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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1773 - Akaash Singh' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-02-08. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1773 - Akaash Singh

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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
Hey, fella, how you doing?
Hey, buddy, how are you?
I'm good.
You're good? You seem good.
If you stay offline, it's just real life.
Yeah.
You just have to stay offline.
And real life is people who know you, and you're a great guy.
Yeah, you just, life goes on as normal.
You know, in a lot of ways, like, all this is a relief.
Because it's like, just, because that video had always been out there.
Right.
It's like, this is a political hit job.
Yes.
And so they're taking all this stuff that I've ever said that's wrong and smooshing
it all together.
Right.
It's good, because it makes me address some shit that I really wish wasn't out
there.
And you know why I'm proud of you?
Because I think comedians have, for years, done this immature thing where it's
like,
we don't apologize, we say whatever we want.
You can apologize if you say some wild shit, and we've all said some wild shit,
and you apologize and own that it's wrong.
Good for you.
You should apologize if you regret something.
Yes.
This idea that you should never apologize.
Yes.
Like, if you regret something, I don't think there's anything wrong with apologizing.
But I do think you have to be very careful to not apologize for nonsense.
Correct.
Like, you see, Awkwafina, she defended, I guess she didn't apologize.
She sort of defended the way she talks.
Yes.
And they were saying that it was a black scent.
Yeah.
Which is, you know, come on, man.
Which, I probably have one of those.
There's a lot of people have those.
Can I tell you the tricky thing about not being black or white in this country,
and we're
not victims, but it is tricky because there is a way to quote-unquote act black,
not that
it's good or bad, but there's a black identity and a white identity in America,
and the rest
of us just kind of have to pick a side.
So, there's no way for me growing up to act Indian.
People used to ask me, why do you always act so black?
And I'd be like, buddy, if you can tell me how to act Indian, I'll do it.
I swear to God, I was pre-med.
I tried.
Didn't work out.
What else can I do?
Well, it's like hip-hop culture.
Yes.
You know?
It's like sneakers and rap music and a lot of young kids talk in that sort of
jargon.
Yeah, and usually we identify with that because it's like, well, we're told, I
grew up
in a white school, and they were like, hey, you're not like us.
So, I was like, okay, well, I must be like these other guys.
And that's why I fell into hip-hop and sneakers and all these other things.
Well, it's just, it's weird that there's like ways you're allowed to talk.
Yeah.
It is weird that there's like, if you talk in a certain way, like, you can't
make, like,
here's a good one.
This is a neutral one.
You can't have a fake Southern accent.
Like, if I moved from California to Texas, and all of a sudden I started
putting on a
Southern accent, people would be like, what the fuck are you doing, man?
You can't do that.
Can I ask you a question?
Yes.
When are you going to move to Texas?
Texas, Texas?
Texas.
You're not in Texas.
What's the Texas, Texas?
You're in Austin.
Austin's great, but it's, people wear cowboy boots, ironically.
This is not Texas.
You know what I mean?
But I love it here.
Oh, you love it, but it's just not Texas.
But why do I have to live in Texas, Texas?
Because you're a Texan, Joe.
In your heart, I know you're a Texan.
You think so?
Oh, you know where you belong?
Fort Worth.
Oh, Jesus.
Fort Worth.
I'm telling you, it's got the fucking rodeo.
It's got, it is, it's Texan.
My wife was just there.
And she loved it, didn't she?
She was just there and she sent me pictures.
She's like, holy shit, is this Texas?
And you felt it, you felt the calling.
No, not really.
No.
But I am doing an arena there and I sold it out in like an hour.
I saw that.
Yeah.
Because they know our guy's coming home.
It's like your hudge, Joe.
That's your hudge, is you going to Fort Worth.
Texas is wild people, man.
It's an interesting place to be because they're really different.
They really are different.
They're like fiercely independent here.
Yeah.
I identify as Texan almost more than American.
Really?
It's probably Indian and Texan and then American.
And what parts did you grow up in?
I grew up in Dallas.
I've lived in Houston as well.
I went to college like an hour north in a small town in Dallas.
But I feel like Texas is like your identity.
Well, I love it.
Yeah, it's a great place.
I've been here like a year and a half.
Well, you've been near Texas.
You've been near Texas for a year and a half.
What is Austin?
What would you think it is?
Dude, it is San Francisco South.
That's what it is.
It's Portland migrated.
Yeah, but it's a better San Francisco because San Francisco is a fat mess right
now.
San Francisco is a fat mess, but Austin is, you know, it's not that much better.
It's better because it's Texas anchoring it.
Michael Schellenberger is a gentleman I've had on the podcast before who wrote
a book called San Francisco.
Yep.
And he was actually just tweeting about this, that the mayor had decided, like,
enough is enough.
She's going to, like, start cleaning up the city and going after crime.
But then he was complaining today that she's made it even worse.
Yeah.
It's tough because the voter base, and that's the thing, and I don't want to be
critical of Awkwafina.
I know her.
She's a great girl.
I think she's talented.
But, like, when your base is kind of that, whatever your base is, you have to
appease them.
The woke base?
Whether woke base or extreme conservative base.
Whenever you feel like you, whenever they feel betrayed, if you built on that
base, then you can't.
Like, you've got to walk it back.
I don't.
I think you just have to be yourself.
Yeah.
I really do.
And all this nonsense of worrying about what your base is is crazy.
It's like, who are you?
You are you.
If you start thinking, I have to be who these other people want me to be
because they're the ones who make me popular, you're fucked.
