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S’pore full of ‘small island Karens’? M’sian comedian Ronny Chieng clarifies he’s ‘just poking fun’
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Jimmy Yang (left) and Ronny Chieng in Interior Chinatown.
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LOS ANGELES – Malaysian comedian-actor Ronny Chieng says he was “just poking fun” when he described Singapore as a nation of “small island Karens”, and insists he does not hate the country.
Speaking to The Straits Times at a press event in Pasadena, California, on July 10, the 38-year-old clarified his controversial comment
