Ng has also collaborated with Patel on a YouTube video. After the video went viral, Ng and Patel appeared on BBC together. In July 2020, Ng attracted attention for his YouTube video critique of Hersha Patel's BBC Food video on cooking egg-fried rice in the Uncle Roger persona. His comedy partner Evelyn Mok came up with the middle-aged Asian uncle character for a sitcom with Ng in mind, and Ng further developed the character on TikTok and Instagram sketches before moving the character onto YouTube. Ng has become best known for his comedic alter ego Uncle Roger, who speaks with a pronounced Cantonese-like accent and prides himself on various East and Southeast Asian stereotypes.
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In 2021, he appeared on the first episode of Mock the Week Series 19, a British comedy show on BBC Two. In his first subsequent video as Uncle Roger, he said he would "keep making funny videos – no politics, no drama". Ng stated, "This video has made a bad social impact.I wasn't aware of his political thoughts and his past incorrect remarks about China.I hope you can give Uncle Roger, who has just entered China, a chance to improve!" Ng's move attracted criticism on Twitter. On 12 January, Ng apologised on the China social media platform Sina Weibo and deleted a video featuring fellow YouTube star Mike Chen who had been critical of the Chinese Communist Party, and who had been associated with Falun Gong. On 2 January 2021, Ng uploaded his first Chinese video in Bilibili, a video sharing website in China. and HAIYAA with Nigel Ng with his producer Matt.
He hosted the comedy podcasts Rice to Meet You with UK-based Swedish comedian Evelyn Mok.
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Ng made his TV debut in 2018 on Comedy Central's Stand Up Central. Ng was nominated for the "Best Newcomer Award" for his stand-up comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2019. He was also a finalist in the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year (2016) and Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year (2015). Ng won the Amused Moose Laugh-Off 2016 and was runner-up in the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year 2015. Ng is a fan of Hong Kong comedy actor Stephen Chow, and cites Chow's films as having inspired him to become a comedian. Ng was a data scientist with a GitHub account. Īfter graduating from Chong Hwa Independent High School, Kuala Lumpur in 2009, Ng moved to the United States to study at Northwestern University, majoring in engineering and minoring in philosophy, graduating in 2014. Ng's father is a car salesman and his mother is a full-time homemaker. Ng was born in Kuala Lumpur to Malaysian Chinese parents of Hokkien ancestry. Ng is better known by his online persona Uncle Roger, a stereotypical middle-aged Asian man reviewing Asian food recipes who speaks with an exaggerated and pronounced Cantonese–like accent. Nigel Ng Kin-ju ( / ʌ ŋ/ UNG born 15 March 1991) is a Malaysian stand-up comedian and Internet celebrity based in England.
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