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

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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. "

" 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. "

" I always take things too seriously. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing. "

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

" 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 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. "

" America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "