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Ronny Chieng

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“And we're never going to top that. This is the institutions, the Harvard Business School of. Comedy and satire. So I think the only other thing, what's more interesting to me is cracking scripted narrative and having social messaging through scripted narrative, which I think actually goes down better than someone to the camera kind of outrage, evisceration, lecturing, because that kind of, you kind of preach the choir a little bit, you're better off doing a scripted narrative show that you tell a story that has a more impact in it, that makes people see other points of view, right? So to me, that's for my own project, that's probably what I would aspire to, you know”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you say you want your own show, yeah, I would love to do my own show, but not a talk show. I would love to do a scripted narrative or scripted movie. I think. Know because I get my rocks off doing to the camera satire from the daily show.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A significant problem. I think it gives a different perspective every week, which I think is interesting. I think the truth of the matter is also that nobody really knows, as in the general public, I don't think they actually know who's hosting. So, meaning the way the show is consumed now is segments on social media. No one is watching the whole show through. So as far as anyone's concerned, like John Stewart is still hosting it. And in many ways he is. He's hosting the whole show. We're just helping him out. You know what I mean? So the way the show is consumed has played a factor in terms of we don't have that linear television. Here's the host and we're watching the show appointment viewing, right? Now we're just watching clips. So it almost doesn't have that bigger impact.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I love the Daily Show. I think the group thing keeps anyone, one person from burning out, which I think is important.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Always succeeds, yeah. Because we all want good stories, we don't want just make for the sake of it just because it has a bunch of Asians or whatever. We want to make good shit. So how does that happen? That happens because decision makers are able to have taste. And tell what's good and what's authentic, and not force inauthentic decisions onto good stories, right?”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, because they can give people kind of like cursory decision making power, but then really it's not there. And so I think that affects the storytelling. Because you have people who either are trying to tell diverse stories, but they fuck it up because they put the diversity before the story. And then everyone looks bad. The project doesn't go well. And then we're worse than we were when we started, right? So I think that is the main problem to me. It's not casting, you know, on camera is one issue, but. The executive level and the producer level is the other issue. Yeah”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's the problem. Yes, yes. So has it gone better? A little bit better? Sure. I mean, undoubtedly, I think the main problem is that this argument about diversity in Know as producers or executives because as you know Right, that's the layer that is like you can be all diverse as you want here and whatever, but when you hit, when you're making something, you go up the chain of decision making, eventually you hit this layer where suddenly everyone is like, we can't cast this person, obviously, because this person, you know, we need this or we need a gay Asian here. And then you're like, oh, this is where the this is where the problem is. The problem isn't down here with the creators. The problem is in that decision making layer in Hollywood anyway. Absolutely.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Gay, whatever lesbian, if you feel like a background character sometimes, I mean, that this show is kind of about that, you know, it's very smartly written. Taika YTT directed the pilot. He did. Amazing.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In their lives. And I think a lot of people in America feel that way. I mean, I think this show was written, obviously, the surface level is about Asian people feeling like background characters in America a lot of the time because we're not really active in politics or entertainment and we don't really have influence the way white people and black people have. So sometimes you feel like, oh, we're just here to vote for people. Sometimes someone will say hello to us in Chinese, and then we're supposed to vote for them, you know, whatever it is. And so he speaks to that. But honestly, he speaks to anyone who feels like a background character here, you know, black, Native American, Latino.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I'll give you guys the quick pitch on this show. Like, who cares about me? The show is brilliant. The show is so smart. It's so meta. It's like Twin Peaks meets Law and Order. I guess because in the show, all these characters are on a TV show and they just slowly start to realize that they become self-aware that they're on a TV show. And that's not just the main characters, these two Asian guys, Jimeo Yang and me. But then there's also a law and order show happening in the show. With these other characters, and they also start to figure out that they're in a TV show. So everyone starts kind of like becoming self-aware. And it gets weirder. But there's a great social message behind that, which is kind of like people who feel like background characters”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dr. Abdul El Sayed is making the progressive case for America first, and he's trying to settle the Democrats' ideological battle in the process.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The end, it all comes down to the dreaded E word electability. But in Michigan, one candidate is trying to turn the electability concept on its head.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a civil war happening in the Democratic Party, and if there's one place that that's playing out most clearly, it's in Michigan.