Cheng has won the 2017 Funniest Joke of the Fringe, and a 2023 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Comedy.
Cheng was born in Cambridge to mother Xin, a freelance Mandarin interpreter for the British police, and father Jen, who designed bank security software and whose parents were from Hong Kong, immigrating to the United Kingdom from Beijing in the 1980s.
[5] Reviewing for Chortle, Steve Bennett stated that Cheng had "deserved to win" the award.
[2] In 2023, another of Cheng's stand-up specials, I Can School You, in which he speaks about the education system, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Satirical claims made on this account included the idea that taking away employees' desk chairs would make them more alert and inspired, that it was okay for men to cry if it was about the end of tax loopholes, and that watching pornography at work would be justifiable in certain contexts.