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TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

Episode #865: Kumail Nanjiani !

TBTL: Too Beautiful To Live

TBTL

Leisure, Comedy

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2011

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Kumail Nanjiani stops by to give a surprisingly detailed history of the comedian Yakov Smirnov.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And good afternoon, he took home top prize at the county fair demolition derby, but his time in the spotlight took a different turn.

0:08.0

Well, we are here at the demolition derby pit where last night, Nicholasville police were already waiting for David Warner as soon as he got out of his vehicle.

0:17.0

They were trying to say I was drunk. I drank eight beers yesterday. That was all I drank.

0:23.0

Oh, I'm sorry, it was just eight beers. Here's your license. Good, sir.

0:36.0

Hey there, America. Welcome to Tuesday afternoon edition of TBTL, the show that's probably too beautiful to live.

0:47.0

You ain't the only one, buddy. Yet here we are at episode 865 in a collector series. It's going to be an entertaining one.

0:57.0

We can promise you. Hi, this is Luke's mom, Suzy coming tonight on TBTL.

1:02.0

We will chat with the hilarious Kumail Nanjiani. I'm going to hear a lot of that going on also.

1:10.0

TBTL news roundup. Actually, TBTL news roundup, I think is what's it called? Jen is the follow-up file? Yes.

1:17.0

But I don't have a sound effect for I don't have a cool whip snap for the follow-up file. So we're just going to call it the roundup.

1:24.0

Okay, until we come up with it better. But I thought we were I thought you had a panther growl.

1:30.0

How on earth was that ever part of the follow-up file? Well, I don't know that it was. It was just that at the moment you were in love with it.

1:36.0

And so you were using it for all of our different things. Well, the way most of the segments on this show are constructed is we figure out the sound effect we're going to play.

1:44.0

And then we kind of we reverse engineer it from there. Also, hey, here's a blast from the past. Awesome, not awesome.

1:51.0

We will get into some of that. And also, man, just a bunch of emails. We got a bunch of different things to talk about.

2:00.0

Let's introduce the long time producer of the program. Jen Flash Andrews. Hi, Jen. Hi.

2:07.0

I had a little episode on Twitter yesterday that was, well, what happened was I had a running at the post office.

2:17.0

And then I tweeted the post office teaching us about 1980s Russia better than any yuck of Smirnoff routine.

2:25.0

And then what I got were a flurry of tweets from the listener saying, don't let Jen read this because of your long running boosterism related to the post office.

2:36.0

I do get defensive for the post office. Well, and you have over the course of years now over the course of nearly 900 episodes, you've beaten me into a certain sort of begrudging respect for your point of view on this.

2:48.0

But so we have a TBTL PO box. Well, I should say we had a TBTL PO box. And then people started saying, why is my mail that I send you bouncing back?

2:57.0

Well, it's because when I went and signed up for the thing, I said, let's do this for a year. They said sure, but they keyed it into the system incorrectly somehow.

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