- Hey guys, my name's Nigel Ng
and this is my WIRED Autocomplete Interview.
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- [Producer] Do you know about the
WIRED Autocomplete Interview?
- Yeah, I've seen a few videos.
[beeping] [snapping]
WIRED Autocomplete,
Yeah, Uncle Rogers see the [indistinct] before,
like some millennial [censored],
you just Google yourself. Hiya.
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Who is Uncle Roger?
Hello niece and nephew, it me.
I cook food and talk [censored].
Why does Uncle Roger
love MSG?
Of course I love MSG, it the king of flavor.
It make everything better.
If you can't cook, just sprinkle MSG on it,
your pasta instantly get better.
Put it in everything.
If your marriage not working, sprinkle MSG on your marriage,
your wife not going to leave you.
Why does Uncle Roger hate Jamie Oliver?
Hiya.
Jamie Oliver, up all the Asian food.
Have you seen his egg fried rice?
He put chili jam on it.
Egg fried rice, three ingredient,
egg, fried and rice and you still mess it up Jamie.
Hiya.
Why does Uncle Rogers say hiya?
That's just a slang word,
it just mean you're disappointed in something.
When things don't go your way, just say hiya.
You stub your toe, hiya.
Your baby born with three arm, hiya.
Jamie Oliver make egg fried rice, hiya.
We got more?
What is Uncle Roger's nationality?
Uncle Roger from Malaysia.
You remember the two planes that go missing,
that where I from?
- [Producer] Are you responsible?
- Of course,
that why Uncle Roger do YouTube now,
change of Korea.
What is Uncle Roger's
phone number?
Hiya, cannot give you.
Everybody going to start calling me,
all the thirsty auntie going to start calling me, cannot.
What happened to Uncle Roger?
What happened to me?
I still here.
Nothing happened.
Where is Uncle Roger from?
Malaysia, I say already.
"How to Basic",
Uncle Roger?
Uncle Roger reviewed this YouTube channel,
"How to Basic".
This guy just opened 20 packet of instant noodle
and tried to flush it down toilet.
So many people dying of hunger
and then, "How to Basic", just,
just, just go watch it,
I don't want to think about it.
How to make ramen, Uncle Roger?
Ramen, very difficult to make,
so don't try at home, just go eat at ramen shop.
If you can go to Japan, that even better.
Don't make ramen at home,
you end up making just some terrible
miso paste in boiling water type ramen.
That not good.
Proper ramen, you need like 12 hour, 18 hour, 24 hour,
just to make the broth,
so don't even try, just go out and eat.
How does Uncle Roger make rice?
I use rice cooker.
Do you have that?
If you Asian, you definitely need rice cooker.
If you white, try to buy rice cooker,
because I see how white people make rice,
it the saddest thing.
They use sauce pan,
they eat that Uncle Ben instant microwave rice bull,
hiya, why your rice come from pouch?
It the saddest thing.
Uncle Roger favorite chef?
Of course it Gordon Ramsey,
[speaking foreign language]
Gordon make food so good, he make egg fried rice so good.
Uncle Roger,
orange polo.
Okay, this my polo.
Nice color.
It fit my complexion.
Niece and nephew, if you want to buy this polo, I got merch.
Go to unclerogermerch.com.
I know WIRED, they're going to delete out this part.
They're not going to let me plot my merch,
but don't delete this WIRED,
I'm going to watch this video.
I going to complain.
Uncle Roger
Adobo.
Oh, Uncle Roger recently reviewed Food Network Adobo.
Geoffrey Zakarian, he up Adobo, he put parsley in it.
Parsley, in Asian food?
You ever have that?
That like putting Sriracha in pasta, hiya.
[beeping] [snapping]
Yes.
What is Nigel Ng famous for?
I play this character called Uncle Roger,
he's middle age [indistinct] uncle
who just complains about everything
and I blew up making that BBC food egg fried rice video,
because they really messed up egg fried rice,
such a simple dish
that every Asian knows how to do in our sleep.
For the BBC, you know this
great world renowned organization,
'cause they can report on like Pearl Harbor and World War II
and all those things,
amazing journalism,
but they can't make a simple Asian dish.
When did Nigel Ng start comedy?
I started comedy in 2011 when I was in university.
I went to Northwestern, near Chicago.
