The Commercial Break - Das Funny (w. Vir Das)

Episode Date: November 21, 2023

Bryan & Krissy are welcoming Vir Das to the show (yes, you read that right, a guest!), and they talk all things religion, controversy, and sitting on each others' beds. More On Vir! Vir's Website: https://www.virdas.in/ See Vir On Tour Now: https://www.virdas.in/tour Watch His Latest Netflix Special: Click Here Watch His "2 Indias" Speech: Vir's YouTube Show Notes: We’ve got a guest! Are we one degree away from a Netflix special? We’re in Vir world Two Indias Vir is in the middle of a world tour Reacting to controversy Bryan sitting on Vir's bed Bollywood is great training for comedy backlash Escaping boarding school Thesis: Brown Men Can't Hump Performing at gun point (twice?!) Being outsiders Losing religion and finding spirituality LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us at: 1.855.TCB.8383 Call 626.ASK.TCB3 and leave us a voicemail Speak to TCB LIVE by calling 775.TCB.LIVE (1.775.822.5483) Tuesday-Thursday 12pm-5pm EST Watch TCB on YouTube Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Written By: Bryan Green Exec Producers: Bryan Green & Krissy Hoadley Content Production & Research: Tina Khano YouTube Producer & Editor: Morgan Please Producer & Audio Editor: Christina A. Executive Director: Astrid B. Associate Producer: Gustavo Episodic Contribution: Marianne, Diane, Natalie, Will The Champ, Will D**

Guys, grow up. Your grandparents were 20 years old in the 60s. Your grandmom and granddad have been to 1 OG minimum. They didn't call it that. They called it like Tambola Naito, so I'm sure they like that. On this episode of The Commercial Break... You said you're 5-8-1-1-2-2, but did you know that IMDD claims you're 5'4-4-4-4-4?

Are you or are you not, Beardos, using Ron DeSantis' cobbler? His shoe-baker. No, I'm 5'5-8-1-1-1-2, as measured. Uh, fuck you IMDD. I'm not a real writer. Yeah. The next episode of the commercial break starts now. Oh yeah, cats again, welcome back to the commercial break.

I'm Brian Green and this is the director of Mumbai Salsa. Chris, enjoy, I only miss you, Chris. Bessie, Brian. Bessie, you are there in the podcast universe. Mumbai Salsa. Mumbai Salsa. Known all around the world. Or, by us.

Mumbai Salsa is a, I say semi-famous. No, not all around the world or by us Mumbai's also is a I say semi famous Bollywood movies yes starring our guests today here on the commercial We have a guest and you know if we have a guest. It's a special occasion because we haven't had a guest in 212 episode of the commercial break. What was the last guest? The last guest I think was Jeff. Jeff, my husband? Your husband? No, no, what's your favorite, oh no, Jeff Dwaskin was on too, I think, at one point.

I think Jeff Dwaskin was a little, I'm sorry Jeff, we decided to call it a day after that. We had a few guests, we had Wally Green and some other people, I interviewed Dane Cook, we did a couple of things. We did the early days and it just didn't turn out right. So I felt right until now. I decided long ago, we decided long ago,

that let's get it right inside the room before we take it outside the room. And it only took us 212 episodes to get back. But it gets more. And I actually think it's more like 312. Somebody counted, it's like 212, 312. Somebody took the time to count. Our intrepid researchers out there in the commercial break but we do have a guest today is

Veer Doss is a very famous comedian here in India here in the United States all around the world for Netflix specials for Netflix special I mean not many people do know not many people do that and so that in and of itself isn't a accomplishment but there's a lot of other accomplishments to go along with that he's just that mean that we're just one degree away from a Netflix special. I think Netflix has been knocking on the door mainly to get there's 699 since my check-bounce. I sighed out for yet another free trial so I can watch viewers play this special. He, you just keep creating new.

Yeah. Gmail address. Well, not, Chris, you don't not have any Gmail addresses I have for certain reasons or another. When you're doing as much weird research on the internet as I am, you got to create fake email addresses. Well, speaking of, I just read today that they're getting ready to do a big purge.

Well, they did. Of inactive Gmail. Oh, of inactive Gmail accounts. Yeah, shit, I got to go look and see if I may have any of those are important. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, I think well-known. No. American, like, you know, you think of stand-up comedy, and you think of all the people who have done Netflix specials. Fear has done four of them, which is a great accomplishment.

The newest one is called Landing. I watched it for the second time last night. It's just so fucking funny. He's just so fucking funny. It's really funny. I mean, he's subversive and he's a satirical. Yeah, he wraps a lot of his comedy inside of a fantastic

message. Yeah. Well, that's like just like the commercial break. He is highly successful, extremely popular. And he wraps his comedy in this subversive. And I just had to say just like the commercial break, he's been on Conan before. Yes.

So have we. So have we. We paid a lot of money. So be on Conan. He's been on Conan a couple of times. I think I read somewhere, but yeah, we had to pay for the privilege. We're just got invited on.

Here just has a good agent. We have a good agent too. Don't give me wrong. But what's on Matt? Yeah. What's on Matt? How you doing? Where's that Conan special? Where's that Netflix special, bro? Can you imagine if the commercial break had a Netflix special? No, it would be like the least watched special and Netflix history. You know how anybody can put something on Amazon?

Yeah. Yes. So I get this message the other day. Let's play around. I'm thinking of like the suggested shows you should watch next. We would be that not not not suggested do not suggested do not watch. Not recommended for viewers like you. If you like this. What if it just you like this. You'll definitely not like that. Unless beer is on. Maybe the Netflix special should be beer, telling his jokes on the commercial break. I get this phone call. You know the word is out. We've been preparing for this for a couple months.

Word is out. And we've been preparing to bring guests back to the show for a couple months. And so word is out. And I get this like side message from someone who knows that we're looking or that we're now booking season, the end of season four and season five. And I get this message.

And the name that they say is a famous name. You would know it. You would know the comedian. Everybody, I think, in the United States would know the comedian. Okay. And I'm like, wow. And then the next message is, yeah.

His brother, ha ha ha ha ha. Produced a movie about another guy that you wouldn't know. And that guy wants to be on the show And I'm like, oh, that's what you think of the commercial break and the response was we got to start somewhere, bro We did start somewhere we had Jeff to ask it on the show No knockout Jeff But at the end of the day like you know, I think he was a for efforts to my friend, but

Yeah, that was kind of clickbaiting. It's kind of shitty. It's like a, it's not getting catfish. What's interview this guy? Well, first start here. Want to interview this guy? I bet you do. Prove it. Yes, we're having Viraan. I've been headlong in Vir world. We all have headlong in Vir world for the last week and it's been so fun. It's been a lot of fun. But I think more than fun, Vir did something that I think kind of propelled his profile, especially during the pandemic

when we were all kind of locked down and fighting against this and protesting against that and Veer just had some really on point messaging about his homeland, which is India. He has a very Pointy-Messaging. He put together this YouTube video, which I'm sure a lot of our listeners have already seen because it's been viewed by millions and millions and millions and millions of people It's called I come from two India's and You want to hear actually I have it. Do Do you wanna hear a little bit of it? I'm with Left2. Okay, here, I'm gonna put it up on YouTube, too,

just so everyone can see it. If they'd like to see it, I'm also gonna put a link to it. I would actually probably prefer that you go to the link that go to our show because then you'll actually have to watch our show. So there you go. All right, let's take a listen to it

and I'll stop and pause and we can discuss. Okay. I Wanted to try something since you're all you know This is a moment for me so I I think I should preface this by saying this is a sold out audience at the Kennedy fucking center at the Kennedy Center This guy is like he's on fire. I make a small video with you guys before I leave with that. We all right We are at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on fire. a place like that. It's just like it gives me chills when I watch this video. Now I've seen it like 10 times every time it gives me chills. This audience is huge. And you know it was done during the pandemic. I love everyone is wearing a mask. The temptation in this moment is to make a video about myself and I don't want to do that because I'm reminded that I come from India.

I come from which India I come from two India's. Those are the India's that I bring on stage with me right now. I come from India where children in masks hold hands with each other and yet I come from in India where leaders hug each other without masks. I come from in India where the AQI is 9000 but we still sleep on the roof and look up at the stars. I come from in India where we worship women during the day in gang rape them at night. I come from in India where we claim to be divided over Bollywood on Twitter and yet are

united by Bollywood in the darkness of the theatre. I come from in India where we scoff at sexuality and get fucked up we reach a billion people. I want to stop right there. This is like right on the nose, right? And I'm not from India. So I don't know every eccentricity and every detail about India. But when he talks about, I think AQI is kind of like the domestic national product, like how much average someone makes, I think I don't really know. But then he talks about, you you know worshipping women during the day in the gangrene that rate raping them at night is just so poignant it's so it's so hard hitting i come from an india by journalism is supposedly that because men in fancy

suits and studios give each other and jobs in yet women on the road with laptop such a telling the truth i come from let me stop right now and say the AQI is actually air quality. Okay, now I get the whole thing. That makes more sense. Yeah, I was wondering why you were talking about sleep. For Christ's national product. Hard hitting facts here at the commercial break, you heard it here last. That means air quality. Back news are fiction. Background music. Background music. Background music. Background music. Background music. Background music. Background music.

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Background music. Background music. Background music. Background music. Background music. that you can hear us through the walls, and yet I come from in India, where we break down the walls of a comedy club because you can hear laughter inside. I come from in India, where old leaders will not stop talking about their dead fathers and young leaders will not stop following their living mothers. I come from in India, that has the largest working population under 30 on the planet, but still listens to 75-year-old leaders

with 150-year year old ideas. I come from India where every time we get information we are always available to care for the PM but we can't seem to get any information on PM cares. I come from in India where we kicked out the British but yet we call the government the ruling party. I come from in India where we kicked out the British but yet we call the government the ruling party I come from in India where women wear sardines and sneakers and yet have to take advice from old men who have never worn a sardine and will never get to take one off in their entire lives I come from India where our music is very hard but our sentiments are very soft. I come from India where people sleep outside on the road outside the club but man 20 times

a year the road is the club. I come from India where we take pride in being vegetarians and run over the farmers who grow out vegetables. This is a real statement. Yeah, this is a real statement and then I'll share some more information about this when he finishes. I come from in India where we claim to fully support the group until it comes to their pension plans.

I come to an India where we can never be on time, no matter where we go. But yet we are always early on the Kovin website, for some reason. I come from in India where we have maids and drivers, and yet want to come to America to do their job. I come from an India that self-serves, and I come from an India that self-preserves. I come from an India that will not shut up,

and yet I come from an India that will not speak up. I come from an India that will accuse me of airing our dirty laundry and yet I come from an India that wears their heart and their sleeve irrespective of how dirty that clothes are. I come from an India that tells me every single day to go to Pakistan and yet I also come from an India that invites Pakistanis over every single day, if only to work their ass on a cricket field. I come, I come from in India that is going to watch this and say this isn't stand up comedy where is the God damn joke and yet I come from in India that will watch this and know that there is a gigantic joke, it just isn't funny. Yeah didn't know how true that would become.

I come from India where children living in basements and writing on comment sections have more courage than men in skyscrapers. I come from India that is Hindu and Muslim and Christian and Sikh and Parse and Jew and when we all look up at the sky, we only see one thing together, the price of petrol. I leave you tonight and I go back to that India. Which India do I go back to? Both of them. Which India am I proud of?

One of them. Which India is proud of me? None of them. Which India am I proud of? One of them. Which India is proud of me, none of them. I wanted to do this because we are at the Kennedy Center. You know this is a dream for an artist. It's been mine for a very long time and the reason it's a dream is because you get to see great people here. You get to see greatness on this stage and this whole room was built for a great man in his memory. But as I stand here before you, I'm reminded that I represent a great people. Great people who built a great thing that is turning into a memory. And I know that you believe in that India, like I believe in that India because I see it in

your eyes and you are in this room tonight. So before I leave, your country, I will leave this stage and I will put the camera on you and you make some noise for the India you want to live in because I promise you that this is the Kennedy Center but tonight this is our fucking house. So make some noise for me. What a fucking... I mean, just so poignant. It's like, you know, I know it does give, it gives me chills too. It does give, it gives me chills too.

