358 - Nigel Ng Returns!
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
There's going viral, and then there's Uncle Roger. His MSG-loving, rice-reviewing, phone-case wearing archetypical Asian uncle character has seen Nigel Ng jump from 20,000 to 2.8M YouTube subscribers during the pandemic. Now he returns after only a few months to talk about what winning the YouTube lottery has taught him. We talk about how he'd prepared the field for explosive growth, and how much of it was luck; how it feels to become a professional YouTuber; how he manages collaboration; what new challenges laid in wait for him; and whether his success would be repeatable in an alternate universe...
Look back a few months in the archive to hear Nigel’s first appearance on the podcast, and join the Insiders’ Club at www.comedianscomedian.com/insiders to hear 20 mins of extra content from that podcast, as well as all the extras from every episode, and the exclusive 60min Zoom Q&A with James Acaster!
Find Uncle Roger and Nigel’s own stand-up @mrnigelng on every platform, and on www.youtube.com/mrnigelng
His podcast “Rice To Meet You” is available at www.ricetomeetyoupod.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Stue here. Just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special I Need You Alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith.com. |
| 0:08.0 | There's a link there where you can watch it on a breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month, including the 800 pound |
| 0:14.6 | guerrilla website, Amazon Prime in the UK and US, Xbox, God knows how they do that, as |
| 0:19.6 | well as loads of other links to catch it on audio. |
| 0:21.9 | Go to Stuart Goldsmith.com and watch this |
| 0:24.4 | show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's |
| 0:28.0 | very pretty. So, Hello and |
| 0:45.0 | this is something of a first because Nigel Eng is returning to the show |
| 0:50.0 | to the show immediately or almost immediately after this year has seen him go from |
| 0:57.2 | 20,000 YouTube subscribers to 2.8 million YouTube subscribers. Now you and I know that I don't tend to |
| 1:06.3 | Investigate people's analytics too much. I don't tend to be I try not to be too impressed with big numbers, but come on, right? |
| 1:14.0 | And it was such an exciting time to talk to Nigel just before this all happened. |
| 1:20.0 | So if you haven't already heard the episode from just a few months ago or from maybe April 2020, |
| 1:25.0 | in which Nigel talks about laying the groundwork and hoping it was all going to go off, |
| 1:30.0 | go and listen to that one. |
| 1:32.0 | You can listen to them after this or in whichever order you like. |
| 1:34.8 | But here is Nigel reflecting on the craziness of the last year. |
| 1:40.4 | We're going to talk about what he's learned from winning the YouTube lottery. |
| 1:44.0 | We'll talk about how he prepared the field for the explosive growth he's enjoyed, how much of it was luck, |
| 1:49.0 | how he manages collaboration, what new challenges he's anticipating, and whether his success would be |
| 1:54.8 | repeatable in an alternate universe. |
| 1:57.6 | It's good gear. |
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