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" I always take things too seriously. "
Ronny Chieng
Things
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Take
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" My approach to comedy is that whenever it comes to me, I write it. With 'The Daily Show,' you have to write stuff every day, and that's a new experience for me, to not only write on someone else's schedule but a daily schedule. "
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Comedy
Daily
" America - it's the best and the worst. "
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Worst
America
" 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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" I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up. "
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You
Long
Ride
" 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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Unique
Voice
Funny
" My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian. "
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Comedy
Style
Olympian
" I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent. "
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Say
Saying
Think
" Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters. "
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Want
You
Matters
" 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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Hate
Character
Stars
" 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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Job
You
World
" 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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Culture
America
Cool
" I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once. "
Ronny Chieng
Australia
Music
Off
" Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy. "
Ronny Chieng
Barber
Lawyer
You
" 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. "
Ronny Chieng
Owl
Night
Because
" Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?' "
Ronny Chieng
Think
Asian
Way
" We're pretty down-to-earth at 'The Daily Show.' Everyone is pretty sane. We don't party crazy. "
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Everyone
Party
Crazy
" 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. "
Ronny Chieng
Food
Night
Good Food
" I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy. "
Ronny Chieng
Comedy
Doing
Australia
" 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
" I invested in bitcoin - was that because of my degree? I don't know. "
Ronny Chieng
Know
Because
Invested
" 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
" 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
Good
Culture
" When you do any job well, it looks very natural. "
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Looks
Well
Very
" I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective. "
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Like
Experiences
Think
" 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. "
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Race
America
Legacy
" 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
" 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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Doing
Competition
Comedy
" 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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Human
You
Human Being
" I was not a great student. "
Ronny Chieng
Student
Great