Comic Uncle Roger banned on Chinese social media

Comedian Nigel Ng's Chinese societal media accounts person been suspended, amid what seems to beryllium a crackdown by Beijing connected comics.

Last Tuesday, Ng tweeted a promo clip for his upcoming amusement which poked amusive astatine China's authoritarian government.

He was performing arsenic his signifier persona Uncle Roger and joked that helium was "about to get cancelled".

Ng's Weibo and Bilibili accounts - China's Twitter and YouTube - were frozen astatine the weekend.

A connection connected his Weibo account, wherever helium has much than 400,000 followers, reads: "The idiosyncratic has been banned from posting arsenic helium has violated applicable laws and regulations."

Ng connected Monday reposted the video connected Twitter, this clip with the caption: "For immoderate crushed this clip got a ton of views this past weekend. I wonderment why."

The BBC has reached retired to the London-based Malaysian comedian for comment.

In the video, Uncle Roger spoke to idiosyncratic successful the assemblage who said helium was from Guangzhou, China, to which helium replied: "Good country, bully country. We person to accidental that now."

He past joked astir being monitored by Beijing via his smartphone: "They [are] each listening. All our phones pat into it. Long unrecorded President Xi. Long unrecorded President Xi."

But this is not Ng's archetypal brushwood with China's strict media environment.

In January 2021, helium collaborated with Mike Chen, a YouTuber who is simply a known professional of Beijing connected Twitter, to nutrient a video wherever they critiqued a dumpling recipe.

Ng changeable to fame 3 years agone aft posting a YouTube video wherever helium made amusive of BBC big Hersha Patel for her ovum fried atom recipe, wherever she washed and drained cooked atom successful a colander.

He's the latest people successful what appears to beryllium a crackdown by Beijing connected comedians.

Last week, Chinese comedian Li Haoshi was arrested aft helium made a gag comparing his dogs to a subject slogan.

The institution that hired him was besides fined a hefty 14.7m yuan ($2.1m; £1.7m), a disproportionately ample sum, and has sparked fears stand-up drama could beryllium wiped retired successful the country.