Name: Ep 112: Vir Das & Guinness
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ep 112: Vir Das & Guinness' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-01-30. Transcript available.

Ep 112: Vir Das & Guinness

that was a quick p I'll tell you this guy didn't even shake should we should we
start yeah start
with that what the hell hell yeah we're rolling hey hey hello great guest in
studio veer da's
yeah check out his new netflix special landing now please do yeah yeah very
good man thank you
yeah very I mean a lot of a lot of controversy yes you've been arrested I was
about to and then
didn't oh okay so I've been okay the cops like you yeah they do that's like
that really works in your
favor it does yeah cops like comedy you walk around new york cops are like hey
comedy normand
whatever a tell they love a tell I bet the guys who arrested lenny bruce were
like we like you
right I saw an indian cop the other day really in new york and I don't know if
that's a thing or it's
not a thing but it's kind of made me happy to see one yeah and he was like not
he was average indian
height which is my height as well so I'm like I don't know who you're arresting
but I appreciate
that you exist you know you don't see a lot of jewish cops no we're not really
representing never
seen a cop with a yarmulke no I mean you wouldn't they would have a hat true
true what about so for
those that don't know the controversy came from this speech you gave at the
Kennedy Center oh yeah at
the end of a show it was the two indias so here's what I can say about it
without uh beginning another
news cycle for myself oh yeah so uh I made a youtube video at the end of my
thing at the Kennedy Center
I'd done a show put it up and it was kind of in the vein of many youtube videos
I'd done
and three days really good stuff lots of views and then I think we all have the
angry news channel
oh yeah right so we have an angry news channel they picked it up that led to
angry people angry
comments I was trending angry people filed some complaints against me we didn't
know what was
gonna happen and I had to turn my phone off for like 45 days trending is
terrifying trending is
terrifying when you start comedy you're like I wish I was trending and then
when you're trending you're
like oh god this is horrifying yeah Cosby was trending exactly you don't know
he's still trending
he's back just got back from Pittsburgh and more boy are my victims tired I don't
know if I like
that we went from me to Bill Cosby no no no no what you did what you did was I
mean you know this is
pretty brave what you did but do you do as a party you regret it no uh I mean I
would probably work on
it a little bit more like you know I think my lesson is I wrote it at 4 p.m.
that's why I have a paper in
my hand yeah and uh so maybe don't treat the Kennedy Center as your open mind
as your new material night well it was powerful enough to get by without being
super punchy I think
so and I think also it was it kind of came and went like I think there's a six-day
news cycle
and if you can find a way to shut the fuck up and just keep your phone away and
not counter the
void yeah for six days you'll be okay like come on school shooting yeah so I
just kind of went and
and in that moment you feel like you're the center of the universe and you're
really not right you know
and so I think the perspective is that uh of the of the special is that is that
if you can just shut
up and lie low love will find you at the end of it and then I think I
discovered just what it means
to be a comic you know like it's been a year since that happened but I'm like I
haven't given one
interview having the news never talked about the content still don't intend to
because that's not
my honor it's somebody else's honor to critique the content and I was like the
first thing I write
about it has to be a joke hmm you know because that's the only option a comic
has yes you were
called a terrorist by BBC and like really that's the first joke I wrote yeah it
was is March and it
happened in November you're our first terrorist on the show thank you man not
your last but
but then I think March I finally wrote down like I was on the home page of the
BBC
and the BBC had a headline that said comedian polarizes the nation do you know
how badly you
have to fuck up before the British say that you divide it and then I'm like
okay this is the joke
that doesn't paint me as a victim addresses that there's a fuck up and
hopefully makes both sides
however you felt about it laugh yeah I'm like maybe that can be the tone that's
the goal of
comic is to unify people in the room and everyone laughs at it right and break
that tension but it's
always so much pressure when you have this big looming thing and you're like I
gotta write a bit
about it well dude I got some strength from like just watching Chris Rock for
instance like you know
in in two weeks of what happened to him he's like if you want to hear about my
stuff come see my
special yeah but I'm not going on Oprah and I'm not you know I'm not doing any
of that stuff so I was
like okay just shut up and write jokes yes and it's also you build it for your
people not their
people yeah you go and your audience will be supportive and I mean and your
audience grew
like crazy from this right it did yeah it did I think you almost have to do
something it's not in
a way I would recommend it's a very stressful way to to gain traction so I
wouldn't recommend it but
I think I don't know who said this but maybe it was Louis CK or someone he was
like if you
let somebody who's never coming to see you fuck with your head long enough that
you
were not a hundred percent but like eighty percent for someone who is coming to
see you
you're being unprofessional I agree with that you know so whoever is coming to
see you you owe them
to send them home flying on a cloud and I'm like I just have to concentrate on
making sure my brain
is okay to write jokes for big or small whatever that crowd is coming to see me
here here it's crazy
because some I mean look you see the difference in countries here like in
