Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1217 - Nimesh Patel
Uploaded: 2018-12-20T00:31:26.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1217 - Nimesh Patel' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-12-20. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1217 - Nimesh Patel' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-12-20. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1217 - Nimesh Patel

two one fucking kids today fucking kids today fucking kids today hasn't
everybody said that
from the beginning of time i bet k people were saying that shit uh-huh it's
just it is what it
is right every new group comes up they try to re-establish themselves as
smarter you know
there's the new group coming up they're going to change the rules i don't know
what's so wrong with
how we turned out you know i mean like we're a mess i mean i'm saying not from
a like i mean every i
think every generation is better than the next in terms of how like things this
is the best times
have ever been for most people right but i'm saying from like uh uh how we
handled things
perspective things seem i'm like a fine human being you seem like a fine like
most human beings are
fine and we were raised quite i don't say differently but a little better in my
perspective
than like what's happening now like what what is being corrected is is strange
to me to people that
don't know the story let's fill them in on your story yeah sure and how we got
together so you're
doing a gig you're at columbia so a few months ago uh i got this group called
asian american
alliance at columbia university hit me up saying hey you know we're big fans of
your work um i was
the first indian to ever write for snl um and so they were like that was a
story in the asian
american indian community and so they hit me up in like may or june like hey
come we have this show
in november it's called culture shock um it's a big like fashion culture kind
of event and i've done
like tons of these before you know like because my sister and i we both went to
nyu but my sister
um like helped put on these kinds of shows so i would attend them and like i've
seen them ever since
high school because i went to high school in parsippany new jersey which is
like a hyper diverse kind of
place um at least with like asians and indian people and like i went to a few
in high school i
got laid after one of them when i was in high school so they have like a my
lost my virginity
after one of them so like it was like they held a special place in my heart and
so like i went
thinking okay this is going to be fun and and they know who they're getting in
that you know the email
said we're fans of your work like we want you to come do the show it's about
like representing
agent identities and all that i'm like dope and that's i get there at like 7 30
and i walk in
and i'm like okay i know all these kids i mean they're like 20 or something but
like i know them
i grew up with these kids you know like abigail's and pratiques or whatever
like i know all these guys
right and immediately my comic hat turns on i'm like okay the show itself the
energy is dope but the
show like acoustically i'm looking okay this is a high ceiling the lighting
shit uh it's not set up for
like a comedy event but i still think okay this is gonna go well 8 30 8 45 i
get on stage
um and i'm like i do some columbia stuff because i went to columbia for like a
summer program i start
making fun of the kids a bit and i say do i have to give like a trigger warning
almost like joking
like do i have to give a trigger warning because i know you know that's a thing
and i say like be
careful some of this might be sexist some of this might be racist uh you know
just buckle up and one
girl booze and i'm like you're booing already it's like two minutes in and i'm
like well look this is
the i literally said i just listened to the set the on the way here and i said
uh well buckle up you
know because this is the real world or whatever and then i go into material and
about and it's going
well this is one story i want to dispel like i i will fully own a bomb you know
if i'm bombing i know
i'm bombing i will tell you that i bombed before a billion times i'm doing fine
60 70 of the set
17 minutes in i tell the joke where i say um effectively you know i don't think
being gay
is a choice which is i don't think it is at all uh but this is how you know
because there's gay
black people and no one's going to choose to be gay if they're already black
right no one's doubling
down on hardship that's a funny joke thank you no one no one it's a funny joke
thank you no one like
no black dude ever wakes up and thinks you know what this black shit too easy i'm
gonna put on a
madonna halter top and some jordans and tell an indian dude how to live his
life that's not a choice
that's you were born that way and and that it bombs like this silence really
complete silence
and then i say uh you're exactly who i expected to be as a crowd and then i say
uh um the only
person that chooses this is also what was in print is that the the offensive
part to me what i think is
offensive is the next part where i say the only person that chooses whether or
not to be gay on a
daily basis is mike pence right we can all agree that like i don't know if he's
gay or not but
no man hates homosexuals that much if he himself is not a homosexual he chooses
not to be gay every
day and that gets some laughs and applause and i'm like okay cool and then uh i
get back into it i'm
rolling for about another two or three minutes um i start talking to some i do
a joke about uh how my
dad landed in newark when he uh immigrated to america some girls from newark
she interrupts i start
talking to her for like two minutes and that goes terribly it's just like i'm
trying to i'm going
fishing with her just trying to see if i can get back into what is she
interrupting i say
is she heckling or is she i say i say a joke where i said my dad landed in newark
um back when he
landed it was called brick city because if you hit if you looked at someone
wrong they'd hit you with
a brick right fine kind of throwaway line this girl goes that's not true i'm
like well yeah i'm like
