Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng was born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a Senior correspondent on The Daily Show, Comedy Central. Chieng is the creator and the star of the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student. It debuted on ABC Australia as well as Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born to an Malaysian Chinese couple in Johor Bahru (Malaysia). Chieng was educated in Singapore as well as the United States. He lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, between 1989 and 1994. Chieng appeared with Trevor Noah at a Melbourne comedy festival in 2013. Chieng was asked to audition for The Daily Show's reporter role two years later. In July of 2016 Chieng was named one of the top 10 comics to Watch by Variety In October 2016, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to give his take on Jesse Watters Fox News segment thought to be racist by a large majority of viewers. Chieng expressed his opinion with a lot of expletive about the segment of Fox News, a conservative news network. Chieng also re-visited New York City's Chinatown and Chinatown, where Watters were mocking residents, and conducted more respectful interviews in Mandarin and Cantonese. The viral video was featured in Slate and Washington Post. In his youth, Chieng was an Singapore Sea Scout. Although he has lived in Australia for more than a decade Chieng doesn't have citizenship or permanent residence status in Australia. Chieng made an absurd joke about being intolerant of dogs on 2018's Daily Show. But Chieng later admitted that he's "100 100% not afraid of dogs" in an interview.

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