Ronny Chieng

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

“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.”

“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.'”

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

“American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot.”

“I was not a great student.”

“'The Daily Show' forced me out of my comfort zone.”

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

“I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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 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'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'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl.”

“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.”

“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.”

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