I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
Melbourne City is an awesome city. You can get everything: You can get open air. You can get city life. You can… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
When you do comedy shows, you usually don't finish until about 11 P.M. Then you have this adrenaline dump, and you get… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
The common thread of my comedy shows is conflict and, I guess, the frustration of people who either argue with you or… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
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… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
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… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
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… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
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. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
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… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
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… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
My approach to comedy is that whenever it comes to me, I write it. With 'The Daily Show,' you have to write stuff every… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste… — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once. — Ronny Chieng Copy Share Image
