Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yichieng was born 21/11/1985. Chieng is currently a Senior correspondent on The Daily Show, Comedy Central. He is the creator and lead actor on 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 a Malaysian Chinese family. From 1989 until 1994, he lived in Manchester in New Hampshire. Chieng was a performer at a comedy festival held in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 together with Trevor Noah. He was then asked to audition for the position of correspondent on Noah's Daily Show two years after. In July of 2016, he was named one of the top 10 comics you should Check out by Variety In October of that year, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to offer his response to a Jesse Watters Fox News segment that was criticized by some as being racist. Chieng presented an expletive-laden critique of the conservative network's segment. Chieng also re-visited the city's Chinatown, where Watters were mocking residents, and conducted interviews more respectfully with residents in Mandarin and Cantonese. The video went viral and was covered by the Washington Post, Slate, as well as other media publications. Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout in his early years. While he's been in Australia for the past decade, Chieng doesn't have citizenship or permanent residency status in Australia. Chieng joked in 2018 that the cynophobe was his name, but afterwards, he said he was 100 % not scared of dogs.



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