Uncle Roger jokes about China and censors don’t see the funny side

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Hong Kong CNN — A Malaysian comedian has been banned from China's Twitter-like social media platform, days after he published clips from a live show predicting his skits about Beijing's heavily censored politics and Chinese leader Xi Jinping would land him in trouble. Nigel Ng, who performs under the persona "Uncle Roger," last week posted a trailer of his new show on Twitter, in which he jokes about China's surveillance state and begs the Chinese Communist Party not to "make him disappear." "Uncle Roger about to get canceled," Ng wrote on Twitter last Tuesday alongside a clip of his show….