Ronny Chieng

Ronny Xin Yichieng, born on 21 November, 1985 in Malaysia, is a comedian and actor. Chieng is currently an executive correspondent for The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He also developed and is the star of the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student, which debuted on ABC Australia (Australia) in the year 2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to an Malaysian Chinese family. From 1989 to 1994, he lived in Manchester in New Hampshire. Chieng appeared in a comedy festival that took place in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 alongside Trevor Noah. Chieng was later asked to be a candidate for the role as a correspondent for Noah's Daily Show two years later. He was named among the 10 Comics to watch by Variety in July 2016. In October of 2016, Chieng appeared as a guest on The Daily Show to respond to the Jesse Watts Fox News segment that many considered racist. Chieng is known for his expletive-laden criticism of the show on the network that is conservative. He also returned to the city's Chinatown. Watters had mocked the inhabitants of the area and conducted interviews with respect in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese. The viral video garnered attention in Slate as well as the Washington Post. In his early years, Chieng was an Singapore Sea Scout. Even though he's lived in Australia for the past decade, Chieng is not a citizen or permanent residence status in Australia. Chieng laughed in 2018 when he said there was a phobia of cynophobia, however, he afterwards, he said he was 100 percent not afraid of dogs.