![]() ![]() 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. 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 comic actor Stephen Chow, and cites Chow's films as having inspired him to become a comedian. 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 prides himself on various East and Southeast Asian stereotypes, and became popular on social media as his online persona, a middle-aged Asian man reviewing Asian food recipes who speaks Cantonese as a first language with an exaggerated and pronounced accent. Nigel Ng Kin-ju ( / ʌ ŋ/ UNG born 15 March 1991), better known by his online persona Uncle Roger, is a British-Malaysian of Chinese-Malay descent stand-up comedian and internet celebrity based in London, England. ![]()
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