S3 Ep12: Asim "Chabuddy G" Chaudhry LIVE!

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Comedy, News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of Series 3, The Mayor of Hounslow himself, Asim "Chabuddy G" Chaudhry joins Jolyon live on stage to talk about his his life in comedy. Covering everything from his early days creating videos and uploading it to YouTube with his mates for a laugh to the award winning work we know him for on mockumentary series People Just Do Nothing.

The guys also tap into how failure is one of the greatest fuels of creativity.

Please note there is some mic interference in parts but don't let that stand in the way of you and some excellent stories.

The episode rounds off with a live Q&A with the audience and was recorded at Shoreditch House as part of their series of 'In Conversation' live events.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to NewsRost. I'm Jolly and Rubinstein.
0:06.0	I'm Hayden Prouse and this week once again we are live from Schrodech House with a new live NewsRoyce podcast, Joel.
0:13.0	You're interviewing someone this week, aren't you?
0:15.0	Yeah, yeah. I got to speak to Assim Chowdhury, aka the Mayor of Hounslow, aka Chabuddy G.
0:22.8	Love him.
0:23.7	It was just so fun.
0:24.8	He's just one of the nicest, funniest, most giving guys.
0:29.4	And I think if you are interested in getting into comedy as a profession, then this is like a really good example.
0:37.0	I mean, like Hayden and I had, you know,
0:38.7	we got in a very strange where we started making videos on YouTube
0:41.1	and sort of came within our 30s.
0:42.5	And so, so did Asim.
0:43.9	In fact, something that I was hilarious that I found out,
0:46.0	which I didn't know, is that pretty much all the people
0:47.9	from people just do nothing met in a call center.
0:50.6	In a call center?
0:51.4	They're in Kingston, like making calls and they, so if you're sitting now, doing a job
0:57.0	you don't like, listen to this podcast, and this is a guide, a how to, is how to get into comedy
1:02.0	and make one of the coolest shows on TV right now.
1:04.0	It's just so interesting to hear, you know, people that you really admire talking about how they did their work. And like what we've tried to do in this in conversation series is really talk a bit more,
1:13.7	less about three courses and much more about them, who they are and how they got into
1:17.6	to what they're doing.
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