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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