Yeah, that he, he was so bold as to come out and do that and just take a fucking chance. Take a fucking chance. And so, you know, so show who he is and what his thoughts are. So the backlash with Vier in his home country is amazing. People were calling for his arrest. They opened up investigations. You know, he tells them in his newest Netflix special, which is called landing. He shares that he was in a real moment of despair, a real moment of depression because he felt like he let down an entire country.

Because while some of the reaction most was mostly positive about this, that's that negativity that always shines through. Well, and like, they shine. They shine. And the listeners can listen to our full interview coming up next. But one of the things I thought was true is that every nation apparently has a crazy news channel that decides to cherry pick. We have seven.

Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Even the things that are out of contact. Yeah, that's what they do. They, you know, they destroy you. And it causes a huge uproar. Paper cut by paper cut, and they take it out of context. And by the way, every news organization

is guilty of that, like taking what they want to and putting it all over the papers. But the guys get just such an amazing story. He grew up in India and then he went to school in Africa and then he comes to Chicago for college. And I look forward to asking about a number of these things. You know, like we talked about, he went on Conan, he reached the lowest of lows.

The lowest of lows. He was there on Conan. When you have to start somewhere. You do have to start somewhere. You know, he started with Conan. Let's be honest. About three years ago, they knocked on our door and they said, hey, can we,

can we hear it on the commercial break? And I said, let's see what he does next. Let's see what he does next. And then we'll talk about it. Yeah, and then he did Conan and I was like, well, maybe that's kind of the ball. Let's go in the maybe pile. Let's go in the maybe pile.

That's really good comedy. We are at the top of the mediocre comedy pile's going in the maybe pile. That's going in the maybe pile. That's a really good comedy. We are at the top of the mediocre comedy pile. I'm not sure how I judge that. That commercial break. Oh my God. So you know what? I think we should just bring Vir on and have a conversation with him. You can check out his Netflix special landing.

He's available now. He's got three other ones on Netflix. You can just go and type in Virierdoss on the search function. The first one was really cool too. They were able to do half of it in Indian, half of it in New York and they catch the reactions. Yeah, they catch the reactions from two different audiences. I thought that was a very interesting angle,

a very interesting take. He's got a YouTube channel, Vierdoss.in, Vierdoss.in. He is the middle of a world tour. Oh, what is he on? Every continent except for Antarctica, he's visiting at least one country. He's here in the United States through January and February.

He's coming to Atlanta. We're gonna go check in Mount Atlanta. Yeah, I'm so excited about this. So all things Vierdoss available at Vierdoss.in. And please check out his Netflix special. I say all this because I don't wanna bother anybody with that promotional bullshit during the actual interview, but please do us a favor.

We'll also put all of these links inside of the show notes. So you have an opportunity to listen to the interview and then you can go there afterwards and you can check it all out. All right, let's take our first break in the show and we come back. We're going to dive right in with Mr. Veer. Let's go.

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regain.com-slash-bti as in best to you. And I want to thank regain couples therapy by better help for being a sponsor of the commercial break. Alright, and we welcome our guest, Virdas! Vir, how are you my friend? Welcome. I'm good, it's good to see you. It is good to see you. Where in the world is Virdas right now?

You're in between like, what, Ohio and Albany or something like that? I'm in between these two pillows as well as for Mimosa Manai. American pillows are way too thick. I don't know why you need each pillow to be like a Japanese pancake for something. I can't sleep because I have neck issues. One American pillow is equivalent to four Indian pillow. So I'm in a hotel in New York City, right? Okay, so you're getting ready for the next show. We all look at our phone stone too much.

So our necks are all cafucked up. So what we do is we just built big pillows to readjust in the middle of the night. We're hoping that we can get our necks back straight from all this like this and everywhere you go, you just see people buried in their phone with neck problems. So I mean, you guys kind of need to be better than your phones right now. You have a lot going on. Very true. Scary.

So so, Vier, I've, during the pandemic, I watched your, I come from to India's. I'm going to get right into it here. Yeah, sure. What a poignant and powerful video you put together and the focus for those who haven't seen it will put a link on the show notes in case you want to watch it. The focus is kind of the dichotomy of the country you call home and what a powerful speech like gives you chills when you watch it.

Did you, first of all, as a guy from India, if you understand, like for me, the Kennedy Center is where we celebrate our most honored artists and musicians and comedians, is it just like a most powerful moment to be standing in front of a crowd at the Kennedy Center sold out? Well, it's definitely a blessing.

I think you have to get to a point where you can work the Kennedy Center, right? So, in that sense, yes, definitely. It means as much as I'm doing Carnegie Hall in general. So, you know, it means as much as that. Sure. So, it means as much as the Apollo in London, for instance, or Royal Albert Hall or the Sydney Opera House. But on the flip side, you've also booked the Kennedy Center. So there is ticketing to it as well. And you have put money down to be there that you know. You didn't get invited by any of the candidates to go do that show. It's just you have to actually put your card down for that one. No, look, you pay a venue rent, then you take the good money home and that's how that stuff works.

But it was, like I said, it wasn't by virtue of the venue. It was a YouTube video. And so the venue is really just YouTube in that sense. But I think that it's, to me, the kind of acha-medie sword of this whole situation with I come from two indies is how beautiful a moment, how powerful a moment, and then what a kind of nightmare it threw you into for a little while there. And you know I understand you may not be able to go into extreme detail. You don't want to start this all over again, right? Exactly. Yeah. At the same time, can you share a little

bit about that video when it came out? What were some of the reactions and repercussions? Well, I got to be honest with you, the reactions were largely positive. You know, it was one of many YouTube videos that I've done in that vein on my channel. And I think the hallmark of being a superpower, which I think my country is now. They have a seat at the big table. a superpower which I think my country is now. They have a seat at the big table. Is that you're able to talk about your flaws and your beauties in the same breath, you know, much like powerful countries in the world do.

