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Nigel Ng

Nigel Ng

Malaysian comedian and YouTuber

Jul 14, 2026

68:07
I know.
68:07
Right? And then she, she said something that was really funny.
68:10
She was like, "Yeah, imagine if you're a British person in the 1600s, 1700s, living in the UK, these beautiful buildings, and then you get to India, you see how they live.
68:19
Why wouldn't you think you're superior?" You know? You, you-

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95:16
Yeah?
95:16
Yeah.
95:17
My, my agents, you know, they always want me to go on tour, but, you know, it's a stand-up, like you said.
95:23
It takes effort to make it good.
68:08
I know.
68:09
Right? And then she, she said something that was really funny.
68:12
She was like, "Yeah, imagine if you're a British person in the 1600s, 1700s, living in the UK, these beautiful buildings, and then you get to India, you see how they live.
68:21
Why wouldn't you think you're superior?" You know? You w-

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95:17
Yeah?
95:18
Yeah.
95:18
My, my agents, you know, they always want me to go on tour, but, you know, it's a stand-up, like you said.
95:25
It takes effort to make it good.
19:06
Mm-hmm.
19:06
I think, uh, more people should use it.
19:09
There's this fear of MSG because, uh, like I said, it's very misunderstood.
19:13
There was, uh, if you look at the history of it, there was, um, a paper written by, uh, at the time, in the '50s, by a, a, a white professor in the U- US, but he was just kind of ...
19:25
He wrote it under a moniker of an Asian name.
19:27
I, I think there's a whole, uh, ra- so- somewhat racist history behind it.
19:31
But, but in the current day, I think people sometimes fear this because they think it's used in a lot of Chinese food, and then they get headaches afterwards.

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[laughs]
41:24
You, your, your, your channel seems like it kind of really started to focus more on food.
41:28
Yeah.
41:29
Well, you know, I grow, grew up, growing up, I think most Malaysians, most Asians love food, and we have opinions, a lot of opinions on food and where the best thing is and what, what is the best fried rice, for instance, you know? So during COVID, I, I, I remember I went full time standup comedy September 2019, so six months before COVID hit.
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I was like, "Finally, I saved up enough money.
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I got enough paying gigs that I can make a living off of standup."

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98:46
Oh.
98:47
You know? So I think we, we, we like that those things, you know, globalization...
98:52
I think when people talk about globalization and see it from the American perspective, yeah, you are, you are losing jobs to the outside world.

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