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Ronny Chieng

Internationally acclaimed comedian Ronny Chieng returns to our shores for his first Australian tour in over two years!

As seen on the US The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Ronny will perform a limited run of his new live show this November.

The past two years have been huge for Ronny Chieng. As well as his correspondent’s role on The Daily Show , he is the creator, writer, and star of the 6-part  ABC  TV series, Ronny Chieng: International Student and has been cast in the Warner Bros film, Crazy Rich Asians , the highly anticipated screen adaptation of the best-selling book.

An accomplished stand up, Chieng has appeared at Montreal’s invite-only Just For Laughs Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London’s Soho Theatre, as well as in his native Singapore.

Don’t miss this rare chance to see Ronny Chieng back in Australia this November.

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Comedian ronny chieng returns with one-off shows in melbourne and sydney.

The actor, comedian and performer will be heading our way in September.

Ronny Chieng has announced two upcoming Australian dates as well as a show in Singapore show set to take place in a few months’ time.

The award-winning comedian and creator has called Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore some of his favourite places in the world and will be stopping by for exclusive one-night-only performances in each city.

Ronny Chieng Live Tour 2023

• Sept 15 – Award Super Theatre, Sydney
• Sept 16 – Margaret Court Arena, Melbourne
• General admission tickets go on sale on July 19

Keep up with the latest in local news and entertainment  here .

The tour follows Chieng’s two Netflix comedy specials: 2022’s Speakeasy and 2019’s Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America!, both of which received global acclaim.

The comedian is also known for his roles in Hollywood blockbusters M3GAN, Crazy Rich Asians, Joy Ride and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

He is a recurring guest on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and has been featured in TV shows including American Born Chinese and History of the World Part 2. Fans can catch him in the upcoming shows Vacation Friends 2 and Interior Chinatown.

Born in Malaysia, raised between Singapore and the United States and educated at the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University, Chieng is truly a global star. Early in his career, he was the co-writer and lead actor in the ABC TV and Comedy Central show Ronny Chieng: International Student, which was based on his experience of studying in Australia.

Tickets to see Ronny Chieng at his Melbourne and Sydney shows this September are set to go on sale on July 19 with presale options available for the artist and Ticketek members on July 17.

To grab your tickets, head  here . 

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Ronny chieng bringing ‘hope you get rich’ tour to melbourne’s palais theatre.

Malay-Australian-US stand-up star Ronny Chieng is bringing his new 'Hope You Get Rich' tour back to where his comedic career began to play the Palais Theatre on March 27.

It’s Ronny’s first live show in Australia since 2019, and follows off the back of an outstanding 44 show tour across North America where he played to sold out theatres, on the back of his highly-successful and critically acclaimed Netflix special, Asian Comedian Destroys America.

Starting his career in Melbourne after emigrating from Malaysia, Chieng is now a global star thanks to his work on Trevor Noah’s The Daily Show, having also made appearances in Crazy Rich Asians, Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Godzilla vs. Kong, and his recent Ronny Chieng Takes Chinatown.

Check out Melbourne’s latest stage shows, stand-up comedy and theatrical events  here .

Hope You Get Rich is likely to build on the same material Chieng covered in his last stand-up tour, a reference to that special’s routine on the New Year’s phrase ‘Gong Xi Fa Chai’.

Chieng released the short film, Ronny Chieng Takes Chinatown , on the ‘Netflix Is A Joke’ YouTube channel, receiving over 500,000 views in a week. Chieng’s star continues to rise in Hollywood with appearances on the big screen in the blockbusters Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (Marvel), Godzilla vs. Kong and Crazy Rich Asians .

His most recent television roles include features in Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. (with season two just announced), Young Rock and as well as his work as a regular correspondent on the Emmy Award winning, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah .

The tour will head to Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall on 24 March, the Canberra Theatre Centre on 25 March, Sydney’s State Theatre on 26 March and Melbourne’s Palais Theatre on 27 March. Tickets on sale from 10am, Tuesday 15 February.

