Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng born 21 November 1985 . The non-primary resource required is a Malaysian actor and comedian. Chieng is currently a senior correspondent for 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 in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to an Malaysian Chinese family. From 1989 to 1994, he was living in Manchester in New Hampshire. Chieng performed at the comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 alongside Trevor Noah. Chieng was invited to audition for The Daily Show's correspondent position two years later. In July of 2016 Chieng was named one of the 10 Comics to be watching by Variety In October of that year, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to offer his take on Jesse Watters Fox News segment thought to be racist by a large majority of viewers. Chieng aired an expletive-laden criticism of the conservative network's segment. Chieng also revisited the city's Chinatown and Chinatown, where Watters had mocked residents, and conducted interviews more respectfully with residents in Mandarin as well as Cantonese. The viral video was featured in Slate and Washington Post. In his youth, Chieng was an Singapore Sea Scout. While he's been in Australia for a decade, Chieng does not hold citizenship or permanent residence status in Australia. In 2018, Chieng admitted that he was unfriendly during the Daily Show and later clarified in an interview that he was "100 per cent not scared of dogs".