Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng was born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a Senior Correspondent for The Daily Show, Comedy Central. He is the creator and the star of 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 an Malaysian Chinese family. He grew up in both Singapore and the United States, living in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1989 until 1994. Chieng appeared with Trevor Noah in 2013 at the comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia. He was then asked to take on the role of correspondent on Noah's Daily Show two years after. In July of 2016 Chieng was selected as one of the top 10 comics to watch by Variety In October 2016, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to give his opinion on a Jesse Watters Fox News segment considered racist by many. Chieng aired an expletive-laden criticism of the segment on Fox News that was deemed conservative by many. He also visited the city's Chinatown. Watters had mocked the inhabitants of the area and conducted respectful interviews in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The viral video received media coverage in the Washington Post and Slate In his early years, Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout. Although he has lived in Australia for the past decade, he does not have citizenship or permanent residency status in Australia. Chieng laughed in 2018 when he said he was cynophobic, but later stated that he is 100 % unafraid of dogs.

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