Ronny Chieng

Ronny Chieng was born 21/11/1985. Chieng is currently a senior correspondent for The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He also created and plays the lead role in the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student, which premiered on ABC Australia (Australia) in the year 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 was a performer at a comedy festival that took place in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 along with Trevor Noah. He was then asked to take on the role as a correspondent for Noah's Daily Show two years after. He was named one 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 an Jesse Watts Fox News segment that many thought was racist. Chieng was known for his expletive-laden remarks about the segment of Fox News, a conservative network. Chieng also visited New York City's Chinatown in which Watters had mocked residents and conducted interviews more respectfully in Mandarin and Cantonese. The video went viral and was featured by the Washington Post, Slate, and various other outlets. Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout in his youth. Even though he's lived in Australia for a decade, he does not have citizenship or permanent residence status in Australia. Chieng joked in 2018 that the cynophobe was his name, but later stated that he is 100 % unafraid of dogs.

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