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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. "

" America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool. "

" America - it's the best and the worst. "

" American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot. "

" 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.' "

" Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?' "

" Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy. "

" I always take things too seriously. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once. "

" I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time. "

" I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy. "

" I invested in bitcoin - was that because of my degree? I don't know. "

" 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. "

" I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm on Twitter for work, but I hate it. I encourage everyone to delete it if possible. "

" 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. "

" I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates. "

" 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. "

" I think when people talk about race relations in America, they talk about African-American and white people. Asians are not often brought into the conversation. But there's a historical legacy of issues between them. It's hard to be like, 'What about us?' But we are a little underrepresented. "

" I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent. "

" I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese comedian - but at the same time embracing my voice and who I am and what makes me unique, you know, which is the racial background. "

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