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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. "

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" 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. "

Ronny Chieng

You

Myself

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" I always take things too seriously. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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! "

Ronny Chieng

Grow

She

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

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

Ronny Chieng

Experiences

Think

" I was not a great student. "

Ronny Chieng

Student

Great

" The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world. "

" 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. "

Ronny Chieng

Father

Friend

" 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. "

" America - it's the best and the worst. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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