Ronny Chieng Australian Stand-Up Tour Dates

Brisbane – Fortitude Music Hall – Wed 24 Mar

Canberra – Canberra Theatre Centre – Thurs 25 Mar

Sydney – State Theatre – Fri 26 Mar

Melbourne – Palais Theatre – Sat 27 Mar

Tickets on sale from Tuesday 15 February via ronnychieng.com

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Ronny Chieng: Hope You Get Rich

The comedian and film star is bringing his latest tour to Melbourne for one night only

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Comedian Ronny Chieng has had a busy couple of years. After his 2019 Netflix special ( Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America !)  went gangbusters, the performer has dived into Hollywood and scored a number of roles in films like  Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ,  Crazy Rich Asians  and  Godzilla vs. Kong . Not to mention his regular appearances on  The Daily Show with Trevor Noah .

But it looks like Ronny hasn’t forgotten about his humble beginnings back in Australia where he honed his comic stylings on the Melbourne stand-up circuit while he was a student, before landing his first big break as a Raw Comedy Award finalist during the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.

Somehow Chieng is also finding the time to come back to Australia, bringing his new show,  Ronny Chieng: Hope You Get Rich , to east coast cities this autumn. The tour has already travelled America where it played to sold out audiences, and marks Chieng's first time performing live in Australia since 2019.

Ronny Chieng: Hope You Get Rich is showing in Melbourne at the Palais Theatre for one night only on March 26. Tickets are available now. 

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Ronny Chieng: Hope You Get Rich Tour

Ronny’s back in town. The Malaysian stand-up comedian may be making bank in the US right now as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and with various acting and comedy gigs since his extremely popular Netflix special Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America! aired, but we all know he has a soft spot for Australia. He cut his teeth on the comedy circuit while living and studying in Melbourne – and is it really 12 years since he was a finalist in Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Raw Comedy competition in 2010?

Returning to Australia’s east coast in March, Chieng is bringing his new show Hope You Get Rich to Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. The show has already entertained sold-out audiences in New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Toronto and Chicago. As these will be Chieng’s first live shows in Australia since 2019, we suspect they’ll fill up quickly too.

Tickets go on sale on Tuesday February 15.

Brisbane Wed March 23 – Fortitude Music Hall, Fortitude Valley

Canberra Thu March 24 – Canberra Theatre Centre, Canberra

Sydney Fri March 25 – State Theatre, Sydney

Melbourne Sat March 26 – Palais Theatre, St Kilda

The original dates supplied to Broadsheet were incorrect. They have been updated since publication.

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“Let’s Just Be Funny. Let’s Not Teach People Anything”: Ronny Chieng Will Use His Platform However He Sees Fit, Thank You

The Ronny Chieng you’ve seen onscreen is belligerent. In his comedy specials—including the latest, Speakeasy, which dropped early April—he taunts and teases, throwing his head back in springy, full-body fits of aggro-ecstasy as he ridicules whichever contradiction of the Western world happens to be his designated piñata of choice. As the scene-stealing Jon Jon in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings last year, he’s the pushy fight-club ringmaster who gleefully sends the naive hero off for a thorough body-slamming. In Crazy Rich Asians , Chieng plays Eddie, the banker bro dictating the optimal angles for a family photo shoot. And over the last seven years as a correspondent on The Daily Show, Chieng has polished a brand of signature scorn that flips from deadpan—as when he’s riffing on toilet humor with Bill Gates —to the deadly serious—per that viral 2016 dressing-down of Jesse Watters ’s racist nonsense —for a kind of thrilling, enemy-vanquishing-by-proxy effect.

I’m considering what all must go into the construction of Ronny Chieng, the persona, via Ronny Chieng, the mild-mannered guy who breezes into Nami Nori sporting sunglasses and an apologetic smile for somehow getting beaten to our table by a few minutes. After he supervises my temaki order, he suggests we split the clam soup in such a low murmur that I glance nervously at my recorder. His tobacco brown suit leads to some jokes about semi-recent history’s most famous fit in the earth-tones family, the tan number we all spotted exactly once on President Barack Obama, back in the Mesozoic era. (Chieng’s official verdict, almost eight years later: “I thought he mixed it up! If I were him, I would have worn it the next day.”) I’ve read that Chieng is a big watch guy and ask about today’s piece. “Sure, if it’s not too douchey,” he warns and gives me a better view of the Rolex Submariner Hulk he scouted out during a pandemic-induced rabbit hole. He’s sitting with his back to the window, practically swimming in direct sunlight, but he insists it’s fine—one could do worse with a Friday in New York than a lunch and a tan.

