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Ronny Chieng (performing a bit)

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

And then that will be the, you know, I mean, like I didn't need the flowers from them.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

Quite frankly, if you want to talk about bragging rights for them, once I started doing decent work and people started liking what I was doing, then they would go up to them and be like, hey, your son is on The Daily Show. Which I think is better than you coming out and trying to brag about something. At that point, I hadn't even been on screen yet.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

Quite frankly, if you want to talk about bragging rights for them, once I started doing decent work and people started liking what I was doing, then they would go up to them and be like, hey, your son is on The Daily Show. Which I think is better than you coming out and trying to brag about something. At that point, I hadn't even been on screen yet.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

Quite frankly, if you want to talk about bragging rights for them, once I started doing decent work and people started liking what I was doing, then they would go up to them and be like, hey, your son is on The Daily Show. Which I think is better than you coming out and trying to brag about something. At that point, I hadn't even been on screen yet.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

I'm not sure how popular The Daily Show is in Singapore or Malaysia. So I'd rather just do the work and then hopefully people like it.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

I'm not sure how popular The Daily Show is in Singapore or Malaysia. So I'd rather just do the work and then hopefully people like it.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

I'm not sure how popular The Daily Show is in Singapore or Malaysia. So I'd rather just do the work and then hopefully people like it.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

To be clear, that's a bit.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

To be clear, that's a bit.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

To be clear, that's a bit.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

So the premise of the bit is that if I have a kid, what's going to happen if they want to do stand-up comedy? And I realize I'm just like my parents. Like, even me, who has done stand-up comedy professionally, if my kid wanted to do it, I'd be like my dad, too. I'd be like, why are you doing this? This is crazy. Especially me knowing what's involved in stand-up comedy.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

So the premise of the bit is that if I have a kid, what's going to happen if they want to do stand-up comedy? And I realize I'm just like my parents. Like, even me, who has done stand-up comedy professionally, if my kid wanted to do it, I'd be like my dad, too. I'd be like, why are you doing this? This is crazy. Especially me knowing what's involved in stand-up comedy.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

So the premise of the bit is that if I have a kid, what's going to happen if they want to do stand-up comedy? And I realize I'm just like my parents. Like, even me, who has done stand-up comedy professionally, if my kid wanted to do it, I'd be like my dad, too. I'd be like, why are you doing this? This is crazy. Especially me knowing what's involved in stand-up comedy.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

All the more that I'm like, are you sure you want to do this? And one of the things I know about comedy that is, I think, quite a difficult thing to overcome is overcoming people's apathy and... And their lack of concern for your mental health. Which, by the way, is part of the reason why I never told anyone I was doing comedy. Not my friends or my parents or my family.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

All the more that I'm like, are you sure you want to do this? And one of the things I know about comedy that is, I think, quite a difficult thing to overcome is overcoming people's apathy and... And their lack of concern for your mental health. Which, by the way, is part of the reason why I never told anyone I was doing comedy. Not my friends or my parents or my family.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

All the more that I'm like, are you sure you want to do this? And one of the things I know about comedy that is, I think, quite a difficult thing to overcome is overcoming people's apathy and... And their lack of concern for your mental health. Which, by the way, is part of the reason why I never told anyone I was doing comedy. Not my friends or my parents or my family.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

Because I wanted to test it in that environment. I wanted to test my comedy in an environment where nobody cared about you. Because I felt like if I could make these people who didn't care about me at all laugh, maybe this could be a job for me.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

Because I wanted to test it in that environment. I wanted to test my comedy in an environment where nobody cared about you. Because I felt like if I could make these people who didn't care about me at all laugh, maybe this could be a job for me.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

Because I wanted to test it in that environment. I wanted to test my comedy in an environment where nobody cared about you. Because I felt like if I could make these people who didn't care about me at all laugh, maybe this could be a job for me.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Didn't Tell His Parents He Got A 'Daily Show' Job

Yes. Yeah.