For those who love comedy, we would probably know some big names out there such as Dave Chappelle, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy and our very own local popular YouTuber Nigel Ng or better known by his stage name Uncle Roger.
For those who don’t know who Uncle Roger is, he’s well-known for his Asian food reviews on YouTube. He made it big when he first made a review of an Egg Fried Rice recipe by BBC Food boasting 34 million views.
Since then, he’s been making it big with shows selling out, his YouTube channel continuing to grow as well as making guest appearances on shows.
Hallo hallo we meet again @GordonRamsay @BBCiPlayer #FutureFoodStars #GordonRamsay #iPlayer #UncleRoger pic.twitter.com/sKVMC02vm3
— Nigel Ng (Uncle Roger) (@MrNigelNg) May 19, 2023
Uncle Roger Gets Banned On Weibo
This time around, the comedian landed himself in hot water after his Weibo account had been banned for breaking “relevant regulations”.
The Twitter-like platform saw Uncle Roger lose over 400K followers. Aside from being banned on video, his videos on sites such as Bilibili had also been placed “under suspension”.
The ban happened a day after he uploaded a video online where he was poking fun at China during one of his comedy routines after saying “China is a good country” and later proceeding to throw a bit of shade around.
Nigel also noted that the clip could potentially get him “cancelled” on both YouTube and Twitter.
Now, What Exactly Did He Say?
It can’t be that bad… could it?
In the short video which promotes his full show dropping this 4 June, here’s what he said and by the looks of things, we kinda see why they banned him and understand why it could get him “cancelled”.
“China is a good country. We have to say that now, correct?” and later said, “Every phone in the house is listening.”
As he was interacting with a fan in the crowd, he says that his Huawei phone is listening to all of us. Funny enough, the fan doubles back saying he’s using express VPN which got the crowd cheering.
“Don’t let your government hear that, please. All our phone tap into it, long live President Xi,” he continued.
As if things couldn’t have gotten more heated, he then asked the crowd if anyone was from Taiwan and he proceed to say “Not a real country. Hope one day you re-join the motherland. One China.” I see what you did there, One China in reference to saying One Malaysia.
To conclude the clip, he did joke that he’ll likely be cancelled after the show and told his audience to help write a good report for him "Dear CCP, Uncle Roger good comrade, good comrade. Don't make him disappear please.”
Watch The Full Video Below:
Not The First Time Uncle Roger Poked Fun At China
Previously in January 2021, Uncle Roger was heavily criticized on Weibo after partnering up with Chinese-American YouTuber Mike Chen who has a fair share of critical views of the Chinese government.
In their video, they did not touch anything about politics as they of all people knew how sensitive of a topic it was and they only merely mocked a culinary presenter’s effort at making dumplings. The video certainly had not gotten the best attention which eventually led to removing the videos from all platforms.
Netizens Show Support To Uncle Roger
Despite how some may view this as something “racially motivated”, Uncle Roger had certainly managed to control the crowd during his show and that did not take any of the jokes too far. In fact, many of the comments about his jokes showed that they do support him and chose from China and Taiwan also understand them as things that are “relatable”.
Here’s some of the comments:
So far, Uncle Roger has not given any comments on his ban on Weibo but by the looks of it, we think he gets the point to probably ease off the jokes by just a tad bit.
Hopefully, nothing bad happens to Uncle Roger and plus, we all know that there are worse jokes out there in comparison to this. At least, this joke got the crowd laughing and didn't entirely spark awkward silence in the hall.
What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments.
*Sources: Visual and Reference Credits to Social Media, Uncle Roger & various cross-references for context.
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