At an open mic at a coffee shop,
you just went on stage.
Nobody was listening, people are just on their laptops.
And I got a few chuckles, my first gig,
that gave me enough delusion for me to keep going.
- [Producer] Do you prefer doing standup comedy
or do you like making YouTube videos as Uncle Roger?
- Oh, they're both great.
They're both great in different ways.
Standup, you get the immediate rush
of the audience's laughter.
YouTube, you got to just film it at home,
you don't have to leave.
You just film it, you Dropbox it to your editor,
he edits, you edit, you post it, everything's good,
you don't even have to leave the house.
So it's great.
Bring on another pandemic,
I'll keep making the YouTube videos.
Who is Nigel Ng dating?
Uh, no one right now.
[lips smacking]
[laughing]
Oh God, I feel so thirsty.
Can Nigel Ng actually cook?
I am a decent home cook.
If it's from scratch,
then it's usually just something simple like pasta.
It's annoying to cook for yourself
because you go to the grocery store
and then you have to buy like a whole bulb of garlic
and I'm not going to use like four cloves,
that's it, you know?
And then you just end up wasting a lot of food,
so, I end up just eating out a lot.
I think too, if you're bad at cooking,
the trick is not to continue cooking,
because you just keep repeating the same mistakes
over and over again.
If you're bad at cooking, stop cooking,
go eat out, you know, stop being cheap.
Just spend your money at a restaurant.
Does Nigel Ng
have an accent?
Yeah, a little bit, right?
I think it's a mishmash of everywhere I've lived,
a bit of UK, a bit of America, a bit of Malaysia.
People meet me and then they assume I have an accent
and I have to tell them, no, no, that's just a character,
I don't actually sound like that.
But if you live in the western world,
sometimes it's hard to be understood
if you have a really thick accent,
especially on dating apps.
I probably miss out on a lot of matches
because they look at my Instagram
and then they're like,
"Oh, I don't want to go out with this guy
who sounds super fresh off the boat".
Some people do have a stronger Asian accent,
there's nothing bad about that.
But this is what I sound like,
pretty normal, I think.
Does Nigel Ng speak Chinese?
Yeah.
[speaking Chinese]
I can be saying anything right now
and then WIRED won't even know,
I be talking about them.
[speaking Chinese]
Does Nigel Ng have a twin?
No, but a lot of people confuse me
for the emotional damage guy, Steven He.
We are two different Asian people, okay?
How much is Nigel Ng worth?
Oh, I don't know,
not as much as you think.
I don't have a boat yet, let's put it that way.
If you search me online,
you think I'm worth like a few million.
I'm like,
"Man, I wish".
You guys really think very highly of me.
Every YouTuber, you just get a few subscribers
and then out comes the Bugatti,
I'm like, "How do these people afford this?",
You know?
And then they all live in the same YouTube house.
Are they just renting it?
Is it a rental?
I can't afford a fancy car.
- [Producer] What do you drive?
- Just a Tesla, model three,
you know, the cheapest Tesla.
[disgusted grunting]
How is Nigel Ng?
I'm good, thanks.
How tall is Nigel Ng?
I think I'm five foot nine and a half
but I round it up to say five 10.
That's okay, right?
Give me the extra centimeter.
I know a lot of guys just put six foot
on their dating profiles
and then what do you expect is going to happen?
The woman's going to show up and then what,
you're going to charm your way to two extra inches?
Like come on man, let's just be honest.
How to pronounce Nigel Ng?
Nigel Ng.
When did Nigel Ng move to the UK?
2015
for a woman
and we're not together anymore,
so I'm stuck there now.
Nigel Ng data scientist?
Yes. Before I went full-time comedy, I was a data scientist.
I was doing that in the daytime
and then I would just go off and do my shows at night
and then repeat that for like four or five years.
It was exhausting.
Big reason why the marriage didn't work out, you know?
Is Nigel Ng funny?
I hope so.
A lot of people have come to my shows
and they enjoy it so far.
Just search Uncle Roger tour or Nigel Ng tour.
Maybe I'll be performing at a city near you.
[beeping] - So how do you feel
about your Google searches?
- It pretty good.
We all pretty tame.
Nobody searching Uncle Roger bad stuff.
Uncle Roger quite happy about that.
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