Ronny Chieng: This is for the rich people & # 39;

Early in his comedy career, Ronny Chieng did not touch politics in his work. As he told Ophira Eisenberg, NPR host Ask me another"At that time, I had the impression that there were people smarter than me who were talking about it, I did not want to inject myself into this business."

Cheing now serves as the main correspondent for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, where the integration of politics is an integral part of the work. This change of material is not the only change that Chieng has experienced in his career. Although he is now based in New York, he started doing comedy while studying law at the University of Melbourne.

He told Eisenberg that the comedy scene in Australia is relatively formal compared to the United States. "In America, the comedy is very relaxed," he said. "In Australia, each comic book lasts an hour – no food, no drinks, no first party – it's just for you, it creates good things, but sometimes the comedy takes it too seriously."

Although the nature of the comedy may be different in both countries, Eisenberg however noted a shared love of flat white coffee between the two places. Chieng joked while moving to New York to The daily show The transition was not as important as Melbourne was the Brooklyn of Australia.

Cheing appeared on The daily show since 2015, but last summer he appeared in his first film, the successful romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians. Chieng, who was born in Malaysia and educated in Singapore, emphasized how particularly familiar the setting and personalities were. He said this was especially true for his character, Eddie Cheng. "I knew that character very well," he recalls. "I grew up with people like that, type A personalities, law professors, so it was not difficult to channel, I'm just imitating people I know."

Chieng explained that he had been drawn to the film because he felt able to help tell a kind of story that is often overlooked in American cinema. "There are not a lot of Singaporeans-Malaysians in the US in the entertainment industry, and I thought it was a story that deserved to be told." and that I could do it. "

Chieng & # 39; s Ask me another The challenge was inspired by his hobby, the construction of Nintendo emulators – essentially homemade video game systems. Eisenberg challenged him to distinguish between real and fake games for the original Nintendo entertainment system.

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