Part-interview, part-existential game show – this is Wild Card from NPR.
Host Rachel Martin rips up the typical interview script and invites guests to play a game about life’s biggest questions.
Rachel takes actors, artists and thinkers on a choose-your-own-adventure conversation that lets them open up about their fears, their joys and how they’ve built meaning from experience – all with the help of a very special deck of cards.
Comedian Ronny Chieng’s original path wasn’t to become a correspondent on “The Daily Show.”
Plan A was to be a lawyer in Australia. But when he couldn’t get a job in law, he turned to comedy as a backup. He talks to Rachel about his path to success and how he’s more like his parents than he realized.
His new stand-up comedy special is “Ronny Chieng: Love to Hate It.”
Ronny Chieng: Ronny Chieng s 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.
