0:00 [Music] welcome to hottie the show with the horsey and the haas questions today we have our good friend nigel also known as uncle roger sometimes yes hi yeah so is it surreal you're on hot seat it's like pretty unbelievable yeah yeah i love this what is this he spared no expense steve i'm telling you man this is high quality ████ do you like game of thrones it's real swords actually so all right so as you know on hot seat we like to show us we like to start the show with a cold question or to make sure that people leave the video quickly oh the question yeah cold question okay first time huh let's say you are walking down a very
0:51 safe neighborhood rule super safe okay and then someone comes out of nowhere and attacks you like this okay what do you do you just you know i don't know protect myself [Laughter] it's like training training that's the real protection unsubscribe i mean that's just he can be poking somewhere else not just your eyes you don't have to try to justify it yeah it's okay we could just it's just to warm you up a little bit oh okay what's one of the like uh most annoying uh hecklers that you've had to like deal with hecklers it's just been really good they they people are nice so far on the tour but the worst show i've had is that this place in in the uk it's called butlins it's a holiday holiday resort butlins huh i mean it sounds terrible people just go there and drink they're
1:41 drunk at 3 p.m that sounds awesome yeah it sounds like the commerce casino they they they just heckle the ████ out of my worst game i was supposed to do 20 minutes at that show i lasted eight minutes on stage did you excuse yourself did you like you walked out walked yourself out or no i i was like i'm gonna do my time but at the point nobody was laughing they started booing at minute five they were throwing like the beer beer cups i mean the plus thank god it's plastic thank god that's good and then i was like no i'm gonna get paid to do 20. i'm gonna do 20 to get paid by that the eight minute mark i saw a security guard behind the curtain that's just giving me this motion just get off this motion what happened were there a lot of drunk people just talking ████ for no reason very like i wouldn't say they're racist maybe they are they probably are but i don't know but i was i would say they want a very like a very insular they're very mob mentality small town britain they want to see and they're drunk they want to see conor mcgregor yeah no conor mcgregor is not
2:33 really he's irish they'll hate him too so it's not racing how how uh how were you how did you stay motivated after that incident to keep doing stand up um did that not crush you like oh my crushes you for a day but then yeah but it's like you i've bombed before and it's become a great story if you search like nigel ung butlins i have a six minute routine i describe that resort as it's a seaside resort that will make you pro global warming when you see the people there you're like melt the ice cap drown those ████ you know yeah shout out to butlins you know yeah butlins and i also described them as uh it is in the bit as well they were wearing um the shaved head and white t-shirt that kind of get up the skin head get up you know in the uk and i call that the business casual version of the kkk outfit oh ████ that was a that was a rough roughest gig out there but apart from
3:24 that on my tour it's been amazing san francisco a little bit quiet and nerdy but that's the worst so it's fine people come out to you to see you because they like you right on twitter so yeah that's pretty cool you never smash the fans smack sometimes you know own it own it let's go that's the best i like how fast he answered that at least he owns it on like this guy over here joe joe no you sex haver i have a people pleaser you know oh that's what it is you went to school in northwestern um but you didn't grow up here like what brought you to chicago to go to school i just i just got a scholarship you're the smartest book i'm okay i get by i get by did you get a scholarship for for a degree engineering ████ engineering did your parents go i can't believe it you're not an engineer you're a failure man what the
4:14 hell before encourage you blew up yes really but like i just want to do a stupid jokes all day do they believe in the longevity or are they doing that ████ where they're like this is a phase now i think they're okay now because they only one they encourage the only thing they laugh at because they can understand him i speak an asian accent right like mine is a regular standout i sound like this it's a bit fast too fast for them to get they once you start talking about like business casual kkk they're like what what what's the kkk oh ████ is it like you know like it's like the video like 4k is that kind of thing like high quality videos it's only 3k so it's not so good quality [Laughter] and then on youtube you can see the subscriber number so that he's just an engineer
5:04 he's famous he has a full case what do your parents do uh my mom's like semi-retired now so is my dad my dad used to sell used cars for a little bit you know they're not very successful so i have to send them money all the time do you tell them that right what do you tell them they're not very successful i think i think they know themselves i don't need to do you think they pressured you harder because they themselves were not they didn't really pressure me really yeah tiger mom is like a very western asian thing you know malaysia is a bit more chill we're not like korea or china so i grew up pretty good childhood so what motivated you to get good grades i don't know i just like being good at stuff wow i just grew up whatever i did try to do my best at it you know outside of comedy what else do you feel like you're good at like do you do anything else hobby sports pounding
5:54 my fans a plus dude i'll give you a scholarship uncle roger the nigel experience vip tickets if we ever travel together just remind me to get a hotel on the opposite side of you yeah so i can get a ████ night of sleep you guys have an uncle orgies dude [Laughter] you're gonna hear him critiquing oh ████ was better new york oh god what was like the uh most uh gratifying for your own self that uh like came out of the fan ████ experience fan pounding uncle roger blew up what was like one of the coolest things that came about from that i've been hustling for like a decade 10 years 11 years man you know
