Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng
was born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a senior correspondent on The
Daily Show on Comedy Central. He also produced and starred in the sitcom Ronny
Chieng International Student, that debuted on ABC Australia (Australia) in
2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to a Malaysian Chinese family.
He was raised in Singapore and the United States, living in Manchester, New
Hampshire from 1989 until 1994. Chieng appeared with Trevor Noah at a Melbourne
comedy festival in 2013. Chieng was asked to audition for The Daily Show's
correspondent job two years later. In July 2016 Chieng was named one of the top
10 comics to Watch by Variety In October, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to
offer his response to a Jesse Watters Fox News segment considered racist by
many. Chieng spoke in expletive-laden terms concerning the segment of the Fox
News, the conservative network. He also returned to the city's Chinatown.
Watters had mocked the Chinese residents and conducted respectful interviews in
Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The viral video was featured by the Washington
Post, Slate, as well as various other publications. Chieng was a Singapore Sea
Scout when he was a young teen. Chieng hasn't been able to gain citizenship or
permanent residency status in Australia despite having lived in Australia for
ten years. Chieng made a joke about being cynophobic during 2018's Daily Show.
But, he later stated that he's "100% not afraid of dogs" in an
interview.

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