And I put up on my YouTube and it ended up getting sort of really positive millions of views for the first 48 hours. And then I think we all have the crazy news channel. Yeah. Right. You guys have it too. We talk about it all the time.

Yeah. And so the, if you've seen the video, it's a very patriotic video. And it's a very balanced video in terms of it talks about the light and the dark and the beauty and the auguminous in equal measure. The crazy news channel just took the dark parts, edited them together and put it out. And that's when my life kind of exploded, right? Now, you can scream about your balance and your nuance into a void.

It doesn't matter. That is the end, and it won't matter. So at that point, you just kind of have to do what I did, which is shut up, buckle down, accept the feedback kind of head down mouth shut. And, you discover what it is to be a comedian, which is if you're in a controversy or a firestorm, you get through what you need to get through. And then the first thing you say about it should be a joke. Yeah. You don't do the equivalent of crying on Oprah or the 19th Jada Pinkett Smith interview. No, none of us want to watch.

That's like a nice news. Right, none of us. Yeah. So I just ended up writing a Netflix, actually. You know, that's what I waited an entire year to talk about it. So I think that was the summary of what happened to me. Landing is largely about the period, you know, kind of how you landed on your feet, walking through this fire, going through your own moment, right? I don't know. I want to fall short of calling it cancel, because I don't think that's exactly what happened. I think you

just experienced some repercussions mostly in your homeland, right, of India, that were very negative. And so, but you came out of it, you're right with a joke because that's what you do and that's who you are. And making light of the dark situations is what comics have been doing forever and ever. And you can wrap a message in that, which I think is another part of your comedy that is so, I don't know, it strikes me in a way, because we're a satirical show also, we're goofy, we're crazy, we're

loud, we scream and yell and laugh a lot, but at the end of the day, there's some message underneath this comedy that we're doing, and it's a subversive way of getting the message. I want you to laugh, but then I want you to hear what we're saying and hear a new perspective. And you have to also want you to know me, like I want you to hear what we're saying and hear a new perspective. And you've got to... I also want you to know me. Like, what the hell is the point of this whole damn thing if you don't know me at the end of the day? Like, if I... if we part ways, like if I come to Atlanta, or if we do this podcast, or if we have a special... And I end up doing 500 jokes and you have a really good time. Sure. But will you come back if you don't really know me, if you don't really know

who I am in the world or what my family is or what my values are? It's a very Indian thing. We are not friends unless you've come over to my house and met my mother and sad on my bed and had tea. That's friendship. If you haven't seen the ugliness, we're not friends. I feel the same way about art. If you haven't seen the ugliness, we're not friends. And I feel the same way about art. You know, if you haven't seen the ugliness, we haven't connected artists to audience. You know what I mean? It's a great way to say that. So powerful.

So I'm married to a Venezuelan lady, like a lady from Venezuela, not born here in the United States. Okay. And the culture, I mean, I don't know because I, you know, I haven't sat on your bed and I haven't had tea with your mom. On your bed. Yeah, well he said sit on his bed. Yes, and yeah, fair and I go way back I'm saving I'm gonna bring my phone pillow and turn your world upside down. There you go. My mom is just off camera My mom would listen to this if she could figure out

how to dial up a podcast. But I think there are some similarities in the culture and as a guy who was born in the United States in Chicago and comes from an Irish lineage, it's like we have a game we play, who can talk the least and get out of the family function the fastest so that everyone else can then leave also. But in the Venezuelan culture, very different.

And you do people wanna get to know you. And that's kind of the point of life, right? Is that you sit and share and enjoy. And your comedy brings that like super personal touch. You, I felt like when I was watching landing that I was going through it with you. And I think so the intended punch line of the whole thing, I got it, like I totally understood, I think,

what you were going for. So this sensibility, like these comic sensibilities that you have, does this come from your, like what gives you the courage to go out there and do these punch lines that hit hard with laughter, but also hit hard with messaging as part of who you are. What gives you the, what's that fabric? Where does that come from?

Your parents? You know, college is a big word. I don't view it as college. Oh, I think it is, man. You would have seen myself. I think it is. Yeah. I think as you get older, like, you know,

I'm in my 40s, man. And, you know, as you get older. You're the same age. Yeah. If nothing else, who you are needs to fall onto the page in terms of your art. And it just so happens that when you cross 35, you start thinking about the world a little bit more. And you didn't before, you just,

you're just trying to get laid in your 20s. You're trying to make money in your early 30s. That's all you fucking thinking about. And then at 35, you take a breath and you're like, where am I living? And what is this place? And what are our values, et cetera.

So it's just perhaps that phase that I'm in, are the consequences to some of the things that I see, sure. But do I believe that very soon around the corner will come a day when there will be no consequences for the things that I say and they will be considered passe as they are in cultures where stand up is a bit of an older art form for sure I believe that that's around the corner as well and it is upon me and the early ones to push us in that direction the culture of political comedy too.

That takes courage. Maybe it comes from age and experience, maybe it comes from turning the corner and wanting something more than a piece of ass and a beer. But at the end of the day, I mean, at least from my point of view, sitting where I'm sitting and I don't get up in front of thousands of people every day. I get up in front of this camera,

it's really easy to do that shit. It's really easy to sit with my best friend and do this all day. But I think it takes some measure of courage, whether you think you have it or you don't. I sense that it takes courage to do that messaging. Did you have, like, when you were growing up, what was your relationship like with your parents? Today, are they also have these kind of sensibilities?

You talk about this around the dinner table or... I think we're just a very open house, know in terms of also my parents are specifically on opposite sides of the political spectrum you know I come from a family where people with opposing political beliefs can live under the same rules harmoniously you know and I think it used to be that way in the world in a really big way you know that you could both differently and love each other. But I also do think that, you know, in a certain sense, standard comedians, when we get quote unquote large, you know, in our careers, find large audiences, we find ourselves unable to deal with a very large microscope.

