GETTING CURIOUS | How Funny Are You, Queen?! with Mawaan Rizwan

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Mawaan Rizwan got his start creating YouTube sketches that turned his mother into a Bollywood Star. Now, as an established writer and actor, he has written for Netflix’s “Sex Education” and can be seen in the upcoming “Two Weeks to Live” on Sky. In the fall of 2019, he joined Jonathan on their Road to Beijing tour opening in sold-out theaters across the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. On a tour stop in Brisbane, Jonathan and Mawaan sat down to discuss his family’s immigration story, visiting Pakistan as an out adult, and how comedy has become a form of therapy for him. Follow Mawaan on Instagram and Twitter @MawaanR, subscribe to his YouTube channel, and visit mawaan.co.uk for updates on where to catch him live! Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:11.0	On today's episode, I'm joined by an incredibly talented writer
0:14.3	actor and comedian who also is a dear friend of mine who happened to join me on
0:18.5	the UK Australia and New Zealand legs of my tour Muonam Rizwan, where I ask, how funny are you, Queen?
0:27.0	And just really quickly, before we get started, I want to send you a little bit of extra love
0:31.1	and extra support through this week.
0:33.2	I know this is such a difficult and challenging, confounding time.
0:37.4	And for anyone who is affected by the coronavirus,
0:40.3	which is literally about everyone right now in the world.
0:44.0	Thank you, I love you, keep the faith,
0:47.5	and I just love you so much.
0:49.6	Thanks for listening, and without any further ado,
0:51.9	let's hear this week's episode of Getting Curious.
0:54.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Van Ness.
0:57.0	Our guest this week is a stunning person, an incredibly hilarious comedian.
1:04.1	You're a writer, you're a producer,
1:05.8	you are someone who I think is a really quickly
1:10.1	on their way to becoming a world-renowned
1:11.9	sexual comedic icon.
1:13.2	Stop it!
1:15.2	I like the addition of the word sexual.
1:16.9	No one's ever done that before.
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