Ronny Chieng Returns: ‘Daily Show’ and New Netflix Special ‘Love to Hate It’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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When Trevor Noah stepped down as host of ‘The Daily Show’ a couple of years ago, it didn’t even occur to Ronny Chieng that he could be capable of taking over that seat. But now that he’s been sitting in as guest-host as part of a rotating group of correspondents he finally feels like he deserves to be there. “I think I get how to do it,” he says. “And I’ve done it like 20 times now, so it’s definitely possible for me to do it.” In his return to the podcast, Chieng discusses the process of putting together his third stand-up special for Netflix, ‘Love to Hate It,’ which includes material about possibly becoming a father, how the internet is destroying male brains, and making “MAGA friends” in Hawaii. He also talks about grabbing the “fearless mantle” from heroes like Jon Stewart, being the first late-night host to joke about the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting, and how he thinks ‘The Daily Show’ will evolve when Donald Trump takes back the White House in 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Last Laugh. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and for our last new episode of the year, I am so excited to be welcoming back on the show one of my personal favorite stand-up comedians, Ronnie Chang. |
| 0:19.2 | Ronnie has been a correspondent on The Daily Show for coming up on 10 years. |
| 0:24.9 | He has also made a name for himself as an actor in films like Crazy Rich Asians |
| 0:28.8 | and TV shows like Interior Chinatown, which is streaming now on Hulu. |
| 0:33.5 | But it's his stand-up comedy that regularly just kills me. |
| 0:37.7 | This week, he premiered his third Netflix stand-up special in five years called Love to Hate It, |
| 0:43.7 | which, by the way, was just named the best special of the year by The New York Times. |
| 0:48.7 | He was previously on this podcast in 2022 to talk about his second hour speakeasy, |
| 0:53.8 | and before that, he put out his debut |
| 0:55.6 | special Asian comedian destroys America in 2019. All three of them are just fantastic. |
| 1:02.4 | As you should be able to tell from this conversation, Ronnie is just as big of a comedy |
| 1:06.9 | obsessive as I am. And I always enjoy chatting with him about his work. |
| 1:11.4 | So let's get into it in just a minute. |
| 1:13.8 | But first, here's a clip from one of my favorite bits from the new special, about how boomers |
| 1:19.5 | use the internet. |
| 1:22.0 | Has that been a dumber generation of idiots? |
| 1:24.8 | More susceptible to fake news than these fucking baby boomers, literally believing everything |
| 1:29.3 | they see on the internet. |
| 1:30.3 | You literally have people in Honolulu right now, auto driving their Tesla cyber trucks |
| 1:34.8 | as they vape out the window and their phone AI is trading cryptocurrency. |
| 1:39.3 | Meanwhile, you have baby boomers, they can't even right click. |
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