obviously you know so i'm just i'm just kidding uh but like i i know where she's
what she's trying
to do i'm just trying to talk to her and i'm going trying to talk about like
trying to get back
into material um and that's like probably minute 20 or something and then out
of my corner of my left
eye i see the three girls that invited me to do the show initially in may or june
like gather and i'm
like that's kind of strange i still talk to this girl for like another 30
seconds and then as i'm
concluding my talking to her because i realized that's not going to go anywhere
they come on stage
with microphones and like one trench coat and they're just like they're like
they're like it's
time it literally to say there's been a change thank you to mesh has been a
changing program
um you know we've received from comments from members um you know uh we think
uh that's enough
how long have you been on stage for uh 20 something minutes at this point and
it was that one joke that
did it so this is so i go i'm like i'm first i'm like i'm i'm not even mad at
this point i'm just
like in shock i'm like this there's like an episode of impractical jokers i'm
just like what
what are you talking about i still have 45 minutes left um i'm slated to do an
hour i'm like really
and they say yeah there's been comments like people are upset or offended and i'm
like i feel like we're
having a good time and some of the crowd cheers and then i'm like why do i
gotta go and one of the
girls goes the tech has to leave and i look at the tech has this is all on
youtube like someone put
the youtube video out of this particular part and i go they better be leaving
because i can see i can
see the tech people and i'm look at them like you you gotta bounce dude and so
the tech people meaning
the people that are coordinating the electronics that yeah the broadcast the
show exactly like whoever's
running i don't need tech i'm not i don't have fucking pyro the microphone's on
yeah what do you
mean the tech has to go the tech people have to they're coming up with lies
yeah i mean i understand
why she lied because she's trying to save face and not like right and try i
guess not to embarrass me
or whatever but i'm like i'm not gonna believe that shit that all three you
came out to be like the
tech has to go and then i go um is it because the tech has to leave or because
i'm saying some
things that made people uncomfortable and one of the other girls goes uh there's
a we think there's a
distinction between being uncomfortable and being disrespectful and i'm like
don't use your big
words on me
but but in my brain i'm like what what what are you talking about like i don't
think i've been
disrespectful at all and there are some people who are like what the fuck is
going on majority of
people like what the fuck is going on and but like there's a pocket of the
crowd where the three uh
uh asian american alliance leaders and like the rest of the sort of crew was
like waiting and i think
some of them cheer when they're like there's a distinction between
disrespectful and being
uncomfortable i'm like what are you talking i haven't been disrespectful in the
slightest what are you
talking about and then one girl goes we think you're not entitled to be making
some of the jokes you're
making and i'm like i'm like my trigger word is entitled you know like i'm i'm
thinking and at
this point i'm like i'm too almost in shock deer in headlights kind of to like
even process anger i'm
just like now i'm just trying to assess what they're specifically saying like
which joke specifically
and they're like we think that gay and black joke um uh is particularly
offensive or whatever
and i'm like and then at this point i'm like instead of explaining that the
joke is quite
progressive i'm like i literally got that joke from an audience member at stand-up
new york in like
2011 like i remember the conversation distinctly because it was such like one
of these sort of
oh shit that's a good bit moments right and i tell them that and they were like
you got it talking to
a guy yes in the crowd so i was on stage and i used to live in hell's kitchen
um in new york and i'm
and like the there's there's like a gay black constituency that would always
like make fun of
me when i was like leaving my apartment but like like ribbing me you know what
i mean right and so
like i'm trying to talk about that on stage at stand-up new york uh doing like
a check spot or
whatever and i'm talking to uh the crowd and then there's a gay black guy that
like heckled me
and i start talking to him and then at some point i'm like this is how you know
being gay can't be a
choice right and he's he starts dying and we have like a good report i'm like
oh perfect this is a
great bit that i just got right right and so i tell them that and they're like
no you know there's
been a change like you have to go and i'm like effectively i'm like like you're
wrong for what
doing what you're doing right now i'm i'm i'm a generation older than you guys
i know comedy
better than anybody in this room that's for goddamn sure and i know disrespect
and i've been through a
lot of like i know that what i'm saying right now uh hasn't been offensive in
the slightest
and and i say you can't isolate yourself from the real world like this what are
you going to do when
when some real bad happens in the world like if someone actually does something
that's offensive
like you can't handle things this way if you silence someone that's not that's
not progress or
whatever and then they asked me if i have closing remarks whoa you have closing
remarks closing
remarks and you should have prepared so it's hard to come up with closing
remarks out of nowhere on
the spot i tried to save it i tried to save it with a a bit you know and it
bombs and i'm like all
right and i just i'm like i'm still talking and then they cut my mic and i'm
like really i'm like really
really you cut my all right and then i'm like all right thank you well put the
mic down and i bounce
and then they try to then they won't even let me talk to them backstage like
one one member's like
we gotta escort you out i'm like you're gonna escort me out i'm six foot one
indian dude l