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Men are Funnier than Women - Episode 15
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The spiel is on why we think men are funnier than women. I'm also worried about the Coronavirus. Enjoy the episode!BECOME A SUPPORTERHey guys, if you enjoy my work then you can support it with as little as $2 (one time or monthly. It goes towards paying for equipment, time, all my comedy work including the podcasts, youtube videos and live events I do and MOST IMPORTANTLY towards my family. Help me feed my child here:www.patreon.com/join/salmanzq
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Introduction and Coronavirus Concerns
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Hi guys, welcome to the Expat Brad podcast.
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It's Salman Qureshi.
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I hope you all are doing really well, particularly because of stupid coronavirus going around.
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It's really, really gone down badly, hasn't it?
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It's kind of shit everywhere now.
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We're all laughing at not having that problem.
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But now it's spread everywhere.
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And I'm worried about traveling.
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I got to admit, like, I'm not when I say traveling, I mean, I'm not even talking about international borders anymore.
Personal Impact and Family Concerns
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I'm talking about the trip to the grocery store.
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How much are you supposed to panic when shit like this happens?
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Because when it first broke out, I told my wife, Sarah, and she said she panicked.
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It broke out and she was just like, oh, we got to be careful.
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We can't go out here or there.
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Keep the kid at home.
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Lock up.
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Let's shoot everybody.
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No, no, she didn't go that far.
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But I feel like it was in her voice to just get rid of everybody who has it or something.
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But I played it down, you know?
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I just played it down.
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I went, no, no, it's in China.
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It's not coming here.
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And it's probably just, you know, like a flu thing.
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And it's just going to die out soon.
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Don't worry about it.
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There's nothing to be scared about.
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Now, now my dad's stuck.
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He's trying to fly in.
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He lives in Iran and he can't fly out, man.
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So I'm a little worried for him and worried in general because, you know, flights have been canceled and it's kind of
Challenging Stereotypes in Comedy
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spread everywhere.
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Now, Europe, North America, it's kind of gone over there.
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So what do you do?
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How much how much what level of panic?
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Are we supposed to be at, people?
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I need to know.
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I need to know.
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I will panic accordingly.
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I'm a sheep.
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I'm not a leader.
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I just need to be told now.
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Salman, just panic a lot.
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Okay?
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Panic a lot.
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I'll do it.
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All right?
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If you tell me don't panic, I'll be like, okay, all right, fine.
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Just like I told my wife not to panic.
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I need someone to tell me that I'm hearing different things from different people.
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How are you all feeling about it?
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Well, I hope you're feeling great.
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I hope you're not feeling coronavirus-ish.
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Do you get what I mean?
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Because if you are, well, you can always tune in and listen to my podcast.
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That's the worst part of becoming sick.
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Please, God, don't give me coronavirus.
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I'll have to stay home.
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I've watched everything on Netflix.
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I've listened to every podcast in the world.
Diversity in Netflix Comedy Specials
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All I've got is having to listen to the Expat Brat podcast.
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Please don't do this to me.
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Oh, dear.
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I was reading stuff online and I can't believe, you know, that's the topic of this podcast, I suppose.
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It's this thing I read online, some new survey about men being funnier than women in comedy.
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I can't believe we're still talking about this, man.
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I can't believe stuff like if you go into it, I don't know if you guys saw it, but if you go into it, you'll realize it's very unscientific.
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Because they're like, oh, you know, we asked a few people and those few people might have been men.
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And this wasn't very scientific.
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I mean, really, I just asked a couple of my friends and we thought, what about women?
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Are they funny?
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And all of them said no.
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And there you go.
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There you go.
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Men are funnier than women.
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It's crap.
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It's bullshit.
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You know, I was looking up this list that came up of, and there's always these kind of lists coming up, but the one I just saw, it came out a few days ago.
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It rated all the top 16.
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Random number, by the way, like 16.
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Why?
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10, 20.
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Keep it, keep it.
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Yeah, just round it up, man.
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What's 16?
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Why 16?
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16 top stand-up comedy specials on Netflix.
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And I was like, all right, I'm intrigued.
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I was intrigued because Dave Chappelle's picture was like the title picture, the header.
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You get what I mean, right?
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So I clicked on it.
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Clickbait.
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I got clickbaited.
