Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a Senior Correspondent for 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 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to a Malaysian Chinese family. Chieng was born in Singapore as well as the United States. He lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, from 1989 to 1994. Chieng appeared in a comedy festival held in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 together with Trevor Noah. The following year, he was asked to be a candidate for the correspondent position on The Daily Show, which Noah hosts. He was named one the top 10 Comics to follow by Variety in July of 2016. In October of 2016, Chieng appeared as a guest on The Daily Show to offer a response to the Jesse Watts Fox News segment that many believed was racist. Chieng expressed his opinion with a lot of expletive regarding the segment on conservative network Fox News. He also visited NewYork City's Chinatown where Watters ridiculed residents. The video became viral and received attention in the Washington Post and Slate In his early years, Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout. Though he's lived in Australia for more than a decade, he doesn't have permanent residency or citizenship status in Australia. Chieng laughed in 2018 when he said there was a phobia of cynophobia, however, he afterwards, he said he was completely unafraid of dogs.

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