Ronny Chieng

Asian Comedian Destroys America! gives Chieng’s impatient stage persona a large target: habits in American life that seem ordinary until somebody insists on examining them. His experience across Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and the United States supplies several points of comparison. Choose this for brisk, argumentative observation rather than a gentle introduction to cultural differences. The comic force comes from treating a consumer habit or social assumption as something that ought to withstand scrutiny, then refusing to let it pass unquestioned.