Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng was born 21/11/1985. Chieng is currently a Senior Correspondent for The Daily Show, Comedy Central. He is also the creator and actor of the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student. It premiered on ABC Australia and Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to an Malaysian Chinese family. From 1989 to 1994, he lived in Manchester in New Hampshire. Chieng performed alongside Trevor Noah at a Melbourne comedy festival in 2013. Chieng was invited to audition for The Daily Show's reporter role two years later. He was named one the top 10 Comics to follow by Variety in July 2016. In October of 2016, Chieng appeared as a guest on The Daily Show to offer a response to a Jesse Watts Fox News segment that many considered racist. Chieng airs an expletive-filled critique of the segment on Fox News that was deemed conservative by many. He also revisited New York City's Chinatown in which Watters had mocked residents, and conducted interviews more respectfully in Mandarin as well as Cantonese. The video was viewed by millions and received attention in the Washington Post and Slate. Washington Post and Slate In his early years, Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout. Though he's lived in Australia for over 10 years, he does not have a permanent residence or citizenship in Australia. In the year 2018 Chieng joked that he was unfriendly during the Daily Show and later clarified in an interview that Chieng was "100 percent unafraid of dogs".

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