Name: Nigel Ng (Uncle Roger) | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #586
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Nigel Ng (Uncle Roger) | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #586

I've got some tour dates to tell you about. I'll be in Cedar Rapids, St. Paul,
Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota, Rapid City, South Dakota, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Rochester, New York, and Detroit, Michigan, all in June and July.
Tickets available now at TheoVaughn.com slash T-O-U-R. Thank you so much for
your support.
Today's guest is a content creator, a restaurateur, and a comedian. He is from
Malaysia, and he found his way to the UK and America by doing comedy.
He's known for his character Uncle Raja, Uncle Raja, a grumpy food critic who
roasts celebrity chefs, and with that, he's gained more than 30 million
followers.
Quite the ride with today's guest. I couldn't be more geeked to get to hang out
with Nigel Ung.
What's the most vain Asians you think? Because Asians you don't think of,
because people think about Asians a lot, right?
Do they? Do they think about Asians a lot? Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay, okay. Yeah,
why? Why would you think about this a lot?
Because I think it's fascinating. Okay, right. Because people can't, some
people can't believe it. They see it, they, you show somebody, like you show a
baby an Asian or whatever, I think they'd be surprised, kind of.
No, they look the same. Smaller eyes, squintier eyes, that's it, you know?
Oh, that's a good point. Some of them are, I guess, if you have a tall baby,
yeah.
Yeah, we got a little squintier, a little flatter nose. That's it, really. You're
all the same, man.
Yeah, some of us can look whiter than you. Some of us can be fairer than white
people.
Oh, yeah, that's a good point, huh?
Yeah, I think we should have the, we should have some white privilege.
Yeah, that's unfair. I'm whiter than you. Look at this. Look at this shit. Yeah.
Look at this honky. Look at this freaking sesame cracker.
Oh, thank you. It's ridiculous. Thanks for inviting me on here, Theo.
Dude, it's a pleasure, man. Thank you so much. But no, what, what a, um, Nigel,
Nigel.
Nigel. Nigel. Yes. And how do you say the last name?
Ung. Ung. Ung. It's a Southeast Asian, Malaysian last name. That's where I'm
from originally.
Yeah, that's a living, you gotta, you're the damn living N-word right there. I
can't even.
I know. It's dangerous, isn't it? Oh. It's dangerous. Yeah. Yeah.
It is. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just a few letters away. It's risky, brother.
That's an N-I-G. There's no A in there, thankfully.
Yeah, but it's, there's enough there. I think we're, like, people would be like,
what's going on here?
Yeah, there's, there's that Vietnamese, that's that meme of the Vietnamese
restaurant.
The name of the restaurant is B-I-C-H-N-G-A.
Oh.
Oh, oh. B-I-C-N-G-A.
Just pronouncing, just ordering food, huh?
Yeah, just call it the Vietnamese. Yeah, that's.
There's one where there's a black guy narrating over it and saying, you can't
tell me this is not B-I-C-H-N-G-A.
B-I-C-N-G-A, B-I-C-N-G-A.
Yeah.
Wow, brother. That's what I'm saying, man.
We try, man. We try.
But I also like it's C-A-F-E, B-I-C-N-G-A, all of the ribs.
So this is a popular sound in, and you said you're from Malaysia?
Yeah, yeah. That's not. In Vietnam, it would be N-G-something.
Okay.
N-G-A, N-G-U, Y-E-N, Nguyen, right?
But in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong, you will see N-G.
N-G.
Yeah.
N-G.
Yeah. It's confusing.
No.
N-G. N-G. N-G. N-G. N-G.
Yeah.
Yeah, I went to Malaysia one time when I was a student.
Oh, shit. Really?
Yeah, we went to, what's the capital?
Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur, yeah.
Yeah. For what?
I just was a student on this thing called Semester at Sea. It's like a floating
school.
Uh-huh.
And one of the stops was over there in Malaysia.
So you took a boat, like a boat over there.
Like a cruise ship. It's like a pull it up.
That's a long trip, man.
Oh, it's a long trip. We left out of Vancouver.
Yeah.
Canada.
That's how I got here. From the same boat, I think.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I just crawled on to your, you know, your boat without a visa.
Oh, yeah. Welcome. That's how most people are getting in, dude.
Semester at Sea. We are not the best tourist destination, though, Malaysia.
You know, we're like a little, tiny little country.
We live well there. The quality of life is pretty good.
But we're not like a big tourist place.
Yeah, I think it felt like that.
I think it felt like the beaches and then kind of,
what do we do here a little bit.
There's nothing to do there.
You just eat and live, live your life.
But are, but are, so don't forget this,
are Malaysians the most vain?
Who's the most vain?
Koreans, man.
Is it?
Yeah, like Korean Koreans, not Bobby Lee Korean.
You know, Bobby Lee's, I think he was born here, right?
He's American.
Yeah.
There's undeniable that God does not have a birth certificate that's legitimate.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
He probably, he's obviously a POW, you know?
Yeah.
He has very POW energy.
That's true.
And he has a lot of trauma, I think.
Yeah, he has a lot of burn marks on his back, too.
Oh, really?
Yeah, from cigarettes, I think, from gambling issues.
But people say different things, you know?
Yeah, but I think Koreans, they're vain as Asians, man.
They have a whole skincare, they're known for skincare.
The whole country is known for skincare and plastic surgery.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Bring up some of that Asian skincare.
There's lots of stuff, man.
They put snail, that snail juice, you know, when a snail crawls,
it leaves behind like a trail of goo.
Yeah.
They put that shit on their skin.
No way.
Look at, look at, look at that woman.
She's like glowing.
Look at that.
Oh, they got some porch lamp Asians over there.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's why I think they already, some people look dead already
because they just are preserved.
Yeah, preserved well.
