{"id":130841,"date":"2020-02-05T15:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/05\/nigel-ng-review-primetime-culture-clash-comedy\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:00:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:00:11","slug":"nigel-ng-review-primetime-culture-clash-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=130841","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Ng review \u2013 primetime culture-clash comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soho theatre, LondonThe Malaysian standup is strongest when he delivers adroit gags about Asian versus British stereotypes, from dogs to food allergiesAsians do this and Brits do that. That\u2019s the territory of Malaysian comic Nigel Ng\u2019s maiden hour, which made waves on the Edinburgh fringe in 2019. You can see why: Ng\u2019s smooth and confident crosscultural comedy easily sustains for an hour and has primetime written all over it. It is also overfamiliar and not very adventurous \u2013 but Ng\u2019s audience will likely be chuckling too much to mind that.The formula is established early, as our host itemises some quirk of British behaviour, then imagines an east Asian parallel. (\u201cCan you imagine if we did that?!\u201d) Ng, who has lived in the US, brings an American style to his standup: he is slick, smiling and unstinting on gags, which address spicy Asian food, drinkable European tap water and the alarming spectacle of white women on prosecco. Stereotypes are held close, as he discusses the British obsession with weather and imagines himself a \u201ctiger parent\u201d coaching his stripper daughter \u2013 queasily enough. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2020\/feb\/05\/nigel-ng-review-soho-theatre-london\" target=\"_blank\">Nigel Ng review \u2013 primetime culture-clash comedy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soho theatre, LondonThe Malaysian standup is strongest when he delivers adroit gags about Asian versus British stereotypes, from dogs to food allergiesAsians do this and Brits do that. That\u2019s the territory of Malaysian comic Nigel Ng\u2019s maiden hour, which made waves on the Edinburgh fringe in 2019. You can see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}