Chieng has just returned to the city after touring in Australia, which he describes as “very hometown vibes” for serving as the launchpad to his career; he’d grown up in Singapore and the U.S. and started doing stand-up after graduating from the University of Melbourne. “I always felt like I was a perpetual foreigner there, but when I go back, not to brag, but I can do big theaters,” he concedes. “They’re always really cool to me.” On the way home, Chieng stopped by Singapore to see his mother for the first time in three years; now he’s content to celebrate the release of Speakeasy on Netflix, which coincidentally digs into his observations about comedy audiences around the world. There’s a great Mr. Bean impression involved that builds off the way Chieng seems to always tell jokes with his whole body, though according to him, even that’s only 10% of the physicality you’d see at a live show, where there’s a fair amount of running and rolling around. “It’s from the gut,” he laughs when I ask how carefully he choreographs any of it. “My dad was very physical with his jokes. I think I just got that from him.”

Between the new special, the end of an international tour, plus the long-awaited return to a live studio audience at The Daily Show, things seem to be straightening themselves out for the stand-up comedian, who also now finds himself as a part of the so-called “moment” in TV and film where Asian voices are gaining mainstream traction. I’m a bit blunt when I ask what’s keeping him here in the city and at a late-night talk show when he’s officially a Marvel-worthy actor. The question makes him a little shy; it becomes clear he sees his Hollywood engagements as a side quest to a workaday commitment to perfecting his stand-up in the place he considers as the superior creative scene. “You can get so much stage time,” Chieng says. “In New York, nobody cares what you do, in a good way.”

What’s interesting to Chieng too, as part of the Trevor Noah administration of The Daily Show, is the challenge to not only to make comedy in unprecedentedly unfunny times, but also to reconfigure the point of satire now that the Jon Stewart model of viral righteous outrage has lost its novelty—and power—in the streaming age. “Everyone took that because it was so good, and the internet kind of like, fucked it a bit?” Chieng says. “In 2015 and 2016, everything was like, ‘So-and-so decimates this person,’ ‘they destroy this person,’ because Jon Stewart would do it once every two months. The show became The Daily Evisceration Show. ” The choice to back off the outrage machine’s easiest pickings, Chieng says, was a concerted effort amongst Noah and the writers.

I’m recognizing this kind of restraint that Chieng is talking about from his special, which I’ll admit I watched in hopes of some kind of full Ronny-esque torch-fest that would articulate all the frustration and outrage your garden-variety Asian American might be harboring in 2022. Spoiler alert: Chieng passes on the layup, opting for a few roundabout pokes to preconceived expectations about what he should ever have to say: “This is not the skill set to talk about Asian hate,” Chieng scolds in the special before mimicking the way fans badger him to use his platform. The joke, of course, is that he does—even as he skewers his own motivations. In February, Chieng released a Netflix mini-special titled Ronny Chieng Takes Chinatown that followed him and the YouTuber David Fung around New York for a day as they plan a fundraiser to save a local Cantonese restaurant. In the short, Chieng, the persona, is classically grumpy; he’s only doing the fundraiser for the clout, or at least just to get Asian Reddit to like him.

“My thing with that whole project was like, I learned about Jewish people from Larry David, you know what I mean?” Chieng explains. “Larry David wasn’t like, ‘Let me teach you about Jewish people.’ He was just being a total dick. And we learned about Jewish people through him being a dick.” So he convinced Jeremy Lin and Simu Liu to appear in the video as caricatures of their public personas. “Jeremy’s a great guy, and he played a dick, and I wanted that for him—they always bring Jeremy Lin to like, be on a panel about Asian hate!” Chieng laughs. “That’s where that came from, this idea of ‘let’s just be funny.’ Let’s not teach people anything. Let’s make fun of the idea that the only time white people will let us on TV is when we show food.”

