Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng, born on 21 November, 1985 in Malaysia is an actor and comedian. Chieng is currently a senior reporter on The Daily Show on Comedy Central and creator and star of the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student which premiered on ABC (Australia) as well as Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to a Malaysian Chinese family. Chieng was educated in Singapore and the United States. He lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, from 1989 to 1994. Chieng performed alongside Trevor Noah at a Melbourne comedy festival in 2013. Chieng was then invited to audition for the position of correspondent on Noah's Daily Show two years later. He was named among the top 10 comics to watch by Variety in July 2016. In October of 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 from conservative network Fox News. He also revisited the city's Chinatown and Chinatown, where Watters had mocked residents, and conducted more respectful interviews in Mandarin and Cantonese. The viral video garnered attention in Slate as well as the Washington Post. In his early years, Chieng was an Singapore Sea Scout. Chieng hasn't managed to obtain citizenship or permanent residency in Australia despite living in Australia for ten years. Chieng made a joke about being negative towards dogs during the 2018 Daily Show. But, he later stated that he's "100% not afraid of dogs" in an interview.

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