"I do that accent sure, but one that’s faithful to what I grew up with," he says.
Ng himself was recently attacked in a possible hate crime, and pushes back against the argument that Uncle Roger perpetuates a stereotype. Ng has received mixed feedback from viewers, with some calling Uncle Roger a stereotype in a time of heightened attacks against Asians around the world. And while the Uncle Roger character started as a lockdown project, it is now firmly part of the quarantine cultural canon with 221 million views and counting.
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Ng, who is based in London, had quit his job as a data scientist to do comedy full time when the pandemic hit and he lost all his gigs. That video, and those that followed, quickly struck a chord with Asian people around the world as a comedic take on the way Asian culture is frequently denigrated and re-versioned to suit the vision, needs, and profit margins of others. In the video that sparked it all for him, his character, "Uncle Roger," watches aghast at a BBC Food egg fried rice recipe, where cooked rice is drained through a colander and other rice-related sins are flagrantly committed. In July 2020 Malaysian comic Nigel Ng went viral overnight.
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