6:44 you do any sort of creative endeavor you're not guaranteed a break yeah so to be able to do what i do for a living and you know live you know comfortably off it it's like it's a good feeling man so out of your 10-year hustle what year was uh the viral of your content encourage you went viral july 2020 so i started doing stand-up 2011. so i've been hustling nine years and then attend that i quit my job went full-time stand up six months before the pandemic hit oh ████ let me hear i lost all my work i had like 10 months worth of savings as runway otherwise i had run off money and i had to go back to a day job so i said okay let's try to make something work in 10 months so are you glad that you were doing stand-up already because you know there's this thing where tubers sometimes they start doing stand-up after they blow up i think they can do stand-up have you seen tick-tockers do stand up is the worst man i want to watch it yeah it's bad but
7:34 the thing is who's your favorite no i didn't actually what are you talking about dude what charlie damilio that sounds similar to us our friend uh charlo fit he was doing standard flight 10 years and then he was pretty much serving tables and all that and he was and he's so funny but he was just hustling hustling hustling and it wasn't until he created his cholo fit character which is like this guy that's a cholo which is like a hispanic gangster that teaches people how to exercise oh that's funny and then it blew up and then from there it was just like tv show signed by a production company and so i'm so proud of him but it was just crazy that he was just like 10 15 years of stand-up just kind of going nowhere you know and all it took was just that one big break funny talented dude yeah so then he had the skills to back up the opportunity in those ten years you develop your chops right otherwise you get big on tick tock you you do a stand-up show people will come
8:24 see you once if they come to the show they don't like it then they okay we saw him we don't want to see him anymore right but hopefully people come i do have people who come to the show and then they come to another show i told them i tell them the same material but they're still coming they still love it uncle roger because that does crowd work so every time i ████ on different people do you change your set at all or does it evolve for you or are you really happy with where it's at mine are evolving always improving it but this tour the haya tour right now is going to be roughly 90 of the same material every show you come to 80 90 so you worked on it bit by bit and then you developed your kind of touring material and then you're touring with it just kind of like touring with the feature film or something yeah and then when it's done i record the special and then retire the material and then you bring out a new set you wrote everything you have no writing partner or anything no no no just sometimes in a car ride with other comedians you would kind of risk
9:15 yeah and then you come out with new lines or you just you know ask a comedian friend to watch your set they give you a few pointers oh you could say this usa this year but maybe for my next tour because it will have to happen in like two or three years time maybe i'll get some writing help to you know more eyes move it faster yeah have you faced that kind of uh criticism like are you just a ████ youtuber you're not a real stand-up comedian oh yeah definitely there's a stigma there but who cares right yeah i sell tickets i make money and then the people who don't do youtube well good luck having a career in this dance that's a great yes late night that's nothing anything with a shiny floor yeah that's nothing for you anymore shiny floor you'll find yourself on a shiny floor you're irrelevant you're like oh ████ it's true the only way shiny floor works if you if you take it out and put it on youtube then it goes goes viral then the shiny floor but if you if you have too shiny for your
10:05 friend's like nah this is a shiny floor you're not relatable yeah it feels outdated right on tick tock you see shiny floor you just scroll through it true yeah you're gonna see big tits in the ring light that's why there's sticks i mean hey that's very true so a lot of uh people that do comedy it's like their form of coping or something painful that happened and that's like their new perspective if you have to i don't know if this is the case for you but like let's say if you had to tie it to anything that was painful or traumatic in their childhood like what would you think helped you have this funny perspective um i never had that traumatic of a childhood i think i was beating my parents whatever you all were right yeah i was not you were not that's not true they hugged me really hard sometimes it's hard to breathe ████ ass sounds like you're bragging and they gave me money oh too much love it's constricting and i'm like oh yeah let me crack my neck
10:56 first it's like a bear hug i mean that's one way to view it as a coping thing but sometimes if you it's not really that because if you just view comedy as comedy as a copy thing that you do very depressing comedy you talk about how your dad touched you and when you're going oh yeah that gets old waiting for the button is there a button what the dad touching and therefore he wants you to sit in the line oh that's not bad yeah and it's all yeah i know exactly comedy is about like everything that happens in my life right so i i thought two years ago i got punched in london it's like a suspected thing you can't prove people's attention right but i was just on my street you're like you got covered i know he just said you know what you did you know what you did you were just walking along the street god oh ████ what the ████ sounds like an american i haven't gotten punched here yet so that you got wait london has an oakland too
11:46 oakland london the punching asians everywhere is it global what do you think of ronnie chang oh yeah i love him he's so funny can we do that again can you ████ it on him a little should i hear him he's like he's also malaysian yes oh really yeah yeah but he grew up in many different places he to me we have a lot of like similar life experience but i always feel him and he's like the smarter one his comedy is very like insightful i thought he was an australian or something he lives in australia oh is there is there like a particular like um for asian stand-up comedians like a particular type of asian joking that like many do that you just like really don't like these like kind of overrated or played out um my father-in-law loves joy koi for example yokoi is great joker is great i mean ev every that the hacky jokes of
