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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So tomorrow night, headlining at the world famous Radio City
Music Hall with his generational Triumph Tour show, is Akosh
sing Hello so much having I've been calling you Akosh
for many years, and now I've had it wrong the
whole time.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
No, Okosh is great, that's great. You said it great,
I did. Yeah, you're killing it.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, I was saying Akash, and I was the one
getting wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm not from PANDAB. Everybody thinks I am, but Pandabi
people always say a gosh. So my my wife is,
and my mother in law will never say it okay,
a gosh every time. And my father in law he
don't like me. He did a gosh and some star
doesn't he like you? I you don't. He wouldn't like it,
like anybody that married his daughter in law or his daughter.
I think so.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
By the way, you've been on with my friendnessa over
at ninety seven. Now you guys have known each other
for years. I was watching your interview.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
The thing is, when we have a comic come on,
we try to keep it funny and keep it lively,
but after you know them for a while, the conversations
get serious like mess Absolutely we're trying about talking about
some serious stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I said, well, he's gonna be on our show. Let
me watch just to see how funny he is. What't
funny at all? You're talking about, you know, talking about
how some guy tried to sue you and people are
making fun of you, making funn of your wife. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is he gonna do an hour and a half of
this at Radio City, no wondering. We got to sell tickets. Man,
you gotta tell them you're funny. You know it's so funny,
is I? I wanted to do well here, so I
hit ai. I was like, what can I do for Elvis.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
To like you? You don't know what they say? Do?
They said they want real conversations. They don't need you
to just try to be funny. And then within five
minutes you're like, I watched your interview. You're not funny.
The interview wasn't funny. I mean NESSA, she's a great interviewer,
he's the best dude. Well, I'm the best human.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
She's a lover. I've known her for years and she
she's great. But I needed something funny, so you better
be bring the funny today.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, Well you came in and sniffed me within thirty seconds.
So if I'm not funny, I'm just gonna claim I
fell violated.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't another lawsuit. Hey, so let's tell you don't
beat the table. Yeah, this place is built so cheaply.
Every time you breathe the buildings that starts to sway.
So another great, great uh story point here is you
and Gandhi May both being of Indian America.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's how I got on the show. She calls. She says,
I got this Indian. I got to get him on
the show, dude, truly. I asked my agent, I asked
Live Nation. Everybody's like, we're trying, We're trying, We're trying,
and I was like, why I need to message the
Indian and then I dled her and within thirty minutes
I got a response. Look at that brown and brown connection.
I love that. You're a real one. By the way,
Gandhi E or your great grandfather would be proud.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I think so, No, he would motifies, that's definitely.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He's sitting up in heaven and his diaper going what
the hell?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, what the hell am I created?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Damn? But you know, one of the great things that
Gandhi has brought. Hey, hey, oh gosh, you were afraid
to offend McKinnie earlier and then he just went had Gandhi. No, No,
everyone knows. Now. Look, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
One of the great things that Gandhi brought to our show,
as all the white people to hear in the room
will agree, is what it's.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like growing up with Indian parents. Yes, and what the
expectations are. Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Now you are a comedian, obviously doing well because you're
at Radio City Music Called in New York City.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Congratulations, tomorrow tomorrow, Yes, let's sell some tickets. Yeah, but
your mom and dad, I'm sure when you went to
them and said I decided to go into the world
of comedy, how did that go over? So the actual
initial conversation, my mom was really sweet, sweet. She was like,
I want you to go. I want you to know.
Even if you can't make it, then wonder for the
rest of your life. My dad is like, I think
they're an idiot, but I can't tell you what to do.
(03:34):
But then my dad sat me down. I swear to god,
this is like a few years ago. He goes, I
want you to know. I'm really impressed I'm so blown
away at how far you've made it. But I also
want you to know I would still rather be a doctor,
no matter how famous you get. And then he laughed
and he was like, I know this is stupid, but
I'm an Indian Dad. I don't care how famous you get.
I want you to be a doctor. And I couldn't
even be mad at it. And so.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of course it's a struggle when you start off in
a world of comedy for so long.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So did they did they really give you hell? Did
your dad give you a hell? Or say, okay, I'm
well it would be my mom would be sweet and
she'd be like, you know, Tommy Lee Jones was an
MD and then he became an actor. You could do that?
Like that was like a little way exact, dude. You
know how how deep they had to go to find
that out to Tommy Lee Jones. For two Brown parents
to know the fugitive cop. That's crazy, dude.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Okay, but here you are now you're right. So how
are they feeling now about their son?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh they're so proud. All the other Aunties it was
all their idea, wasn't it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, And
now all these other Brown parents are like, my son
wants to do comedy. I'm gonna let him, cause your son.
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm like, go be a doctor.
That was way easier. That was like a lot a
lot safer, is he right?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
I mean if you go to med school, you know,
they say all the time, what do you call a
doctor with the C?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Average doctor?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
So if you graduate from med school, you will be
a doctor and be able to practice somewhere. But going
into the arts, it's kind of a crapshoot. You could
be funny and never asked something.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, oh dude, you know a story I just remember, Sorry,
I hit the table game. I applied for this job
before I made that. Got it? You did? I did?
I was twenty eighteen. I'm going broke, and comedy is
just like not really working out. I was on all
these MTV shows the year before. That's where I new
Messa Nessa. Those suddenly went away. And then I'm on
LinkedIn and I see a job posting for this job really,
and my wife is like, dude, they would love to
(05:16):
have an Indian co hoster. You a stand up comedian.
And I messaged and was like I do stand up.
You guys, Indians are growing market, blah blah blah, and
I think I helped Mana get this job. And then
they projected me.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I am not offended. I didn't know we were fighting and
that we were competitions.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It all worked out. I'm so and you're so great
at this. I watch a bunch of clips. You guys
are all amazing. But I was like, she's great, dude,
I'm glad they they picked the right Indian. Wait, you
were in charge of hiring. Why were you discriminating. I
didn't even get an interview.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
D Yeah, I was in between strokes at that point.
I remember he said strokes. You know, to say, in
the world of strokes, you can't remember what you don't remember.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So there's that wow.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But so okay, So here you are on stage. I
know you do a lot of crowd work, yes, sir,
which to me, I'm intrigued and I would be frightened
by the way because obviously, and we've learned in these
few moments of getting to know you, you are fast. You've
got to have a brain unlike the brains of most people.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, it just doesn't turn off. It's not good it
doesn't turn out.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, have you ever been in crowd working time where
it just didn't oh yeah, work?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And you're like, ohh and if I, dude, if the
shows are where I don't do well, which can happen
on any given night maybe tomorrow at radio sight, dude,
really might And that's why you're always nervous. It is epic.
It's unlike any because then I get kind of defensive.
Maybe this happened more pre therapy. But then I'm like,
you know what, I don't like you. You're not gonna like,
let's just sink this whole thing. And it's really a
very uncomfortable experience for everyone, and I'll ruin the whole
(06:36):
show behind me, Like if I bought a show with
six other comics, they're all just like, well that the
whole audience walked out, what do I dogs? Yeah? Yeah,
But when it works, it must be the best feeling.
