Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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!

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.'

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.

Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng

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.