Top 40 Ronny Chieng Quotes

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

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.

The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the ‘real’ world.

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

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’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.

We’re pretty down-to-earth at ‘The Daily Show.’ Everyone is pretty sane. We don’t party crazy.

The way Singaporeans talk is they use less words.

Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.

America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

I invested in bitcoin – was that because of my degree? I don’t know.

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.

America – it’s the best and the worst.

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.

American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot.

Underwear shouldn’t hurt. If it hurts, you gotta change.

You don’t have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.

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.

We didn’t really have vacations when I was a child.

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

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.

‘The Daily Show’ forced me out of my comfort zone.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

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.

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’m very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a ‘Notebook’ type of girl.

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.

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.

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.

I was not a great student.

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.

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.