May 15, 2024 • 8 mins
This is a bonus clip of my conversation with Nimesh Patel. Eric and Nimesh talk about their parents' reaction to their comedy and Nimesh's story of testicular cancer.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
With a recodra.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
What do your parents think of your stand up? They've
cut me off. They've got ties. At at the beginning,
it was like what are you doing? But now they've
evolved from like what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh? That was funny? And now but they both subscribe
to my YouTube channel really, so they'll my mom's like
every day she's like if she's seen the short that
I put out, she'll like, talk about it nice. And
my dad will say the same thing. I had to
stop doing live streams smoking weed because my dad watched
watch Shit. He was like, what are you doing? Is
your dad from the Motherland? Are your parents with the
(00:39):
Motherland or the American you're up here for generation? No? No, no,
they were born and raised in India.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
They they're from the Motherland.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, yeah, they came so most of your eighty ninety
percent of your my dad's from Haiti, so like ninety
percent of my jokes.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
He would just be like, what the fuck are you
talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
They came around, you know, it took a while for
them to accept that I'm I do drugs and like,
you know, like I've had sex before.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You know it take a second, but did you grow
up in Queens Brooklyn, Jersey. You up in Jersey, sping
in New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, the greatest town. So you're joking to No, No,
it's a good town. It's coming around like the people.
It was ranked the thirteenth greatest place to live by
New York Times in like a few years ago for
a good reason. Great school based, great Texas. You know,
everything's everyone's cool there.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So you play, you do drugs and hemp sacks and
tell jokes. Yes, and your parents are finally resigned. Yes,
I mean their fate they came.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I did town hall in uh December of this year,
the last last month, and that was like two fifteen
hundred seat shows, and it was that for them to
go like, oh shit, like this fucking this guy did it. Yeah,
you know, like he's working and he made it TwixT
where the three thousand people yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
And that was like the highlight of I.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Think that's when it starts clicking for the like, oh no,
he's not wasting time doing Do you write in the
moment on stage or do you sit down on and
write your jokes?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm sad in the morning and.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Last year, last hour, thank you, China Hour that put
out that one. I sat down and I was talking
to Muki about, like, how should I approach this hour
because I have a bunch of jokes and they're all
loosely connected. They're obviously all from me and all and
like my life experiences, but I don't really try to
figure out how to And he gave me his notes,
(02:24):
like try to write it as if it's a feature.
You know, you have your kind of cold open like
you're setting the tone.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Could know who you are.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Then you're inciting incident all your trials and tribulationship.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That's not a bad no, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
The only difference is in the feature of the character
learned something. Yeah, there's some kind of evolution, but comedy
is having something affect you and then not learning anything
right right, you know, And so like towards the end
of the hour, I didn't learn shit, And I approached
this one like this one kind of wrote itself, like
the reveal is I had cancer in like February, right,
(03:00):
you did testicular cancer?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You did?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I did, and you gotta you gotta snip snip that
chopped out, yes, and you're totally clear.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I had my blood work Paul yesterday two days ago. Man,
perfectly good, good for you, thank you. But ship that
when that had you catch it, it was just balls hurt.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
They just hurt and there was a rock in it
and it was it was God, that's a fucking terrifying thing.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It was my birthday night. My wife and my sister
were out getting dinner drinks and I go home at
two o'clock in the morning and I'm drunk and I
noticed my ball's hurt. And I'm like, if I'm drunk
and my ball's hurt, something's wrong, because you're not supposed
to feel any right. Like I had a hernia like
six years ago, and I thought it was that again.
I was like, oh, fuck it, like you can kind
(03:43):
of push that off and wait, but this just felt different.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And I was like, only go because hernia is like
a very sharp pain. This one was like a dull,
consistent one. And I had lingered over the week and
I was like, uh, I got insurance, I get this ship. Yeah,
And then they found a mask and then we had
blood working all that and it was like done. It
was like five days.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Oh. They shipped it out right away and they caught
it right away, thank god.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And it was like, gone, you know, they wanted to me,
wait two months the ny U hospital, but because that's
like standard protocol, Yeah yeah, wait two months observed. If
it grows, it's cancer, get it out. If not, then
don't do anything. My cousins are doctors, are like, now,
fuck that, We'll get get get see someone, immediately, get
the blood work done. They we rushed the blood work.
