Ronny Chieng (performing a bit)

Yeah, he would. Only in hindsight. Now, you know, he passed away in 2018. And I talk about this in the special. It's actually the last story I tell in the special. And only in hindsight do I realize like, oh, yeah, he was... he would hold court at family gatherings and he would joke about politics and he would roast the decisions by leaders or people around him, family members.

He would make fun of family members. So it was a very, I would say, a very modern style of comedy that he was doing. But obviously he didn't know he was doing comedy. He was just being the life of the party. And he was usually the most educated guy in the room, usually. So he would be making fun of current affairs, current events, people, family members. He would just roast them.

Yeah, that's how he would do it.

uh i can't deny that having perspective helps a little bit because i have something to compare america to um so i know what's a extreme idea or what's not you know compared to other countries i also know what america does better than other countries um so i guess that lets me talk about it a I don't know.

I think a lot of what I learned about comedy, I'm very lucky that I moved to New York City when I was 30 years old, nine years ago, because I think being here in this environment made me a better comic. I don't think comedy is the greatest art form on the planet and whatever, but I think it's a good art form. And one of the good things about it is that we talk to live human beings every day.

So you get a sense of where the cultural zeitgeist is. I think a lot better than anyone else. So not just being able to live in different countries. I went to law school. I have a degree in finance as well. So I think I've gotten to see a lot of different worlds. I've seen the corporate world. I've seen the crazy world. comedian, live performing world. I've seen the left wing world.

You know, in Singapore, I see the conservative world, the Chinese world and Australian. So I've seen enough different kinds of subcultures to, I guess, be able to compare stuff.

Thank you so much for having me. This is a real honor to be on the show and to speak to you. Thank you so much.

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Hold on a second, Ronny. So we're bringing in our speedboat here. We're going very fast again. Do you have a sports question of any kind, Ronny, that you would ask our speedboat correspondent, that you would want him to give you an answer to as fast as possible? Nein. Okay, ich habe dich in einen schlechten Spot gesetzt. Du hast vorhin verabschiedet. Ja, ich mache das immer noch.

Hold on a second, Ronny. So we're bringing in our speedboat here. We're going very fast again. Do you have a sports question of any kind, Ronny, that you would ask our speedboat correspondent, that you would want him to give you an answer to as fast as possible? Nein. Okay, ich habe dich in einen schlechten Spot gesetzt. Du hast vorhin verabschiedet. Ja, ich mache das immer noch.

Hold on a second, Ronny. So we're bringing in our speedboat here. We're going very fast again. Do you have a sports question of any kind, Ronny, that you would ask our speedboat correspondent, that you would want him to give you an answer to as fast as possible? Nein. Okay, ich habe dich in einen schlechten Spot gesetzt. Du hast vorhin verabschiedet. Ja, ich mache das immer noch.

Und jetzt geht Taylor wieder langsam.

Und jetzt geht Taylor wieder langsam.

Und jetzt geht Taylor wieder langsam.

Auf der Rückseite, aber ich meine... Nun, wir werden dich wieder aufnehmen und es richtig machen und es besser machen, ohne jemanden auf einem Fahrrad zu haben, okay? Also, wenn du uns die Gelegenheit nimmst, es wieder zu machen, weil ich die ersten sechs Minuten von diesem Thema verpasst habe.

Auf der Rückseite, aber ich meine... Nun, wir werden dich wieder aufnehmen und es richtig machen und es besser machen, ohne jemanden auf einem Fahrrad zu haben, okay? Also, wenn du uns die Gelegenheit nimmst, es wieder zu machen, weil ich die ersten sechs Minuten von diesem Thema verpasst habe.

Auf der Rückseite, aber ich meine... Nun, wir werden dich wieder aufnehmen und es richtig machen und es besser machen, ohne jemanden auf einem Fahrrad zu haben, okay? Also, wenn du uns die Gelegenheit nimmst, es wieder zu machen, weil ich die ersten sechs Minuten von diesem Thema verpasst habe.