America you we really we
complain about censorship but like we get away with a lot you know oh yeah but
but I think you have your
own version of it right the here like for me that's par for the course in like
a newer comedy market in
India so many people watching we're watching stand-up and now so many more
people are coming in and that's
going to be a first time reaction so not knowing how to react to darker
material or edgy material or
political material and you got to kind of welcome them and say okay every
reaction is a valid reaction
uh in America I think because you've been doing it a little bit you know you're
like but why this
because everybody knows what stand-up comedy protocols are right and now you
guys are pivoting to
a situation where the audience's voice is as loud as you guys I know I hate
that
uh which is it's a tough pivot it's a bummer you know I will that's just
twitter right
yeah they just everyone's got a voice they're yelling out stuff a lot they yell
stuff out but
it's like it almost keeps you sharp but isn't that something that the two of
you I always see your
clips is it like a section of your show when you're done with material and you're
like okay now you can
talk to me yeah usually that's what I do by the way we should get a drink out
here a koi you're uh
subbing in for the beer jews this week you better believe it fatty yay because
you're a guinness
drinker right beer is drinker thank you sir you know I went to uh Dublin to do
a festival and
they're like you got to get the guinness in Dublin it's amazing same exactly
the same totally the same
no difference hello boys hey cheers mazel first terrorist hopefully don't bomb
that's pretty good I like a guinness yeah oh yeah guinness is a good uh it's a
good like first beer
you go to the bar you start with a guinness and then you kind of move on uh
really that's a meal
right there like that you know I think they say like the average guinness is
like four slices of
bread really don't tell that to him he doesn't eat bread what I'm off bread
since when about three
days no no I've been doing about a year trying and you're happy I feel better
yeah I mean I love pizza
I love sandwiches I love pancakes but I just feel cleaner and you don't do like
one day a week where
you go all out or something like a rock cheat meal or something nah no it's
crazy we'll break it every
now and then me and him will get some waffles or something but it's like once a
month we have this
in bollywood movies we have the the six-pack diet you know because in a bollywood
movie there's six songs
right and typically for one of those songs maybe your shirt is off or whatever
and that's brutal as hell
because that's um six weeks no carbs one week no salt what two days no water
what no water yeah and so
you're drinking like cold green tea just to keep yourself like some liquid but
it passes through you
quicker and your everything will just crunch up you will look amazing really
but you will have the
strength of an ant so to dance in that moment or to do like an intimate scene
in that moment is insane
right but you look damn good on camera so if you guys ever have to take your
shirt off on screen for
anything well he takes it off all the time yeah I keep it on out of respect for
all the children out
there I don't want them to look at my patchy hairy jew body it'd be weird if
you did your act
that was me last week you look great dude then I ate some bread and uh
pakistani for the record did he did he have to do that though because I've read
like conflicting
accounts where they were like kamail you don't have to go this far and he's
like no I'm gonna keep
going but if you if there is I bet marvel's paying for it right yeah if you're
on their dime then it's
kind of cool to just get shredded and he's always an extra mile guy even with
his comedy always yeah
went hard yeah hey pammo what are you doing here hello she works with me oh I
didn't know you guys
working together yes I thought you popped in I feel like you're mad at us right
now that's her general
vibe all right sit down you're making us nervous we're in trouble a woman oh my
god
um what are we talking about bollywood bollywood yeah so have you done those
movies I've done I've
been in 14 bollywood what yeah man holy you're a vet huh I'm a vet yeah what's
the difference between
two of them were good well you do those then you do the netflix movie that judd
made like what's
the difference between those uh cash and uh and also I mean bollywood's a
different kind of tone
of acting and it's much tougher you know because bollywood you have to reach an
audience that is so
gigantically broad right and also uh you know I say this often but don't think
of a bollywood movie as
uh you know you giving two hours uh to a movie think of a bollywood movie as
those are the only two hours
you get in the week so like for me and my family like sunday morning the only
time we got because
everybody works hard was two hours the entire movie uh the entire family went
out for a movie
so it's got to be big and bold and escapist and have a little bit of everything
if you show a
spotlight we're gonna kill ourselves right broad as hell broad as hell and yeah
and just really
unanimous you take me out of my life it's like a road comic you gotta kill for
everybody yeah or like
your marvel movies you know right i think that's marvel is your bollywood ah
yeah a lot of six packs
yeah revenge stories ridiculous costumes yeah beautiful hair coming back to
life beautiful hair do you get
to play badass in any of this uh yeah i played a serial killer two years ago i
played a comic who was a
serial killer damn just like a shitty comic who needed to strangle someone
right before he went
on stage to get the juice to kind of go on but then he goes viral and he gets a
weekly show so now he
has to strangle somebody every week so bodies start piling up around this film
set and nobody can figure
out that it's the lead guy a comic who goes viral how do you prepare for this
that happened in your life
yeah i know well we had a serial killer com