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" I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl. "
Ronny Chieng
Girl
Wife
Action
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" American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot. "
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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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Me
" 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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" My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian. "
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Style
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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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" 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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" I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up. "
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" You don't need to go far to see the hatred and abuse that happens online. Even using social media is anti-social because people are always on their phones. "
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People
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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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Hate
Possible
Work
" 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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Voice
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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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Week
Show
Precious
" You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically. "
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Whatever
Stories
Story
" 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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Grow
She
Me
" The way Singaporeans talk is they use less words. "
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Use
Talk
Less
" 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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Father
Friend
" America - it's the best and the worst. "
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Best
Worst
America
" We didn't really have vacations when I was a child. "
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Vacations
Child
Really
" 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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Food
Night
Good Food
" 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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You
Black And White
Experience
" 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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Feel
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Culture
" When you do comedy shows, you usually don't finish until about 11 P.M. Then you have this adrenaline dump, and you get hungry. "
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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 beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world. "
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Real
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" I invested in bitcoin - was that because of my degree? I don't know. "
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Invested
" Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?' "
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Way
" I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent. "
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Saying
Think
" Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy. "
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Barber
Lawyer
You
" 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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True
Story
Want
" You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions. "
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