A Daily Show host compared becoming a US citizen to joining an ‘evil empire’ during a podcast appearance.
Ronny Chieng, 39, made the remark while discussing his decision to move to to the US from Malaysia to pursue his comedy career on Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast this past Friday.
Chieng filed for citizenship 10 years ago, but only received it recently, he revealed.
The Daily Show correspondent hailed the development as being decades in the making, before using it to pan the US’s politics.
The stand-up star said ‘it was a weird time [for it happen]’ considering he filed back when Barack Obama was still president.
‘So it’s weird to join,’ he said.
‘It’s like you’re joining this evil empire, but that’s not why you joined it,’ the left-leaning late night host continued in an apparent swipe at the Trump administration.
‘It just so happened, the evil empire had some really nice TV shows, and they do stand and they do stand-up comedy in The Death Star.’
‘I’ve been trying to come back to America since I left in ’93 when I was seven years old,’ Chieng added at another point, recalling a visit to the States that he said spurred his career.
‘I’ve been trying to come back to do stand-up comedy, and I finally got to come back in 2015, 10 years ago, and then citizenship nine years later,’ he said.
‘So, this Trump thing is all I’ve known.
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