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Ronny Chieng
Malaysian
Comedian
Comedy
Daily
Me
People
Time
You
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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.
Ronny Chieng
You
Game
Experience
People
Black
Black And White
White
Enough
Say
Promote
More
Attention
Like
Becomes
Discrimination
Human
Oh
Just
Stories
Storytelling
Human Experience
Asian
Asians
Full
Playing
Spectrum
Olympics
Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy.
Ronny Chieng
Good
You
Lawyer
Finding
Guy
Like
Gotta
Go
Same
Barber
I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates.
Ronny Chieng
Sugar
Eating
Stopped
Processed
Carbohydrates
I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up.
Ronny Chieng
You
Ride
Will
Long
Big
Underwear
Up
Found
Thighs
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.
Ronny Chieng
You
Vibes
Considering
Sights
Visit
Cities
Would
Would-Be
City
Easy
Shame
Take
Around
Sticking
How
Go
Train
Get
Just
Different
Japan
Capital
Tokyo
Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that.
Ronny Chieng
Home
You
Comedy
Everywhere
Draw
Definitely
Outsider
Feel
Comfortable
Always
Being
Anywhere
Really
I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl.
Ronny Chieng
Wife
Girl
Action
Type
More
Very
Person
Movie
Notebook
Much
Action Movie
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.
Ronny Chieng
Worst
Must
Unproductive
Over
Feels
Because
Self-Loathing
Up
Get
Owl
Getting
Should
Who
Early
Thinks
Night
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.
Ronny Chieng
Good
Culture
Good Taste
Country
Dedication
Everything
Visited
Only
Only Country
Merge
Feel
Also
Well
Go
Traditional
Taste
Modern
Craftsmanship
Just
Want
Again
Japan
Japanese
Aspects
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.
Ronny Chieng
Work
Best
You
World
Job
Everyone
Corporate
Corporate World
Way
Gig
Kinda
Performing
Performing Arts
Come
Got
Five-Year
Just
Arts
Where
Plan
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.
Ronny Chieng
Competition
Law
Comedy
Degree
Parents
Few
Later
Completing
Gigs
Only
Joined
Could
Never
Felt
Doing
Years
Discovered
Won
Campus
While
Then
Standup
Started
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
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