Ronny Chieng

 Ronny Xin Yi Chieng, born 21 November 1985 in Malaysia, is an actor and comedian. Chieng is currently the senior correspondent of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He also created and stars the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student, that debuted on ABC Australia (Australia) in 2017. Chieng was born to a Malaysian Chinese couple in Johor Bahru (Malaysia). Chieng was educated in Singapore and in the United States. He lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, from 1989 until 1994. Chieng performed with Trevor Noah in 2013 at a comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia. Chieng was offered the Daily Show's correspondent position two years later. In July of 2016 Chieng was named one of the 10 Comics to Watch by Variety In October of 2016, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to share his response to a Jesse Watters Fox News segment thought to be racist by a large majority of viewers. Chieng spoke in expletive-laden terms concerning the segment of the Fox News, a conservative news network. Chieng also revisited the city's Chinatown in which Watters had mocked residents and conducted more respectful interviews in Mandarin and Cantonese. The video became viral and was covered by the Washington Post and Slate In his youth, Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout. Although he has been living in Australia for more than 10 years, he doesn't have a permanent residence or citizenship status in Australia. In the year 2018 Chieng made a joke about being unfriendly on the Daily Show however, he afterwards, he clarified that he was "100 percent not afraid of dogs".



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