Ronny Chieng

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Underwear shouldn't hurt. If it hurts, you gotta change.”

“I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up.”

“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.”

“Melbourne City is an awesome city. You can get everything: You can get open air. You can get city life. You can get cafes and bars. I started comedy here; I lived here for 10 years. I went to university here. This is my home ground.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time.”

“I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates.”

“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.”

“Always being the outsider, you... feel comfortable everywhere, but you don't really feel at home anywhere. I definitely draw comedy from that.”

“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.”

“America - it's the best and the worst.”

“Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'”

“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.”