But in that sense, if you've been doing movies a while, which I have, like, Bollywood is really good training for stand-up backlash. Because if you think a stand-up audience can be mean, try being in a bad Bollywood movie, and you will discover what a mean is. So my approach to it really is, if you're going to be in the public eye, right, there's a cost and the cost

is this. There's a long line. And at the front of the line is a spotlight and a new cycle and controversy and bad headlines and you will be spent. And at some point you will hit the front of the line. And then you will join the back of the line and then you will join the back of the line and break a fucking god that there are enough people in front of you. So that you never have to join. The front of the line again and you can pass through your life.

So hopefully I've had one round, I've had two rounds actually now and hopefully I never have another round again. Wait, I don't know about the second round. Is this? I was in a, go ahead. I was in a Bolly ahead. I was in a Bollywood movie called Musti Zadeh and you know I was kind of at the peak of my stand-up career

and until then and was considered sort of an ambassador of quote unquote intelligent comedy or whatever. Okay. And then I signed this big budget studio sex comedy, just this launching American Pie thing, right? And something I would never watch, entirely inauthentic, right? And just kind of blatantly sexist and many other things, but it was a large studio package, I was getting paid a fuck down a money. And I took the cash, I took the check,

and suffered the counter-pastures. That was pretty solid. It was like a two-year phone stop ringing backlash. Oh, wow. And so then you make your way through that too. My brother, we have always said on this show, we have morals and scruples. And we will not cross that line

unless someone chooses to Check it. There you go check. Well, what I would like to talk about next is moon by salsa. Oh, yeah Did you see a handsome I look at that? We have pictures right here. I always thought I look better without a jawline without a jawline. You know what I mean? I just... You know. It's a look.

It's a look. It's a look. Some people go for it. Thank God for facial hair. That guy's still under here somewhere. Me too. You've been in 14 Bollywood movies. So this is not like, it wasn't like, is it 14 movies?

Our Intrepid researchers found out. Yeah, I did. It's about that. Yeah, I think 14, 14. But, yeah. When you were young, you had an interesting childhood. Yeah. I was listening to you on, I think about that. Yeah, I think 14, 14, but yeah. When you were young, you had an interesting child that I was listening to, I was listening to you on, I think Conan, and by the way, you went on Conan,

you had to do what you had to do, you know, you go on Conan, you scrape a few listeners here and there, and then when we, and Chrissy and I decided, it was time to have you on the commercial. Yeah, you went from the bottom of the common. Straight to the top. Straight to the top. Straight to the top of mediocre comedy podcasts. Right here on the commercial straight.

Well, I think you were telling the story on Conan that you had really an interesting, I mean, you shared it in the number of places. I've not heard it, but you had kind of an interesting upbringing. You were born in India, but then lived in Africa for a while, right? Yeah, I've been, it's informed my comedic perspective entirely. I've just kind of been this perpetual outsider, right?

Because when I was about 10 months old, I got taken to Africa. After being very privileged in India. And, you know, my parents really kind of struggled in Africa. They were, my dad was, you know, working in a food processing company. And so I was the Indian kid in Africa. And then I got sent to this sort of preppy boarding school in India where I was the African kid in India. And then I got

kicked out of that boarding school and sent to public school in Delhi where I was the preppy kid from boarding school. And then I went to college in Gail'sburg, Illinois where I was the Indian kid and studied theatre. And then I went back to Bollywood where I was the kid from the theatre program in America and Bollywood and now I'm working in the stage where I'm the guy from Bollywood in Hollywood. So it's, you know, I've yet to fit in somewhere fully in my life, unfortunately. Okay, you've told this story, you got to tell it here. You got kicked out of boarding school or you exited yourself from boarding school

by taking a piece of you at that time. I faked appendicitis and I reprepanied. This is fucking crazy. I would not recommend this to anyone. Please do not try this at home or in any schools, but not my friend. His appendix almost ruptured when we were on a hike with the boarding school. One of your friends. One of my friends, yeah. And I remember looking at with side of his body, the appendix almost ruptured when we were on a hike with the boarding school. One of your friends.

One of my friends, yeah. And I remember looking at with side of his body, the appendix was. And I remember his symptoms because I was hanging out with him. It's a good answer. One day, I had a Monday test and I hadn't studied for it like a pop quiz. And I just went into the hospital and school and I was like, yeah, I think my appendix hurts. And they had just gone through

this, this trauma where they almost lost my friend, you know, about three months ago. And they were like, okay, just being the hospital and have ice cream and then, you know, every two, three hours, they come and poke my stomach. And I'm a good actor clearly. And so, it's all you got to say. And so then the next thing I know I'm being rushed in an ambulance down to a town that's three hours away from my boarding school And then I'm on an operation theater table at about two o'clock in the morning And the doctor is like does it hurt? And I'm like, you know, fucking commit to the bed at this point You know And so I did

fucking commit to the bed at this point. You know, and so I did, and my parents went Africa, and I woke up and my mom, who was in Africa, was now sitting in this small town. Oh my God. And she was just like, your appendix wasn't hurting. The doctor showed me a perfect appendix. They took it out anyway, but you know, wow. This is insane. Beer like.

I like your commitment though. I like your commitment to the bed. I know your commitment to the bed. And you think cancel culture's gonna get me. Right. They stole my appendix. I don't know, it's an organ. Yeah.

Why do you think they took, I just, like a follow-up question, that like why do you think they took out your appendix even though they knew it was healthy? Let's begin every conversation with it was 1994. You know, so firstly, that's that. And secondly, I think they would have been like malpractice or something like that.

I think they did it also just to save this kid, you know, in terms of, you don't wanna open somebody up and like fucking not do anything. You're already in there. Yeah, yeah. We rooted already in there. Yeah. Yeah. We rooted around for a few hours. We figured out your appendicitis is not there.

