From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

When I got down to India, stand-up was this very South Bombay country club, 45 and above, sort of a profession.

And suddenly I was this young kid who showed up and said the F word and talked about sex,

and I got this young fan base really fast.

In India, comedian and actor, Veerdas can sell out stadiums with his stand-up.

That's not the case in America, at least not yet.

Das is the first Indian-born comedian to star in a Netflix comedy special,

Veer Das, A Broad Understanding.

He tells us about making the leap from Bollywood to Hollywood

and why he refuses to use his accent to get a cheap laugh.

But first on the news banter, Peek TV may have peaked.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there. So a lot going on this week. Sony, it's sort of the least surprising so-called news announcement because it's been out there for a bit now. But Tony Vincuera, formerly head of the Fox Television Networks group. He's a suit. He was just hired to be CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. He

succeeds Michael Linton, who was there for a very long time through a lot of, you know,

craziness really when it came to the Sony hack. But before that, a lot of extravagant spending

and just a whole saga of Sony doing what Sony invariably seems to do, which is to

have trouble figuring out how it wants to run its movie business. They do well in television.

They have a bunch of projects at various places, but that movie studio always seems to be a

problem for them. And Tony's Vincuera comes in, and this is a guy with no experience with producing television or any experience whatsoever with movies.

Right. And that's a real indication of the direction that Sony sees its business going, which is towards television. That is the growth area right now, the film studio, unless you're Disney and you've got five different franchises a year,

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