The YouTube hit is the brainchild of stand up comic Nigel Ng, who's in the middle of a world tour. But can he stand out beyond his character?
. But facts are boring. Lau says Uncle Roger has a way of communicating these things in a funny way, where he doesn't come off as a pompous"boba liberal," as Lau puts it.
Lopez-Alt declined to speak with me for this story, but it's a common critique of Ng. Both Lau and Tsao said they felt similar trepidation when it came to the character, but ultimately came around to it."I think this is the curse of being asked to be fully representative of an entire community," said Lau, who is Chinese."I think people expect him, because he's so famous, to somehow speak for and represent the entirety of the Asian community.
"The way his English is broken, that's how I spoke English growing up," said Ng."When a friend puts on that accent, it means they are being friendly. They're trying to be funny." And he's had Malaysians come up to him saying the accent reminds them of home. And it reminds him of home, too."Because that's how we talk to each other when we let our guards down.
Of course, folks in the Asian diaspora have had their guards up more than usual recently, for good reason.
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