Oh it's great. I love that high wire act. I
love hopefully this works, this might not, and then trying
to pivot if it's not working. I love the excitement
of all of it. That's the most honest moment in
that hour and a half or whatever. The rest of
the jokes that I have worked on that I love, but
(06:56):
this is real. They we're not going to replicate this
anywhere else. You're go ahead. If you see somebody like
sitting in the audience and they look like they like
that face on, like you're not gonna make me laugh?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Like how what do you do to attempt to get
them to laugh?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Usually it's this body language right here and arms be
like you paid VIP to be unhappy, Like I don't.
And I'm not trying to make fun of them. I'm
just like, I'll talk to them a little bit and
if they continue to give me that energy I've learned now,
I'm just gonna move on. It's not like some personal
challenge if one person and like, you're right, that's your decision.
You're gonna do that now. But yeah, before I would,
I would really kind of dig in. And I think
most of my crowd work. I want to get to
(07:30):
know you a little bit and find the funny thing,
Like may they told me Nate's pictures him with the
shirt off on his phone, and that's something that I
want to ask about before I start making the jokes.
And you're showing nude photos of you're his screensaver.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Is him shirtless?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's now there's something wrong with that.
It's truly wrong. Are you in a relationship straight night?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
The check that's trying to get back to that.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I be honest, Well, can I be honest? You know
you look you are. You're a good looking guy. I
would never say you're not. No, you look, you look good.
You're good in that picture, but it's it's not good
enough to be a screen saver, sir. No, I would
never would Oh my god, put your shirt on me, dude.
I would never take my shirt off because I know
(08:19):
what I look like. I look like a partially inflated
air mattress. And that's fine. But that's why the shirt
stays on. There's a nice bagginess to it. You could
you notice the undershirt and then the shirt over that
hides I got the thing figured out.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You could You could tell date is a stroke victim
because he came to take your shirt off and he
actually pulled his pants down. By the way, if you're
just turning us on Akash seeing is here a generational
triumph tour hits Radio City Music Hall here in New
York City tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You're gonna be there, Gandhi, Yeah, you gotta go. I
would love if anybody wants to come out. I got
your tickets. It's not you don't have me Indian to
go to a show. No, no, no, but it does help. Okay,
But what's it like when you go into a show
and it's nothing but an ocean of white people. That's
happened to me only one time? Does it make no?
I bombed, dude. I couldn't not even like I'm on,
I'm not used to talking to white people. But in
(09:06):
New York, every room is diverse. And then the comics
I came up with, we just had diverse audiences. So
I have room of any of one color, even all Indians,
I'd probably be fine, but any other I'd be like,
what what's happening right now? This is crazy? Like all
black people. I guess I did that a lot when
I first started. I would go to like the Bronx
shows or whatever, right, so I'm a little more used
to that. But all white I had never done until
like three years ago, and I was so in my
(09:27):
head when I got up there. It was crazy. Well,
hold on your other than Ganda, You're in a room
full of all white people, four or five white people, fine,
fifty or one hundred and fifty. I'm like, this is
this feels like I'm up here for a different purposes.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You know, there are two videos that always get my
attention when I'm like when I'm online in Instagram. One
of course, is the airplane Fights Remembering. Another is comedian
heckld Heckler. Yeah, yeah, being heckled.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Do you have your go to lines? Are you ready
for people who give you crab because it it's gonna happen.
Like at what's the ratio? One out of every five shows,
someone's gonna give you craps.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So here's what I've learned in nineteen years. A lot
of times these guys think they they're trying. They do
it with good intentions. They're trying to they think they're
helping their show. You're not, but they think they are.
So that doesn't bother me as much. The one that
bothers me is intentionally having negative energy and just bringing
that to me and saying something to try to bring
down the show. You know, now you're just selfish, and
now I will let the anger take over and we'll
(10:26):
just see what happens. I mean, do you always win
with a heckler? Uh no, probably not, especially early on.
I remember one time I was doing a show in
East Harlem and then I said somebody, like two people
were listening out of like twenty. Everybody else is just
talking amongst themselves, and I deserved it. I wasn't funny then,
but I said, you know, I want to shout this
guy out. He's the only person listening in the room.
(10:48):
And then another guy goes anybody listening to you? And
I was like, well, that's it, I'm done right. He's
actually right that one guy lost confidence. Now and it's
zero people.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
But the whole point in the heckle fight is you
have to win the entire audience onto your side and
be against that.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now it is they do want to like me more
because they paid to see me out this guy. So
it's not I'm not gonna act like it's a fair fight. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yeah, Oh they're the absolute worst, I would imagine. I mean,
I know, it takes a ton of balls to get
on stage and actually perform in front of people.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And you probably remember every time you have bombed.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
No, you don't many, it's innumerable. It's innumerable who could
remember such a large number.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But just the price you pay, that's a price you pay. Yeah,
that's just one of your Daniels. The worst stand up
comedian I've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Even tried to be a stand up comedian.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't even know what's talking about that exactly. It
looks like you never tried.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I was gonna ask about a specific joke that you
thought was gonna kill you went out and flopped.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh that happened. So every new joke, you're so excited,
but it takes a lot of like practice and polished
to get the wording right. And uh with me, I
like saying things that you might not want to agree
with at first, and then at the end hopefully you
laugh and agree. But the first time I say that,
it might be like this guy's crazy, and so I
have to try to polish it and refine it so
that happens all the time.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
So one of the things that you put in your
fun fact section, which I would love to dive into
and know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
You yea, it was hard for me, dude, the fun facts. Yeah,
in the same way you did what's the fun pack section?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I asked him, give us a few fun facts about yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Deep things. Yeah, well I didn't give him much.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
He didn't give me much. And I know you're about
to say I didn't give you much either about me,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't have anything gond these great granddaughter. That's a
massive thing that I found out through my own research.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't ever lead with that.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
But one of your fun facts was you are incredible
at racism.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, and I need to know what that means.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm just very good at stereotyping, Okay, Like, like, I
know all white people aren't the same. Like I know
how you voted, don't even have to without even knowing you.
I just look at how many buttons are unbuttoned, and
I'm like, I got this guy. Okay, shoes are not
that could go Republican. But then I look at the shoes.
Those aren't. They're gay guys shoes. Now, if they were
(12:53):
boat shoes, I'd be like that guy. That guy I
know how. I know he voted right, But now I'm
looking at you. He voted left. Scary scared, Look at
scary scary. You're on this show, so you probably voted left.
But if you weren't, I know how your parents voted.
I'll tell you that, am I right? It's not it's
not yours. It's not the same body. Maybe he's kind
(13:16):
of right, but not non answer. It is quite the answer.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
We're very We don't talk on the show about being
left or right, but people just know by stewarts, just
like you do. But go ahead tell us how that
plays into your favorite when doing a show.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I just I'm I remember there was one a guy
in Philly, and I sometimes it doesn't get I don't
get it right. It's not always, but I remember I
looked at this old guy in Philly. He just looked
kind of unhappy. He had a Philly's jersey on, a
little overweight, and I said, this guy's so mad because
the World Series was on the Philly was in us.
