108. Nimesh Patel: Comedy is Cancer Plus Time

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Comedian Nimesh Patel joins Mike this week for a joke-filled conversation about how to find your comedic voice, how to turn your saddest stories into standup, and whether or not Buddhism and comedy can peacefully co-exist. Plus, Nimesh goes deep on the infamous time he was yanked off stage at Columbia University for making what he didn’t think was a very controversial joke. Please consider donating to South Asian Americans for Change

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0:00.5	The story that you have is my worst nightmare,
0:04.8	which is that you did a college,
0:06.7	you said a joke that you didn't like.
0:09.0	And then they like,
0:10.3	I got famous work.
0:11.6	They give you the hook.
0:12.5	Oh, they cut the mic.
0:13.8	Oh, and that was,
0:15.7	that was the...
0:16.5	They cut your mic.
0:17.4	That hurt my feelings.
0:19.4	But the joke was good that you said,
0:21.7	and it's actually not even offensive.
0:24.3	It's a progressive joke about being gay,
0:27.2	can't be a choice,
0:28.7	because no one would choose a gay if they're already black, right?
0:31.2	Right.
0:32.0	And I said, the tag to the joke is only
0:34.5	person that choose a gay is Mike Pence.
0:36.7	He chooses to not be gay every day.
0:38.2	Like that's like what I was trying to get at.
0:40.9	But it was a segue joke.
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