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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.
Ronny Chieng
Wake Up
Wife
Late
Favorite
Favorite Things
Touring
Go
Wake
Up
Things
I'm on Twitter for work, but I hate it. I encourage everyone to delete it if possible.
Ronny Chieng
Work
Hate
Twitter
Everyone
Possible
Delete
Encourage
I always take things too seriously.
Ronny Chieng
Seriously
Too
Take
Always
Things
I was not a great student.
Ronny Chieng
Great
Student
I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.
Ronny Chieng
Saying
Think
Say
Someone
Something
Know
Hear
Malicious
Intent
I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.
Ronny Chieng
Music
Stage
Once
Got
Off
Western
Australia
Festival
My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.
Ronny Chieng
Comedy
Style
Observational
Olympian
I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.
Ronny Chieng
Law
School
Comedy
Law School
Singapore
Doing
Up
Australia
Grew
After
Stand-Up Comedy
Started
We didn't really have vacations when I was a child.
Ronny Chieng
Child
Really
Vacations
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.
Ronny Chieng
Time
Day
School
Living
Constantly
Fact
Had
Attending
Primary
Primary School
Between
Countries
Singapore
Because
Go
Malaysia
Were
End
Child
In Fact
Which
Connected
Bridge
Traveling
Twice
Twice A Day
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.'
Ronny Chieng
Me
You
Comedy
Way
Say
Pretty
Outsider
Weird
Foreign
Lot
Being
Why
When you do any job well, it looks very natural.
Ronny Chieng
You
Natural
Job
Well
Looks
Very
Any
The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.
Ronny Chieng
You
World
Beauty
Parody
Real
Microcosm
The Real World
Anything
Real World
Use
University
We're pretty down-to-earth at 'The Daily Show.' Everyone is pretty sane. We don't party crazy.
Ronny Chieng
Daily
Crazy
Party
Everyone
Pretty
Sane
Show
Daily Show
America - it's the best and the worst.
Ronny Chieng
Best
Worst
America
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.
Ronny Chieng
You
Reality
Human Being
Better
Hopefully
Writer
Better Writer
Also
Obviously
Human
Being
Then
Describing
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.
Ronny Chieng
Joke
Tell
True
Feel
Stereotype
Sake
Going
Want
Story
Ever
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.'
Ronny Chieng
Myself
Me
People
Joke
Living
Laughing
Bad
Voice
Never
Had
Knew
Look
Make
Accent
Making
Doing
Been
Want
Wanted
While
Chinese
Chinese People
Your
Standup
Butt
Early
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
Myself
Me
You
Sometimes
Television
About
True
Talk
Because
Being
Want
Interesting
Asia
Them
Asian
Asians
Media
Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.
Ronny Chieng
You
Job
Matters
Whatever
Want
Your
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.
Ronny Chieng
You
Phones
People
Social Media
Hatred
See
Online
Abuse
Because
Always
Go
Happens
Social
Far
Using
Even
Media
Need
The way Singaporeans talk is they use less words.
Ronny Chieng
Words
Way
Talk
Use
Less
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
Day
Me
Try
Saw
OK
One Day
TV
Telling
Would
Would-Be
Something
Seinfeld
Like
Know
She
Sort
Up
Five-Year-Old
Want
Cool
Grow
Grow Up
Mum
Right
Thing
Here
Don't kid yourself that anyone in the Premier League is going to do you any favours.
Tony Fernandes
You
Yourself
Kid
Favours
League
Any
Going
Anyone
Premier
Premier League
In Europe, they travel a lot lighter. I always joke that my Indonesian passengers bring their house and their neighbor's house.
Tony Fernandes
Travel
Joke
Neighbor
Lighter
House
Always
Passengers
Lot
Europe
Bring
I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'
Tony Fernandes
Try
Care
Sit
Down
Older
Say
About
Failing
Come
Because
How
Years
dont Care
Want
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