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o fancy outfit. No heavy make graduating from the Chinese Univer-
up. She looks plain. Yet, she sity of Hong Kong with a bachelor de-
Nfills a whole lecture hall with gree in journalism.
laughter and applauses when she tells As a child, Ng’s dream has nothing
her wonderful stories on stage. to do with stand-up comedy. Rather,
Ng Ting-ting, 36, also known as being a journalist had been her life
Mary, is a local full-time stand-up goal for years. It all started from an
comedian. Since last year, she has episode of a documentary produced
been performing regularly at differ- by RTHK about Lee Kuan Yew, the
ent places outside Hong Kong such as first Prime Minister of Singapore. It
Australia and Malaysia. She also or- inspires Ng to become a journalist,
ganises her own talk shows and runs a who produces meaningful documen-
stand-up comedy class for kids known taries to make a positive influence in
as “Not Only for Adults”. society.
But before Ng devotes her career to “I don’t mean to do something
stand-up comedy, she had worked as a great [with the documentaries], but
journalist for 10 years in local media, when I was young, I am the type of
including i-Cable and RTHK, after person who insists on fighting against