Which brings me to the general temperature check that every onscreen Asian has to undergo lately, the one where they’re invited to provide a sweeping thesis on why all this post– Crazy Rich Asians velocity keeps building. But Chieng doesn’t mind talking about it in terms of a “moment”—there’s definitely a change in the air. “I think, in America, what’s happening is that there’s a generation of Asian Americans who have grown up in the industry—not just in front of the camera—but behind the scenes,” he explains. “Every time there’s a cool Asian project, there’s always Asians in the decision-making positions. And that’s key. It’s not just diversity for the sake of diversity. It’s people who actually know what they’re doing, who want to tell authentic stories, and are able to push it through…. That’s actually a very underrated skill set.” He grins. “They move silent, like g ’s in lasagna…. I think that’s what you’ve been kind of feeling—this synergy.”

When I ask how Chieng views the shift as a relative insider—considering so many of the seemingly “overnight” trajectories launched by everything from Squid Game to Everything Everywhere All at Once —we both acknowledge how bizarre it is that a decade in American showbiz makes him a bit of a veteran on the growing scene. Does he feel conflicted at all, to see how quickly relative newcomers can take off these days? Chieng shakes his head firmly. “If someone’s blowing up, that’s good—that means they’re gonna get a project, and maybe I’ll get an audition for something that they’re on. It’s all good, man.” Take those Jeremy Lin and Simu Liu cameos in the short, for example: “We finally have enough famous Asians to play against type!” he jokes. “Before that, there was no one to parody.”

Besides, he adds, there remains a slight occupational advantage to be had. “I’m lucky as a stand-up comic to be in control of my self-expression in terms of like, I can write a joke and go onstage and do it,” Chieng adds. “I don’t have to wait for the phone to ring, like an actor. I don’t have to wait for a gatekeeper to read my thing. I can go do stand-up.”

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Ronny Chieng On Not Overreacting To Overreactions, ‘The Daily Show’ Job He Might Want, And Touring The US

When I spoke with Ronny Chieng last week he said that “the true job of comedians these days as professionals is to not overreact to other people overreacting,” and I think that’s pretty informative about the man and his operating system. At the time we were discussing the cultural importance people put on comedians and the way the internet can freak out over this or that. But it (and the following conversation) shows Chieng as someone who is aware of the moment and the hype but at ease amidst the noise.

Fresh off numerous high-profile film and TV projects ( Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings , M3GAN , American Born Chinese ) Chieng is about to embark on an epic tour of the US at the start of the new year with his Love To Hate It comedy tour ( tickets available here ). Might he have to find a way to mix in duties as the new host of The Daily Show ? Who knows, but he doesn’t seem too concerned with whatever choice the suits at Comedy Central make after nearly a year of guest host tryouts. Chieng, one of the Daily Show ‘s All-Star correspondents, is in that chair tonight, as it happens, but this isn’t an interview about what could be considered a very important audition. It’s about a guy who seems to love his job(s), who is humbly taking things as they come, and just trying to be funny and unique while finding affirmation about the non-awfulness of the American public as he meets and greets them on the road.

I’ve had a couple of people associated with The Daily Show tell me that you have said that “the Daily Show correspondent’s job is the best job in comedy.” Do you want the hosting job or do you want to stick with this job that gives you, I imagine, a lot of flexibility to do other things?

I think Jon Stewart set the standard of how much dedication you need for the job to do it properly. The machine of the show is so strong, meaning the support staff and the producers, the writers, the editors. The institution of the Daily Show is probably its greatest strength, because they know how to do that show so well. So you can make a show of news with jokes, and you can get by on that pretty well. You can have a good life, whatever, but if you want to really make that show great, you need a point of view and you need to be very dedicated to the show, anticipating where the culture is right now and commenting on it.

I’m happy with whatever they choose. I still think working at that show is the best job in comedy. I don’t want to speak for the other people working there, but correspondent is, I think for sure, the best job in comedy. You come on, you learn a lot. I think I’ve always said that it’s almost like the Harvard Business School of Comedy. Forget the fame. Even if you don’t become one follower more famous, you learn how to write comedy, you learn how to perform, you learn how to edit, how to produce, how to direct, how to do improv TV production. Every field piece is like an indie film and you have a lot of support. Producers and writers and editors and everyone helping you out, versus this new economy of one person does everything; you are your own cameraman and writer. But The Daily Show is very old school in terms of priding itself on having high production values. So in that sense, it’s the best job in comedy.

