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" I think the whole 'tiger mom' thing is a very common trope. People like to show Asian moms giving pressure, but they don't really show the love that comes with it. "
Ronny Chieng
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I don't want to ever tell a stereotype joke for the sake of it. I'm going to tell the story that I feel is true. "
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" I always take things too seriously. "
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" Sometimes, we want Asians in the media, but we don't want them to talk about being Asian. For me, that's interesting because I'm from Asia. If you want me to be on television but I can't be Asian, I'm not being true to myself. "
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" There's a lot of comedy in being the outsider. You can say, 'That's weird. Why do you do it that way? That's foreign to me. That's pretty weird.' "
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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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" I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time. "
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" American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot. "
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" I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up. "
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" America - it's the best and the worst. "
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" I'm the worst night owl, because I'm a self-loathing night owl who thinks, 'No, I should be getting up early.' It feels unproductive. I must get over that. "
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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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Comedy
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" My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian. "
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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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" Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy. "
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" I invested in bitcoin - was that because of my degree? I don't know. "
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" That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on. "
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" When I first came to Australia, one thing that struck me was how everything closed early. Singapore is very much a 24/7 place. You can get good food any time of the day - in the middle of the night, even. "
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" I'm on Twitter for work, but I hate it. I encourage everyone to delete it if possible. "
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" Early on, people told me I was making Chinese people look bad. I've been living with this accent. I had already been doing standup for a while. I knew my voice already. I myself never wanted to make my accent the butt of the joke. I never want it to be, 'I'm laughing at your accent.' "
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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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" That's really my main message: everyone is stupid, and no one is more stupid than the rest. "
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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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" 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 got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once. "
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" Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters. "
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