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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates. "

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" I was not a great student. "

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" My approach to comedy is that whenever it comes to me, I write it. With 'The Daily Show,' you have to write stuff every day, and that's a new experience for me, to not only write on someone else's schedule but a daily schedule. "

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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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