Ronny Chieng

Ronny Chieng was born on 21 November 1985. Chieng is currently a Senior correspondent on The Daily Show, Comedy Central. He is also the creator and lead actor on the sitcom Ronny Chieng International Student. It premiered on ABC Australia as well as Comedy Central Asia in 2017. Chieng was born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to an Malaysian Chinese family. Chieng was educated in Singapore as well as the United States. He lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, from 1989 to 1994. Chieng appeared with Trevor Noah at a Melbourne comedy festival in 2013. He was then asked to be a candidate for the role of correspondent on Noah's Daily Show two years after. He was named one the top 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 the Jesse Watts Fox News segment that many considered racist. Chieng made expletive-laden comments about the segment of conservative network Fox News. He also visited New York City's Chinatown where Watters had ridiculed the residents. The viral clip was covered in Slate and Washington Post. In his early years, Chieng was an Singapore Sea Scout. Although he has lived in Australia for over a decade, Chieng doesn't have citizenship or permanent residency status in Australia. In the year 2018 Chieng claimed he was cynophobic on the Daily Show However, he later clarified in an interview that he was "100 per cent not scared of dogs".