However, your liver is all full of shit. So we took that bad boy out. You go from, how did you end up in Galesburg, Illinois? That's like what? Like 70 miles outside of Chicago or something like that? I grew up in Chicago. Yeah. I had, you know, 70 miles outside of Chicago or something like that? I grew up in Chicago So yeah, I had you know We did not have the kind of money that would that would afford me going to college in the states and spending you know

30 grand or whatever it was a year then and I think we had about four or five thousand dollars and You know, I was applying to NYU and the brown and all of that stuff and And actually got into a bunch of those places, but just got letters from them saying, we can't afford to give you this much aid. We typically don't. And then I heard about this college called NOx, which is really small. It's 1400 kids. Diversity is hugely important to them. It's liberal arts, which is a system that I like. They gave me 95% aid. So I went to college, in the States and I spent three and a half grand a year, which is not the best thing

now, especially too. That's insane. My kid's Spider-Man backpack cost $35. I'm pretty sure. The trip to Disney certainly does. Oh, a trip to Disney. I don't know. A trip to Disney is six years of college.

But when you go to Galesburg, is that kind of when you decide your, when is the first standup that you do, like officially, like on a stage, I'm going to go on a journey. It's at Galesburg, but it's more of a rebellion towards theater. I went to study economics and I'd always done stagework, like debating in dramatic in school.

And I took a beginning acting course on a lock. And I had this theatre professor called Ivan Davidson, who kind of called me into his office at the end of the week. He's like, you know, it's one of those, I say this to one kid every 10 years. You meant to do this kid. And I'm like, do you say that to 10 kids every year?

Because, but he legitimately took me through play writing and intermediate acting and advanced acting. And I was his TA for a while. And then I think I did something like 14 plays while I was there and I was just exhausted by the end of it. And it was a very, it's a theater of like Stanislavskiy influenced. You're sitting in a circle and crying all day and mess it up. Yeah.

Yeah. You're sitting in a circle and crying all day. I'm doing all of that stuff. And so I ended up writing a standup show called Brown Men Can't Hump as my thesis performance. And did that senior year of college for 700 of my friends? So yeah. 700 of your friends was your first standup gig at the end. 90 minutes for 700 of my friends. Holy shit. You did 90 minutes of 700 of my friends. Holy shit.

You did 90 minutes of the first time you ever did stand up? Yeah, and Tata was the shit and then ended up doing open mics in Chicago and getting boot off stage on the Southside many weeks in the world. And figured out how to do it. You need to be able to make not your friends laugh as well. That's all this world. Chicago is a tough room man. Is it tough for lovely people? I'm part of the group, you know, I'm part of Chicago.

But those outside rooms in Chicago on a fucking Tuesday night in the winter. Forget about it. I'm very unforgiving. Is that where you had to perform at gunpoint? I read this. This is this happened while I, I performed a gunpoint twice actually. Once, yeah, once was a show where the promoter hadn't paid us yet. And I'm not going to say which country because then he'll be called out. Because he's one of two promoters in this, in this country. And I was like, I'm not going on stage unless you pay me. And he was like, I think you're going on stage. Any paid me to his credit, right?

Okay, well, you know, you should have said a little badge to get up there. And then at the club that I did in Chicago, there's a legendary story of how like two nights before I performed there is, I was kind of walking across the room and a gun just fell out of his pocket onto the stage while a comedian was you know just like And what the club manager told me is like the scariest thing was Everybody just checked to see if it was there You know how a phone ring You know how it's full of rings, but it's my friend.

Yeah, they're all like, is that my gun? Right. But that is, as you know, the South side of Chicago. Yes, I do know the South side of Chicago. That's where I grew up. And it's, if there are parts of it, where you gun in every pocket is just, it's a way of life down there. When you go on these, like, okay,

so you do your first gig for 700 people, 90 minutes, which is crazy. If Chrissy and I get one good laugh out of an hour of material, I call it a good day at the office doing 90 minutes in front of 700 of your closest friends, when you go to Chicago, when you get into Chicago and you go to the Southside and you bomb, do you sense like, holy shit, this is really tough. Or does this give you determination? Fire, are you?

I feel like I'm, go ahead. Happiest when I'm at the bottom of a ladder. I'm just utterly happiest and most excited. Like I love sucking at something and then knowing that I have nowhere to get but better, right? Right. So I think I was boot off stage many, many, many weeks in a row and I was just kind of relentless.

But also because I had tasted a laugh and that's the thing with this profession is, you know, anybody who ever wants to get into it, I'm like, I pray they don't taste a good laugh for long enough that they get out of it. You know, because if you taste that one good laugh, it's like fucking heroin and it never is. You're an addict. Yeah. Yeah, for the rest of your life.

And it will mess up your entire life. You know, it's a drug. It is. I have friends who say this about golf, right? It's like that one good shot makes you think your time every round, makes you think your Tigers woods and you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a lifetime chasing that one good shot if I can just repeat it a couple

times on the course and make millions doing that. I sense a kinship about this outsider feeling that you have because I think Chrissy and I do this show also with a chip on our shoulder for a lot of different reasons but that really resonates with me in some sense about being an outsider and doing it because there's a fire in your belly to get that next laugh, to do that next thing, to be better than I was yesterday, to make more friends, to have more people enjoy my comedy. Do you, when you're in India, you are huge.

You're like, what, the second highest grossing comic in India, is that correct? Something I was wondering. I don't, this is gonna sound very arrogant, but it's not, it's more humbled than you think. We stopped counting a while ago because it became daunting and it wasn't important. Yeah, exactly. It's not what it's about.

It's not what it's about. It's a band-aid metric. But I'd say this to illustrate that then you come over here to the United States where you got your stand up start, essentially at Knox College and front of these people and then bombing over in Chicago. Is it, does that give you more fire in your belly? Are you like, now I'm in a conqueror America?

Or now I'm gonna come make new friends have more laughs. I wanna repeat the success. I like the anonymity that America gives me, because it gives me a chance to work out material in a meritocracy, in that sense. So last night, two nights ago at the comedy seller, I followed Kevin Hart, who had come into pop-in and do a surprise set, right?