He's so mad he's here. And then I said what,
this guy probably just had his union job for thirty
five years whatever, blah blah blah. And then I said,
(13:50):
what do you do? He goes I'm retired, I go
from what? And then he goes the union And I
just knew I could just tell that blue collar misery,
you know what I mean, creeping out of his pores,
you know, what I mean. I could just feel it. Okay,
he looked at me like, I don't like the color
of this kid. Necessarily he got it. I don't hate him,
but he's gonna have to work a little harder than
(14:10):
most people. And I just knew. I just knew, And
I bonded with the guy. He came to the show
months later. We hugged it out. He had a picture,
but I knew.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well, the thing you know and the venue you're performing in,
uh ash makes the difference. If you're let's say, at
Radio City Music, all the lights wrong on you, you
can't really see faces in the crowd. Yeah, I can't
see it, so you can't really scope up the audience.
But if you're in a club, you can see almost everyone,
and so you can kind of read the crowd a
little bit more.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes, I love that. Are you more frightened with a
crowd of fifty or a crowd of fifty thousand? People
who say fifty are lying it's fifty thousand unless you
get used to it. Six thousands the biggest room I've
ever done by far, So like that feels so high
stakes and it's not as intimate. I can't get to
know you. I don't feel like I have the same
amount of time. So I'm gonna do crowd work because
I don't know how to start a show any other way.
(14:55):
But in my mind, if the first joke doesn't hit,
I'm gonna start freaking out in my in her voice
is going to be like you fed up. That's it.
Figure Like you're thinking, get out of this. So there's
no recovery. Now there's there is, But in your mind,
in that moment, it's over. You know what I mean.
You have to like remind yourself it's okay, take a breath.
All these things. God, I'm afraid to come see the
show tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm fighting for you. Oh yeah, I'm a fan of
your I don't know what you've said. It's going to
be a phenomenal show. I was just trying to I
was trying to be humble out there. I was trying
to be humble. But you know what I mean, I'm
really good at what I do. Now. What else was
on your fun facts or deep facts?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
He said that in twenty eighteen he was so broke
he to sleep on his wife's friends couch.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, we couldn't afford to rent. I couldn't afford rent,
so we couldn't afford rent, so we're basically homeless. And
that was when I was applying for this job and
Darney took your job. And when she took it, now
she just drove me to absolute homelessness. And then it
worked out what happened with your wife's called her a
gold digger or something. It was a whole thing online,
so a big thing. Yeah, this there's this community of
people online who don't really like women, and it's like
(15:59):
their whole identity as women are awful. And look, I
love a good little bit of sexism, but like it
was just this is abnoxious, and like he came on.
I had a podcast. He came on, and I just
kind of dressed him down. And I didn't mean to
make a show of it or anything. I just didn't
agree with what he said. A lot of what he
said is kind of corny to me, and I was like,
you're childish. It's just a childish thing. And I think
he's like a six foot plus black dude who is
(16:21):
getting dressed down on camera by this little scrawny, skinny
fat never take his shirt off. Were two layers five
foot seven Indian, and I think he felt very embarrassed
by that moment because it just lived and you know,
every time you would try to come at me, I
would just post that and be like, we've done our discussion.
And then my wife is like me, she says crazy things.
I don't care what she says. They're all jokes. I
know it, and we don't get offended by jokes. So
someone clipped up, like all the craziest things she said,
(16:43):
back to back to back, and then just put it
out on the internet. And then it took on this
whole its own narrative, and then she's a gold there
at X y Z and it's like, you guys don't know.
She was with me when I literally couldn't afford rent.
I was basically homeless. We were on her friend's couch.
And even when you say that, they're gonna believe what
they want to believe. But I just thought that was like, uh,
I think it's a beautiful thing she did, and I'll
always be grateful to her for that. Wow, I can't
(17:03):
imagine what it's like being a wife or the husband
or a partner of someone who is on the road
doing what you do because you are a target when
it comes to some of these things. Oh yeah, I
didn't realize. This sounds like I'm being fake humble, but
like I didn't realize I had any level of fame
until that. So she would say whatever, and I would
never be like, hey, maybe this is going to cause
a thing for you. But then that's how I found out,
and I was like, all right, well, maybe let's sen
(17:24):
dial it back ten percent. I still want you to
be you and let a rip, but a like five
ten percent. Let's dial the bag just because this was
a lot to deal with. Is there a price to pay? Then?
Is there a price to pay for fame? Yeah? I
don't want it. I don't want fame. I want to
be the best comic ever. Fame I don't care. I
think actually this is like a beautiful medium where you
guys are you are massive, but you can go eat
in a place and your personal lives aren't as much
(17:45):
front page fodder as like an A list movie star whatever. No,
I don't want that. We're one level below a carnival worker. Radio.
People know we're not famous people, but you're rich carnival worker.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
All right, everyone, It says on there Elvis Duram.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
In the Morning Show, it's all it's all a lie.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Well, I wanted to circle back to your really good
skill of being able stereotype people because there are more
people in this room, and I would love to hear
the CEOs well gone they have about them.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Your great grandfather is the only reason we tolerate you
guys as Indians. Nobody likes goodrati's at all that we
just put up with them. They're just the food sucks.
It's just you have you guys, ever eaten good DRAFTI food.
There's a reason.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Probably has at some.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Point when we go. Ever eaten a yellow thing that
looks like a sponge and it has some like black
pepper on top, absolutely their best food, and it tastes
like nothing. Okay, wow, I hear going on.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I'm not by the way.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, So my dad is halfer Dati, half Mayali, and
my mom is my rushtrand so oh you got a
whole mix. I know, and I know that that's very rare.
It's to think, incredibly you have parents have a love marriage.
They did have a love marriage.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Did you see how I just picked that up? You
know what I mean? This is the racism in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
If the marriage, I would be a pure bread.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
But that's just step one. Then I start going into
her dad, who's Malayali. A lot of them in America
are Hindu. Her dad is I mean, our Christian. Her
dad is obviously not. That's a Hindu Malali.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
My dad is Hindu. Yes, yeah, absolutely, we're.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Learning so much about our gun. Yeah, I'm so glad
we have a racist in your teacher and she didn't
give me fun facts. I just yeah, I didn't. You're
top tier racist. I'm like, so good at it. If
you're not good at it, don't try be. It's like
insulting to what I do. You know what I mean?
Then you're just hateful. I just happened to be good
at knowing the things about you. Know your faces well,
(19:43):
speaking of your background. Tomorrow night at Radio City, what
do you think I keep inviting you and you keep
not committing.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You've noticed, well, it is kind of I mean it
is tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I just had to point not that thing. It was funny. Okay,
I wouldn't see me either. Don't stop it in your
opinion saying that to me? What will the Indian American
versus other other races ratio be in the room. It's
gotten to be more, which I before is like ten percent,
which I love my people. I want them to show up.