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, people come in and be like, hey, can you do, we want you to go, you know, look silly and be goofy and sell this product. Like advertising, goofy advertising stuff, or like bad commercial, like come in, come and do a standout spot for these rich assholes. Yeah, it basically just empowered me to be like, guys, I'm okay. I don't need unlimited money. Netflix is taking care of me. I'd rather do that. If you want to, yeah, meaning, if you want to hire me, you have to kind of be on meet me on my terms and, you know.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I hope so. I hope so. I hope they're having me back. You know, Netflix stuck their neck out for me. Like my first special, no one wanted it. My very first one, Asian comedian destroys America. I was shopping around. I was asking people to come and I say this with no billionaires because I get the game, but nobody really wanted it. And so I kind of gave up on trying to make one. I was like, I'm just going to tour live If anyone wants to ever buy it, I'll do it, whatever. And then Netflix, they stuck their neck on. It's like, hey, we love it. Let's do it. And they've supported me ever since. And honestly, for me, having Netflix in my corner has allowed me to turn down many shitty offers that I would hate to do. And I get to do that because I'm like, oh, end of the day, I can do it with these guys. I have my special.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, why even bother? You know, while you can get paid on streamers, whereas YouTube, you're kind of going off your own back. So I don't know. I don't know where the power is. I think it really depends on one who's offering you because you can only accept offers that are made. So are you getting the offers? And to what your personal relationship to your fans is, you know, like some people are more men and women of the people. So on YouTube, we're underground. And that's cool, right? That's very cool. And then some people are like, well, on Netflix, you know, well, the Netflix comics, you know. But, you know, all of this is not up to us. This is up to the free market and the streamers have to make offers.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the business side is very interesting as you mentioned that because the power keeps shifting about who is the number one for company. You know, it used to be HBO. HBO was like. To do it, it was like, oh my God, if you get HBO special, that means you are it, you know, and Netflix came along. County Central was in there for a long time. Netflix has come along. You know, I can't tell who's number one. I think Hulu has just entered the chat with a comedy special. So I don't really know whether industry is going. And then now, right, people are just putting on YouTube now, entire specials.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. I mean, when I was coming up, it was, I love Bill Burr. And he actually EPs my specials now, so I'm glad to call him a friend and mentor. And love Dave Chappelle. I love everybody in New York City who was gigging. Todd Berry. I mean, if you were doing stand-up comedy, if you were a headliner at a comedy club, I loved you because I was watching these professionals, you know, like, man, I was like, damn, this is amazing, you know. So, I was influenced by everybody. Seinfeld, yeah.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think the great comics, they all have this kind of logic to them, right? And I think people who don't study law, I think they kind of hate the idea of the legal system and the legal industry for many reasons. I think if you actually study law, you realize that this is the product of many, many people over decades or centuries figuring out the logic of things. So there is a logic to it that end of the day is quite stable. And so just being able to think logically is, I think, something that you get out of legal training.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, we don't need that. We don't need this editing. And I think legal background helps with that, right? It helps you eliminate what you think you don't need. Quite frankly, I think sometimes when I talk to people about politics or even, you know, when you argue about politics sometimes, it's like you hear people bring up stuff and you're like, wait, all that stuff is kind of irrelevant. That's right.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sometimes you're arguing for a very preposterous or depraved. Point of view. And so I guess the legal background helps you in forming a coherent argument. It also helps in eliminating that irrelevant, which I've noticed a lot in not just creative. Creative, a lot of it is, as you know, right? A lot of creativity is cutting out stuff.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I think you won, I think people are smaller than you, people give him credit for sometimes. And also, I think you attract the audience that you want, right? So that's two. And then also, yeah, you're right. Like you kind of undercut everything with a classic, just whatever dig joke you pull out just to make the broccoli sugar, which is becoming a very disgusting analogy. Yeah, put sugar. Yeah, don't put a dick joke on it. Yeah, you put sugar on it, yeah. And so there's that, right? You pull it out of your hat, right? But also the legal stuff, the legal background, I didn't think it helped, but my wife always kind of points it out to me, like the longer I've been doing comedy, the more it's like, oh, my style has developed this kind of like, I feel like I'm making arguments. You know, sometimes when you're doing style comedy, you are arguing for.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because it looks like it wasn't like a marketing effort. It looks like someone clipped it. And I'm like, I guess there's logic to that. But goddamn, this looks like shit.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, someone told me that this is how bad I am with social media. Someone told me that the fact that it looks janky makes people trust more.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is awful, but for some reason we spent for me as an artist, I spent so much time crafting the look and the timing and then this person totally fucked it up. But it went viral and so I'm like, all right, well, I don't know what to do about it.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but they did like, I saw like they clipped their own version, but it was like the shittiest resolution, the subtitles or spell wrong. Someone sped it up. It was like 1.5 speed. And I was like.