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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