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And I clicked on it and he was number one.
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He was not number one.
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No.
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You know who was number one?
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John Mulaney.
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I think it was based on ratings on Rotten Tomato.
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And what's the name of his, what's the name of that special?
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And I got nothing against him.
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I got nothing against him.
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It's a comeback kid.
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That's right.
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That's what's number one on Netflix apparently.
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And it's very interesting to go through that list because Dave Chappelle comes in at third.
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And there's like a he's the only non-white male comic in the top 10.
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I think the next guy that shows up is Hasan Minhaj.
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And that's crazy, you know.
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And what I'm trying to say is when you look at these things, there's a reason.
Importance of Representation in Comedy
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I'm not I'm not saying this list is wrong because I suppose it's based on people watching it.
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But what's worrying is when white male comics complain about, oh, we're being, you know, targeted.
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It's not that.
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It's the fact that there's not enough representation.
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They're not coming through.
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And you can't tell me white male people are funnier than other people.
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It's just not scientific.
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Okay?
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The reason they're more white male comics is because traditionally they've done more stand-up comedy.
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They've had more exposure.
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They've had more role models to copy.
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And it's changing now, but there you go.
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Interesting list.
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I suppose another list, non-Netflix maybe, or overall you'd have a lot more diversity.
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But it says something about...
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What we're picking out.
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And this coming back to the point with the women thing, it's this kind of bullshit being spread is, you know, it's not good because women are left feeling more pressurized.
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I get it because as a Pakistani origin person.
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I'm a Pakistani-origin person.
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Pop, they call me.
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P.O.P.
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I never pictured myself doing stand-up until I saw a Pakistani-American dude doing stand-up comedy.
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Saad Haroon, a friend, a good comic.
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But until I'd seen him live, I kind of never really thought I would do stand-up comedy.
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So that's the importance of role models.
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What it does is you go, oh...
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we can do it too.
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It's dumb as it sounds.
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And for people who haven't had that problem because you've had those role models all your life.
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So it's unconscious to you.
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For people like me, it was important to see that and go, oh, yeah, it's possible.
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I'm allowed to do it
Gender Perceptions in Humor
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too.
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You know, it's as crazy as that sounds.
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As young people, it makes a big impression.
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And women being told constantly they're not funnier than men, I feel bad about that because it's not true.
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In fact, there was another survey.
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I got to find it.
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You got to look it up.
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The survey talks about...
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how the reason men are perceived funnier than women.
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And women, you gotta take note of this as well, right?
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So it's important.
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According to that study, it was because men were perceived as funnier because they tend to crack more jokes.
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It's like a machine gun effect, right?
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So they'll fire off 20, 30 jokes in the same amount of time where women would fire off five jokes, you know, whatever the math was, I can't remember.
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But that was the basic idea.
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And because they're machine gunning jokes out, saying 20, 30 jokes, there's a higher chance some of them, the total number that will land will be higher.
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So they'll end up telling five funny jokes, right?
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Five of them will land.
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And that's how comedy works.
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You just got to do a lot to find out which bits are funny.
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And women, on the other hand, because they're doing less, they're trying less jokes in general.
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They'll have with the same ratio, they'll end up with overall less jokes that landed.
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So out of five, maybe one might land, two might land.
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And so you see the guy having five jokes that were funny versus the woman who had two jokes that were funny.
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And so you go, oh, you know, that guy is hilarious.
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And that's this isn't specific to individuals.
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It's an overall group thing that's happening.
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And so if you're a female comic or not a comic, but, you know, just if you're a female, I think you got to be a bit more brave with it and try.
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I know it's harder because you've been told and it's I don't know, man, the cultural pressure, blah, blah, blah.
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It's easy for me to say, yeah, just joke around more.
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Come on, then.
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Well, we might be at a funeral.
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It's OK.
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I want to hear you crack some jokes.
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All right.
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Remember what Salman said about number of jokes you got to crack.
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We might be all dying here, but I need you to die funny.
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Okay?
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So there you go.
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That's a little, you know, math for you guys and the issue around.
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And also, also the thing with the women and the men thing.
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It's a little unfair when we say, spread that kind of nonsense.
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Because I tried Googling women are funnier than men and everything that showed up was men are funnier.
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All the links were about men are funnier than women.
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So there's not enough information out there about this stuff, right?
