A biography for Ronny Chienghasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective.”
“The way Singaporeans talk is they use less words.”
“I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.”
“We didn't really have vacations when I was a child.”
“When you do any job well, it looks very natural.”
“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.”
“Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.”
“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.”
“America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool.”
“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.”
“The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.”
“You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.”
“I always take things too seriously.”
“When you do comedy shows, you usually don't finish until about 11 P.M. Then you have this adrenaline dump, and you get hungry.”
“University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.”
“Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.”
“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.'”
“My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian.”