Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng born 21/11/1985. Chieng is currently a Senior correspondent on The Daily Show, Comedy Central. Chieng is the creator and star on the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student. It premiered on ABC Australia as well as Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to a Malaysian Chinese family. Chieng was brought up in Singapore and in the United States. He lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, between 1989 and 1994. Chieng was a performer with Trevor Noah in 2013 at the comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia. Chieng was invited to audition for the Daily Show's correspondent position two years later. Chieng was named one of the top 10 comics to watch by Variety in July of 2016. In October 2016, Chieng appeared as a guest on The Daily Show to offer a response to a Jesse Watts Fox News segment that many believed was racist. Chieng airs an expletive-filled critique of the segment on Fox News that was deemed conservative by many. He also visited New York City's Chinatown in which Watters made fun of the residents. The viral video received coverage in the Washington Post and Slate In his early years, Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout. While he's been in Australia for more than a decade Chieng doesn't have citizenship or permanent residency status in Australia. In 2018, Chieng admitted that he was negative on the Daily Show, but later clarified in an interview that he was "100 percent not afraid of dogs".

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