In this stylish follow-up to his highly acclaimed debut Netflix comedy special, Ronny Chieng performs live in New York City in the intimate setting of the Chinese Tuxedo bar and restaurant.
With a unique blend of intelligence, rage, and physicality, Ronny shares his take on the pandemic, race relations, cancel culture, and stories from his experiences as an international touring comic.
Directed by Sebastian DiNatale and produced by All Things Comedy, Ronny Chieng: Speakeasy premieres globally on Netflix on April 5.
Ronny Chieng is a Malaysian comedian and actor. Chieng is currently a senior correspondent on The Daily Show on Comedy Central and creator and star of the sitcom Ronny Chieng: International Student which premiered on ABC (Australia) and Comedy Central Asia in 2017.
He grew up in both Singapore and in the United States, living in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1989 to 1994.
Chieng performed with Trevor Noah in 2013 at a comedy festival in Melbourne, Australia. Two years later, he was asked to audition for the correspondent role on The Daily Show, which Noah hosts.
In October 2016, Chieng appeared on The Daily Show to give his response to a Jesse Watters Fox News segment deemed by many as racist. Chieng aired an expletive-laden criticism of the conservative network’s segment. He also revisited New York City’s Chinatown, where Watters had mocked residents, and conducted more respectful interviews in Mandarin and Cantonese. The video went viral and received coverage in the Washington Post and Slate.
In 2016, Chieng co-wrote and starred in the pilot of a sitcom called Ronny Chieng: International Student, based on his own experience as a Malaysian student in Australia. It was developed into a series for Comedy Central in America and ABC TV in Australia and screened in June 2017.
In 2018, he made his American feature debut with the film Crazy Rich Asians, directed by Jon M. Chu and starring Constance Wu and Henry Golding.
In 2019, Netflix started streaming his stand-up special, “Asian Comedian Destroys America!”, where he jokes about consumerism, racism, and immigrants. In April 2020, Chieng was cast in Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
In July 2021, it was announced Chieng will co-write a Sony Martial Arts action-comedy film with his The Daily Show collaborator Sebastian DiNatale.