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, thanks. And I actually was, I never clipped it. I never clipped that bit from my special because I thought it wouldn't work on social media because it's so long-winded. It kind of needs context, you know, to have it. Sure. But someone else clipped it and put it on the internet, and then it started going viral. It really did.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I just thought it was, it's actually an argument, it's quite a centrist argument, actually. It's a call for like, hey, can we talk about actual issues and not just yell slogans? And also, there's also this idea, I think, of like. People want five second explanations for everything. Know, especially in government or whatever, right? And not everything's a five second explanation. Some of these are long technical issues that require undergraduate degrees to learn. So a bit of it is kind of like an argument or maybe a weeping at the death of respect for expertise. You know, where everyone kind of like wants simple answers or beliefs they know everything. And also, as you mentioned, I thought it was pretty funny to just keep talking about this as long as I could.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's like you have a point, but you don't have the vocabulary to describe your reality because you didn't read enough. You got to keep reading. Beyond the hashtag, there's a book behind the word. You got to keep going. You can go at your own pace, but you got to finish the required reading. Otherwise, we can't have a conversation.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Post World War II, US leadership traded the domestic manufacturing industry for national security by making the US dollar the default international trade currency, which gave America the ability to impose economic sanctions on foreign countries to a U.S. financial banking system, but consequently increased the value of the US dollar astronomically, which made it impossible for anyone to manufacture anything in America. Although the logic at the time... Americans who are supposed to upskill en masse away from the menial manufacturing jobs. But everyone hears too much about dumbass to stay in school, so we just trade the domestic manufacturing to Asia and the rest of the world at the expense of working class families. But if you don't read enough, Comes out as let's go, Brenda.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For example, MEGA, Nic America great again. They have a point. America is not doing so great right now. Our kids' math scores are down Our children's science goes down when judged according to international metrics, healthcare systems not doing so great, wealth gap disparities increasing exponentially. There was an implied promise to a generation of Americans that if you do certain things, work hard, go to college, be a good person, you would have certain outcomes. And those outcomes didn't materialize for majority of people because baby boomers and trends in decision-making positions load the capital gains tax. so that the net worth essentially compounds year after year.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'm lucky to get cast in TV shows and stuff like that. So I was lucky. I'm so grateful that I'm in a position to be like. Mark Zuckerberg, you can delete Instagram. I'll be okay. I'm okay. Actually, I'd probably be happier. But, you know, I've also seen the benefit from all my friends, you know, my fellow standard comics who they put clips on the internet and that's the only way they were able to build the following and sell tickets. So, you know, again, that's the love hate that you just perfectly described.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I do hate it a lot, but you know, I'm lucky because I feel like I was the last guy to slip into old media. Like, I'm the last person who managed to get past the goalposts because I get to work on a daily show, which is very old media. I sell tickets, which is the oldest form of show business.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so yeah, I'm off Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. As in, I still have accounts, but I'm not, I don't have notifications to my phone. Honestly, I just kind of use it to make money now in terms of I need to sell tickets. I'll use it there. And I understand what I use it for now. You know what I mean? Like I make no pretension about what it is. I'm here to make money on social media. So I'm here to advertise. For marketing, yeah. And as long as I don't get sucked into it, I feel like that's the best I can do. Do I hate it? I do.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And rightfully or wrongfully so, right? But that's how they genuinely feel. And then they unfortunately find on the internet. And the internet, it just is not a good place to look for those things for guys or for women. But again, I'm just going to speak from guy perspective. And like you said, I think to me, it's become so obvious that you.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I can't speak to a 13-year-old boy growing up in America's experience, but I can speak to being a man in this time. And I think that there hasn't been a good way for men to talk about things that they're feeling. Truthfully feeling deep inside. And then you keep bottling it up and then you feel eventually you feel wronged because you feel like you never got a chance to say this stuff and no one explained to you or gave you a fuller picture or even acknowledge when you are right, you know sometimes. And then that leads them down this dark path to, you know, because they're looking for it from somewhere. They're looking for either advice or acknowledgement or commiseration from somewhere. And they just feel like they're not getting it from enough sources.