"I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in 2009 while completing my law degree, but I never told my parents. They only discovered a few years later."
"If I'm not touring, I wake up late - 10, 11 A.M. - and one of my favorite things is to go for brunch with my wife."
"Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy."
"I'm on Twitter for work, but I hate it. I encourage everyone to delete it if possible."
"I'm very much an action movie type of person. My wife is more of a 'Notebook' type of girl."
"I always take things too seriously."
"I'm from Asia. You can hear it in my voice, and you can see it in my face, and that's primarily my perspective."
"I got into law school, and it required a maturity I didn't have at the time."
"I was not a great student."
"I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent."
"I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once."
"I'm made of dead stars, I eat a lot of fruits, and I hate peak period travel, as opposed to my character on 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah,' who is made of jello, eats vegan, and loves camping."
"I'm the worst night owl, because I'm a self-loathing night owl who thinks, 'No, I should be getting up early.' It feels unproductive. I must get over that."
"I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese comedian - but at the same time embracing my voice and who I am and what makes me unique, you know, which is the racial background."
"My style of comedy is probably absurdist, observational, and Olympian."
"American comic Bill Burr makes me laugh a lot."
"I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me."
"I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy."
"What happened was, in my final year of university in Australia, there was a campus comedy competition, and I felt like it was something I could do. I won that competition, and I kept doing it, and I couldn't get a job in law. So I just kept doing comedy."
"We promote Asian storytelling - not just Asian stories but Asian people in stories with the full spectrum of the human experience. When you say, 'Oh, it's not enough attention on Asians. It's more black and white,' that game becomes like you're playing the discrimination Olympics."
"Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste and dedication to craftsmanship in everything they do. They also merge the traditional and modern aspects of their culture so well."
"If you go to Japan, you have to take the train and go visit different capital cities. Just sticking to one city would be a shame, considering how easy it is to get around. Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto all have different vibes and sights."
"We didn't really have vacations when I was a child."
"We were constantly traveling between Malaysia and Singapore, which is connected by a bridge at the southernmost end of Malaysia. In fact, when I was a child, I had to go between countries twice a day to go to school, because I was living in Malaysia at the time but attending primary school in Singapore."
"When I first came to Australia, one thing that struck me was how everything closed early. Singapore is very much a 24/7 place. You can get good food any time of the day - in the middle of the night, even."
