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" 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. "

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

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

" Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

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

" You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was not a great student. "

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

" I always take things too seriously. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian. "

" 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.' "