Ronny Chieng
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Yichieng was born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a senior
correspondent for The Daily Show on Comedy Central and creator and star of the
sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student which debuted on ABC (Australia) as
well as Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia,
to a Malaysian Chinese family. From 1989 to 1994, Chieng lived in Manchester in
New Hampshire. Chieng appeared with Trevor Noah in 2013 at an event for comedy
in Melbourne, Australia. Chieng was invited to audition for The Daily Show's
correspondent role two years later. He was named one the 10 Comics to watch by
Variety in July of 2016. In October 2016, Chieng appeared as a guest on The
Daily Show to respond to an interview with Jesse Watts on a Fox News segment
that many considered racist. Chieng presented an expletive-laden critique of
the conservative network's segment. Chieng also visited New York City's
Chinatown. Watters had mocked the Chinese residents and conducted respectful
interviews in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The viral clip was covered in
Slate and Washington Post. In his young years, Chieng was an Singapore Sea
Scout. While he's been living in Australia for over 10 years, he still doesn't
possess permanent residency or citizenship in Australia. Chieng laughed in 2018
when he said it was cynophobic. However, he afterwards, he said he was 100 %
not scared of dogs.

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