Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng
was born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a correspondent in the senior
position on The Daily Show on Comedy Central and creator and star of the sitcom
Ronny Chieng International Student which began airing on ABC (Australia) as
well as Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia,
to a Malaysian Chinese family. From 1989 until 1994, Chieng lived in Manchester
in New Hampshire. Chieng was a part of Trevor Noah at a Melbourne comedy festival
in 2013. Chieng was invited to audition for The Daily Show's correspondent
position two years later. Chieng was named one of the top 10 comics to watch by
Variety in July of 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 considered racist. Chieng spoke in expletive-laden terms
regarding the segment on Fox News, the conservative network. He also visited
the city's Chinatown. Watters had mocked the people living there and gave
respectful interviews in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The viral video was
covered by the Washington Post, Slate, as well as other media outlets. Chieng
was a Singapore Sea Scout in his youth. Even though he's lived in Australia for
over 10 years, he does not possess a permanent residency nor citizenship in
Australia. In the year 2018 Chieng joked that he was unfriendly during the
Daily Show, but afterwards, he clarified that he was "100 percent sure of
dogs".

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