Ronny Chieng Quotes

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

Jokes are grievances.

Everything can be satirized.

I haven't watched 'Mad TV' a lot, but I have seen some stuff on there that is truly funny. You have to have some sort of attitude toward the subject, and they seem to have it. It depends on how much blood you want to draw.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

It is difficult not to write satire.

I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself.

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

In a satire, you need foolishness.

I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out.

A lot of French comedy is satire.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.

Comedy is brutal. It's powerful, though.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

No subject is unsuitable for comedy.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

A sitcom isn't usually the right tool for satire.

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.