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.
When you do any job well, it looks very natural.
The beauty of the university world is that you can use it as a microcosm to parody anything in the 'real' world.
University characters are prime for parody, you know - the self-entitled rich kids to the self-important protestors to the international students.
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.
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.
I stopped eating processed sugar and carbohydrates.
'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 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.
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.
America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool.
Underwear shouldn't hurt. If it hurts, you gotta change.
Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'
You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.
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.
Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.
The way Singaporeans talk is they use less words.
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.
