Comedian Nazeem Hussain - Gangsters, death threats and comedy
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to Australian comedian Nazeem Hussain about giving people sleeping pills in airports, the Montreal and Melbourne comedy festivals, Australian politics, his mother the gangster, bullying, divorce, I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here, religion, dropping the yoghurt, death threats, multi-cultural gangs, kidnapping and remembering to laugh.
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| 0:00.0 | My manager says, she reckons, all comedians, I don't know if she says all male, because she has a fear, she's like, all dude comedians that she, a lot of them, they have some daddy issues somewhere in there. |
| 0:12.0 | And I was like, oh, that makes. |
| 0:14.4 | Oh, damn it, me too. |
| 0:15.6 | Like. |
| 0:15.8 | It gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:24.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, my name is Sophie Hagen. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm a stand-up comedian and you're listening to the |
| 0:33.9 | made-of-human podcast or in short mopad it is a podcast in which I try to |
| 0:40.8 | figure out life I mean by talking to some pretty cool people, I try to speak to a wide range of people about their life experiences in order to learn, engage and feel less alone. This week I'm speaking to Naseim |
| 0:56.8 | Hussein. He's an Australian comedian and we met up in Edinburgh and I love Naseim. I love him. I love him. I was meant to get him on the |
| 1:07.3 | podcast like a year ago and it just never happened but now we were both at the |
| 1:10.6 | Edinburgh Fringe Festival and he agreed to talk to me and I am very happy about that. |
| 1:15.4 | I will let you listen to her chat just a bit. It's a good one. He has some stories. I mean I know all my guests do but it was so entertaining. |
| 1:23.8 | Anyways first I just need to tell you that I am going on tour with my and it's almost |
| 1:30.0 | guys it's half sold out like I've sold 50% of all the tickets. It's a 33 day tour. |
| 1:35.6 | It's pretty wild. Anyways. So I'll let you know which ones are sold out, but I'm going on tour with my brand new show, Dead Baby Frog. |
| 1:43.4 | It's a stand-up comedy show about emotional abuse, trigger warning. |
| 1:47.3 | Starting in October I will be in, and I'm sorry for mispronouncing these, |
| 1:53.0 | Peter Bra, Winchester. I'm sorry for mispronouncing these. Pizza Bra. |
| 1:54.0 | Winchester, which is sold out. |
| 1:56.0 | Liverpool, Farham, Coventry, Swindon Leeds, which is sold out. |
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