China w/ Des Bishop | You Be Trippin' with Ari Shaffir

You Be Trippin'

Ari Shaffir

Places & Travel, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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SPONSORS: -Go to https://Superpower.com to learn more and lock in the special $199 price while it lasts. Live up to your 100-Year potential. #superpowerpod Ari Shaffir welcomes comedian Des Bishop to You Be Trippin’ for a deep dive into his time in Beijing, China. Des shares what it was like being there for the very start of Chinese stand-up comedy, what real censorship looks like compared to America, the ins and outs of dating culture, and the hierarchy around food and social life. Oh, and if you plan to visit — don’t forget your own toilet paper. 再见! Follow Des Bishop: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Desbishopcomedy Stand-Up Special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Xc6Kh5xMs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/desbishop You Be Trippin' Ep. 86 https://www.instagram.com/arishaffir https://www.instagram.com/youbetrippinpod https://arishaffir.com Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:18 - Chinese Comedy 00:12:22 - Organized Chaos 00:18:49 - Point And Hope 00:32:19 - Respecting Order 00:46:39 - Everything Is Official... Kinda 00:53:06 - Night Life 00:59:43 - You Need Whores 01:06:53 - Pooping In China 01:07:12 - Squat Poopin 01:18:28 - Censorship In China 01:27:06 - Food Culture 01:36:03 - Groundbreaking Chinese Comedy 01:49:47 - Where To Next? 01:54:27 - Sit In The Chairs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Amazing. Thank you.
0:02.0	No problem.
0:03.0	What are you putting it?
0:05.0	The energy thing?
0:09.0	No, in your one.
0:10.0	I put a baroka.
0:12.0	It's funny because I meant it like that, but of course you guys have so much history
0:16.0	of it spiking each other that you took it a different way.
0:20.0	Relax, bro. I don't know you that well
0:22.8	it wasn't gonna no no i meant your one
0:26.4	where you've been and where you're going
0:30.7	this is our race travel show yeah we're gonna talk about travel today
0:36.4	it's you'll be tripping yet Oh, yeah. We're going to talk about travel today. It's U.B. Trippin, yeah.
0:42.1	Hey, everybody.
0:42.6	Welcome to U.B. Trippin.
0:44.0	It is a travel podcast.
0:45.4	My name is Ari Jafir.
0:46.3	As of the recording of this, I've been to, I don't know, 36-ish countries.
0:51.1	Not that many compared to some of my guests.
0:53.6	Every week we talk to a different person
0:56.2	about a different place in the world. Today's no difference. The only podcast that has been
1:02.0	featured in the bodies exhibit with Chinese dissidents that have been arrested and cut in half.
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