12:36 course yeah uh like if your punchline is just you know a stereotype dance my dick is small yeah yeah that's ████ funny no i was just i just felt like mentioning good funny because it's true you know you love it i love what asian guys say that about them one criticism i get is like people don't sometimes people don't like the the accented character and then they quote this bow burn i'm quote like oh when you do an asian accent is white people think you're laughable now you're giving them permission to laugh at you and then both of that yeah people always leave but don't a lot of people speak like that in malaysia that's that's how you ████ sound so why are you taking uh asian comedy advice from bo burnham first of all we're gonna see a white guy explain you know cultural comedy too and second of all like no like
13:27 in asia a lot of us sound like that i don't think my mom's laughable you know that's uh coming up with a white baggage thing right uh but yeah my comedy is just about everything that happens in my life and i talk about the hate crime stuff i made it funny it's not depressing so it's a funny funny story it was funny even without commentary yeah you just put different music to those clips you had me and my dad touched me i'm like you see your dad touch you other asian kids like why your dad touched you wow my dad never talked to me yeah i felt zero effectively we've reached the 14 minute 35 second mark which this is where we like to turn up the heat oh ████ so um you know obviously didn't come from a lot of pain that's not what informed your comedy nah um but do you have a great life regret something that you're like damn i mean you had a failed marriage uh yeah maybe you'll talk about that or a successful divorce
14:18 it's a failed marriage or a successful divorce and a successful divorce she didn't take any of my ████ that's pretty cool that's why i was still friends you mean like your comedy material or your actions [Music] what if the judge does that it goes she's gonna have to take half your material now you're like no not half of my set you can take the setups she takes the punchline you have to tour together that's a funny reality show isn't it dude take half the material that you have to perform the ex-wife you hate dude you can have it you could have it yeah it's a funny sitcom but then you fall back in love maybe yeah that could be a nice rom-com yeah nobody wants to see a happy ending and so no regrets anytime regrets i well there's gotta be
15:10 requests i think in my 20s right you're chasing this comedy thing and then i was performing so for a bit of context i'll have i had my day job nine to six and then 6 p.m i just take a train up to birmingham a city in the uk perform get back home like midnight sleep repeat four or five nights a week what was your day job uh i worked at a tech startup so unfortunately the san francisco guys i'm one of them you know that's why you know that's why you could do the laptop jokes that's why that's why you know exactly when to say github yeah exactly so i miss a lot of my friends like weddings and birthday parties you know but i think you're even chasing a dream that's kind of the sacrifice you have to make but they're gonna they're gonna get another birthday and another birthday sometimes another marriage and i hear i hear like weddings are not fun to go to sometimes so maybe i dodge a bullet there you know oh you never been to any no actually i've never been to like a
16:00 proper ceremony no no no because i also don't live in malaysia so all my close friends are back in malaysia if i weren't doing comedy i might have been able to like just fly back to my clothes were you too busy for your own wedding no we just did a courthouse thing oh word we wanted to save up for like a proper marriage but then i always i never see saw the value in it and i wanted to get this comedy career going and i'm waiting certainly what 30 40 grand minimum yeah so to me that savings that i could put towards my career now if i want to put on a ceremony sure i can have some savings now but at the time i was a struggling artist i couldn't it's like five butlins yeah i mean that that bad show you did that bad resort oh five butlins results 250 pounds man what's the part of comedy that's uh rewarding to you so much so where you're willing to like quit your
16:50 job move cross-country like live this like nomadic life like what about it do you love so much uh it's pounding the fans yes i knew it i was waiting you're always gonna get a ████ applause here for that man that's awesome we're fan pounders here you ever pull up your own videos with a fan in the room and then you just take her from behind this is hot seat guys we don't ask like ████ stupid i'm gonna try that i'm gonna try that next time it works dude i gotta say one of my favorite things to do uh is you you so you're with somebody new who knows that you on the tubes and stuff and then you pull up your own video and then you start to you start to watch it in the room with them and then you see how long they're going to last before they say something about it just to ████ with them well just to make them think like you love watching
17:40 yourself and it's like oh dude doesn't that get you right there oh just watch this right here all right i'll wait for this part wait for this yeah i think i'll just go soft man see yourself yeah it just goes soft goes off yeah has a fan ever asked you to wear the orange polo they yes they have and what do you say to that you do say you say yes you're like thank you for being here and being naked i'll do whatever you ask for you know that's that's cool that's a gentleman i don't believe you i kind of believe you right now well it's i mean she was funny and i thought it was a funny thing i said okay let's try it you know we just laughed a lot it wasn't sexy it was a joke yeah it was a joke we both know it was a joke she wasn't sincere in asking but i did have someone during sex you just call out roger instead of nigel it was like real that was and then did
18:31 you go ah who the ████ is roger oh wait oh ████ sorry dude fans are ████ crazy so i'll tell you some ████ off i'll tell you some ████ off camera but i i've known many a tuber fortunately and unfortunately and i'll i'm gonna tell you a ████ crazy story oh why we gotta go on patreon guys [Music] you
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