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Ronny Chieng

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“Oh, right. Well, I mean, you know, this is more your world than mine, but I do, I definitely feel that after he bought it, there was a bit of exodus. So thank you, Elon, for destroying it.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I was begging him to buy Twitter and show you now, and you know what? He actually, not only did he buy it, in my opinion, he kind of did shut it down a bit. Well, for a lot of people.”
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 do remember that. That was when I still used Twitter. And I guess that's, you remember when John? Stuart was begging Donald Trump to run for president”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, it's fair. It's a fair question. Is he a good character for comedy? I guess, yeah. I guess he is. I mean, he... He's always saying new stuff. And so that's useful for a new satire show. Again, I would prefer not talking about him, but he's made himself kind of the main character on the internet. In that way”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. So you can't go like look how ridiculous it is that you said that because that's kind of what he was trying to do in the first place, which is also like the Jesse Waters thing, right? Like Jesse Waters will say something outrageous. Our job at a daily show is satire and part of the satire is covering the news. And so we'll pull up a clip of him and we'll watch him. And he's saying something ridiculous And then it gets so ridiculous to a level where you're like, we can't even play this because he's clearly just. Saying it like it's not, it's not making a joke if we play it because he's actually, he knows what he's doing is a joke. So we're kind of like joking the joke and what's the point of that. So, you know, that's how I see Elon.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Who has his own orbit and quirks and weirdly intersects with everyone's life? And then he's also on the internet trolling. So in a lot of ways, it's like covering a trump a little bit, right? So that's, I mean, yeah, if you ask me off the top of my head, that's how I would see it. It's almost like covering like a second Trump stature level figure, right? That has household name recognition. So you don't have to explain him versus some other kind of mega figures. Sometimes you have to set it up a bit, right? Whereas Elon, everyone immediately knows what you're talking about. And he's always just like Trump, you know, he's kind of using the same kind of trolley.”
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“Sure. Well, even before that, I think he was hovering since Biden. He's been here since the first Trump one. Obviously not. To the same extent. How do you see him? I mean, it's, yeah, it's another kind of Maga figure.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He's not that new. He's been hovering around. So it's not like a Street Fighter new challenger appears. I think he's been kind of, you know, he's been hovering around the thing for.”
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 think truthfully, if anything, we've become, we were always very joke focused and we never want to pander to our crown. I think we've become even less pandering lately, if that's even possible. Because I don't feel like we were pandering before, but from what I can tell, we came in pretty hard with, you know. Biden's too old. This guy's too old. He shouldn't be running. Well, pretty, I think we call the balls and the strikes Right, the way we see them, and which I think is important for satire”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Harder or easier, you know, I mean, we had Biden for four years and there were still kinds of jokes. So, you know, people ask about this. Is it easier with Trump and do you like it? I mean, let me just say, first of all, I would prefer to live in a country that is functioning and is good. So that's number one. I will gladly sacrifice any hypothetical jokes for that. And second of all, it's like, You find jokes in any situation, in any government. You can find jokes in any government, conservative, progressive. Humans are funny and crazy, and politics is weird and the intersection of people in power and the real life culture that we live in is always funny. So is it harder or easier? I mean, I don't think it would have been harder or easier. I think it would have been the same.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Before, so emotionally, yes, that's always in the background, but we can't focus on that to do the job, you know. And our job is satire and comedy. And I'm not saying that's a noble profession. I'm just saying that's what we do. And I don't advocate anyone else do that, follow our point of view. But like I said, what comics, what kind of psychos, we're making fun as far as I'm concerned, our job is to make fun of the asteroid as it's coming in to destroy us.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, things get dark. You know, I know what you're saying, I think things do get dark and our job as far as I know is that's why we get paid the big bucks is to figure out how do you joke about this stuff, you know? And it's a type rope and it's not easy and it's an art form. It's not a science. And people want to know how you do it, you know. And my thing is, our job isn't to teach anyone how to do this. So, I don't care if anyone ever figures out where the line is”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, you know, you couched it as from a comedic point of view, which I think is important. From a comedic point, People are quite normalized to ridiculousness now. And so a lot of the first time around, a lot of the jokes were like, Guys, this is kind of crazy. The jokes now seem to be coming from a place of this is crazy and we kind of like it's powerful the course. Oh yeah. It's crazy, but yeah, we expect this.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You don't want to do a podcast. Yeah, you don't want to do a three hour comedy I don't have the ability to pull that off. And I'm saying this versus music or musical or movie, right? Where you can go to a concert for two hours. But comedy, you can't the same thing, you know, and I think I'm laughing because I think sometimes people, they just try to use comedy and music interchangeably because you have a microphone. That musician has a microphone. Why don't I just put you in that situation? And like, no, the context matters. So let's start.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I got a ton. I cut for time, honestly, because I believe that the stand-up comedies special or album should not be more than one hour. So like I said, when you're touring the hour, it just naturally grows because you keep adding jokes to it. So you start off, you know, we all start our comedy routines with trying to figure out five minutes, ten minutes, and then it becomes 20 minutes. Then it becomes 30. And the next thing you know is 45. And then you start touring 45, and then it becomes an hour, then hour 15. And so you eventually have to like. In my opinion, you got to bring it back to under an hour because I think comedy is one of those things where less is more. Yeah, and there's a limit on how much comedy people actually want.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is about it The live aspect, there's really no filter, there's very few rules. And it's so immediate, you and the audience, and you got to figure it out in real time. And there's no one giving you notes on. What you think is funny slash good and what you're saying to the audience. No one's coming in between that. So it's the most direct way of testing out your ideas.”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I've been very lucky. Every job I do, I love doing it. So if you, you know, put a gun to my head and make me pick, I have to go with stand-up comedy just because that's how I started. That's where all my creativity seems to come from. That's where everything. That happened to me started from me doing stand-up comedy. It's the most direct form of self-expression that I 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 don't know you that well, but I predict you're gonna go there and be like, I should probably stay here. Very safe and very socialist country in a great way. When you go there, when you do order coffee and they have the best coffee in the world, don't just say you want coffee. You have to be specific. You can't just say, give me a coffee. You have to be, it's the place where you have to go espresso, flat white or what else. Yeah. So that, and don't ask for hot sauce. Nobody knows what”
2025-02-24 · On with Kara Swisher · Comedian Ronny Chieng on Political Satire, Trolling Algorithms and Cerebral Dick Jokes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT