Hello. This is Everything Else, the FT Culture Podcast. I'm Al. And I'm Grizz. Today we'll be picking the brain of comedian Phil Wang.

Please welcome to the stage, Phil Wang.

So Phil, no one told you before I just came up with the idea, but this is about Phil Wang

and comedy on demand, being funny on demand.

Okay, I'm going to disappoint you.

Well, I would like to start with asking you just to be funny on demand.

This happens all the time and it never works out well.

It's your job, no?

I guess it is my job, but the demand is often given with warning.

So you know when the gig is, you know the circumstances around the gig, and you can prepare. Today I was just

told, come to this field. That's not quite true, though, is it?

There were more details. I do you guys a disservice. There was a time given as well.

So, Phil, you often start shows shows or at least shows that i have

seen of yours by introducing yourself why is your your name central to your comedy um because

then people can look me up they They can also read the program.

Yeah, I don't know, maybe this makes me unique here,

but I've always used my name as something of an identifier.

But that's just...

How unusual.

I guess I'm an egot maniac like that.

I do say Phil Wang, my name's Phil Wang, Phil Wang,

a lot at the start of the set.

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