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Best Of: Comic Ronny Chieng / Writer Miranda July

04 Jan 2025

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After Trevor Noah started anchoring The Daily Show in 2015, he brought on Ronny Chieng as a field correspondent who could offer a global perspective. Now Chieng is one of the show's anchors. He's third generation Chinese Malaysian, and grew up in Malaysia, Singapore and the U.S. He has a new Netflix comedy special. Also, filmmaker and writer Miranda July talks about her novel, All Fours. It's about a 45-year-old married woman, her erotic affair with no actual sex, perimenopause, and the related fears of losing her libido and getting older.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

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16.268 - 21.37 Terry Gross

From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend.

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21.39 - 26.293 Ronnie Chieng

This is The Daily Show with your host, Ronnie T.

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27.915 - 47.923 Terry Gross

Today we hear from Ronnie Chang. After Trevor Noah started hosting The Daily Show in 2015, he brought on Chang as a field correspondent who could offer a global perspective. Now Chang is one of the show's hosts. He's third-generation Chinese-Malaysian and grew up in Malaysia, Singapore, and the U.S. He has a new Netflix comedy special.

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48.706 - 71.228 Terry Gross

Also, filmmaker and writer Miranda July talks about her novel All Fours. It's about a 45-year-old married woman, her erotic affair with no actual sex, beginning perimenopause, and the related fears of losing her libido and getting older. That's coming up on Fresh Air Weekend.

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138.208 - 179.941 Terry Gross

This is Fresh Air Weekend. I'm Terry Gross. He had a memorable funny scene in Crazy Rich Asians as a wealthy investment banker in Singapore. Ronnie Chang has a new Netflix comedy special called Love to Hate It, which starts streaming tomorrow. He brings an international perspective to his comedy. He was born in Malaysia. where his grandparents emigrated from China.

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