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Uncle Roger consistently jokes about his ex-wife Auntie Helen, who is actually based on Nigel Ng's real ex-wife Evelyn Mok. Evelyn Mok, Nigel Ng's wife, has used her platform to speak out against a racist attack she experienced in Sweden. She raises awareness about hate crimes and advocates for change. Uncle Roger and Auntie Helen's backstory, as mentioned in a podcast episode, involves them meeting at a Malaysian food stand and eventually breaking up due to infidelity. It's unclear if this reflects Ng and Mok's real relationship.

YouTube persona Uncle Roger consistently pokes fun at his ex-wife, named "Auntie Helen" — but who exactly is Auntie Helen and Nigel Ng's wife in real life? Stand-up comedian Nigel Ng started his YouTube career during the pandemic. Uncle Roger often uses his ex-wife Auntie Helen as a punchline, roasting everything from her "icebox heart" to wishing that God would "strike her down.

"What can anyone tell me about our friend in the tollbooth?" Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed an official US trailer for the film Tollbooth, formerly known as The Toll, a dark comedy thriller from Wales about a lone toll-booth operator with a past that is fast catching up with him. This premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival and is arriving on VOD in March in the US. Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled, word of his whereabouts gets out and his enemies head west to find him for revenge. Meanwhile, local traffic cop Catrin's investigation into a simple robbery finds her heading over to the booth at exactly the wrong time... Starring Michael Smiley, with Annes Elwy, Iwan Rheon, Gary Beadle, Steve Oram, Evelyn Mok, and Darren Evans. This looks...

Swedish production company French Quarter, the outfit behind Cannes Directors’ Fortnight entry “And Then We Danced,” is venturing into TV with a web series adapted from Henrik Bromander’s graphic novel “Kurs I självutplåning” (“Course in self-annihilation”).

The comedy series has been commissioned by the Swedish broadcaster Svt, as first reported by Nordic Film & TV News. Adapted from the graphic novel by Joakim Granberg and Isabella Rodriguez, the series follows a young woman, Maria, who enrolls in a summer camp for clowns to find new friends and get away from her hectic life but quickly gets subjected to bullying.

The series, which just wrapped shooting, is directed by Rodriguez and stars stand-up comedians Evelyn Mok, who appeared in Chris Ramsey’s “Stand Up Central,” and Jonatan Unge. The cast is completed by Karin Franz Körlof (“The Wife”) and Pelle Hanaeus (“Anna Holt”).

Film Capital Stockholm, Film I Dalarna and Svt are co-producing the series,...