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not saying as a man don't take responsibility for your own actions. I'm just saying that YouTube algorithm is very alluring to straight guys. It sucks men in in a way that I don't think women understand. Like it really preys on that men's need to seek guidance from somewhere. It's very hard to resist. It just draws you in. That's why fucking Mark Zuckerberg is trying to MMA fight Elon Musk right now. Guy fell for his own algorithm. Understand”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All those guys. And I want to capture that. And that was before I wrote a single joke. And then as I wrote the hour, I didn't even realize until two months before I filmed it in Hawaii that, oh, Hawaii comes up a lot in the special. I have a joke about MAGA, Hawaii in it, and how friendly they are. And then I have a joke about at the end about my father kind of seeing a photo of me and my wife in Hawaii. And the fact that I filmed in Hawaii. Again, it's one of those weird”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it felt like the best of Malaysia and America in one to me. Yeah. And Hawaii was very welcoming to me. And so I decided before I even wrote a single joke, I was like, hey, I want to film my next special in Hawaii. And I want to kind of capture that Elvis in Hawaii kind of kitschy show business vibe. Yeah. And so I had that”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It unintentionally became a story about having kids And reflection on my father having me and it kind of became a little bit of that. It also became a little bit of a love letter to Hawaii, which I didn't intend because I spent a lot of time in Hawaii filming a TV show, two seasons of his TV show, Dugi Kameloha on Disney+. And I became, I really just connected with Hawaii a lot. I felt like it was a lot.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For a long time, you can't just tell some long story about your dad on Twitter. And you do these funny jokes. And then just like David Lynch says, you know, you go from this ocean of consciousness and then suddenly things just start connecting weirdly. And then you start seeing the connection. So after you write the funny jokes, you lay all of them out in front of you and you're like, oh, there's a little bit of a connection here. And then you start crafting in that direction.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They would always try to have some kind of narrative thread. And I always kind of rejected that because I always thought just be funny, just have funny jokes. And then I kind of realized like if you have both, funny jokes and a little bit of a narrative thread, you can kind of, you elevate everything. And so that's always in the back of my head when I'm doing an hour. day to day when I'm writing the hour is just what's the funniest jokes and so i i just keep writing jokes i see what's funny i see what works in comedy clubs in new york city which is you know as you know new york city you need to be funny fast”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Thank you so much. I think I started doing stand-up comedy in Australia and Australia has a very kind of British sensibility with comedy, which is they kind of favor that one man, one woman show format. So I think I kind of picked it up because I was in Australia learning the craft.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They think, oh, that's what it is. I can do it. Comedy is just about saying the most fucked shit you could say in any given situation. But they miss the nuance and they miss the odd and they miss the, you know, they miss the underlying ability. And it's become this thing where people think comedies are saying the worst thing Edgelords basically, yeah.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I don't think Edgelord. No, I think that, you know, and that's a real shame, right? I think a lot of comedy, I think what has happened is that there's been a lot of really funny, edgy comics who've managed to find a niche on the internet. And power to them and the very talented people. And I think unfortunately what has happened is that they've kind of inspired a lot of these copycat like people who watch what they do. And because when you're good at it, you make it look easy. And so you inspire all these kind of, quite frankly, untaled, like, angry, edge lordy people who watch edgy comedy and they think.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Can you know that's being an edge lord? Like, comedy is kind of like the art of getting away with it, right? Saying something edgy and getting away with it. And I think we're good at that. And I think that's reflected in the fact that, yeah, I've never had someone give me a note to be like, hey, can you not talk about that guy who shot that guy in the head in New York City? Like we just go hot. We just go hot. And that's why that's also why I'm so grateful to In America, at the daily show, doing stand up comedy, where it's just like.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not that I know of, I've never, you know, I've been there, can't believe I've been there nine years now. I have never had a directive to go easy in the paint. I've never had someone from any anonymous source. I've never had a note handed to me. From anywhere, where it was like, hey, can you take it? I've never had that. And I chalked that up to, we have good taste on the show, I believe. I think the Daily Show as an institution, everyone who works there, they're very experienced. They're very, they're great comedy writers. And part of comedy writing, as you know, isn't just saying the worst possible shit.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. I mean, we can't play scared, so I don't really play scared. I don't think. I don't think I've held any punches because I'm scared of retribution. I think we already had a Trump presidency. We've run the experiment for eight years now. We've been talking shit for eight years and there's no retribution so far. So there's also that data point. And then also, yeah, I don't think he watches us. So that's, you know, so far so good, I guess.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love this place, and also I love doing comedy. I love doing comedy. I think, and I think that comes through in the, because I've been to countries where you can't really do comedy. I lived in countries where you can't really do it. So I think that kind of also informs. And I think it also makes me feel like my economy should be a bit more edgier. Because I come from places where you can't say stuff, that by American standards would not be considered edgy at all. So I think it makes me a little bit more fearless”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's It's given me some perspective on America because I know from outside of the point of view, I have strong beliefs in what America does very well. And I can also see what America doesn't do that great because I've lived in other countries. And it also... I don't know. It gives me a lot of gratitude to be in America. So I guess that informs my comedy in the sense that I feel like all my jokes come from a place of. I think there's undercurrent of Of love in it”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT