‘Last Comic Standing’ winner Dat Phan performs at Harrah’s this week

Part of my job is to tell you what celebrities are like in real life.

So Dat Phan, winner of “Last Comic Standing” — he’s a Whole Foods bad boy.

“I don’t drink. I don’t gamble. I don’t do drugs,” Phan, 40, told me.

“‘What happens in Vegas stays here,’ and what happens for me is Whole Foods.

“There are comics who smoke weed, and do harder drugs, and go on drinking binges. Then there’s me, trying to find a place to do yoga, or saying, ‘Is this orange juice real or squeezed?’”

Phan is in town performing stand-up comedy tonight through Sunday at Harrah’s Improv.

Despite his healthy ways, Phan thinks of himself as a bad boy.

“I’m just not as bad boy as other bad boys,” he said. “I’m still a guy. I still like sex and women. I’m not a monk coming through (Vegas) praying nothing exciting happens.

“As a matter of fact, I would prefer the audience not to be like a church while I’m doing the show. That wouldn’t be good.”

Phan lived here in 2006-2007, but he had to move to Los Angeles for work, because while he was a Las Vegan, he missed out on opportunities.

“I was called into ‘Avatar’ — James Cameron’s thing — but I couldn’t make it in time, because I came all the way from Vegas.”

Phan has three recent movies on iTunes and Netflix, etc.: “The Hungover Games,” “Sake-Bomb,” and “108 Stitches.”

He just got back to America from a two-week humanitarian mission in Vietnam with a charitable group.

“We went to give money to lepers, and hugged them, and went to orphans and held babies, and just tried to do the right thing as a human being to make people feel like they weren’t abandoned, that there’s still people that give a crap about them.”

He jokes that, even though he’s not a hugger, it felt nice to embrace strangers.

“Here in America, if you go up and hug random people, they’ll think you’re crazy,” he said. “You’ll probably get arrested eventually, probably, because they’ll think you’re on drugs.”

Unlike many comedians today, Phan doesn’t host his own podcast yet.

I tried to shame him into starting one since even I have a podcast. (The new episode of the “Doug Elfman Show” is up on iTunes, TuneIn Radio, and DougElfman.com.)

He says he just hasn’t figured out what to say on a podcast. So go tell him your ideas at DatPhan.com.

Contact Doug Elfman at delfman@reviewjournal.com. He blogs at reviewjouranl.com/elfman.