It's probably about fifty to fifteen now, right, Yeah, I
(20:18):
think uh, and I think a lot of just like
immigrant kids in general, like parents and grandparents whatever. I
think you identify with stuff because so much stuff crosses
over that we don't that we pretend doesn't crossover. Right. Oh,
you know Indians, we're close to our families and we
love food. That's like every you just talked about Filipinos, everyone, Italians, Italian, Yeah, yeah, Christian.
All these are nurses that.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm Scottish, which doesn't apply to us at all. Oh,
we have nothing, We have nothing to hang our hats on.
We have nothing interesting, nothing haggis who.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
One good egg? The Scotch egg. Yeah, it's probably invented
in Ireland. Probably have you been to because I went
to Glasgow and now I was like, I see why
you guys are miserable.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Brought me a tour a tourist book from the airport.
You here's from Scotland, your homeland. You should to your country.
It was almost boy, it's like sheep. It's sheep in
castles and meandering brooks. That's all they have.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You are nice, but you guys have not like what
a gay guy wants in a car. Yeah too dreary. Yeah,
I can't have a dreary castle.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, dude, No, but you you're talking about You're talking
about people from backgrounds who have color and interesting stories
and fables, and we got nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
If I did, I could find it. I'll figure it out.
Good luck. Next time you're on, you have to tell
me all about it. You know what I will?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
You have homework now? Isn't that great?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah? Yeah, because he said next time I come on,
So I'm hooking that, you know what I mean. You
might not come to the show, but I'm coming back here.
I'm getting free tickets further the show tomorrow. Yeah, he's
gonna sell it. Scottish people are cheap.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Give me one more fact, one more fun fact.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Well, he actually said it, which is Indian people wait
until the very last second to do things and are
sometimes late. We call Indian standard time, which is, if
you say be there at seven thirty, we'll probably roll
into like eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
If I say we're leaving in five minutes, we're leaving
in an hour. Yeah, it's like a thing.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
It's right, Okay, So he's is that maybe all the
Indian people will come at the last second, and I
appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah. Yeah, and my dude, my ticket sales, everybody was
like freaking out, myself included. And then all of a
sudden in the past week we're like, that might sell out.
And it was just crazy the whole My agents were
calling me maybe we shouldn't have done this. It was
like yeah, But then all of a sudden in the
last week, Indians were like, yo, I think, oh it's time.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What interpreading? What is the most impressive house you've ever played?
Is it Radio City or this is it?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It's not even close. This is a dream venue, man,
this is like the venue. Is your name up pulling
the Marquis Yeah? Well yeah. And then tomorrow, hopefully, I
think it's gonna say sold out. I think we're getting that.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
You got to take a picture of that in frame.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh we're gonna yeah, coming to our studio here, I
passed Radio City Music Hall and the Quay s my
poster for sure. That's got to be just so so
mind bending to see your name or your poster at.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Radio City Music. I'm trying to enjoy it. Everybody keeps
telling me that I think I will enjoy having done
Radio City. I'm not right now. It's a lot of
stress and nerves and all of that. Yeah, I'm gonna
try to remind myself of that. I'll write a note
to myself all these little affirmations I do. That's very corny,
but it helps. But I woke up at three thirty
to day just out of sheer nervousness. I've just been
up since three thirty am. All right, let's turn the
(23:07):
racism against you. Just got a nice racist note. That's cool.
I've never seen a note to be a racist. I
love that.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Actually it's a note from Oh gosh, this is this
is a theory of scaries. He's I've known about for years.
Racist scary. Who's from benson Hurst, Brooklyn, where they have
they beat people with baseball bats if they're different.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
We've heard about so yes, I didn't know. Let's put
this to bed. Is this true or not about about
Indian America's Indians.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
It's just more of a question because I have two
friends that have been bouncers at two separate bars and clubs.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Can they tell me, Johnny Walker Black they know that's
what we drank.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
They tell me that that it's the Indian people who
come in and when they get drunk, they're the first
ones to throw fists at start fight.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I would believe it. So the gene that they have
or not have gene. Don't dude, Jess, I'm doing this
for you. I sorted out. I'm not offended, but for you.
Just walked that last part back. You're not gonna be
happy about that. You were doing great, util you got
to the gene things.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
This is a chemical thing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Don't use it, thesaurus right now. Daniel's good enough. Daniel
walked in. I don't care. Danielle just walked up the room.
My god, truly, I was trying to help you out.
Scary because it's not like, no, here we go with this.
I don't believe this. Okay, yeah, this is this is
what the professional that because you don't believe it, it's
(24:33):
so happy.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
That's scary is giving you material for yourself?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
All right, He's scary, says it's you were born with
the gene. You will fight first.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
If inebriated Indians were born with a fighting Jean, this
is what we boil this down to.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I can't disagree because my my dad drank and oh
this is not good. No, no, no, this is not
this didn't what's happening? You are fine with this one.
We have never walked out on a guest before. Guy
(25:09):
too much?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Would you give us some more genetic differences in the races? Scary?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
I don't know if there really is something different going
on chemically and people's use it.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You just know you just said there is. I said that.
That's what I'm scary.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Scary scary. Tell your head or behind or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Just resign. This is the most fun I've ever had
on radio. Tomorrow night, Radio City Music College, It's going down.
This is great, dude, It's going down tomorrow night. Yeah,
thank you, about to go down showing up. The Tate
Brothers will be there. That was good.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
So if tomorrow night's not your last night? How much
where is tour do you have to endure?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I got Chicago Theater five days later. I want to
spawn at think we're at like ninety percent there, so
by those before they sell out, and then a few
more Atlanta, Philly, d C. We're gonna I'm gonna keep
toring the markets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then I'm filming
my special in October. Wow, so the Wilberth Theater, the
Wilberth Theater in Boston. We're gonna see the special hopefully Netflix.
(26:17):
But this probably cost me that. This is my little
jokes that I made here, so we'll see you're a
screwed man.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Our digital team laughing over here, and they're always so silent.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I love that digital memor laugh.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But anyways, sing on the Generational Triumph Tour tomorrow night
at Radio City Music all here in New York and Chicago.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Where do they go to fight out all of your
tour days? You can go to Akosh sing dot com.
My name is spelled differently than most Indian zo It's
a K double A S H s I n g
h dot com. All my dates are there. We're gonna
keep adding. If you guys want to come to Radio City,
it's gonna be awesome. Uh uh mad. They will be there.
No one else will. It's gonna be a great night.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I don't know. By the way, if you if you
can't spell Akosh say, it's so simple. Just follow us
on Instagram at Elvis Drane show. We'll spelled it for you. Yes,
let's not spell that colush. Thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Hey you guys, this is awesome. Thank y'all, it's all
much fun. Get out of here, please,
So tomorrow night, headlining at the world famous Radio City
Music Hall with his generational Triumph Tour show, is Akosh
sing Hello so much having I've been calling you Akosh
for many years, and now I've had it wrong the
whole time.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
No, Okosh is great, that's great. You said it great,
I did. Yeah, you're killing it.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Yeah, I was saying Akash, and I was the one
getting wrong.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I'm not from PANDAB. Everybody thinks I am, but Pandabi
people always say a gosh. So my my wife is,
and my mother in law will never say it okay,
a gosh every time. And my father in law he
don't like me. He did a gosh and some star
doesn't he like you? I you don't. He wouldn't like it,
like anybody that married his daughter in law or his daughter.
