420 - Vir Das
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Truly a global comedian, Vir Das has five Netflix specials to his name, and his latest “Landing” is an exceptional piece of work, relating the story of a plane journey at the end of which he faces arrest for bringing his country’s name into disrepute.
We talk about his beginnings in Bollywood; the difference a background in acting makes to a comics’ approach to authenticity; removing the middlemen between oneself and one’s audience; and why he doesn’t have the luxury of cynicism…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello Stu here just popping in before the show starts to let you know that my comedy special |
| 0:04.2 | I need you alive is now available at Stuart Goldsmith dot com |
| 0:08.1 | There's a link there where you can watch it on an breathtaking array of places for the rest of the month |
| 0:13.2 | Including the 800 pound gorilla website Amazon Prime in the UK and US X-Box |
| 0:17.8 | God knows how they do that as well as loads of other links to catch it on audio go to Stuart Goldsmith dot com and |
| 0:23.6 | Watch this show that I am staggeringly proud of and do watch it if you can because it's very pretty |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show my name is Stuart Goldsmith today. I am talking to Vierdasse an |
| 0:51.2 | Absolutely global comedian five Netflix specials under his belt and I'd particularly recommend his latest one |
| 0:57.8 | Landing which relates the story of a plane journey at the end of which he faces a rest for bringing his country's name into |
| 1:05.3 | Disrepute a huge amount to talk about here |
| 1:07.7 | We'll talk about Vierd's beginnings in Bollywood the difference that a background in acting makes two comics approach to |
| 1:13.8 | Authenticity he's got some really fascinating thoughts on that |
| 1:16.0 | We talk about removing the middlemen between oneself and one's audience and why he doesn't have the luxury of cynicism |
| 1:22.0 | This is an absolute banger of an episode with which to return to the podcast after a couple of months off |
| 1:27.0 | So thank you for your patience. I hope you've enjoyed the calm compendium episodes |
| 1:30.7 | I've released once from the archive that you may have missed |
| 1:33.8 | With who do we do we did genie asher a chaperak called sandy we did early Sarah Milliken very early James A. Caster |
| 1:40.3 | And we did stupidly as well |
| 1:41.4 | So I hope that kept the feed alive and in your minds |
| 1:44.0 | We are back now with a bang. I am recording and making new epsin prepping them from now on |
| 1:50.3 | So welcome back and what better way to start us off than with Vierdasse |
| 1:57.8 | Now you and I have actually we met very briefly at Montreal a few years ago |
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