(04:25):
Blood work was like, oh no, your home remarkers elevator,
you got cancer.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You down to one ball or you get them both.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I got a fake one put in.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You get a nauticle. Yeah, yeah, you have fake dog balls. Yeah.
Company that hour wrote itself in those five days. Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And I was like all right, now now it's just
a matter of punching all this stuff up and like
explaining what happened. I just remember being on stage at
the Cellar like literally like six days after surgery, just
like with like nothing but like what had happened, and
just explaining it and it being like this is gonna
be fucking incredible to talk about, even like the beginning
of it, when I had nothing on stage, like I
(05:06):
put some like bullet points down, but no jokes, just like,
let's see what's funny about it, and it went up
and Estie was watching and I was like, oh shit,
this better murder because I haven't been in a very
long time coming to see why And it went great
and I was like, oh, this is something that's gonna
be amos not easy, but very fun to approach, Like
what can I beat out of this? What can I
(05:27):
figure out? And it's been It's now I can see
the finish line because like the meat of it is
done and now I'm just putting on the edges and
polishing stuff up, and it's just like I can't wait
for it to be done.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Amazing. Yeah, shit, fucking my mom not gone.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
My parents like why are you talking about that? Like
when I started talking about it, like yeah, fucking eight
months ago whatever, they were like you sure, yeah, yeah,
everyone needs to know.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I'm like people can relate.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm like, I got nothing else to talk about.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And it's relatable. It's it's vulnerable, you know, that's what
they want.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
At no point, was that sad?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah? Really?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Because it was it And this is I say this
joke in the hour, but it's the truth. It's literally
like my balls are on a Thursday night, Tuesday morning,
I had surgery. Yeah, no time to process. Yeah, every time,
every time I'm trying to process. Like Thursday, balls hurt.
Friday night, I got a call from my eurologists. He
sees he says, it looks like nothing. It doesn't look
(06:22):
like anything. It looks like an undefied non vascular mass,
which probably means a benign cyst. You're perfectly fine. Just
get blood work just to be sure. Sunday morning, the
blood work's been rushed. I get the costs and it's cancer.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Shift, So like two of the three days I thought
I was fine.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, and then she just Monday, You're like fuck. And
then Tuesday get snipped.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Monday I'm busy getting pre COVID tests and all this
shit so I can have the surgery.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And that's the worst part, because I'm at Jersey City
Medical Center for like four hours and then they nurse
tells me you could have just done this near your apartment, right.
You come like what the fuck? Like that's what I
was mad about. I didn't have time to think about, Oh,
they're cutting out my balls. And then Tuesday morning surgery
and then it's like, all right, well this is where
I'm at.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now wonder the guys that get it and they're just
have too much pride to get their balls chopped. They like,
I'm ready to die.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I mean that's like I I think about it,
Like what if the other one had it and I
had to get both removed? Then I would contemplate a
lot of other things.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Dick removed. That's rough. Dick removed the balls. I'm like,
they're just kind of hanging there.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, I like having my balls, but I'd rather
not have cancer against I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
What hormone replacement therapy would be I would get.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I just get a little skin from like somewhere else
in my body and staple it to the stable at
the bottom of my deck.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Just fake balls, I mean two flake balls would be
pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Two fake balls will work, would be pretty Two fake
balls and cancer. They put a.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Fake one in because like men need to like psychologically,
really yeah, if.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You just eed the one ball, you guys all fucking
tripped out.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's the that's the again, another bit about it. But
in the hour. But it's like the doc told me that,
it's like you, I totally get that. They've done studies.
Men feel less like men.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, feel I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
With just one hanging, I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We have a lot of pride and ego attached where
genitals
Speaker 1 (08:17):
With a recondre
With a recodra.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
What do your parents think of your stand up? They've
cut me off. They've got ties. At at the beginning,
it was like what are you doing? But now they've
evolved from like what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Oh? That was funny? And now but they both subscribe
to my YouTube channel really, so they'll my mom's like
every day she's like if she's seen the short that
I put out, she'll like, talk about it nice. And
my dad will say the same thing. I had to
stop doing live streams smoking weed because my dad watched
watch Shit. He was like, what are you doing? Is
your dad from the Motherland? Are your parents with the
(00:39):
Motherland or the American you're up here for generation? No? No, no,
they were born and raised in India.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
They they're from the Motherland.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, yeah, they came so most of your eighty ninety
percent of your my dad's from Haiti, so like ninety
percent of my jokes.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
He would just be like, what the fuck are you
talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
They came around, you know, it took a while for
them to accept that I'm I do drugs and like,
you know, like I've had sex before.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
You know it take a second, but did you grow
up in Queens Brooklyn, Jersey. You up in Jersey, sping
in New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Yeah, the greatest town. So you're joking to No, No,
it's a good town. It's coming around like the people.
It was ranked the thirteenth greatest place to live by
New York Times in like a few years ago for
a good reason. Great school based, great Texas. You know,
everything's everyone's cool there.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So you play, you do drugs and hemp sacks and
tell jokes. Yes, and your parents are finally resigned. Yes,
I mean their fate they came.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I did town hall in uh December of this year,
the last last month, and that was like two fifteen
hundred seat shows, and it was that for them to
go like, oh shit, like this fucking this guy did it. Yeah,
you know, like he's working and he made it TwixT
where the three thousand people yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
And that was like the highlight of I.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Think that's when it starts clicking for the like, oh no,
he's not wasting time doing Do you write in the
moment on stage or do you sit down on and
write your jokes?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
I'm sad in the morning and.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Last year, last hour, thank you, China Hour that put
out that one. I sat down and I was talking
to Muki about, like, how should I approach this hour
because I have a bunch of jokes and they're all
loosely connected. They're obviously all from me and all and
like my life experiences, but I don't really try to
figure out how to And he gave me his notes,
(02:24):
like try to write it as if it's a feature.
You know, you have your kind of cold open like
you're setting the tone.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Could know who you are.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Then you're inciting incident all your trials and tribulationship.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
That's not a bad no, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
The only difference is in the feature of the character
learned something. Yeah, there's some kind of evolution, but comedy
is having something affect you and then not learning anything
right right, you know, And so like towards the end
of the hour, I didn't learn shit, And I approached
this one like this one kind of wrote itself, like
the reveal is I had cancer in like February, right,
(03:00):
you did testicular cancer?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You did?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I did, and you gotta you gotta snip snip that
chopped out, yes, and you're totally clear.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I had my blood work Paul yesterday two days ago. Man,
perfectly good, good for you, thank you. But ship that
when that had you catch it, it was just balls hurt.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
They just hurt and there was a rock in it
and it was it was God, that's a fucking terrifying thing.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
It was my birthday night. My wife and my sister
were out getting dinner drinks and I go home at
two o'clock in the morning and I'm drunk and I
noticed my ball's hurt. And I'm like, if I'm drunk
and my ball's hurt, something's wrong, because you're not supposed
to feel any right. Like I had a hernia like
six years ago, and I thought it was that again.
I was like, oh, fuck it, like you can kind
(03:43):
of push that off and wait, but this just felt different.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
And I was like, only go because hernia is like
a very sharp pain. This one was like a dull,
consistent one. And I had lingered over the week and
I was like, uh, I got insurance, I get this ship. Yeah,
And then they found a mask and then we had
blood working all that and it was like done. It
was like five days.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Oh. They shipped it out right away and they caught
it right away, thank god.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
And it was like, gone, you know, they wanted to me,
wait two months the ny U hospital, but because that's
like standard protocol, Yeah yeah, wait two months observed. If
it grows, it's cancer, get it out. If not, then
don't do anything. My cousins are doctors, are like, now,
fuck that, We'll get get get see someone, immediately, get
the blood work done. They we rushed the blood work.
