![]() ![]() We’ve all heard young comics mock their parents’ inability to grasp technology, but Chieng’s extended routine about providing tech help over the phone wins through his outward frustration. He’s a master BitTorrent user, a penis-hygiene specialist and regular IT support for his mum. Not that race is the only subject Chieng’s an expert on. ![]() But he smartly attacks Chinese stereotypes while mockingly reinforcing them, and just when you think he’s slipping into cliché, he’ll flip the joke on its head and find a fresh, sharp punchline. ‘Cool’ isn’t exactly how you’d describe Chieng he’s a permanently pissed-off germaphobe. But Chieng feels passionately about his heritage and aims to change the opinion that Chinese people aren’t cool. ‘I belong nowhere,’ he says, explaining that Westerners just see his Chinese roots, and back home he’s considered ‘the whitest guy in Malaysia’. Born in Malaysia, based in Australia and raised in Singapore via the US, Chieng has a blurred sense of national identity. LONDON ALIEN NEWS FULLThe 27-year-old comic is blunt, full of bravado and not aiming to be liked he’s got a job to do, and he’s putting forward a strong case. Maybe it’s his law school training, but relative newcomer Ronny Chieng is already a consummate professional. See 'James Acaster – Lawnmower' at the Edinburgh Fringe By the end of the hour you’re totally sucked into his minute, quizzical world, where Yoko Ono is addicted to biscuits, and Joe Bloggs is a prat. Seemingly throwaway jokes cleverly re-emerge, and no callbacks are crowbarred in. But what Acaster has mastered, which most comics fail at, is structuring an hour-long show. His confident, yet gawky, persona is wonderfully aloof, too. From Twister-etiquette to French rhyme structures, the Marks and Spencer-donning comic has a knack for flipping observational comedy on its head, studiously examining things most of us have dismissed as inconsequential. He's in no rush to get laughs, his shows are slow-burners, but every carefully chosen word or pause builds up to a sturdy, satisfying punchline. The Kettering-born comic is quiet, pedantic and refreshingly low-key. ![]() Three solo shows in, and Acaster’s quickly becoming a reliable Fringe favourite. But it all seems to make sense, at the time. Quite how we get there via examining his love of mariachi music, or the identities of Percy Pig’s mates, we’re not sure. Are you on Telegram? Subscribe to our channel for updates and exclusive video.‘My main goal of the show, and my life, is to clear the name of Yoko Ono,’ says James Acaster, matter-of-factly, at the top of his show. Read our full coverage of the Russia-Ukraine crisis. can help support the Ukrainian people as well as what people around the world have been donating. How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. Photos: Washington Post photographers have been on the ground from the beginning of the war - here’s some of their most powerful work. Another staged referendum will be held by the Moscow-appointed administration in Kherson starting Friday. 23 to 27 in the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine, according to Russian news agencies. The fight: A successful Ukrainian counteroffensive has forced a major Russian retreat in the northeastern Kharkiv region in recent days, as troops fled cities and villages they had occupied since the early days of the war and abandoned large amounts of military equipment.Īnnexation referendums: Staged referendums, which would be illegal under international law, are set to take place from Sept. 21, framing the move as an attempt to defend Russian sovereignty against a West that seeks to use Ukraine as a tool to “divide and destroy Russia.” Follow our live updates here. The latest: Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” of troops in an address to the nation on Sept. ![]()
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