he appeared on Wheel of Fortune.

For a time, Kan was based in the United Kingdom, and in 2009 he performed his stand-up show 'Spermbank Millionaire' at the Edinburgh Fringe.