Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yi Chieng, born on 21 November, 1985 in Malaysia, is an actor and comedian. Chieng is currently an executive correspondent for The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He also created and plays the lead role in the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student, that debuted on ABC Australia (Australia) in 2017. Chieng was born into an Malaysian Chinese family. He was born in Johor Bahru. Chieng grew up both in Singapore and in the United States, living in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994. Chieng appeared with Trevor Noah in 2013 at a comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia. Chieng was offered the Daily Show's reporter role two years after. He was named one the 10 Comics to Watch in the July issue of Variety. In October of 2016, Chieng joined The Daily Show to discuss an Jesse Watters Fox News segment that was widely viewed as racist. Chieng offers a scathing critique of the segment on the conservative network. Chieng also visited the city's Chinatown and Chinatown, where Watters had mocked residents, and conducted more respectful interviews with residents in Mandarin and Cantonese. The video went viral and received coverage in the Washington Post and Slate. Washington Post and Slate In his youth, Chieng was a Singapore Sea Scout. Though he's lived in Australia for more than 10 years, he still doesn't possess permanent residency or citizenship in Australia. In 2018, Chieng joked that he was an apologist on the Daily Show, but later , in an interview, he said that Chieng was "100 per cent not scared of dogs".