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Underwear shouldn't hurt. If it hurts, you gotta change.
Ronny Chieng
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I've found that if you have big thighs, as I do, long underwear will not ride up.
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You don't have to speak English to have sophisticated political opinions.
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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.'
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Every time I do something, I think, 'Am I portraying Asian people in the way I want to be portrayed?'
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You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.
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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.
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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.
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Whatever what your job is, you want to do a job that matters.
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The way Singaporeans talk is they use less words.
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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!
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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.
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