Ronny Chieng tells THR on the 'Unfrosted' red carpet what it means to be here amongst all these comedy legends. Plus, he dishes on Jerry Seinfeld's "natural talent" and talks about how you can't fake stand-up comedy.
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00:00 What does it mean for you to be here tonight with all of these comedy legends and to be a part of this?
00:04 I mean, it's people I you know, this guy's the billboards the EP of my special, you know, Seinfeld
00:11 I've been watching since I was a kid gaffigan. These are my comedy heroes, though. So it's cool to
00:17 See them. It's
00:20 Unbelievable to work with them, you know, I mean to get to work with them
00:23 Like I didn't care I didn't care how this movie goes like I already I got to be on set with these guys
00:29 It's cool. You know, it's cool. Yeah
00:31 Jerry has recently said that he feels like stand-up is this enduring medium because it's something you can't fake. What's your take on that?
00:39 Yeah, there's a lot. I mean
00:41 I'm not gonna discredit anything Simon says about comedy, but he's spot-on. I mean, I think he said you can't you can't he's right here
00:48 By the way, you can't fake it. That's true. You can't fake the funk, you know stand-up comedy
00:52 So it doesn't matter who your father is doesn't matter how much money you have
00:57 You you know, if you if when you're on stage, you can't fake it. It's you that's it, you know, and
01:02 it's also a
01:06 medium that like
01:07 Comedy has always been direct to the fans. So there's no gatekeepers, you know, there's very few gatekeepers
01:12 Obviously as gatekeepers to the business side, but to the performance side, there's no gatekeeper
01:17 You can any any mentally ill person can go on stage and say whatever they want and oftentimes they do there's really no
01:25 There's really no filters, you know, so it's really direct to the fans
01:29 What do you think makes Jerry so funny I know he's right here so hopefully he's not listening in
01:35 But what do you think makes him so funny and a comedy legend?
01:38 natural talent and
01:42 He his work ethic work ethic. That's one thing. He taught me was the work ethic is
01:47 Undeniable that idea of every day you work on it a little bit work on your craft every single day
01:54 That's he honestly does that you know, he's been doing for so long. Hey
01:57 You think he needs to do anything anymore? This guy is set
02:02 So him coming out do is for pure love of the game because he loves doing it
02:06 You know, I mean that I think that's what it takes to be to be great at something
02:09 You got you got love doing it and then you gotta keep working at it, right? That's yeah, so
02:13 Definitely it was so great talking to you. Thank you
02:16 So much
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