Come to Collis Commonground at 9pm Saturday to see Daily Show correspondent, Ronny Chieng, perform!
Stand up comedian and actor Ronny Chieng is Chinese born in Malaysia, raised in the USA and Singapore and moved to Australia to attend
Melbourne Law School, graduating in 2009.
Ronny won the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer Award in 201 2 for his debut stand up special "The Ron Way" which
sold out its entire run including extra shows at the MICF and Sydney Comedy Festival that year.
In 2012 and 2013 Ronny was also invited to perform at the Just for Laughs Comedy
Festival •n Montreal, two seasons at the SOHO Theatre in London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In 2013 Ronny was named one of the "Top 10 Hottest Comedians" by The Age and Herald Sun in Melbourne. Selling out his entire month
long season of his second comedy show "Can you do this? No you can't" in advance at the MICE and had to be moved twice to larger venues culminating in a 1400-seat show in the Melbourne Town Hall.
Chieng's growing TV credts including Peter He iar's acclaimed ABCI comedy series, It's a Date, panel shows Tractor Monkeys, Dirty Laundry Live and Have You Been Paying Attention, Sam Simmons' ABCI sketch series, Problems, ABC2's This is Littleton, and Legally
Brown on SBS, as well as stand up comedy specials "Melbourne Internationa Comedy Festival Gala" on Channel Ten in 2012 and 2013, W I Anderson's "Just For Laughs
Festival" 2013, Stand Up at Bella Union on SBS and the Sydney Comedy Festival Gala on the Comedy Channel.
Chieng toured his 2014 one hour stand up comedy special, "Chieng
React on" which sold out weeks in advance, adding shows in Perth, Melbourne and Sydney due to overwhelming demand while being awarded the prestigious Director's Choice Award at Me bourne International Comedy Festival 2014 and Best of the Fest (Local) at Sydney
Comedy Festival 2014.
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