Onkel Roger verteidigt seinen malaysischen Akzent nach der „Yellowface“-Kritik des amerikanischen Kochs

The headline is deceiving. Lopez-Alt has no problem with Ng’s natural accent. It’s Ng’s „Uncle Roger“ caricature that he is complaining about. And, frankly, yeah, it’s Ng doing a racist stereotype. It’s not like with other comedians who are imitating their friends or family members when they do it. They’ll tell stories about this uncle or their mother and then go and imitate *that* particular person. It’s an imitation of someone they personally know. What Ng is doing is, like I said, a caricature.

And something tells me Ng knows it’s racist because he answered back, „Sorry, I don’t sound white like you, Nephew Kenji, haiyaa.“ That’s an uncalled for defensiveness. Especially, when that isn’t his natural accent. It’s a put on accent. If you have never heard of actual Ng’s accent, [here it is.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMubm2I8O8)

>Nigel Ng said he is not ashamed of his Malaysian heritage.

How disingenuous. He’s being critiqued for his performance as ‘Uncle Roger’ that perpetuates a deeply racist-stereotype. Maybe he feels that’s okay, but own up to it. Hiding behind ‘Malaysian heritage’ is gross.

But if it was China who contained. He would be kn his knees saying sorry

Imagine defending yourself after someone calls you out and everyone being mad you defended yourself. I also look for reasons to be upset.

Watched his videos from a little before the whole Jamie Oliver chilli jam stuff. There were some good fried rice based videos.

Was entertaining but then he went super hard super visibly for CCP propaganda and I just dropped out from watching.

Didn’t Uncle Roger make an apology and delete his collab video with Strictly Dumplings to please his Chinese viewers?

As a non-asian person, I always felt a little icky watching his stuff. I had an ex (also not asian) who found him funny so he’d show me videos sometimes and it was just weird. Like why are we watching someone over-exaggerate their accent and speak in broken english while reviewing food and pretending like that’s comedy? I get both sides of the argument re: is this racist, because on one hand he IS Malaysian and born in Malaysia. He’s parodying himself and his culture. At the same time, it’s aimed towards a predominantly American audience, so it feels like he’s tapping into a type of racism or racial prejudice to sell the punchline. At the end of the day people who don’t think asian accents are funny won’t find Uncle Roger funny. It’s true he’s not saying anything derogatory, but anytime your „comedy“ devolves into pure stereotypes you’re really toeing that line. And I use „comedy“ very loosely here, because he barely ever tells actual jokes, and when he does it’s basically „haha I said a stereotypical asian uncle thing“. Maybe it’s funny for people who grew up in that culture or can relate, but otherwise it feels weird just laughing at an accent and stereotypes. Beyond that, as someone who’s really into comedy, it’s so lame and hacky as a comedian to have your whole schtick be a silly voice or racial humour. Racial humour can be funny if done well, but „I’m X race. This is our stereotype. Isn’t that funny?“ is just so tired and lazy. I’ve been to so many sets where comedians rely on that formula for every joke and it’s like nails on a chalkboard to me

I’m not Asian, so my input doesn’t matter much here, but the thing that threw me off about it is that he seems to be upset at Nigel because he feels like the character encourages non-Asian people to mimic Asian stereotypes. Shouldn’t he be upset at those people? I love Uncle Roger, but I would never mimic the accent for a laugh. I mimic my southern family members and have friends who mimic their own Mexican and Kenyan family members. To call for an end to this kind of in-humor seems like respectability politicking to me.

In the video he ends up liking Kenji’s rice and gives him compliments, and Kenji replied to it and left a comment, even taking Nigel up on an offer to make a cooking video together. So I don’t think there’s anything to really be upset over if those two seem to be getting along better.

I’m Malaysian and I do not find him funny at all

You want a funny Malaysian conedian who stays true as a Malaysian, watch Dr Jason Leong (a former doctor)

I always assumed the Uncle Roger character was an in-joke for other Asians, but was universally funny enough for other audiences. I’m not Asian but I never got the impression he was exploiting anybody.

Half of the people in here are fucking idiots. Uncle Roger is a clown and I hate his opinions on food. Also the idea he can’t be racist or being a stereotype because he is Asian.

I was so upset when I found out that dude was putting on an accent, instantly stopped watching his vids, exploiting his own people for a buck. No talent hack

Enjoy your city chicken and city beef. 

I’m not always one for cookbooks or recipes, but The Food Lab is one of my most prized possessions.

I love uncle Roger. I lived in Malaysia and he bring back fun memories

Had to be a ‚Murican