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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