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

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was not a great student. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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