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So you get what I mean, right?
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Like that's how fake news happens, people.
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That's right.
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Fake news.
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That's real fake news.
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You get it?
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So if you want to change things around, stop saying nonsense like that.
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Keep it cool.
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Women are as funny as men.
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I think they're funnier sometimes.
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And okay, that's not scientific either.
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So don't, I don't know.
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Just stop fighting over this shit, man.
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Just the people who are funnier than other people because they work hard at their comedy or their humor or their jokes.
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That's
Promoting Local Comedy Events
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it.
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That's the bottom line.
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Everything else is mute.
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Okay.
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Capisce?
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We got this.
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All right.
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Now that we've settled that, there's no argument with that.
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You got to know that what I'm saying is the truth.
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I just want to round this off with... I thought I'd add this because, you know, I'm in the comedy scene in the UAE and there's not enough information being passed around.
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So if you're listening in because you're a comic or listening in because you're a comedy fan, I assume those are two reasons you tune into my podcast here in the UAE.
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Oh, my.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So if you do, then let me just tell you in the coming week this week, we're at Monday.
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So the coming week, we're going to get Wednesday night.
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Go check out the Maestro Showcase at the Courtyard Playhouse.
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It's a great improv comedy night.
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It's really funny.
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Most times, almost all the time.
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Got some good players.
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It's a really fun format.
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Gets the crowd involved by getting them to cheer on their favorite funny people on stage and whatnot.
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So go check that out.
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It's really good.
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And the Monday after, we're starting our Bollywood Improvise Showcase.
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And that's Rushdie and I, Rushdie Falcomic, Rushdie Rafiq, really funny.
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You know what's so funny about it?
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My mom was at a show.
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She hadn't watched me do stand-up in a while.
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She came, she watched me, and he was on the bill as well.
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And then afterwards, she's like, he was the funniest.
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And I'm standing right there.
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I'm like, Mom, I'm right here, right here.
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That's how funny that guy is.
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My mom, you know, she didn't care about it.
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the scars she's leaving on me.
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That's how funny the guy is.
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Anyway, so the two of us are putting on this Bollywood Improvise showcase with a few other performers as well.
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Really funny people.
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And so come down, check that out.
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That's on the following Mondays, a week from now.
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And just a three-week run, so do try making it.
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Last time we had to turn people away.
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So have fun.
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Get in there quick.
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Mark this one on the 12th of March.
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My friends in Abu Dhabi, Yellow Laughs, they are having...
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Their fifth year anniversary.
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Big shout out to those guys to keep comedy going.
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Started and keep it going in Abu Dhabi, which did not have any kind of scene at all before these guys got in and started working hard at it.
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And I'm so proud that they're doing completing five years.
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That's awesome, man.
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You guys don't know how much hard work these guys have put into that.
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And I think all the comics around the UAV appreciate it.
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So good on you, John and Eric.
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Well done.
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Lastly, just to round this off, there's Kickers in Sports City.
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If you live on that side of this town, every Friday night, they've got a really good room.
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It's usually packed out and some great, you know, you've got new and experienced comics out.
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Coming in, the comedy night is free.
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So do drop in for that if you live on that site.
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Kickers in Sports City.
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It's a really fun Friday night.
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You can probably look it up on Facebook, but it starts at 8 p.m.
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And last but not least, we're starting if you're into brown English Hindi mixed English.
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Desi Indian Pakistani comedy, then we are so the Racy Desi guys are going to be performing every Saturday night.
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It's a late night show.
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It starts at 930, goes up to 11.
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That's going to be at Muscovites.
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It's a bar club kind of lounge.
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It's really cool.
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Really nice stage.
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So we're kicking off.
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We've kicked off last Saturday and every Saturday for a couple of weeks, we'll be performing there.
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So and again, it's a free night.
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So drop in
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if you fancy that kind of comedy.
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Okay, this was fun.
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I hope you enjoyed this episode as usual.
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Make sure you subscribe, link, you know, share, whatever.
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00:13:57
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You know, Diet Coke is running out in the world anyway, because I heard because of the coronavirus in China, artificial sweetener, the
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The whole, you know, transportation, logistics supplies is hammered.
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So, hey, you might as well spend it on my podcast.
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Okay?
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Over and out, people.
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Have a good week.