On the first Crew Call of pre-Emmy season, The Daily Show news team member Ronny Chieng shares with us how to survive and thrive during the President Donald Trump 2.0 administration; especially when the news cycle can change on a dime close to air-time.

In short there are no taboos, but as Chieng shares, “we take great pains to not give out misinformation and not take things out of context to the point where I think we kill jokes all the time. We kill entire clips if we feel like, ‘Hey, this isn’t a good representation of what this person is saying.’ We pride ourselves on that to be honest, on not taking people out of context, and, making sure what we’re making fun of is factually accurate.”

But just because it’s Trump, and just because POTUS can sometimes not take a joke, that hasn’t put up any guardrails at The Daily Show.

“Our only guiding light is can we make this funny,” Chieng tells Deadline’s Crew Call.

Chieng shares with us his rise from being a stand-up in undergraduate law school in Australia, watching The Daily Show and The Colbert Show (“I illegally downloaded it in my dorm room”) to being discovered by Trevor Noah, who would become The Daily Show host from 2015-2022 (“He stuck his neck out to hire me”). If you’re watching The Devil Wears Prada 2 in theaters, that’s Chieng playing himself at Miranda Priestly’s high-end party out on Long Island.

Listen to our conversation below: