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" That's really my main message: everyone is stupid, and no one is more stupid than the rest. "
Ronny Chieng
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" University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students. "
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" My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian. "
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" I was not a great student. "
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" 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.' "
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" I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates. "
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" 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! "
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" 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. "
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" Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Underwear shouldn't hurt. If it hurts, you gotta change. "
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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 from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective. "
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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. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time. "
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" I'm on Twitter for work, but I hate it. I encourage everyone to delete it if possible. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" America - it's the best and the worst. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent. "
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