Name: Singing In American w/ Atsuko Okatsuka | You Made It Weird
Uploaded: 2023-01-04T03:00:22.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Singing In American w/ Atsuko Okatsuka | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-04. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Singing In American w/ Atsuko Okatsuka | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-04. Transcript available.

i watched a video of young elon musk on instagram and he was just getting
delivery of a million
dollar car i thought it was a deep fake because he just looked like ralph wiggum
but with you know
wow he really looked like this bad blazer and his hair looked terrible and i
was like that's
a deep fake it wasn't a deep fake it was him he was like wow like three weeks
ago i was sleeping
in my car and now i have a million dollar car and i was going like and you aren't
happy
like i can tell watching this video like you're like here it is i can't believe
it's super cool car
when we talk about this all the time on the pod but it's like
we i talk about all the time having your having your dreams come true and
having you know your
needs met isn't the key to happiness but i i want everyone to find that out for
themselves i want
their dreams to come true i want them to have the things that they need of
course but i am
there aren't any good examples of an elon musk or whoever that just goes like
and you know that
the emptiness came with me and i got in the car drove around is this even his
voice i drove around
and i'm buying it yeah i buy it too because he's so not loved it's like no one
cares like if he was
a beloved figure i think they'd be like the rise and grind community doesn't
like what this impression
right now but like there's not a lot we don't even have to get into that it's
that that's my sadness
is i get really sad when i see people that like even with every privilege are
still just kind of
like hungry ghosts is what they're called in buddhism you know he could be
happy and he that's just he's
not he's not able to show emotion as well well who the am i you know that's
absolutely true
maybe that was that was like that's the most excited i sound or whatever you
know when you
sound a little a little icelandic i go up to iceland twice a month to buy my
cigarettes
i love all your impressions you have such range you have range you do yeah i
can only do icelandic
icelandic i think everyone everyone has an icelandic
weight you know it's like dr evil yeah everybody has
that's how i do it icelanders hate it and but it's the only thing i have that's
the one thing
how did you find your iceland i think you just tighten your the back of your
throat i don't know
maybe it's it's close to japanese a little bit do you speak japanese i do yeah
conversational yeah
i've lost a lot of the ability you mean like no poetic japanese my yes you can
you used to have
some poetry in you oh yeah yeah yeah oh yes the poetic japanese is gone i i
talk very like just
succinct you know very second grade level just like give me this give me that
like i'm like a
russian i was just russian man kind of a japanese stereotype that people would
just be like
oh yes it's also german it's also russian you're right but there are certain
cultures where it's not
rude to just be like give me eat this yes yeah please eat this now i know that's
broken english
but i'm just saying like even in japanese it sounds very like yeah yeah yeah it's
not it
well correct me if i'm wrong but it's not as flowery as we're like hey y'all we're
gonna have
ourselves an onion same restaurant in japan it's like i don't want to do the
impression but i actually
really do but i don't want to get in trouble but it's it's like you know it's
right it's a little
tighter is that right it's true it's so true i never even thought about that i
never thought what
you just did with the hey y'all booming onion it's very i never thought that
that was flow flow
flowery it's musical it is westerners sing their words which is why when
everybody sings they sound
western wow it was like oh jeez i love paying bono and he's like where the
streets have no name like
where's it go interesting i did not know that i always wondered like yeah australians
and people like
that i don't understand until they're singing and wow it goes away because we're
singing all the time
i thought it's because they all have the ability to talk like in an american
english accent normal
talk the right way talk correctly talk the right way i didn't know i thought
they always had the
ability but you know we have a hard time trying to sound like australians and
british people and
yes of course because it feels like an affection and affectation to us like we're
adding something
val what is the word for them it's taking it away right to val told val's very
good at helping me
realize where i'm being short-sighted ethnocentric or something it's the
assumption that your culture
is the baseline yes and i caught myself doing i had a bit i was in australia
and i was like you guys
realize you're talking wrong like you're talking wrong like right now you and
oh it's not you that's
wrong yeah like and she and they liked it because i think they're laughing at
me basically
right because they also know you're being like you know it's something i'm
saying the thing i'm not
supposed to yeah yeah yeah yeah but because i'm saying it there's actually kind
of something loving
about that like look at this dumb yeah right