I think so.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
By the way, you've been on with my friendnessa over
at ninety seven. Now you guys have known each other
for years. I was watching your interview.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
The thing is, when we have a comic come on,
we try to keep it funny and keep it lively,
but after you know them for a while, the conversations
get serious like mess Absolutely we're trying about talking about
some serious stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I said, well, he's gonna be on our show. Let
me watch just to see how funny he is. What't
funny at all? You're talking about, you know, talking about
how some guy tried to sue you and people are
making fun of you, making funn of your wife. Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Is he gonna do an hour and a half of
this at Radio City, no wondering. We got to sell tickets. Man,
you gotta tell them you're funny. You know it's so funny,
is I? I wanted to do well here, so I
hit ai. I was like, what can I do for Elvis.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
To like you? You don't know what they say? Do?
They said they want real conversations. They don't need you
to just try to be funny. And then within five
minutes you're like, I watched your interview. You're not funny.
The interview wasn't funny. I mean NESSA, she's a great interviewer,
he's the best dude. Well, I'm the best human.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
She's a lover. I've known her for years and she
she's great. But I needed something funny, so you better
be bring the funny today.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, Well you came in and sniffed me within thirty seconds.
So if I'm not funny, I'm just gonna claim I
fell violated.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I don't another lawsuit. Hey, so let's tell you don't
beat the table. Yeah, this place is built so cheaply.
Every time you breathe the buildings that starts to sway.
So another great, great uh story point here is you
and Gandhi May both being of Indian America.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That's how I got on the show. She calls. She says,
I got this Indian. I got to get him on
the show, dude, truly. I asked my agent, I asked
Live Nation. Everybody's like, we're trying, We're trying, We're trying,
and I was like, why I need to message the
Indian and then I dled her and within thirty minutes
I got a response. Look at that brown and brown connection.
I love that. You're a real one. By the way,
Gandhi E or your great grandfather would be proud.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Oh thank you?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I think so, No, he would motifies, that's definitely.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He's sitting up in heaven and his diaper going what
the hell?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, what the hell am I created?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Damn? But you know, one of the great things that
Gandhi has brought. Hey, hey, oh gosh, you were afraid
to offend McKinnie earlier and then he just went had Gandhi. No, No,
everyone knows. Now. Look, here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
One of the great things that Gandhi brought to our show,
as all the white people to hear in the room
will agree, is what it's.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Like growing up with Indian parents. Yes, and what the
expectations are. Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Now you are a comedian, obviously doing well because you're
at Radio City Music Called in New York City.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Congratulations, tomorrow tomorrow, Yes, let's sell some tickets. Yeah, but
your mom and dad, I'm sure when you went to
them and said I decided to go into the world
of comedy, how did that go over? So the actual
initial conversation, my mom was really sweet, sweet. She was like,
I want you to go. I want you to know.
Even if you can't make it, then wonder for the
rest of your life. My dad is like, I think
they're an idiot, but I can't tell you what to do.
(03:34):
But then my dad sat me down. I swear to god,
this is like a few years ago. He goes, I
want you to know. I'm really impressed I'm so blown
away at how far you've made it. But I also
want you to know I would still rather be a doctor,
no matter how famous you get. And then he laughed
and he was like, I know this is stupid, but
I'm an Indian Dad. I don't care how famous you get.
I want you to be a doctor. And I couldn't
even be mad at it. And so.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Of course it's a struggle when you start off in
a world of comedy for so long.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So did they did they really give you hell? Did
your dad give you a hell? Or say, okay, I'm
well it would be my mom would be sweet and
she'd be like, you know, Tommy Lee Jones was an
MD and then he became an actor. You could do that?
Like that was like a little way exact, dude. You
know how how deep they had to go to find
that out to Tommy Lee Jones. For two Brown parents
to know the fugitive cop. That's crazy, dude.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Okay, but here you are now you're right. So how
are they feeling now about their son?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Oh they're so proud. All the other Aunties it was
all their idea, wasn't it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, And
now all these other Brown parents are like, my son
wants to do comedy. I'm gonna let him, cause your son.
I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm like, go be a doctor.
That was way easier. That was like a lot a
lot safer, is he right?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
I mean if you go to med school, you know,
they say all the time, what do you call a
doctor with the C?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Average doctor?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
So if you graduate from med school, you will be
a doctor and be able to practice somewhere. But going
into the arts, it's kind of a crapshoot. You could
be funny and never asked something.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, oh dude, you know a story I just remember, Sorry,
I hit the table game. I applied for this job
before I made that. Got it? You did? I did?
I was twenty eighteen. I'm going broke, and comedy is
just like not really working out. I was on all
these MTV shows the year before. That's where I new
Messa Nessa. Those suddenly went away. And then I'm on
LinkedIn and I see a job posting for this job really,
and my wife is like, dude, they would love to
(05:16):
have an Indian co hoster. You a stand up comedian.
And I messaged and was like I do stand up.
You guys, Indians are growing market, blah blah blah, and
I think I helped Mana get this job. And then
they projected me.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I am not offended. I didn't know we were fighting and
that we were competitions.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It all worked out. I'm so and you're so great
at this. I watch a bunch of clips. You guys
are all amazing. But I was like, she's great, dude,
I'm glad they they picked the right Indian. Wait, you
were in charge of hiring. Why were you discriminating. I
didn't even get an interview.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
D Yeah, I was in between strokes at that point.
I remember he said strokes. You know, to say, in
the world of strokes, you can't remember what you don't remember.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So there's that wow.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
But so okay, So here you are on stage. I
know you do a lot of crowd work, yes, sir,
which to me, I'm intrigued and I would be frightened
by the way because obviously, and we've learned in these
few moments of getting to know you, you are fast. You've
got to have a brain unlike the brains of most people.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, it just doesn't turn off. It's not good it
doesn't turn out.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Yeah, have you ever been in crowd working time where
it just didn't oh yeah, work?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
And you're like, ohh and if I, dude, if the
shows are where I don't do well, which can happen
on any given night maybe tomorrow at radio sight, dude,
really might And that's why you're always nervous. It is epic.
It's unlike any because then I get kind of defensive.
Maybe this happened more pre therapy. But then I'm like,
you know what, I don't like you. You're not gonna like,
let's just sink this whole thing. And it's really a
very uncomfortable experience for everyone, and I'll ruin the whole
(06:36):
show behind me, Like if I bought a show with
six other comics, they're all just like, well that the
whole audience walked out, what do I dogs? Yeah? Yeah,
But when it works, it must be the best feeling.
