92. Vir Das: Getting Cancelled Except For Real

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In an age when many comedians talk about being cancelled, Vir Das was actually very nearly cancelled in a real way. When his YouTube monologue "Two Indias" went viral, a criminal complaint was filed against him in his home country of India. Vir talks to Mike about that experience and how he was able to turn the pain from the experience into the comedy in his recent Netflix special. They also discuss Vir’s journey from Bollywood star to international stand-up sensation, and why it’s important for a comedian to give the audience all they’ve got.

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0:00.8	America has a very distinct smell
0:02.8	that nobody talks about.
0:04.6	Can you describe it?
0:05.6	It's detergent and carpeting.
0:06.9	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
0:09.7	That's what it is.
0:11.2	All I think of in my childhood is carpet.
0:13.3	Yeah, but colleges, airports,
0:15.6	any public spaces smell like carpeting in America.
0:18.2	Yeah, the hell's going on?
0:20.0	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
0:27.7	Welcome back to Working It Out.
0:28.9	That is the voice of Veer Doss,
0:31.3	comedian who I think is just fantastic.
0:33.6	I was introduced to his work
0:37.0	through a mutual friend of ours, Zarna Garg,
0:40.7	who sometimes tours with him
0:42.6	and has Zarna's been on the podcast here,
0:45.1	comedian who I love, a friend of mine.
0:47.6	And she introduced me to Veer
0:49.1	and I dug into all his Netflix specials.
0:51.4	He has a bunch of Netflix specials.
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