All right, our next guest is a comedian turned restaurateur

turned internet sensation with over 30 million followers to his name.

Please, can we have some of those?

His new restaurant, Kawan, by Uncle Roger, is open now in London.

So, spring is sprung. Let's say hello to Nigel Ung.

Yes, Nigel. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. Oh my gosh. Wow, what an intro. It's Uncle Roger's in there. Guys, how's to go. When did we say hello to Uncle Roger, when they are saying hello to Nigel?

I think Nigel now.

Later, Uncle Roger might show up.

He might not.

If we're well behaved, if we deserve it, Uncle Roger, might be so cool.

Congratulations on everything you've done.

You're born in Malaysia.

You moved to America when you were 20, went to university there, and then stood up somewhere in a coffee shop and decided to have a go doing some comedy? Well, yeah, yeah. You did your research. I did know. Nice, nice. Did you try? Started doing some comedy in a coffee shop near the university. Nobody was listening. Everybody was on their laptops. This is when the term hipster was in vogue. everybody was thinking how cool they are with their little scarves. Which coffee shop was it? Where was it? What was the weather like? Weather, weather was bad. It was like January or February in the date of winter in Chicago. Wow. And it's, it's freezing. Tough crowd, man. Tough crowd. But hey, you got to cut your teeth So what did you do? What was your first like three gags or something? I don't remember. It was bad.

I tried to block that trauma. I bet it wasn't. Because I've heard you say a couple of people looked up and chuckled. Oh, yeah. Out of sympathy, out of pity, I think. Out of pity. But because you hear about people doing their first open mic spot in a bar or something. A coffee shop.

Was it like in the afternoon?

I couldn't go into a bar.

I wasn't 21 yet.

This is America. people doing their first open mic spot in a bar or something. Uh-huh. Coffee shop.

Was it like in the afternoon? I couldn't go into a bar.

I wasn't 21 yet.

This is in America. They wouldn't let you in. Not allowed. Yeah, I couldn't afford a fake ID at the time, so I was stuck with a coffee shop. But like we hear from many comedians, a chuckle was enough to get you back. A chuckle is enough to feed that delusion in the beginning.

So then you just keep going and going.

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