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

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

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

" 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. "

" The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world. "

" 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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" 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. "

" I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates. "

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

" University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students. "

" We're pretty down-to-earth at 'The Daily Show.' Everyone is pretty sane. We don't party crazy. "

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

" 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. "

" Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that. "

" The way Singaporeans talk is they use less words. "

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

" That's really my main message: everyone is stupid, and no one is more stupid than the rest. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When you do any job well, it looks very natural. "

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

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

" We didn't really have vacations when I was a child. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" Underwear shouldn't hurt. If it hurts, you gotta change. "