Ronny Chieng
Ronny Chieng
was born 21 November, 1985. Non-primary source required is a Malaysian actor
and comedian. Chieng is currently a senior correspondent on The Daily Show on
Comedy Central and creator and star of the sitcom Ronny Chieng International
Student which debuted on ABC (Australia) and Comedy Central Asia in 2017.
Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to a Malaysian Chinese family. Chieng
was born in Singapore and the United States. He lived in Manchester, New Hampshire,
between 1989 and 1994. Chieng was a performer with Trevor Noah in 2013 at an
event for comedy in Melbourne, Australia. Chieng was invited to audition for
the Daily Show's reporter role two years after. In July of 2016 Chieng was
named one of the top 10 comics to watch by Variety In October 2016, 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 offers a scathing
critique of the segment on the network that is conservative. Chieng also
visited the city's Chinatown. Watters had mocked the residents there and
conducted respectful interviews in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The video
went viral and was covered by the Washington Post, Slate, as well as various other
outlets. Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout in his youth. Even though he's lived
in Australia for the past decade, he does not have citizenship or permanent
residence status in Australia. In the year 2018, Chieng admitted that he was an
apologist during the Daily Show and later stated in an interview that Chieng
was "100 percent not afraid of dogs".

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