I think it’s equal parts ambition and dedication to do what Jon did. Do you feel like you have the want to put that much of yourself into it? Obviously, Jon did it for however long — 14 or 15 years. I interviewed Roy Wood Jr. a few months ago and he was like, “No one should do it for more than seven or eight years.” I think that’s right. I feel like Jon got toasted a little bit because I think he cared so much. Outside perspective, obviously.

I can’t speak for Jon. I think he himself said that he was feeling a little burnt out. I think that’s fair to say. I guess it is a show that you can get burnt out on. It’s every day.

Like you said, you could mail it in, but if you do want to do it right, you have to put so much into it. At this stage of your career, if they came to you and were like, “Do you want this job?” Do you feel like you could do that for the next six, seven years?

I’m lucky that I’ve been getting a lot of cool work outside of hosting a show. You’re right.

That would go away if you have the show.

It would have to be a choice. If they came to me and they asked me, it would be giving up (that work). Yeah, I’m not sure. I’m lucky to be in a position where I’m not just on the show, but outside the show, I’m doing the stuff that I like doing. It would be something I have to consider. I don’t know. It’s hard to answer.

I get that. Also, to your credit, there are ways to answer that question that are campaign-y, and you’re not obviously interested in campaigning.

I’m not American, so I don’t know how to campaign for stuff. I look up to all the other correspondents. All the correspondents I ever worked with I think are much better than me. It’s very un-American, but if you ask me from a pure skillset point of view, all these other correspondents were way better than me. When I first joined the show, I was like, “Man, if I could be 10% of any of the correspondents who’ve ever been on this show, if I could be 10% as good as them, I will be extremely happy with myself.” So that was my goal. So I look at the other correspondents in awe. I look at everyone in awe, everyone currently on the show.

How do you gauge improvement in terms of as a correspondent, as a comedian? In terms of your career, how do you look back and say, “I’m doing something right” or “I need to work on this?”

That’s a good question.

I’m assuming it’s not just from the volume of the crowd.

Absolutely. I think you can divorce art from fame, first of all, and you can definitely divorce skill from fame. So independent of fame, I think fame is a reasonable indicator, but you and I both know that just because something’s popular doesn’t mean it’s good and vice versa. Just because something’s not popular, doesn’t mean it’s not good. So in terms of judging my own, I think good comics have their own internal barometer of a joke that they write and they go, “This is just hack.” Then they know when they’re writing a joke where it’s like, “This is more satirical, this is more elevated. This is the voice I aspire to. These are the kind of jokes and this is the kind of material I aspire to write.”

Sometimes I get lucky. I have a bit that I really enjoy and I’m like, “Man, I hope all my bits could be like this.” I don’t think I’m there yet. I think it’s very much an internal barometer. Standup comedy and being a correspondent, almost two different skill sets. But standup comedy, there is an element of audience response to it. So you can tell when you’re saying something that is getting a good response, but it’s also because of your internal barometer. You know it’s not a hack-y joke, it’s kind of elevated, you’re saying something unique. I think that’s the measure of good comedy is when you’re saying something unique that’s hilarious.

So I think everything I do, if I push towards those two things, which is being unique and hilarious, I can feel myself get better. So that’s my metric, I think, for being good at comedy.

Are you hard on yourself, do you think? And has that intensified over the years or lessened?

I like to think I’m pretty hard on myself. I think all comics are, though. All the good comics I know. I can’t remember who told me this. I think Sam Morril said this. He was like, “All the good comics think they’re a hack. All the good comics hate their own routines.” They’re just like, “I made them laugh, but this is the same old stuff that I’ve been doing for months now. Where’s the new bit?” It’s almost like only the bad comics will walk on and be like, “I’m the freaking greatest of all time.” Obviously, that’s public persona and then how you feel internally. So publicly if your standup persona is the greatest of all time, then that’s different to how you feel inside. Do you believe your own act or are you just saying that just for comedic effect? So I think all comics are just trying to write better jokes, they feel like their own material isn’t the best. I think that’s a fairly common denominator among all the good comics I know.

Honestly, I think that extends to a lot of creative people.

I hope so. I think if you’re good, you would never be satisfied with where you’re at, right?

In the course of researching I read some of the past interviews and saw some of the stuff you’ve done and the spreads in Vogue; you’ve done some great stuff. Obviously even the poster for the new tour, it’s very nice with a nice suit. It looks like you’re using John Mulaney’s tailor. Do you feel a pressure to be a brand beyond just being, “I’m Ronny, here’s my comedy?”