Oh it's great. I love that high wire act. I
love hopefully this works, this might not, and then trying
to pivot if it's not working. I love the excitement
of all of it. That's the most honest moment in
that hour and a half or whatever. The rest of
the jokes that I have worked on that I love, but
(06:56):
this is real. They we're not going to replicate this
anywhere else. You're go ahead. If you see somebody like
sitting in the audience and they look like they like
that face on, like you're not gonna make me laugh?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Like how what do you do to attempt to get
them to laugh?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Usually it's this body language right here and arms be
like you paid VIP to be unhappy, Like I don't.
And I'm not trying to make fun of them. I'm
just like, I'll talk to them a little bit and
if they continue to give me that energy I've learned now,
I'm just gonna move on. It's not like some personal
challenge if one person and like, you're right, that's your decision.
You're gonna do that now. But yeah, before I would,
I would really kind of dig in. And I think
most of my crowd work. I want to get to
(07:30):
know you a little bit and find the funny thing,
Like may they told me Nate's pictures him with the
shirt off on his phone, and that's something that I
want to ask about before I start making the jokes.
And you're showing nude photos of you're his screensaver.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Is him shirtless?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, it's now there's something wrong with that.
It's truly wrong. Are you in a relationship straight night?
Speaker 4 (07:53):
The check that's trying to get back to that.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I be honest, Well, can I be honest? You know
you look you are. You're a good looking guy. I
would never say you're not. No, you look, you look good.
You're good in that picture, but it's it's not good
enough to be a screen saver, sir. No, I would
never would Oh my god, put your shirt on me, dude.
I would never take my shirt off because I know
(08:19):
what I look like. I look like a partially inflated
air mattress. And that's fine. But that's why the shirt
stays on. There's a nice bagginess to it. You could
you notice the undershirt and then the shirt over that
hides I got the thing figured out.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
You could You could tell date is a stroke victim
because he came to take your shirt off and he
actually pulled his pants down. By the way, if you're
just turning us on Akash seeing is here a generational
triumph tour hits Radio City Music Hall here in New
York City tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You're gonna be there, Gandhi, Yeah, you gotta go. I
would love if anybody wants to come out. I got
your tickets. It's not you don't have me Indian to
go to a show. No, no, no, but it does help. Okay,
But what's it like when you go into a show
and it's nothing but an ocean of white people. That's
happened to me only one time? Does it make no?
I bombed, dude. I couldn't not even like I'm on,
I'm not used to talking to white people. But in
(09:06):
New York, every room is diverse. And then the comics
I came up with, we just had diverse audiences. So
I have room of any of one color, even all Indians,
I'd probably be fine, but any other I'd be like,
what what's happening right now? This is crazy? Like all
black people. I guess I did that a lot when
I first started. I would go to like the Bronx
shows or whatever, right, so I'm a little more used
to that. But all white I had never done until
like three years ago, and I was so in my
(09:27):
head when I got up there. It was crazy. Well,
hold on your other than Ganda, You're in a room
full of all white people, four or five white people, fine,
fifty or one hundred and fifty. I'm like, this is
this feels like I'm up here for a different purposes.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
You know, there are two videos that always get my
attention when I'm like when I'm online in Instagram. One
of course, is the airplane Fights Remembering. Another is comedian
heckld Heckler. Yeah, yeah, being heckled.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Do you have your go to lines? Are you ready
for people who give you crab because it it's gonna happen.
Like at what's the ratio? One out of every five shows,
someone's gonna give you craps.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
So here's what I've learned in nineteen years. A lot
of times these guys think they they're trying. They do
it with good intentions. They're trying to they think they're
helping their show. You're not, but they think they are.
So that doesn't bother me as much. The one that
bothers me is intentionally having negative energy and just bringing
that to me and saying something to try to bring
down the show. You know, now you're just selfish, and
now I will let the anger take over and we'll
(10:26):
just see what happens. I mean, do you always win
with a heckler? Uh no, probably not, especially early on.
I remember one time I was doing a show in
East Harlem and then I said somebody, like two people
were listening out of like twenty. Everybody else is just
talking amongst themselves, and I deserved it. I wasn't funny then,
but I said, you know, I want to shout this
guy out. He's the only person listening in the room.
(10:48):
And then another guy goes anybody listening to you? And
I was like, well, that's it, I'm done right. He's
actually right that one guy lost confidence. Now and it's
zero people.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
But the whole point in the heckle fight is you
have to win the entire audience onto your side and
be against that.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Now it is they do want to like me more
because they paid to see me out this guy. So
it's not I'm not gonna act like it's a fair fight. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yeah, Oh they're the absolute worst, I would imagine. I mean,
I know, it takes a ton of balls to get
on stage and actually perform in front of people.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And you probably remember every time you have bombed.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
No, you don't many, it's innumerable. It's innumerable who could
remember such a large number.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
But just the price you pay, that's a price you pay. Yeah,
that's just one of your Daniels. The worst stand up
comedian I've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Even tried to be a stand up comedian.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't even know what's talking about that exactly. It
looks like you never tried.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I was gonna ask about a specific joke that you
thought was gonna kill you went out and flopped.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh that happened. So every new joke, you're so excited,
but it takes a lot of like practice and polished
to get the wording right. And uh with me, I
like saying things that you might not want to agree
with at first, and then at the end hopefully you
laugh and agree. But the first time I say that,
it might be like this guy's crazy, and so I
have to try to polish it and refine it so
that happens all the time.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
So one of the things that you put in your
fun fact section, which I would love to dive into
and know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
You yea, it was hard for me, dude, the fun facts. Yeah,
in the same way you did what's the fun pack section?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I asked him, give us a few fun facts about yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Deep things. Yeah, well I didn't give him much.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
He didn't give me much. And I know you're about
to say I didn't give you much either about me,
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't have anything gond these great granddaughter. That's a
massive thing that I found out through my own research.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I don't ever lead with that.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
But one of your fun facts was you are incredible
at racism.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, and I need to know what that means.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm just very good at stereotyping, Okay, Like, like, I
know all white people aren't the same. Like I know
how you voted, don't even have to without even knowing you.
I just look at how many buttons are unbuttoned, and
I'm like, I got this guy. Okay, shoes are not
that could go Republican. But then I look at the shoes.
Those aren't. They're gay guys shoes. Now, if they were
(12:53):
boat shoes, I'd be like that guy. That guy I
know how. I know he voted right, But now I'm
looking at you. He voted left. Scary scared, Look at
scary scary. You're on this show, so you probably voted left.
But if you weren't, I know how your parents voted.
I'll tell you that, am I right? It's not it's
not yours. It's not the same body. Maybe he's kind
(13:16):
of right, but not non answer. It is quite the answer.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
We're very We don't talk on the show about being
left or right, but people just know by stewarts, just
like you do. But go ahead tell us how that
plays into your favorite when doing a show.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I just I'm I remember there was one a guy
in Philly, and I sometimes it doesn't get I don't
get it right. It's not always, but I remember I
looked at this old guy in Philly. He just looked
kind of unhappy. He had a Philly's jersey on, a
little overweight, and I said, this guy's so mad because
the World Series was on the Philly was in us.
