Ronny Chieng is the host of the Daily Show, comparing to become an American citizen, versus joining the “Evil Empire” when it appears “Reward” of Variety Show Podcast on Friday.
Chieng, who Born in Malaysia And moved to the United States since childhood, then returned to Malaysia at the age of 7 and brought him back to the United States in 2015 for “30 Years of Manufacturing”.
He said he returned to the United States to pursue a career in standing comedy and it was a “strange time” to be an American.
Chieng told podcast host he applied for U.S. citizenship, while former President Barack Obama was still in office a decade ago. (Photo of DIA Dipasupil/Getty Images)
“I’ve been refusing to make an offer to travel overseas,” Chieng said. “I’m not interested in that because I’m from there. I’ve been trying to come here… So it makes sense to get citizenship because if I do leave the country, I know I can go back to what I’ve built here.”
Chieng told Variety that the types of things that attracted him to the United States were “back to the future” and “Seinfeld” rather than “The Iraq War.”
“It’s like you’re joining this evil empire, but that’s not why you join it. The truth is, the evil empire has some really good TV shows and they do. Stand-up comedy In Death Star,” he said.
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Chieng compared the cover of Trump’s second term to work in the emergency room and said “there is a wreckage of a car every day.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Chieng began his tenure at the Daily Show in 2015, noting that the “king” is what he knows, saying that since he came to the United States, the president Donald Trump’s “The shadow has been imminent or responsible.”
“He (Trump) has been talking about S — we’ve gotten used to him talking,” he explained. “He’s been stuck in chaos for a long time. So, in that sense, it doesn’t feel like something new in terms of coverage.”
Chieng also compared the second term of the cover Trump’s second term in “Daily Show” to “In the Emergency Room”, describing the president’s uninterrupted coverage as “weird.”
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“You’re a little numb because it always has car wrecks every day. It’s new, it’s something you have to comment on,” Chieng said. “It seems weird, but at the same time, it’s been weird for nine years. So is it weird? That’s that feeling.”
