Quotes from 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.

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

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

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

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.

'The Daily Show' forced me out of my comfort zone.

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.

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

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.

I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 foreign to me. That's pretty weird.'

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

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.

I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me.