And he moderates, just slayed. And everybody in the room just saw Kevin Hart for 12 bucks. You know what I mean? They saw him do 20 minutes. And this is on their trip to New York. So they've had the best night of their life. And then a fucking random Indian. Right, thanks Kevin. And I like that. I love that they don't know who you are. And it's a test of how good your material really is. So like that, in terms of conquering America, look, I do think, you know, hopefully there'll be an American TV show soon and there'll be in a couple of more American movies. But I don't think that that whole, the Beatles needed to come to America or like Robbie Williams

needed to come to America. I say this with all you respect. The world is a much smaller place now. Yeah. You know, squid games can conquer America without ever coming to America. You know, so I don't think that whole thing exists anymore. I agree with you know, I think that kind of, you know, moving from place to place and planting your flag and then becoming the next big thing. They're the world is so small. If you choose to, you can find things well outside your geographical radius and different flavors and different people and different cultures and different skin colors, all that stuff is really accessible in 2023. You don't necessarily need to be here to do that.

You could also have some success. Well, I'm here quite a bit, but I love it. The thing is, I don't want to waste the unique childhood or upbringing that I've had. Of course. So if you grow up in 17 different places in the world, you get to be a global comedy voice. And not a lot of American comics get to say that and not a lot of American comics get to say that, not a lot of Indian comics get to say that. So it feels like you're half-assing the meal,

you know, to just do it in one place. You, this, I think this leads to my next question, which is, you are on this like crazy world tour. What is it? A country on all continents except Antarctica? By the way, why? Yeah, why not, Antarctica? I don't know how to perform an Antarctica. I just barely made it to South America. Setting up like a Brazil and a São Paulo show. So a Rio and a São Paulo show. Don't sleep on Antarctica. There are at least 50 to 60 mentally unwell people down there. There you go. Yeah. Yeah.

Do you enjoy this part of it? I know, I know you're married. Do you enjoy this part of it like the constant traveling being a place to place? That's what you did in the show. Do they join you too? Yeah, do they join you? Yeah, do they join you? Shivani, my wife will come out to the good places.

Yeah, exactly. So she makes the list. You know, there are days and there are days. You know, and it depends on what else is going on. Like right now, you know, I'm directing a movie in February that I'm going to star in. Right. And this is back home.

So it is a weird thing to be in Albany, New York tomorrow, but the storyboarding for a big Hollywood production. Interesting. You know, so your brain really has to work, you know, if you're just storing the then that's a different thing. But touch wood, God's been kind of the last two years and I'm working in about six or seven different areas. So in that sense, there are days when it takes a little more management than I would like. Yeah, that sounds like a lot of brainpower. We're way too lazy for that today.

I just worry about the 12 to 18 children I have and what I'm going to talk about next on the commercial break and I feel like that's a stress. Do you, is there like some sense of culture shock when you're moving from here to there to like, I know the grocery stores are different, I've done a lot, I've done a bit of travel in myself and like grocery stores are different. I can't find, you know, I try and find like micro consistency as much as I can. You know, so like I have one Bluetooth speaker that plays the exact same soundtrack in every room that I'm in in 33 countries. I have only 5 T-shirts and two pairs of pants and I travel the world largely without checking luggage.

And it's those little things that keep you sane. True, I can say that. You know what I mean? Yeah. Some consistency. So I try and do that. And you know, you'll get around, so if you're in Texas, you'll have some barbecue. And if you're, you know, if you're in London,

you go to the pub and have a pint, but you're in there for 24 hours to 48 hours. Yeah. So how much are you really going to do? Not much. Right. And what is on your playlist? Yeah, what is on your playlist? Yeah, what is on your playlist?

Oh, so I have something called Sleep Sounds, which is what gets me the sleep. It's an Apple music playlist. So I'll do that. And then I'm a big like audiobook guy. Yeah. Some more of this is listened to audiobooks. So right now I'm listening to Tom Hanks's new book, which

is the Making of another motion picture masterpiece. It's a book about making movies and how hard it is because I'm about to make a movie. Right. And I'm gonna get it. Yeah. Well, shameless plug. Get the commercial break on there.

That'll put you, I want to listen. I want you to hear this story. So we have these analytics on the back of the podcast. And on our website, we have these analytics. We can tell where people are listening from and how they found us and Google searches is one of them. So early on in the podcast, the top term people were finding our podcast was best podcast to go to sleep. Yeah. Great.

Great. Great. For the over eight. Nice crowd. But there was also the have best. Best podcast that's six to. That's right, too. That's right.

Nice. I plan on doing Bolton by five minutes. There you go. There you go. Hey, listen, I'm gonna send you a flat pillow. Very dumb. You should take one of those with you. I want to hit on very, very briefly,

because this is something that also resonates with me is that you take religion on the nose. You really, you said I lost 80% of my religion, the moment I found God, and I wanted to reach into the screen and give you a hug. I thought that was such a fucking incredible line, and it described the way that I felt when I lost my religion, but I found spirituality. I went to Catholic school all my life, but I'd never really bought into it all that much. And you said that, and I just love that you're not afraid to take that on the nose and share that the dogma,

the written words, there's hypocrisy, you know, it'd be twisted in any which way you want to. It's been told a million times over and over again. Talk a little bit about that. Well, I think, you know, my limited understanding of it is that kindness, good behavior, treating people well and spreading joy are a way of showing God respect. And religion is a way of showing your family respect. You know I think that's the way that I look at it. So you know in my house there will be a

Diwali prayer and there will be a will celebrate every festival etc. And I do that to show my parents respect you know but I will follow ritual to keep a sense of community and family etc. But the way I show God respect has nothing to do with religion whatsoever. It is entirely in the way I treat other human beings. It's such a powerful message and so true. And we take religion on a lot here. I mean, you know, not the, not the people who are going to church every Sunday because that makes them feel like they're... We get the shisters.

Yeah. We take down the shimmers. We get the shimmers. Who twist religion to their own powerful misdeeds, and they cover it up with more scripture and more scripture at the end of the day. What you're left with is a very broken human talking to other broken humans who are just trying to find some peace and some solace and kind of a nutty world is, which it's always been.

