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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Ronny Chieng

Human

You

Human Being

" Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste and dedication to craftsmanship in everything they do. They also merge the traditional and modern aspects of their culture so well. "

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

Ronny Chieng

Message

Rest

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

Ronny Chieng

Experiences

Think

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

" 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. "

" I always take things too seriously. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You don't need to go far to see the hatred and abuse that happens online. Even using social media is anti-social because people are always on their phones. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Ronny Chieng

Weird

Comedy

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "