Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yichieng, born 21 November 1985 in Malaysia is an actor and comedian. Chieng is currently a Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show, Comedy Central. He is the creator and star on the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student. The show 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 to 1994. Chieng appeared with Trevor Noah in 2013 at a comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia. Chieng was then invited to audition for the role of correspondent on Noah's Daily Show two years after. Chieng was selected as one of the 10 most watched comics in the July issue of Variety. In October 2016, Chieng joined The Daily Show to discuss an Jesse Watters Fox News segment many thought to be racist. Chieng expressed his opinion with a lot of expletive concerning the segment of the Fox News, a conservative network. Chieng also re-visited New York City's Chinatown, where Watters had mocked residents, and conducted interviews more respectfully with residents in Mandarin as well as Cantonese. The viral video garnered attention in Slate and Washington Post. In his youth, Chieng was an Singapore Sea Scout. While he's been in Australia for a decade, Chieng does not hold citizenship or permanent residence status in Australia. In 2018, Chieng made a joke about being an apologist during the Daily Show and later clarified in an interview that he was "100 percent unafraid of dogs".



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