And I love when you talk about that stuff. I think you are your sharpest, in my opinion, when you're taking that on the nose. I just think it's fantastic. Thank you, man. You're welcome. I mean, I think my perspective is, and I think, Chrissy and I were talking about this. You wrap all of this with a real sense of love. Your, your specials, your comedy,

when you get up there and you do a couple minutes or an hour, you really, there's a sense that you're trying to show people who you are and you're trying to embrace them and you're trying to bring them in and share with your, you, them your perspective and with the hopes that they take something away from that but it's done from a place of love.

It's done from a place of open arms, not from a snotty inside joke, shitty little musings here and there where you punch people in the gut and hope that they don't hurt too hard. I don't think I get to come from those places. You have to understand that if you are an outsider or if you are five foot eight and a half in an industry where you know where everybody is six foot two and fucking gorgeous you know or if you have an Indian accent

in an industry in Hollywood where everybody has strong American accents. If you have, you're not coming from a place of ego into any of these atmospheres at all. So if you're not coming from a place of ego, which is where a lot of comedians can come from, it's a perfectly fine place to come from, where else do you come from? I come from a place of 600 percent. When you come from my show, it will be clear to you that this man left 600 percent on stage 3 and will send you home flying on a cloud. That's the promise of my show. So you know how people say don't try too hard or don't look like you try too hard.

I try hard, you know, I try too hard. And that's the promise of my show. Listen, my friend, you got to get on the field or shove something up your ass. Am I right? Yeah, there you go. Hi. Speaking of five foot eight. Yeah. When this. I know. I know. I know. I know.

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I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. Are you or are you not, Virdas, using Ron DeSantis' cobbler, his shoe maker? No, I'm five foot eight and a half, that's measured. Fuck you, IMD. It's here in the game. I'm right.

Who's putting that out? Our editor caught this little discrepancy, and she was like, she was like, It's just like it's weirdly specific. It's weirdly specific. Yeah, no. No, fuck IMDV. They think they put me as in or movies. I've never been it And so don't be all have a network of a hundred and fifty million dollars

That's a thing so net worth is is a bullshit Version of what actually somebody is worth. I think Donald Trump's net worth has been around 12 billion dollars for 12 years We're all finding out it was probably more like $12 million. Yeah. Listen, my friend, you're a comic, you're an observer of human beings, you're an order, you're a musician, you play a beautiful song at the beginning of one of your Netflix specials, you're touring all around the country.

I'd like to add to that list, friend of the commercial break. I really appreciate you coming out. Yeah, it's gonna pleasure. Thank you for having me, guys. I cannot wait for you to see the show in front of you. We will be there in February and best to you, Vir. Thank you so much for joining us today. We really appreciate it. Alright guys, Adios. I'm going to take off. Thanks so much.

Okay. Thank you. I appreciate you guys. Okay. Bye. Bye. Okay podcast besties. Time for one more quick break and then it's back to the drama. Check out tcbpodcast.com for all of our episodes and youtube.com slash the commercial break for fully edited video episodes. Find us on Instagram at the commercial break and on TikTok at tcbpodcast. And of course if you want to get in touch with us, which like, of course you do, leave us a voicemail at 626, ask tcb3, or text us at 855-tcb-8383. Now, let's listen to some sponsors and get this show going. This episode is sponsored in part by our good friends at UncommonGoods.

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Because that's just not the way it works in the podcast universe of all the shows you go to first a commercial break. There's like, well, I've done the rest. Now, I guess I'll do the last. It's not for everyone. It's not for everyone, that's for sure. Let me remind everybody again, you can go to veerdas. That's vir.ins. For all the information about his tour, he's currently on a very long and everywhere world tour and he's coming to the United States. So get your tickets. I know Chrissy and I are going to be at the Atlanta show.

So if you're going to be at the Atlanta show, let us know. We'll say hello. So we try to convince him to go to Antarctica. But yeah, because I like I said in the interview, I mean, there's at least 50 to 60 very unwell people in Antarctica. Yeah, why do they always get shit on? We need to, you know, we should do definitely take the special kind of person to go do that. I bet if we opened up a comedy club there that we could do a one hour special, we would kill and maybe die. Yeah.

Hey, listen, you take the good, you take the bad. I live my North Basel cut it. Well, if the podcast and it's stupid shenanigans don't kill you first, then we'll make it down to Antarctica. But fear was a great guest. The fear in line. fear was a great guest. The fear was a great guest. And we really appreciate climbing him on. So go to his website. Get tickets to his tour and and please go watch landing on Netflix. That's so important because that is the metric upon which a lot of people, you know, eat and drink and sleep

and use. Eat and drink. Eat and drink and use pillows by themselves nice flat pillows. I feel like I want to send him a pillow. I know. But then I thought about it for a minute and then we were talking about it on the break and then I thought to myself, well that's just one more thing he's got to carry in his... It's non-check-in luggage. But the flat pillow could really squish up nice.

I wish I would have bought him like a super flat pillow. Like the kind you find in a hospital bed. You know what I'm saying? Or a jail? Or maybe we make a pillowcase that says the commercial break. Oh, that's true. We could do that. Something like that.

And then we just put like a piece of cardboard in there. Or just have the 21 EPM. Oh yeah. Just as a reminder. Sure fear would put that right on his pillow, okay. Such a great guest. Wow. Okay, well there you go. We dipped our toe.

We dipped our toe in the interview water. More coming up next week. Yeah. Stay tuned. The plan on more. Yeah, I think we're clipping up maybe one a week right now. So that's a part of the show. Now the one a year.

Or one a year. Depending on whether or not the agent calls us back. I'm already getting angry text messages from Vera's agent. No, kidding. She's lovely. Thanks Pam for setting this all up. Thanks to Astrid and Kristina for helping us do the Arentreffred researchers. For Vierda, thank you to you and thanks of course to Vier. Thank you to you. So yes, stay tuned. Now that we have four episodes a week,

we've got to find some content to fill it. Why not let somebody else talk for a minute? That's what I figured. Alright, our information, tcbpodcast.com. That's where you go. You find out more information about Chrissy and I. You can read all the show notes with all the pertinent information about all of our guests. Please go there, click on the links, buy the tickets, do the Netflix thing, you know all

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