--- description: Correspondent Ronny Chieng plays it straight on the Comedy Central show, in response to the controversial Fox News segment by Jesse Watters title: 'The Daily Show' Goes to Chinatown to Talk Politics for Real image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # _The Daily Show_ Finds Out What People in New York City's Chinatown Really Think About the Election by [Kevin Lui](/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 7, 2016 9:31 AM CUT by [Kevin Lui](/author/kevin-lui/) ## Kevin Lui Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 7, 2016 9:31 AM CUT A recent segment on Fox News, which featured [correspondent Jesse Watters](http://time.com/4520346/jesse-watters-chinatown-video/ "undefined") supposedly finding out what residents in New York City’s Chinatown think about the upcoming election, has caused considerable backlash online from the Asian-American community. In response, _The Daily Show_ correspondent Ronny Chieng decided to do go to Chinatown to find out how people there really felt about the election. “They say ‘[China](http://time.com/4509121/china-presidential-debate-hillary-clinton-donald-trump/ "undefined")‘ in the debate, so you go to Chinatown? In New York?” a visibly astonished Chieng asked in response to Bill O’Reilly’s introduction to the Watters video. _The Daily Show_ segment then aired footage of Chieng talking with people in Chinatown in all earnestness — and in Chinese — for their views on the showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The featured interviewees all gave thoughtful and nuanced responses in Mandarin or Cantonese, for which _The Daily Show_ supplied subtitles. When he asked a woman how she knew “so much about U.S. politics,” she shrugged her arms and gave a matter-of-fact response. “I’m from Queens,” she said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4522515/the-daily-show-ronny-chieng-fox-news-jesse-watters-chinatown-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4522515/the-daily-show-ronny-chieng-fox-news-jesse-watters-chinatown-election/"},"headline":"The Daily Show Finds Out What People in New York City's Chinatown Really Think About the Election","datePublished":"2016-10-07T09:31:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:04:02.854Z","description":"In response to Jesse Watters' controversial Fox News segment","url":"https://time.com/4522515/the-daily-show-ronny-chieng-fox-news-jesse-watters-chinatown-election/","keywords":["Television","The Daily Show","fox news","The Daily Show with Trevor Noah"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kevin Lui","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/kevin-lui/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4522515/the-daily-show-ronny-chieng-fox-news-jesse-watters-chinatown-election/","name":"The Daily Show Finds Out What People in New York City's Chinatown Really Think About the Election"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Fox News Correspondent Responds To Critics on Racist Behavior","description":"Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters has been widely criticized after airing a segment filmed in New York City’s Chinatown containing offensive Asian stereotypes.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/w2LUNTEw/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-10-06T16:06:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/w2LUNTEw.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4522515/the-daily-show-ronny-chieng-fox-news-jesse-watters-chinatown-election/","duration":"PT1M","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4522515/the-daily-show-ronny-chieng-fox-news-jesse-watters-chinatown-election/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```