KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng has been banned on the Chinese social media platform Weibo for making fun of China’s authoritarian government.

At least three of his social media accounts on Weibo, billibili and Douyin were suspended after he posted a stand-up video joking about surveillance and Chinese President Xi Jinping last week.

A message on his Weibo account, where he has more than 400,000 followers, reads: "The user has been banned from posting as he has violated relevant laws and regulations.”

Mr Ng, 32, is a London-based stand-up comic famous for his online and stage persona Uncle Roger, a bungling middle-aged Chinese uncle with an exaggerated accent.

Yesterday on Twitter, he reposted a promotional clip of his upcoming show “The Haiyaa Special” with the caption: “For some reason this clip got a ton of views this past weekend. I wonder why.”

In the clip, he joked about being monitored by Beijing through his smartphone: “All the phone listening. They all listening. All our phones tap into it. Long live President Xi. Long live President Xi.”

Much to the audience's delight, he even joked about Taiwan not being a real country and said: “I hope one day it will rejoin the motherland. One China.”

Mr Ng’s full stand-up show will premiere on June 4, which is the anniversary of the bloody 1989 crackdown on democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square. THE MALAY MAIL