“The Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng was a young boy living in Singapore when “South Park” first debuted in 1997. The country had made headlines by banning the cartoon for being too crude — and that, of course, only made the budding comedian want to see the show even more.
“I was 10 years old and it made the news for being banned,” he said. “We only caught glimpses of it.”
But that also meant that Chieng didn’t get into “South Park” until college, when he fell hard for the show. “I watched one episode, and then started watching backwards. With ‘South Park,’ if you’ve never watched it before or have fallen off it, you reverse binge. Watching it backwards actually gives you an appreciate for how immediate it was.”
Chieng, most recently seen in this summer’s smash film “Crazy Rich Asians,” said he’s inspired by how “South Park” is written.
“I was 10 years old and it made the news for being banned,” he said. “We only caught glimpses of it.”
But that also meant that Chieng didn’t get into “South Park” until college, when he fell hard for the show. “I watched one episode, and then started watching backwards. With ‘South Park,’ if you’ve never watched it before or have fallen off it, you reverse binge. Watching it backwards actually gives you an appreciate for how immediate it was.”
Chieng, most recently seen in this summer’s smash film “Crazy Rich Asians,” said he’s inspired by how “South Park” is written.
- 9/24/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
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