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Ronny Xin Yi Chieng (Chinese: 钱信伊; born 21 November 1985) is a Malaysian comedian and actor based in the United States. He is a senior correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, and he created and starred in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation sitcom Ronny Chieng: International Student.
Oct 31, 2016 · In his final year of law school, Chieng signed up for a stand-up comedy competition on campus. His five minutes on stage won him first prize, and soon he started getting comedy gigs around the...
- He is a proud Malaysian from Johor Bahru. Ronny Chieng, born Ronny Chieng Xin Yi on 21st November 1985, is from Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
- He grew up in Singapore and the US when he was a kid. Chieng is a true-blue Johorean, often sharing photos of visits to his hometown and his father’s farm in Johor on his social media accounts.
- He has two bachelor’s degrees. Before his career in comedy took off, Chieng was set to become a lawyer. He pursued, not one, but two bachelor’s degrees at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 2009 with a degree in law and commerce.
- He started as a stand-up comedian in Australia. Besides pursuing an education in law in Australia, he was also stepping foot in stand-up comedy there in 2009.
Ronny Chieng: International Student is an Australian television comedy series first screened on the ABC in 2017. The series follows the adventures of comedian Ronny Chieng as an international student, a fictionalised account of his own experiences as a law student at the University of Melbourne.
Aug 14, 2018 · Ronny, who is best known to American audiences as Trevor Noah’s spirited senior correspondent on The Daily Show, shared his excitement over being cast as Eddie Cheng in the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians.
Ronny Chieng: International Student was one of six comedy pilots which aired in 2016 as part of Comedy Showroom and becomes the first to be green lit to full series. In the series (as in real life), Ronny Chieng is a Malaysian student who's come to Australia to study law.
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Mar 9, 2024 · He worked his way up to sold-out shows with stints at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival in the 2010s, famously getting noticed by Noah, who gave him the correspondent gig in 2015. “ The Daily Show is like the Harvard Business School of comedy, where everyone’s super on it,” Chieng says.
