Ronny Chieng

Ronny Chieng was born 21 November 1985 , non-primary source needed 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 the son of an Malaysian Chinese family. He was born in Johor Bahru. He was raised in Singapore as well as in the United States, living in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994. Chieng was a performer with Trevor Noah in 2013 at the comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia. A few years later Chieng was selected to audition for the correspondent role on The Daily Show, which Noah hosts. In July of 2016 Chieng was named one of the top 10 comics to be watching by Variety In October 2016, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to offer his opinion on a Jesse Watters Fox News segment considered racist by many. Chieng airs expletive-laden critique of the program on the network that is conservative. Chieng also visited the city's Chinatown in which Watters were mocking residents, and conducted interviews more respectfully in Mandarin as well as Cantonese. The viral clip was covered in Slate and the Washington Post. In his early years, Chieng was an Singapore Sea Scout. Although he has been living in Australia for over 10 years, he still doesn't have permanent residency or citizenship status in Australia. Chieng made a joke about being cynophobic during 2018's Daily Show. But Chieng later admitted that he's "100 100 percent confident about dogs" in an interview.