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" 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. "

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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! "

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

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" I always take things too seriously. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that. "

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

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

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