Ronny Chieng

Ronny Chieng was born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a correspondent in the senior position on The Daily Show on Comedy Central and creator and star of the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student which was first shown on ABC (Australia) as well as Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to an Malaysian Chinese family. From 1989 to 1994, Chieng 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 after. He was named among the top 10 comics to watch by Variety in July 2016. In October 2016, Chieng appeared as a guest on The Daily Show to discuss his response to an interview with Jesse Watts on a Fox News segment that many believed was racist. Chieng made expletive-laden comments about the segment of Fox News, the conservative network. He also returned to New York City's Chinatown. Watters had mocked the Chinese residents and conducted respectful interviews in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The viral clip was covered in Slate and the Washington Post. In his young years, Chieng was an Singapore Sea Scout. Chieng hasn't managed to gain citizenship or permanent residence in Australia despite having lived in Australia for 10 years. Chieng made a joke about being intolerant of dogs on 2018's Daily Show. However Chieng later said that he is "100 100 percent confident about dogs" in an interview.



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