You're fucked.
You're fucked.
And she doesn't need that.
That lady's talented as fuck.
She absolutely is talented.
She was awesome in Jumanji.
I, oh.
She was really funny when she played Danny DeVito.
She played.
Yeah, yeah, in Jumanji 2, I believe, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
She's really good.
She's fucking talented.
She's absolutely talented.
She doesn't need, but everybody feels like they do.
And that world of acting is so, it's so hard to be free.
Yeah.
Because you're always worried about your next gig.
If you get canceled, you're fucked.
Because if there's anything that's remotely controversial about you, they'll go
with someone else if they're casting a major film.
Because they don't want any, like, if, ands or buts.
Yes.
And that's the beauty of what we do is we get to try to be our most authentic
selves.
Like a comedian, you're trying to be the funniest you can, but you have to peel
away every layer to find who the real me is.
Yeah.
I was a completely different person 15 years ago because I wasn't, I just
started comedy.
I was this fake version of me.
Right.
And I'm not the most authentic me yet, but I'm peeling and getting there year
by year.
That's a good way to put it.
That really is what happens, right?
In the beginning, you're just kind of like, you're an imitator.
You're pretending to be a comedian.
Here's what a comedian acts like.
Yeah.
I remember when I first went on stage, I had a blazer on with, like, the pulled-up
sleeves.
Yeah.
And I had, like, a funny t-shirt on.
Right.
Because I thought that's how you had to dress.
That's how, yeah.
Oh, dude.
Because all the guys on, like, Evening the Improv, that's how they dressed.
Oh, I was, I was Chris Rock in a small Indian body.
Like, I was walking the stage the same and squinting my eyes probably.
Who knows?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you find yourself imitating the people that, I mean, that's, there's no
shame in that.
Like, I always talk about that.
Like, I caught myself on stage.
I guess I was, like, a year in a comedy and I was basically imitating Richard
Jenny.
Like, I realized while I was doing, I was like, oh, my God, I'm completely
copying him.
Right.
Like, this is not authentic at all.
Yeah.
This is just me doing my material in a Richard Jenny voice and style.
I had to stop watching Andrew at a certain point.
Because he was so funny so fast that I would watch him and then I would, on
stage, I'd be like, dude, I sound like Andrew.
What the hell's going on?
And we sound a little bit similar, I'm sure, because we're so close.
But, like, I stopped watching him for years.
Yeah.
I just couldn't do it.
That's a big problem with, like, Patrice used to call it his babies.
Yeah.
He would say, yeah, I got a lot of babies out there.
Yeah, 100%.
Dudes would just copy his style.
And there were quite a few of those guys out there.
Yeah.
There was a kid who had developed, like, a big following on YouTube.
Doing Patrice Bits verbatim.
And people didn't realize it was Patrice Bits.
Yes.
And then it came out.
And then he was trying to say that, like, this is an homage.
This is an homage.
Did he go away?
Yeah, he's done.
Yeah.
He can't keep doing that.
Because we're like, it's not an homage if it's a word for word and you didn't
give credit.
Yeah.
And the points are too good.
Like, you don't have those points.
Yeah.
Like, those are Patrice's points.
Like, Patrice had a perspective.
No two people can have those points.
Those are such brilliant points.
Yeah.
Only one human being can have them.
I mean, maybe another dude might, but it ain't you.
Yeah.
Patrice had, he just had a way of cutting through the bullshit that, like, do
you remember when there was a time where he was on, I think it was Fox News,
and there was a lady that was saying, you can never joke about certain things.
Yeah, and he's making the camera guys laugh off screen.
Oh, it's such a good clip.
And he went right into it, right in front of her.
100%.
And she did not know what to do, because she was stuck with a master comedian.
Yes.
Cracking jokes freely, just, like, with his hands back, like, so loose and
relaxed, and everyone's laughing.
And she's, like, and she's in a quagmire.
Like, you're trying to say that's not funny?
It's brilliant, and I remember Bill Burr had, like, a list of his five favorite
comedians alive, I think, and Patrice, or maybe Patrice, it was of all time,
but he said, Patrice, his favorite thing was watching people try to
intellectually debate him, because they'd always think, oh, this big black guy's
an idiot, and then he would fucking destroy them with no effort whatsoever, and
it was the funniest thing to watch.
And that's what that interview was.
Yeah, that's exactly what it was.
But it's also, like, he was defending comedy, and one of the things that he
said that I always repeat to people, like, this is an important quote of Patrice.
He said, if someone has a joke, and it's terrible, or it offends you, or
someone has a joke, and it kills, it all comes from the same place.
Yes.
They're just trying to be funny.
100%.
And it doesn't always work out.
No.
Like, sometimes you swing and you miss.
We've all swung and missed.
All the time, Matt.
All the time.
And that's the thing, especially on a podcast where you're talking for hours on
end.
Yes.
I have said shit about every demographic of human beings possible, and I regret
every one that was like,
Fuck, dude, that was not funny.
Yeah, but you don't know until you try.
You don't know.
And the punishment is everybody hears it, and I'm an asshole.
So, like, I can apologize to you, but I can't stop shooting.
I can't stop swinging.
No.
I have to pursue the craft.
It's what we do.
Yes.
It's like, and it's also fun for people.
And the thing that you find over time is that people understand you.
Like, they'll watch your podcast with Andrew, and they've seen you guys for
hundreds of hours.
Yes.
They know you.
Right.
So, like, when you're talking, if you say s