Ronny Chieng
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Yichieng, born 21 November 1985 in Malaysia, is a comedian and actor. Chieng is
currently a Senior Correspondent for The Daily Show, Comedy Central. Chieng is
the creator and actor of the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student. The
show premiered on ABC Australia and Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was
born into a Malaysian Chinese family. He was born in Johor Bahru. From 1989 to
1994, he resided in Manchester in New Hampshire. Chieng was a part of Trevor
Noah at a Melbourne comedy festival in 2013. He was then asked to take on the
role of Noah's Daily Show two years after. He was named one the 10 Comics to
Watch in Variety's July 2016 issue. In October, Chieng joined The Daily Show to
discuss an Jesse Watters Fox News segment some believed was racist. Chieng
spoke in expletive-laden terms about the segment of Fox News, the conservative
network. He also returned to New York City's Chinatown. Watters had mocked the
people living there and conducted interviews with respect in Mandarin Chinese
and Cantonese. The video went viral and received attention in the Washington
Post and Slate. Washington Post and Slate In his early years, Chieng was a
Singapore Sea Scout. Chieng has not been able to obtain citizenship or
permanent residency in Australia despite having lived in Australia for ten
years. In 2018, Chieng joked that he was an apologist on the Daily Show
However, he later , in an interview, he said that Chieng was "100 percent
not afraid of dogs".
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