Name: Rudy's HILARIOUS Filipino Folklore
Uploaded: 2025-05-14T17:00:16.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rudy's HILARIOUS Filipino Folklore' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-14. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Rudy's HILARIOUS Filipino Folklore' from Bad Friends Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-14. Transcript available.

it is crazy to think about people from like over a hundred years ago who still
who had good teeth
yeah like back in the day they used to use like some whale extract from like a
whale blubber
to make cologne or perfume for oh right right you know what i mean just
different ways of
makeup was what back in the day flower flowers berries berries yeah berries no
blood no
in transylvania there's blood i'm kidding i don't know how is my root see that's
why i set it up
it's good yeah i'm a beat slow today what did you what what did what did uh why'd
you say berries did
you did you ever use berries as a kid for makeup no but um on your lips no but
there's a tradition
where like if you get your first period you have to put your period blood all
over your face
i'm really glad you're back i don't know if it's just in the philippines but
that's what it's just
just in the philippines i've never heard that before why women are using their
period blood for
face masks oh that does work then no she's saying when you get your first first
period i don't know
i don't do it every period well there's a there you go despite this culture the
use of menstrual blood
is something that has been done traditionally superstitiously for years in the
philippines
it said if you wash your face with period blood you'll be blessed with acne-free
skin during
puberty did that work no no yeah yeah and then like you have to jump like 10
times to like
what that's a transition jump like 10 times of what just jump 10 times to i
think shake shake it
loose no just is the cork up there you need to cork a wine bottle yeah like
that my grandma did that
but you jump up and down for what reason i think to have a longer life
i think that's it yeah dude tell me the song you guys sing when you do that
yeah there's no song
that wait so this is so she painted her face and you do it on your first one
and then that's
supposed to bless you for life yeah but you koreans believe and this used to
work when you had a charlie
horse right what's a charlie horse come here i'll it i'll give you one yeah it's
when you it's when
you have a it's like a muscle cramp uh or there's like a buzzing yeah how do
they say charlie horse
what do you call it charlie horse you're right charlie horse why would you
laugh at that then i just
imagine korean saying yeah yeah well how do you say it in korean let's zoom in
how do you say it in
korean so if you had a charlie horse right young young young young yeah yeah
yeah it's easy to say
charlie or charlie but you do this my grandma would go lick i don't know how to
speak korean but
she goes lick your finger tap your nose three times that would get rid of a
charlie horse it really did
no way yeah when you have a charlie horse anyone listening right do that it
gets rid of it
completely wow yeah yeah i'm excited for my next charlie horse yeah i never
heard we didn't have any
you must have wise tales wives tales wives tales wives tales right wise wives
tales yeah what you mean
do we have anything like that yeah it's like uh um i'm trying to think of some
white ones what are the
white ones well it's like you know if you know my dad said you know if you
watch tv too close
grandpa gonna die stuff like that you know what i mean grandpa died already
well yeah you know
to say if you masturbate too much you get hairy hands yeah that's one that's a
wife hair would grow
on that's a wife's tail yeah yeah the philippines have a wife sales like that
like something like a
superstitious thing that's yeah it's not true like if you wipe blood on your
face after your first period
yeah you won't get acne yeah or like if you watch if you've seen like a naked
body or like porn then
you will have like a like a big like bump on your eye oh a stye a stye yes you
get a stye in your
eye from yeah yeah you get a cataract you get a cataract wow never heard that
before okay look at
this one some of the filipino culture go up some of the filipino the superstitions
avoiding sweeping
at night don't sweep right what is that don't yeah what does sweeping at night
do i think let her
guess that'd be that's fun sweeping at night what is that sweeping at night
yeah i think it's just to
something with ghosts or like okay look at that did she have it right it's a
sweeping at night
sweeps with a good fortune and attracts bad luck okay good don't look at the
screen yeah what about
cutting your nails at night why can't you do that just trim your nails it will
not grow back no but
