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How did you pick the name “Uncle Roger”?
“Uncle” is how Asians address middle aged men to be polite. Women are aunties.
Roger, Nigel, Elaine, Evelyn, these are the middle-aged names you go with when you give your Asian child an English name. It’s a funny byproduct of colonization. The UK had Malaysia until 1957, when they left, they didn’t give us the new updated version of their English names. So all the names we use are from that era: Charles, Keiths, Tobys, Ians. My brother’s name is Gary.
We didn’t know Kevins or Marks existed. How many Rogers do you know nowadays?
No 5-year-old Rogers running about.
Or an Asian Nigel. When you grow up in Malaysia you don’t think any different. When you search Facebook for Nigel Ng, tons of people have this name. After you move to the West, no one has this name anymore.
When did you realize that Uncle Roger was going viral?
I made the video, cool I have this character now, maybe break him out sometimes. After a week, I was very happy like oh 10k views nice! And then slowly it picked up on 9Gag, Reddit, Twitter, then suddenly everything went viral. Oh my god, people seem to like this character and think this is funny! When I finished editing the video, I didn’t find it funny anymore because I’ve been staring at it for hours and hours and hours. But now when I go back and watch it. I just watched it two weeks ago and still laugh, oh yeah that’s funny.
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Everyone I knew had seen your video. I heard your voice ‘HAIYA!!!’ emit from my dad’s phone, even my Dad was laughing at your video. What did your parents make of your viral video?
It’s the only thing they’ve ever laughed at. They’ve seen me do stand up comedy before, but when I do standup, I speak like this, quite neutral, quite fast. They didn’t grow up speaking English, so it can be a bit hard for them to understand. The accent and the way I speak as Uncle Roger helps them understand what I’m saying.
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