- The next character I want to do is Italian Uncle Roger.
- No, why?
- Zio Ruggero!
- Why?
- Because “People be fuckin' up Carbonara!
No, no, no!
No cream in Carbonara!
Mamma mia!"
- Nigel, you're not Italian!
- Yeah, that's fine.
Do you know when I'm posting that in my Insta story,
do you know how many Italian people
said they want to see it?
"Yes, please, please do Zio Ruggero!
Please!"
- (laughs)
Okay, so, what would, who-
- "Don't put bacon in carbonara, should be guanciale!
guanciale!"
- (laughs)
- "She crazy, this woman!"
I'm still thinking about the outfit.
Still thinking about the outfit.
- Oh no.
Oh no.
What would the outfit be?
- Maybe like a flat cap.
I'm thinking a flat cap should in there.
- What?
- You know, a flat cap.
- (laughs)
Flat cap? Why?
- "Zio Ruggero was so upset-a!
I almost threw my flat cap on the floor!"
- What do you mean a flat cap?
Like Mario in Super Mario Bro's?
- Yeah, like a flat cap-
- (laughs)
Oh, my God!
- You know when Uncle Roger gets really upset
he puts his leg down from chair?
- Uh, yeah?
- And then Zio Ruggero can just throw the flat cap
on the floor, "Mamma mia!"
(Evelyn laughs)
"You're killing me, woman-a!"
- Oh my God.
Okay, continue.
And what more does Zio Ruggero have?
- Maybe like a waistcoat?
Loose-fitting vest type thing
and then a dress shirt.
That's one look.
Or I could just go white wife beater, gold chain.
- No, that's Greek.
(laughs)
- Okay, fine.
Let's do the classy Southern Italian male.
I've done my research on this-
- Southern Italian!
(laughs)
- I've asked an Italian friend I have.
- I mean, a waistcoat and a dress shirt
just sounds like you're a maître d' at a restaurant,
and then the flat cap doesn't make sense.
- It needs to happen!
- Oh, my God-
- I know about guanciale-
- I mean...
- You have to give me that.
- I don't know if it needs to happen.
(laughs)
- It needs to happen.
Leave a comment, people, if you want to see
"Zio Ruggero, Italian Uncle Roger!"
Or do you just not care?
- You know about guanciale?
That's like, oh, so-
- "It's pecorino and guanciale!"
- (laughs)
- "No, no, no, no parmigiano!
No garlic in carbonara!
Are you killing me?
Mamma mia."
(laughs)
- That's my haiyaa.
Mamma mia has gotta be the haiyaa.
(laughs)
- This is just so awful.
(laughs)
This is sounding the worst.
(laughs)
Please, don't do this.
- I'm gonna do like frame by frame mirroring
of the first Uncle Roger video.
- Oh my God.
(laughs)
Who are you going to criticize?
So who's video are you gonna do?
- I don't know, I just find a shitty carbonara video.
There are tons of them.
- There's so many of them.
Yeah.
But like a good carbonara is good, ugh.
- Yeah.
- It's really, really good.
- I went to a really nice Italian place recently.
So that was what inspired me.
You know, a place in Clapham.
I was sitting there, and I was inspired
by the Italian environment.
You know, everybody eating there was Italian.
- Oh, what if I do Italian Uncle Roger?
I had the best carbonara I've had in my life, you know?
It's perfect.
- Yeah.
- It was guanciale, pecorino-
- Creamy.
- Al dente, yeah.
But you don't add cream.
- No?
- "Don't put cream in carbonara!"
- "No! No! No!"
- It's egg yellow!
What's it called?
The yolk!
Egg yolk.
(laughs)
- Yes. Yes.
- You should do Cacio e pepe, as well.
The simplest, simplest pasta dish.
- One step at a time.
- One step at a time!
(laughs)
- I think carbonara is the egg fried rice of Italy.
You know?
- (laughs)
Yeah, it actually,
it might be actually.
It might be.
- Yeah, it is right?
"BBC Food making carbonara.
Let's see, let’s see!
- BBC Food again.
(laughs)
- "What is BBC?
Is it Big Black-a?
Oh, it's British Broadcasting Corporation."
- Oh my God!
(laughs)
- That's a beat by beat remake
of the original.
(laughs)
- Is it really?
- Maybe, if I can find something that specific, yeah.
- "She draining pasta with colander!"
- "Oh no, she used colander!"
- "No, no mamma mia!"
(laughs)
"No drink, just pick pasta from the pot!
So you get some of the water
and the water will coagulate!
- "Just pick the pasta!"
- "Coagulate the yolk, and make the creamy sauce!"
(laughs)
- "This look too healthy.
Where your salt, where your not enough Salt-a!"
(laughs)
- Oh my god.
- There's no MSG, right?
(laughs)
- So, it's just going to be salt.
(laughs)
Oh my god, that's so funny.
- "Mamma mia, induction-a stove, hi..."
(laughs)
Oh, why did I do "haiyaa?"
No hi, no haiyaa, oops.
(laughs)
- "Zio Ruggero don't like-a the induction stove-a"
- Nigel, Nigel, this is like, you'll just keep making
different uncles from different regions.
And then you'll have like, you know
that James McAvoy film, Split.
The M. Night Shyamalan film.
(laughs)
Then you'll just kidnap three girls.
They don't know which uncle is gonna come out.
(laughs)
But like all the uncles are equally harsh.
(laughs)
That's a sketch, that's a sketch, that's so funny!
What happened to uncle Roger?
- My agent keeps asking me to come up with new characters.
- (laughs)
- I'm pretty sure this is not what they had in mind.
- (laughs)
- When I told them this idea,
they weren't excited to hear it.
- Oh my god, uh.
(catches breath)
- "So you're going to take uncle Roger
by making it Italian?
Oh, okay."
They probably had the same reaction
as vegan slave owner when I told them.
(laughs)
- Exactly, Zio Ruggero is your vegan slave owner.
- Say it properly.
"Zio Ruggero!"
- Zio Ruggero.
(laughs)
- I've been practicing the Italian hand gestures.
Learning-a what they mean?
What this mean?
Everything.
- Nigel
(laughs)
- What?
- This could potentially end your career.
- Or, it might really propel me.
- Or it might propel you, oh my god.
I'm just looking up what uncle is now.
- Do you think that people who are fans
of uncle Roger will be upset at me doing Zio Ruggero?
It's the same humor, the same type of humor.
- This is the worst idea I've heard.
(laughs)
- What?
Look how much you're laughing,
and you're saying it's a bad idea.
Do you know how many Italian people slid to my DMs saying,
"Yes, do it, do it bro!
I love to see it!"
- Oh my God.
- So listeners, please DM me outfit ideas.
I really want to do this.
Let me know.
- But only Italian listeners.
So it's like genuine.
- Nah, it's okay.
Just, if you have experienced Italian culture too.
Send me what you think Zio Ruggero should look like.
- Italians, do it.
(laughs)
Oh my god, I can't wait for this.
- Evelyn won't find out, just DM me.
I'm not going to tell her, I'm not a rat.
- Ugh.
- I'm here to perfect my craft of "Zio Ruggero!"
- Zio Ruggero is is actually much nicer than uncle Roger.
- Really?
It's nicer to listen to, yeah.
(laughs)
It's not as triggering.
(laughs)