On Tuesday Singapore time, conservative American news channel Fox News broadcast a news segment so ridiculous and racist, we really regret calling it "news".

It's so bad that we don't even want to torture you with the whole thing. Here's an already-painful excerpt:

The segment, called "Watters' World", is helmed by a rather dislikable-looking interviewer named Jesse Watters. In it, he visits Chinatown in New York City, and takes the mickey out of Chinese-looking people whom he meets there.

But we're not here to discuss how this is a complete waste of good camera memory space and editing time, even though it triggered reactions from sources as varied as The New Yorker and Huffington Post, as well as a Change.org petition against it.

We're here to talk about this most excellent clip from fellow American news satire and talk show programme The Daily Show, featuring Malaysian correspondent Ronny Chieng:

Not only did Chieng identify the first layer of problems with Watters' failed attempts at humour (he claimed as much in two tweets), he also pointed out that his premise of doing this in the first place was stupid.

But in order to show just how stupid and bigoted Fox News was being, Chieng went down to the same place to interview some Chinese-Americans in Mandarin. And they were pretty darn insightful:

Basically, everything he said left us saying yes, yes and yes.

And here's where we get to the real reason we're talking about Ronny Chieng — as it turns out, Chieng spent some time in Singapore: 10 years, to be exact.

Chieng, according to past interviews with The Straits Times and Today, was a Jurong kia who went to school at Pioneer Secondary School and Pioneer JC.

He's led quite an international life, though, having been born in JB, raised in New Hampshire before moving here, and then attending university in Australia — hence the difficulty you might have in placing his accent.

His parents still live here, though, according to the ST interview he did in May, and possibly continue to chide him for swearing in his sketches.

So his retorts are well-placed indeed, coming from quite a worldly-wise perspective.

That includes Singapore.

Top photo: Screenshot from Daily Show clip