He's so mad he's here. And then I said what,
this guy probably just had his union job for thirty
five years whatever, blah blah blah. And then I said,
(13:50):
what do you do? He goes I'm retired, I go
from what? And then he goes the union And I
just knew I could just tell that blue collar misery,
you know what I mean, creeping out of his pores,
you know, what I mean. I could just feel it. Okay,
he looked at me like, I don't like the color
of this kid. Necessarily he got it. I don't hate him,
but he's gonna have to work a little harder than
(14:10):
most people. And I just knew. I just knew, And
I bonded with the guy. He came to the show
months later. We hugged it out. He had a picture,
but I knew.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Well, the thing you know and the venue you're performing in,
uh ash makes the difference. If you're let's say, at
Radio City Music, all the lights wrong on you, you
can't really see faces in the crowd. Yeah, I can't
see it, so you can't really scope up the audience.
But if you're in a club, you can see almost everyone,
and so you can kind of read the crowd a
little bit more.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yes, I love that. Are you more frightened with a
crowd of fifty or a crowd of fifty thousand? People
who say fifty are lying it's fifty thousand unless you
get used to it. Six thousands the biggest room I've
ever done by far, So like that feels so high
stakes and it's not as intimate. I can't get to
know you. I don't feel like I have the same
amount of time. So I'm gonna do crowd work because
I don't know how to start a show any other way.
(14:55):
But in my mind, if the first joke doesn't hit,
I'm gonna start freaking out in my in her voice
is going to be like you fed up. That's it.
Figure Like you're thinking, get out of this. So there's
no recovery. Now there's there is, But in your mind,
in that moment, it's over. You know what I mean.
You have to like remind yourself it's okay, take a breath.
All these things. God, I'm afraid to come see the
show tomorrow night.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I'm excited.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I'm fighting for you. Oh yeah, I'm a fan of
your I don't know what you've said. It's going to
be a phenomenal show. I was just trying to I
was trying to be humble out there. I was trying
to be humble. But you know what I mean, I'm
really good at what I do. Now. What else was
on your fun facts or deep facts?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:32):
He said that in twenty eighteen he was so broke
he to sleep on his wife's friends couch.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, we couldn't afford to rent. I couldn't afford rent,
so we couldn't afford rent, so we're basically homeless. And
that was when I was applying for this job and
Darney took your job. And when she took it, now
she just drove me to absolute homelessness. And then it
worked out what happened with your wife's called her a
gold digger or something. It was a whole thing online,
so a big thing. Yeah, this there's this community of
people online who don't really like women, and it's like
(15:59):
their whole identity as women are awful. And look, I
love a good little bit of sexism, but like it
was just this is abnoxious, and like he came on.
I had a podcast. He came on, and I just
kind of dressed him down. And I didn't mean to
make a show of it or anything. I just didn't
agree with what he said. A lot of what he
said is kind of corny to me, and I was like,
you're childish. It's just a childish thing. And I think
he's like a six foot plus black dude who is
(16:21):
getting dressed down on camera by this little scrawny, skinny
fat never take his shirt off. Were two layers five
foot seven Indian, and I think he felt very embarrassed
by that moment because it just lived and you know,
every time you would try to come at me, I
would just post that and be like, we've done our discussion.
And then my wife is like me, she says crazy things.
I don't care what she says. They're all jokes. I
know it, and we don't get offended by jokes. So
someone clipped up, like all the craziest things she said,
(16:43):
back to back to back, and then just put it
out on the internet. And then it took on this
whole its own narrative, and then she's a gold there
at X y Z and it's like, you guys don't know.
She was with me when I literally couldn't afford rent.
I was basically homeless. We were on her friend's couch.
And even when you say that, they're gonna believe what
they want to believe. But I just thought that was like, uh,
I think it's a beautiful thing she did, and I'll
always be grateful to her for that. Wow, I can't
(17:03):
imagine what it's like being a wife or the husband
or a partner of someone who is on the road
doing what you do because you are a target when
it comes to some of these things. Oh yeah, I
didn't realize. This sounds like I'm being fake humble, but
like I didn't realize I had any level of fame
until that. So she would say whatever, and I would
never be like, hey, maybe this is going to cause
a thing for you. But then that's how I found out,
and I was like, all right, well, maybe let's sen
(17:24):
dial it back ten percent. I still want you to
be you and let a rip, but a like five
ten percent. Let's dial the bag just because this was
a lot to deal with. Is there a price to pay? Then?
Is there a price to pay for fame? Yeah? I
don't want it. I don't want fame. I want to
be the best comic ever. Fame I don't care. I
think actually this is like a beautiful medium where you
guys are you are massive, but you can go eat
in a place and your personal lives aren't as much
(17:45):
front page fodder as like an A list movie star whatever. No,
I don't want that. We're one level below a carnival worker. Radio.
People know we're not famous people, but you're rich carnival worker.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
All right, everyone, It says on there Elvis Duram.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
In the Morning Show, it's all it's all a lie.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Well, I wanted to circle back to your really good
skill of being able stereotype people because there are more
people in this room, and I would love to hear
the CEOs well gone they have about them.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Your great grandfather is the only reason we tolerate you
guys as Indians. Nobody likes goodrati's at all that we
just put up with them. They're just the food sucks.
It's just you have you guys, ever eaten good DRAFTI food.
There's a reason.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Probably has at some.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Point when we go. Ever eaten a yellow thing that
looks like a sponge and it has some like black
pepper on top, absolutely their best food, and it tastes
like nothing. Okay, wow, I hear going on.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I'm not by the way.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Yeah, So my dad is halfer Dati, half Mayali, and
my mom is my rushtrand so oh you got a
whole mix. I know, and I know that that's very rare.
It's to think, incredibly you have parents have a love marriage.
They did have a love marriage.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Did you see how I just picked that up? You
know what I mean? This is the racism in the world.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
If the marriage, I would be a pure bread.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
But that's just step one. Then I start going into
her dad, who's Malayali. A lot of them in America
are Hindu. Her dad is I mean, our Christian. Her
dad is obviously not. That's a Hindu Malali.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
My dad is Hindu. Yes, yeah, absolutely, we're.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Learning so much about our gun. Yeah, I'm so glad
we have a racist in your teacher and she didn't
give me fun facts. I just yeah, I didn't. You're
top tier racist. I'm like, so good at it. If
you're not good at it, don't try be. It's like
insulting to what I do. You know what I mean?
Then you're just hateful. I just happened to be good
at knowing the things about you. Know your faces well,
(19:43):
speaking of your background. Tomorrow night at Radio City, what
do you think I keep inviting you and you keep
not committing.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You've noticed, well, it is kind of I mean it
is tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I just had to point not that thing. It was funny. Okay,
I wouldn't see me either. Don't stop it in your
opinion saying that to me? What will the Indian American
versus other other races ratio be in the room. It's
gotten to be more, which I before is like ten percent,
which I love my people. I want them to show up.