Not really. I feel pressured to do good jokes and express myself in the way that I want to express myself. So I feel a lot of pressure about keeping my artistic expression, the integrity in it. I want to put out the poster that I want to put out. I don’t want other people to make a shitty poster for me. I think it’s important for Asian people in America to perform in show business with dignity and with class and at a high standard. So I put pressure on myself to do that, that’s why I like to put out my poster materials. I like everything to look slick. I like the show to be good. That’s why I go out every single night in New York City trying to work on this material, because I don’t want to show up and bomb. I want people to go away going, “Oh, that was a really good comedy show.” So I don’t feel pressure about the brand per se. I feel more pressure about my self-expression. You can argue those are two sides of the same coin, right?

No, I think they’re different.

Well, I appreciate that. I hope they’re different too, but I put pressure on the self-expression, not the brand.

I think the brand can chase self-expression, but to me that means it comes from a more authentic place than if you’re just chasing an ideal of what you’re supposed to be as a comedian in 2023, as opposed to being who you are and that’s the vision of who you are.

Yeah, I think so. I think on that note also, what I like to do is I like to go quality over quantity in terms of my output. Less is more, if that informs anything I’m saying. So it’s not that I hate social media or whatever, it’s more that I’d rather put out something good once in a while than having to churn out just average stuff every single day. That’s where I’m at.

That’s a good policy for everybody.

I hope so. Less is more. Quite frankly, I mean a lot of it is because I’m not talented enough to do something great every single day. So I wish I was better at it.

What is behind the title of the tour? Love To Hate It.

I just wanted something cool that was a little bit funny. I’m sure you know, it’s hard to think of titles for things. So I was brainstorming for a few weeks. It’s almost like part of me is like, “Why am I caring so much about something that doesn’t really matter?” It doesn’t need to describe anything.

It does sound cool though. It’s a good title.

It actually ended up being a good title because it actually does describe where I’m at. Sometimes you complain professionally as a standup comedian. In other words, you love to hate it. As a comic, we complain about stuff, but we do it because we love doing comedy.

Perhaps I dug too deep when I read the title. I thought it was some kind of reflection on culture and art because right now I feel like we’re in a moment where everybody just loves to hate everything.

Oh, that too. Thank you. Yeah, I’ll take that.

There you go. Take it.

No, it’s true. The great titles have more than one meaning, right?

You’ve been all over, you lived in Australia for 10 years. This tour is expansive. Going out and seeing the country, just telling jokes to people of many different political persuasions, does that make you a better comedian? A better person, in your opinion?

Yeah, definitely. You hit the nail on the head. I actually talk about it in the show a little bit, about knowing people with extreme political views in America and being friends with them. I get to travel around America. I talk about it a little bit. It does inform who I am because first of all, I am grateful to be here. I had to fight to be here, you know what I mean? So me, every day I’m in America is a choice. It’s a choice by me to be here and it’s also not something that came easy. So it was a challenge and a choice every day to want to work in America and have to prove myself, not just culturally, but literally immigration. I came here on a 01 Visa, which is an extraordinary ability visa. So I had to prove that I had extraordinary ability.

I came here with a lot of gratitude. So part of gratitude is also loving seeing a lot of different parts of America. I love traveling around America and seeing towns and cities that people shit on. I go there and I’m like, “Oh, this is great.” Everyone’s been always really nice to me on my tour. The fans have always been really nice to me for the most part. So I get to meet a lot of people. I meet, obviously different ethnicities, but different political backgrounds as well. They’ve always been cool. I like to think I’ve shown mutual respect back. It’s why I say in the show, I talk a little bit about how face-to-face, everyone in America seems fine. It’s just when you go on the internet, it seems as though we’re always on the borderline of Civil War. But face-to-face, there’s a lot of decency in America. There are more good people than bad people here.

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Comedian Ronny Chieng Announces Leg Two Of His Highly Successful “The Love To Hate It Tour”

20+ Dates Sold Out On 2024 North America Run

Tickets available starting today at 12pm et with artist presale, general onsale begins friday, june 28 at 10am local at ronnychieng.com .

