Ronny Chieng (performing a bit)
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1,179 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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So you were, like, going deeper and deeper and deeper into it, which, you know, that was my guiding light as well when I first started here.
It worked like a charm.
Come back with the same question in two years, and then we'll talk. You're smart. And I wonder, like, do you feel like satire in 2023? Is that, you know, you've been at the show, you've seen The Daily Show kind of evolve over a lot of times. And when you joined the show, there wasn't anyone else doing it, kind of. There wasn't TikTok, there wasn't Instagram.
Right. So it wasn't a bunch of, you know... like, assholes on talking about, you know, like, trying to do satire but it up all the time. And so... What? Sorry, now I'm just attacking a bunch of people on social media.
Yeah, no, I'm down. I'm hosting for one day. Come at me, TikTok. That's a very fancy shirt. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this one is We I got this shirt made in New York City Chinatown No, he's a girl. He's a legit as Taylor and then he asked me if I wanted my Chinese name Embroidered on it. I was like go for it. And then now it just looks like a mustard stain. I
Yeah, it doesn't look like a... It does look a little bit like a mustard steak.
I know things are a little choppy here, but monogrammed shirts... No, I told them if they didn't monogram it, they were racist. And then they just did, yeah.
Yeah, but, like, that's the thing. Like, we're both immigrants in America. And do you ever... I guess my question to you is, like, how do you answer the people who are like, if you don't like it here, leave? Because I get that a lot.
you and your show that's all we love that's it but i was i was back on that other point like do you feel there's a place for satire like basically the the the news is so crazy right now reality is sometimes matching up to the news sometimes in that environment do you feel that satire is still possible like you know when you're doing a joke ironically do you feel like people can get it that you're trying to ironically be the bad guy in some you know oh i see you mean like if you're doing filthy because we
I'm asking about, for me... I'm talking about for me.
all about earn your voice like me. I did. I had to f***ing get on this show to get a voice. You don't get a voice just because you're in your underwear on Instagram. Ronny regrets that gatekeepers have been removed from the process.
I love the gatekeepers. It was so tough to come here. It was really tough for me to come here. I like you. I also really wanted to come here.
In fact, don't even talk about the green card. Even the visa before the green card, it's called the extraordinary ability visa. Yes. You have to prove, first of all, that you have extraordinary ability, which I challenge anyone to do. Unless you're freaking an NBA player or something. And then, second of all, it's like, if you don't constantly prove that you're... They can deport you. Yeah.
Like, if I have a bad segment on The Daily Show, I'm... That's right.
Yeah, so in a weird way, I'm with you in that, like, immigrants to America who come here actually want to be here and have fought to be here, and we're the ones who get shit done here. Yes. Because we had to f***ing prove it every single time. That's right. Immigrants.
So we get it. You know, every interview I've researched you on, you profess your love for America. You're still here. Clearly you still love it. Yeah. Okay, so can you shut the f*** up and be American for one minute instead of constantly complaining and talking like a f***ing foreign all the time?
I want you to eat this hot dog right now. Oh, boy. And then I want you to throw this football, and first of all, you have to call it a football. Okay, I can't do that. I call it an American football. Okay, American football. I'll call it an American football. And you've got to throw this to me. So you're going to eat that first, and you're going to throw this to me. Okay, like this?
Okay, all right. So eat this first.
This is Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
Ronnie, last night's spectacle,
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