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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "