Nigel Ng

About

Nigel Ng ( UNG; Chinese: 黃瑾瑜; born March 15, 1991) is a Malaysian comedian and YouTuber based in the United States. He is best known for co-creating (alongside Evelyn Mok) and portraying Uncle Roger, a fictionalized alter ego of himself, representing a stereotypical middle-aged Chinese uncle with an exaggerated Cantonese accent who is often seen critiquing Westerners’ attempts at cooking Asian food.

== Early life ==
Nigel Ng was born in Kuala Lumpur on March 15, 1991, the son of Malaysian Chinese parents of Hokkien ancestry. His mother is a homemaker, while his father is a car salesman. Ng, his sister, and his brother grew up in the Cheras district with their parents. After graduating from Chong Hwa Independent High School in 2009, he moved to the U.S. to study at Northwestern University. He majored in engineering and minored in philosophy, graduating in 2014.

== Career ==

=== Early work ===
Ng previously worked as a data scientist at Monzo and maintained a GitHub account. Inspired to pursue a comedy career in part by the work of Hong Kong comedy actor Stephen Chow, he made his TV debut in 2018 on Comedy Central’s Stand Up Central. He hosted the comedy podcasts Rice to Meet You with…