(04:25):
Blood work was like, oh no, your home remarkers elevator,
you got cancer.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You down to one ball or you get them both.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
I got a fake one put in.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
You get a nauticle. Yeah, yeah, you have fake dog balls. Yeah.
Company that hour wrote itself in those five days. Wow.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
And I was like all right, now now it's just
a matter of punching all this stuff up and like
explaining what happened. I just remember being on stage at
the Cellar like literally like six days after surgery, just
like with like nothing but like what had happened, and
just explaining it and it being like this is gonna
be fucking incredible to talk about, even like the beginning
of it, when I had nothing on stage, like I
(05:06):
put some like bullet points down, but no jokes, just like,
let's see what's funny about it, and it went up
and Estie was watching and I was like, oh shit,
this better murder because I haven't been in a very
long time coming to see why And it went great
and I was like, oh, this is something that's gonna
be amos not easy, but very fun to approach, Like
what can I beat out of this? What can I
(05:27):
figure out? And it's been It's now I can see
the finish line because like the meat of it is
done and now I'm just putting on the edges and
polishing stuff up, and it's just like I can't wait
for it to be done.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Amazing. Yeah, shit, fucking my mom not gone.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
My parents like why are you talking about that? Like
when I started talking about it, like yeah, fucking eight
months ago whatever, they were like you sure, yeah, yeah,
everyone needs to know.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I'm like people can relate.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'm like, I got nothing else to talk about.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And it's relatable. It's it's vulnerable, you know, that's what
they want.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
At no point, was that sad?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Yeah? Really?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Because it was it And this is I say this
joke in the hour, but it's the truth. It's literally
like my balls are on a Thursday night, Tuesday morning,
I had surgery. Yeah, no time to process. Yeah, every time,
every time I'm trying to process. Like Thursday, balls hurt.
Friday night, I got a call from my eurologists. He
sees he says, it looks like nothing. It doesn't look
(06:22):
like anything. It looks like an undefied non vascular mass,
which probably means a benign cyst. You're perfectly fine. Just
get blood work just to be sure. Sunday morning, the
blood work's been rushed. I get the costs and it's cancer.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Shift, So like two of the three days I thought
I was fine.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, and then she just Monday, You're like fuck. And
then Tuesday get snipped.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Monday I'm busy getting pre COVID tests and all this
shit so I can have the surgery.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Right.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And that's the worst part, because I'm at Jersey City
Medical Center for like four hours and then they nurse
tells me you could have just done this near your apartment, right.
You come like what the fuck? Like that's what I
was mad about. I didn't have time to think about, Oh,
they're cutting out my balls. And then Tuesday morning surgery
and then it's like, all right, well this is where
I'm at.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now wonder the guys that get it and they're just
have too much pride to get their balls chopped. They like,
I'm ready to die.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I mean that's like I I think about it,
Like what if the other one had it and I
had to get both removed? Then I would contemplate a
lot of other things.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Dick removed. That's rough. Dick removed the balls. I'm like,
they're just kind of hanging there.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I mean, I like having my balls, but I'd rather
not have cancer against I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
What hormone replacement therapy would be I would get.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I just get a little skin from like somewhere else
in my body and staple it to the stable at
the bottom of my deck.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Just fake balls, I mean two flake balls would be
pretty funny.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Two fake balls will work, would be pretty Two fake
balls and cancer. They put a.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Fake one in because like men need to like psychologically,
really yeah, if.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You just eed the one ball, you guys all fucking
tripped out.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
That's the that's the again, another bit about it. But
in the hour. But it's like the doc told me that,
it's like you, I totally get that. They've done studies.
Men feel less like men.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah, feel I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
With just one hanging, I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
We have a lot of pride and ego attached where
genitals
Speaker 1 (08:17):
With a recondre
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