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" I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time. "
Ronny Chieng
School
Time
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" I'm made of dead stars, I eat a lot of fruits, and I hate peak period travel, as opposed to my character on 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,' who is made of jello, eats vegan, and loves camping. "
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" You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions. "
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" Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that. "
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" We promote Asian storytelling - not just Asian stories but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience. When you say, 'Oh, it's not enough attention on Asians. It's more black and white,' that game becomes like you're playing the discrimination Olympics. "
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" I always take things too seriously. "
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" I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy. "
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" When you do any job well, it looks very natural. "
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" I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while completing my law degree, but I never told my parents. They only discovered a few years later. "
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" I invested in bitcoin - was that because of my degree? I don't know. "
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" What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it was something I could do. I won that competition, and I kept doing it, and I couldn't get a job in law. So I just kept doing comedy. "
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" American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot. "
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American
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" I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates. "
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" Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste and dedication to craftsmanship in everything they do. They also merge the traditional and modern aspects of their culture so well. "
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Good
Culture
" America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool. "
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" Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy. "
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" If you go to Japan, you have to take the train and go visit different capital cities. Just sticking to one city would be a shame, considering how easy it is to get around. Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto all have different vibes and sights. "
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" I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective. "
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" Melbourne City is an awesome city. You can get everything: You can get open air. You can get city life. You can get cafes and bars. I started comedy here; I lived here for 10 years. I went to university here. This is my home ground. "
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" I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me. "
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" We're pretty down-to-earth at 'The Daily Show.' Everyone is pretty sane. We don't party crazy. "
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" If I'm not touring, I wake up late - 10, 11 A.M. - and one of my favorite things is to go for brunch with my wife. "
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" I was not a great student. "
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" I come from the corporate world, where everyone has a five-year plan, but performing arts doesn't work that way; you just kinda do the best job you can with the gig you've got. "
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" The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or just say stuff which is blatantly incorrect, and nobody calls them out on it. "
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" We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore. "
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" I saw 'Seinfeld' on TV and told my mum that would be something cool to try one day, and she was like, OK, 'Here is a five-year-old telling me what they want to when they grow up' sort of thing, and what would they know, right! "
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" I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once. "
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" Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality. "
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You
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