Bring up that snail juice thing.
I want to see that.
Can we get something about that?
You have to Google snail mucin, M-U-C-I-N.
Yeah.
That's why I have a, I have a joke about this that I do in my act
that it's hard to find Asian pedophiles because, you know,
they all look like they're 12, but they're actually 35, you know?
Why would you take the risk on an illegal one?
Oh, yeah.
You'll find you just molesting yourself.
Yeah, just molesting your people.
And then you're like, oh, shit.
They look 16.
Advanced.
Yeah, that kind of thing.
Advanced snail 96 mucin power essence.
Lightweight essence which absorbs into the skin fast to give skin a natural
glow from the inside.
This essence is created from nutritious, low-stimulation filtered snail mucin
to keep your skin moisturized and illuminated all day.
Wow.
Yeah, it's good marketing, marketing writing, right?
Yeah.
I don't know how real it is.
How do you know it's actually snail mucin?
Yeah.
It could just be water and sugar and cornstarch.
Oh, yeah.
They could have anything in there.
They could have...
Yeah.
They don't do that kind of shit.
I think that's...
Yeah.
That's very Asian right there.
No, it's a white woman doing it.
Yeah, but we learned it from you guys.
I mean, that is cheekbone sashimi.
That's true.
That's true.
We bring a lot to the world.
Oh, that's so wild.
So that's a real thing that people are buying this.
And how much does it go for?
Give me how much for a quart of it.
Oh, CVS has it.
No.
Go get some later.
Really?
$24.99.
$24.99 for over seven and a half ounces, huh?
Yeah.
You don't need it.
You have good skin, man.
I'm okay, but, you know, everybody wants to do a little bit more.
But how do you even farm it out of them?
Do you follow right behind them with a little scooper?
I don't know, man.
Maybe they just have a whole cage full of snails and...
Oh, and maybe it's like the floor has a...
And then it just drips down into a bucket or something.
That's correct.
I haven't thought of...
I haven't thought of this.
Forcing snail to release mucin through harsh treatment like dunking them in
salt water.
No way.
That's very...
That's very mean.
This was probably taught by a lot of the forces in Vietnam.
Some of this is illegal.
Some of the...
Go back to it.
Some of the...
This is considered waterboarding, I think.
Snail mucin, a popular skincare ingredient, is collected from live snails
through various
methods, some more humane than others.
Traditional methods involve forcing snails to release mucin through harsh
treatment, like
dunking them in salt water or chemicals.
It's like killing a whole family just so someone can have like smoother skin.
Many companies now use methods like gentle stimulation or allowing snails to
naturally excrete mucin
on mesh nets, ensuring their well-being.
Wow.
What's gentle stimulation for a snail, you know?
I think just a little...
A little fingering action on...
Just petting?
Petting.
Heavy petting.
Maybe listening to some...
What's a popular Malaysian love musician?
Or band?
We don't really have that.
You can use an American musician.
I'll probably...
Marvin Gaye, I guess.
If you can play some Marvin Gaye.
Some Malarvin Gaye.
Is that fair?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If we had some Malarvin Gaye.
Yeah.
And we played that, that would be beautiful.
Let's get it on.
Yeah.
And you're just touching that snail's back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A few snails.
It's not just one.
Yeah.
It's true.
You can't just four play with one snail.
Yeah.
That's weird.
They move too slow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You got to get a little batch.
It's like, you know how that chess movie where the one person is playing
against 10
chess masters, but it's you against 10 snails.
Oh, yeah.
It's almost like one of those, it's like that thing where those things are
dropping and you're
catching them, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like it.
Nigel, good to see you, man.
Good to see you too, man.
Thank you for all of the entertainment, man.
You definitely...
I make too many videos, man.
That's the life of a YouTube person, you know?
It is, huh?
Yeah.
I got my start.
I started doing stand-up 2010, 2011.
You had a special that came out a few years ago, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I did a release on a Moment House.
Yeah.
Have you used that platform before?
You just sell tickets, people buy it, and they watch it.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
But I'm going to whack it on my YouTube eventually.
Moment House?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is it live performance on Moment House?
Or is it you just tape it, put it up, and then there's a premiere?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Something like that.
I think Andrew Schultz did it here.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, that kind of thing.
And you started...
So were you born in Malaysia?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was born in Malaysia, and then I went to live there for 20 years of my life.
Then I went to university, I went to Northwestern in Illinois near Chicago.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And then I moved to the UK for a few years, for eight years, and I'm back here
in LA.
What are Malaysian...
Because I don't know a ton about the Malay, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Me neither, really.
You don't?
You know, you have so many different races there, you know?
In Malaysia?
Yeah.
There's Chinese Malaysian, which I'm that.
Malay Malaysians, and Indian Malaysians.
And we don't really mix.
We're pretty segregated, you know?
Really?
Yeah.
So there's beef between what type of Malaysian you are?
There's no beef.
We just don't really care as much if you're not part of the group.
Oh, I see.
But it's very peaceful.
It's very peaceful.
Yeah.
So it's not violent, but it's still like, you just kind of stick with your
tribe.
Yeah, yeah.
We try to venture out, but, you know, sometimes it's hard to eat different
things,
and there are limitations to what Malaysians can eat, you know?
Oh, Malaysians can't eat everything?
Yeah.
Well, Malay Malaysians are Muslim.
There's Malay Malay.
They're Muslim?
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
So they can't eat pork, right?
And also in Malaysia, certain restaurants need to be halal certified for Malay
people to eat in.
If a Malay person is caught eating at a non-halal restaurant, depending on
where you are,
it could be, you know, you could get into trouble, basically.
Yeah.
So there's those little things.
But we overall are pretty peaceful, and we like each other.
You like each other, but every now and then there's a little bit o