It's probably about fifty to fifteen now, right, Yeah, I
(20:18):
think uh, and I think a lot of just like
immigrant kids in general, like parents and grandparents whatever. I
think you identify with stuff because so much stuff crosses
over that we don't that we pretend doesn't crossover. Right. Oh,
you know Indians, we're close to our families and we
love food. That's like every you just talked about Filipinos, everyone, Italians, Italian, Yeah, yeah, Christian.
All these are nurses that.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I'm Scottish, which doesn't apply to us at all. Oh,
we have nothing, We have nothing to hang our hats on.
We have nothing interesting, nothing haggis who.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
One good egg? The Scotch egg. Yeah, it's probably invented
in Ireland. Probably have you been to because I went
to Glasgow and now I was like, I see why
you guys are miserable.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Brought me a tour a tourist book from the airport.
You here's from Scotland, your homeland. You should to your country.
It was almost boy, it's like sheep. It's sheep in
castles and meandering brooks. That's all they have.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You are nice, but you guys have not like what
a gay guy wants in a car. Yeah too dreary. Yeah,
I can't have a dreary castle.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, dude, No, but you you're talking about You're talking
about people from backgrounds who have color and interesting stories
and fables, and we got nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
If I did, I could find it. I'll figure it out.
Good luck. Next time you're on, you have to tell
me all about it. You know what I will?
Speaker 4 (21:31):
You have homework now? Isn't that great?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah? Yeah, because he said next time I come on,
So I'm hooking that, you know what I mean. You
might not come to the show, but I'm coming back here.
I'm getting free tickets further the show tomorrow. Yeah, he's
gonna sell it. Scottish people are cheap.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Give me one more fact, one more fun fact.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Well, he actually said it, which is Indian people wait
until the very last second to do things and are
sometimes late. We call Indian standard time, which is, if
you say be there at seven thirty, we'll probably roll
into like eight thirty.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
If I say we're leaving in five minutes, we're leaving
in an hour. Yeah, it's like a thing.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
It's right, Okay, So he's is that maybe all the
Indian people will come at the last second, and I
appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah. Yeah, and my dude, my ticket sales, everybody was
like freaking out, myself included. And then all of a
sudden in the past week we're like, that might sell out.
And it was just crazy the whole My agents were
calling me maybe we shouldn't have done this. It was
like yeah, But then all of a sudden in the
last week, Indians were like, yo, I think, oh it's time.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
What interpreading? What is the most impressive house you've ever played?
Is it Radio City or this is it?
Speaker 2 (22:23):
It's not even close. This is a dream venue, man,
this is like the venue. Is your name up pulling
the Marquis Yeah? Well yeah. And then tomorrow, hopefully, I
think it's gonna say sold out. I think we're getting that.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
You got to take a picture of that in frame.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Oh we're gonna yeah, coming to our studio here, I
passed Radio City Music Hall and the Quay s my
poster for sure. That's got to be just so so
mind bending to see your name or your poster at.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Radio City Music. I'm trying to enjoy it. Everybody keeps
telling me that I think I will enjoy having done
Radio City. I'm not right now. It's a lot of
stress and nerves and all of that. Yeah, I'm gonna
try to remind myself of that. I'll write a note
to myself all these little affirmations I do. That's very corny,
but it helps. But I woke up at three thirty
to day just out of sheer nervousness. I've just been
up since three thirty am. All right, let's turn the
(23:07):
racism against you. Just got a nice racist note. That's cool.
I've never seen a note to be a racist. I
love that.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Actually it's a note from Oh gosh, this is this
is a theory of scaries. He's I've known about for years.
Racist scary. Who's from benson Hurst, Brooklyn, where they have
they beat people with baseball bats if they're different.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
We've heard about so yes, I didn't know. Let's put
this to bed. Is this true or not about about
Indian America's Indians.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
It's just more of a question because I have two
friends that have been bouncers at two separate bars and clubs.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Can they tell me, Johnny Walker Black they know that's
what we drank.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
They tell me that that it's the Indian people who
come in and when they get drunk, they're the first
ones to throw fists at start fight.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I would believe it. So the gene that they have
or not have gene. Don't dude, Jess, I'm doing this
for you. I sorted out. I'm not offended, but for you.
Just walked that last part back. You're not gonna be
happy about that. You were doing great, util you got
to the gene things.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
This is a chemical thing.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Don't use it, thesaurus right now. Daniel's good enough. Daniel
walked in. I don't care. Danielle just walked up the room.
My god, truly, I was trying to help you out.
Scary because it's not like, no, here we go with this.
I don't believe this. Okay, yeah, this is this is
what the professional that because you don't believe it, it's
(24:33):
so happy.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
That's scary is giving you material for yourself?
Speaker 1 (24:37):
All right, He's scary, says it's you were born with
the gene. You will fight first.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
If inebriated Indians were born with a fighting Jean, this
is what we boil this down to.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I can't disagree because my my dad drank and oh
this is not good. No, no, no, this is not
this didn't what's happening? You are fine with this one.
We have never walked out on a guest before. Guy
(25:09):
too much?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Would you give us some more genetic differences in the races? Scary?
Speaker 6 (25:12):
I don't know if there really is something different going
on chemically and people's use it.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
You just know you just said there is. I said that.
That's what I'm scary.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Scary scary. Tell your head or behind or whatever.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Just resign. This is the most fun I've ever had
on radio. Tomorrow night, Radio City Music College, It's going down.
This is great, dude, It's going down tomorrow night. Yeah,
thank you, about to go down showing up. The Tate
Brothers will be there. That was good.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
So if tomorrow night's not your last night? How much
where is tour do you have to endure?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
I got Chicago Theater five days later. I want to
spawn at think we're at like ninety percent there, so
by those before they sell out, and then a few
more Atlanta, Philly, d C. We're gonna I'm gonna keep
toring the markets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then I'm filming
my special in October. Wow, so the Wilberth Theater, the
Wilberth Theater in Boston. We're gonna see the special hopefully Netflix.
(26:17):
But this probably cost me that. This is my little
jokes that I made here, so we'll see you're a
screwed man.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Our digital team laughing over here, and they're always so silent.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I love that digital memor laugh.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
But anyways, sing on the Generational Triumph Tour tomorrow night
at Radio City Music all here in New York and Chicago.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Where do they go to fight out all of your
tour days? You can go to Akosh sing dot com.
My name is spelled differently than most Indian zo It's
a K double A S H s I n g
h dot com. All my dates are there. We're gonna
keep adding. If you guys want to come to Radio City,
it's gonna be awesome. Uh uh mad. They will be there.
No one else will. It's gonna be a great night.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
I don't know. By the way, if you if you
can't spell Akosh say, it's so simple. Just follow us
on Instagram at Elvis Drane show. We'll spelled it for you. Yes,
let's not spell that colush. Thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Hey you guys, this is awesome. Thank y'all, it's all
much fun. Get out of here, please,
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