Ronny Chieng
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Yichieng was born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a Senior
correspondent on The Daily Show, Comedy Central. Chieng is the creator and star
on the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student. The show premiered on ABC
Australia as well as Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born to a
Malaysian Chinese couple in Johor Bahru (Malaysia). Chieng was raised in
Singapore and the United States, living in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1989
until 1994. Chieng performed in a comedy festival that took place in Melbourne,
Australia in 2013 alongside Trevor Noah. The following year Chieng was asked to
take on the role of a correspondent on The Daily Show, which Noah hosts. In
July of 2016 Chieng was named one of 10 Comics to Watch by Variety In October
of that year, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to give his take on Jesse
Watters Fox News segment considered racist by many. Chieng broadcasts a
tirade-filled critique of the program on the network that is conservative. Chieng
also visited the city's Chinatown. Watters had mocked the residents there and
gave respectful interviews in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The viral video
received coverage in Slate and the Washington Post. In his early years, Chieng
was an Singapore Sea Scout. He has not been able to gain citizenship or
permanent residency status in Australia despite living in Australia for ten
years. Chieng joked in 2018 that it was cynophobic. However, he later said that
he was completely unafraid of dogs.
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