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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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! "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" I was not a great student. "