About Morgan

Who is Morgan Hsu?

I am Morgan Hsu. I was born and raised in Hong Kong and attend a boarding school in the USA (Phillips Academy Andover). I started learning about neuroscience and psychology in middle school, and began writing comedy originals around the same time. When I was twelve, I performed my first comedy stand-up over Zoom (because of Covid-19) to my friends and family, and continued writing and performing my MOriginals (original comedy).

In my sophomore and junior years of high school, I applied (and got into) a research scholar program and looked into the connection between neuroscience and comedy. I planned on only doing a literature review for my research, but was lucky enough to interview two professional comedians at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. I learned a lot from my project and wanted to extend it.

My hope for Tickling Neurons is to show how impactful, complex, and helpful comedy can be. I chose the color yellow for my website because I write down my comedy ideas in my yellow notebook (I use my pink notebook for sad stuff). Yellow reminds me of the power of comedy and I love that I get to incorporate that here (thanks, Squarespace!)