{"id":4793,"date":"2017-08-17T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2018-08-20T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:51:08","slug":"modern-politics-business-usual-ronny-chieng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/modern-politics-business-usual-ronny-chieng\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern politics is business as usual for Ronny Chieng"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah<\/em>, Ronny Chieng deals with the American political quagmire on a daily basis. That could be pretty exhausting for most people given the impulsive nature of the current government. But for Chieng, who\u2019s performing at the Comedy Club on State tonight through Saturday<\/a>, it\u2019s just business as usual.<\/p>\n

\u201cI moved to America two years ago, right when Donald Trump was campaigning,\u201d he says. \u201cThis is actually all I know. I only know chaos, so I\u2019m kind of used to this pace. I don\u2019t know what it was like before he ran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dealing with jarring changes is normal for Chieng. Born in Malaysia, the stand-up split time growing up between Singapore and Manchester, N.H., and spent 10 years in Australia, attending the University of Melbourne and double majoring in law and commerce. But even in the world of political comedy, there aren\u2019t a ton of uses for a law degree, even on The Daily Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI use some of the skills from it, I guess. Critical reading, public speaking… but I don\u2019t think I really use it all that much,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not gathering dust, though. Chieng recently turned his experiences studying down under into the basis for Ronny Chieng: International Student<\/em>, an acclaimed sitcom that\u2019s already aired on Australian television and was recently picked up here by Comedy Central. He\u2019s also wrapped production on his first U.S. feature, a comedy called Crazy Rich Asians<\/em>.<\/p>\n