Today, Ronny Chieng, one of the most popular touring comedians announced leg two of his extremely popular “The Love To Hate It Tour,” which has sold out 20 shows and counting across the first leg. The second leg of the tour will kick off on Thursday, October 10 in New York, NY at the Beacon Theatre, with additional stops in Chicago, San Jose, St. Louis, Nashville and more before wrapping up early next year on Saturday, January 25 in Syracuse, NY at Landmark Theatre.

TICKETS: Tickets for the new dates will be available starting today at 12pm ET with an artist presale. Additional presales will run during the week ahead of the general on sale starting on Friday, June 28 at 10am local time at RonnyChieng.com .

THE LOVE TO HATE IT TOUR LEG ONE UPCOMING DATES:

Fri Jul 12 – Bakersfield, CA – Fox Theater *^ Sat Jul 13 – San Diego, CA – San Diego Civic Theatre – LIMITED TICKETS ^ Tue Jul 23 – Honolulu, HI – Hawaii Theatre Wed Jul 24 – Honolulu, HI – Hawaii Theatre – LIMITED TICKETS ^ Fri Jul 26 – Honolulu, HI – Hawaii Theatre –SOLD-OUT ^ Sat Jul 27 – Honolulu, HI – Hawaii Theatre – SOLD-OUT ^ Sat Jul 27 – Honolulu, HI – Hawaii Theatre (Late Show) – LIMITED TICKETS ^ Sun Aug 25 – Berlin, Germany – TaPP ^ Tue Aug 27 – Brussels, Belgium – La Madeleine – LIMITED TICKETS ^ Thu Aug 29 – Stockholm, Sweden – Nya Cirkus – LIMITED TICKETS ^ Sat Aug 31 – Helsinki, Finland – Apollo Live Club ^ Sun Sep 01 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Theater Amsterdam – SOLD-OUT ^ Mon Sep 02 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Theater Amsterdam – SOLD-OUT ^ Wed Sep 04 – Copenhagen, Denmark – DR Concert Hall ^ Sat Sep 07 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern – SOLD-OUT ^ Sun Sep 08 – Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern ^ Fri Sep 13 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre ^ Sat Sep 14 – Cincinnati, OH – Taft Theatre *^ Sun Sep 15 – Columbus, OH – Speaker Jo Ann Davidson Theatre – LIMITED TICKETS ^

THE LOVE TO HATE IT TOUR LEG TWO DATES – JUST ADDED: Thu Oct 10 – New York, NY – Beacon Theatre Fri Oct 11 – Chicago, IL – Chicago Theatre Thu Oct 17 – Stockton, CA – Bob Hope Theatre Fri Oct 18 – San Jose, CA – San Jose Center for the Perf. Arts Sat Oct 19 – Santa Rosa, CA – Luther Burbank Center for the Arts Fri Oct 25 – London, UK – The London Palladium – LIMITED TICKETS ^ Sat Oct 26 – London, UK – Theatre Royal Dury Lane ^ Fri Nov 01 – Westbury, NY – Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair Sun Nov 03 – Boston, MA – The Wilbur * Fri Nov 08 – Baltimore, MD – Lyric Baltimore Sat Nov 09 – Charlottesville, VA – Paramount Theater Fri Nov 15 – New Brunswick, NJ – State Theatre New Jersey Sat Nov 16 – Providence, RI – Veterans Memorial Auditorium Fri Nov 22 – Waukee, IA – Vibrant Music Hall Sat Nov 23 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha Sat Nov 30 – Pittsburgh, PA – Byham Theater * Fri Dec 06 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant Fri Jan 10 – Burlington, VT – Flynn Theatre Sat Jan 11 – Concord, NH – Capitol Center for the Arts Sat Jan 18 – Lexington, KY – Lexington Opera House Sun Jan 19 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium Sat Jan 25 – Syracuse, NY – Landmark Theatre *Not a Live Nation date ^Previously announced

About Ronny Chieng:

Ronny Chieng is a stand-up comedian, actor and Correspondent on “The Daily Show”. In addition to two Netflix stand-up comedy specials, Ronny has starred in “Crazy Rich Asians”, Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, “M3GAN”, “American Born Chinese”, “Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.”, “Vacation Friends 2”, “Joy Ride” and will star in the upcoming Hulu series “Interior Chinatown”.

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