Ronny Chieng Quotes

I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

All I ever wanted to do was stand-up. It kind of charges me and gives me a rush.

I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.

The main thing about doing a comedy is that you spend most of your days really happy and laughing.

If I'm gonna stay in this world of comedy, then it has to be a really special character to me in a really smart piece of material.

My job is to take what I think is funny and to make other people think it's funny, too.

I remember watching Eddie Murphy's stand-up act when I was little, and just being mesmerized.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

I had no desire to get up onstage and tell jokes. I prefer to stand next to really funny people.

If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.

I want to make people laugh first, and that's it.

Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

If I go out and do a set, there's a good chance that I'll watch another comedian. I'll think - not necessarily their words, but oftentimes the message that's behind the words - the sort of belief that their unspokenly advocating, well, sometimes that's offensive.

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

I've never had a Plan B. I've just always wanted to make people laugh, that's it.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

I am a grown man who is an entertainer with a specific type of humour and if you don't like it, that's okay, I owe you nothing.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

Loads of blokes think they're funny, but it counts for nothing unless you get up and have a go.

I didn't get into comedy to be loved by everybody.

With all the outlets, if you have a strong comedic voice, there's a venue to do your thing. It's a bit of a meritocracy, where the best stuff rises to the top.

Being funny was something I was doing before I understood what that even was. Now I'm making a career out of it.

My first joke that ever aired on 'Late Night' was for a list of 'Top 10 Least Popular Summer Camps.' My contribution - 'Camp Tick in beautiful Lyme, Connecticut' - squeaked in at No. 10. Like a trip to Camp Tick, my time at 'Late Night' faded into memory like a short session at a dicey summer camp.

Very few have the talent to make others laugh without being laughed at.