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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. "

Ronny Chieng

Parents

Comedy

Law

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Weird

Comedy

" 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

" I always take things too seriously. "

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" I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Ronny Chieng

Wife

Wake Up

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions. "

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Ronny Chieng

Experiences

Think

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing. "

" 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 stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates. "