that makes more sense yeah evil spirits don't ever sleep with wet hair in the
philippines oh because
you will have white hair wow wow that was fast what does it say it says it go
blind
that's not true that's not true hold on no that's not true this is amazing okay
different islands have
different things i don't know all right this is not going home right after
awake like after you after
you go to oh because the spirit will follow you that's literally what it says bingo
all right itchy
palms itchy palms itchy palms itchy palms you can do pack pack to get rid of it
oh if you do a
pack pack yeah cleansing ritual yeah didn't we do a pack pack on this show okay
we love filipinos by
the way for the record they're our favorite people how about not taking a home
nick not taking food home
from away so after a funeral you don't take food home right i take food home
okay well yeah okay itchy
palms what about itchy palms um itchy palms yeah yeah yeah when your hands are
itchy inside your hand
you'll die sure this just says it's a sign of good luck to have itchy palm two
more biting your tongue
biting if you said like a oh if someone's talking about you damn that's true
yeah yeah dude what
about the tabi tabi po oh that's i told you about this like when you're like
going through like a
quiet area or like a big tree you have to say tabi tabi po or else like the the
mythical creature wait
wait you've never said this before what are you talking about like i said that
before during like a
halloween i've never heard you say tabi tabi topo before give me an example
give me example give me
an example i told you this before it's halloween we're trick-or-treating you
know what i mean i'm
dressed up as like a fat minion yeah and you're at what uh soap okay we're in
the forest we're lost
yeah where does this tabby tabby pope okay so like when when you're when there's
like a big tree
oh we're walking by a big tree okay yeah quiet and you're going redwood redwood
yeah you're going
through it you have to say it but if we don't what happens then like something
bad will happen
they made a movie guys tabby tabby po tabby peppy tabby po they're going to go
back to the list go back
to the list there's one more wait a minute so you're going by the way yeah also
soap
your soap mythical things yeah you think you're soap yeah so okay jumping at
midnight well yeah
what about jumping in the middle at midnight it's just for um good luck grow
taller in the new year
can you wear red in the philippines do people wear red yeah all right it says
it's going to increase
your chance of being struck by lightning wow don't look what is sukub sukub sukub
sukub sukub sukub sukub
i don't know that's not maybe a little tree there's a little tree you walk by
sukub sukub yeah oh yeah
what about kapti sagang you know that twin bananas kapti gung sagging kapti gung
sagging twin bananas
yeah if a woman consumes a twin banana she'll have twins i don't know that's
interesting what about
scattering coins in a new house when you move into a house you scatter change
everywhere no but we bring rice
and salt well okay okay so whatever somebody's bringing these stereotypes aren't
real you're like
well they they are yeah it's very funny you bring salt and rice to what salt
the floor and rice the
floor right no you just put the rice like somewhere and then put salt around it
yeah it's like for good
fortune and like the spirits bad spirits hong kong could i put carpaccio on
there too and just eat it
afterwards no you can't eat it the italians are like when we buy a new house we
put down mortadella on the
floor we do a little chant called hungy hungy hippos
wow it's so strange avoid mirrors opposite the front door you can't have a
mirror
directly across from the front door that's bad luck covering mirrors is bad
luck in filipino
culture it says um placing a chick on a coffin like a baby chicken on a coffin
that's not
cool let's cut it out you know what fancy spain has a lot of weird supers i'm
sure you guys have
just as many weirdo ones you know spain's got some stupid ones what is
oh the grapes at midnight remember we did that one time it's the dumbest on
earth that is not
superstitious yeah it is supposed to wish you good you're supposed to have then
you have good luck
no hats on the bed in spain considered bad luck to put a hat on your bed well
that was in the movie
drugstore cowboy drugstore june no drugstore you ever see drugs drugstore
cowboy no i've seen right
van sant directed it with matt dylan and there was a scene they steal drugs
from pharmacies uh-huh
and uh it's just like drugstore june yeah and matt dylan one of the i think heather
graham sticks a
fucking um hat on the bed and then matt dylan goes all apeshit because now they're
gonna have
like six weeks of bad luck whoa yeah you're right you're right you're right you're
right you're right