Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng born on 21 November, 1985 in Malaysia is an actor and comedian. Chieng is currently a Senior correspondent on The Daily Show, Comedy Central. He is also the creator and lead actor on the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student. It debuted on ABC Australia and Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born to a Malaysian Chinese couple in Johor Bahru (Malaysia). From 1989 to 1994, he lived in Manchester in New Hampshire. Chieng appeared in an annual comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 together with Trevor Noah. Chieng was invited to audition for The Daily Show's reporter role two years later. In July 2016, he was named one of 10 Comics to Watch by Variety In October, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to provide his reaction to a Jesse Watters Fox News segment that was criticized by some as being racist. Chieng offers a scathing critique of the program on the conservative network. He also revisited New York City's Chinatown the area where Watters had mocked residents, and conducted interviews more respectfully in Mandarin and Cantonese. The viral video was covered by the Washington Post, Slate, as well as various other outlets. Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout when he was a young teen. Chieng hasn't managed to acquire citizenship or permanent residency in Australia despite living in Australia for ten years. In the year 2018, Chieng made a joke about being an apologist on the Daily Show However, he later stated in an interview that he was "100 percent not afraid of dogs".