Vir Das's Religion vs Comedy

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week, Good One goes international with the Indian comedian and actor, Vir Das! Since 2017, Vir has released four specials on Netflix. In 2021, Vir started doing something called 10 on 10, 10 minute specials released on the 10th of every month. Filmed in a secret stage, deep in the forests of Goa. Jesse zoomed Vir to discuss the first special in the series, which was about religion. As noted in the interview, India is experiencing record high covid cases. Here are some links to more information, how to help, and where to donate: A coronavirus surge is overwhelming India’s health care system How to help India during its COVID surge — 12 places you can donate You can watch four of Vir's specials on Netflix. Watch Ten On Ten on Vir's Youtube channel. Follow Vir on Twitter and on Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.2	I'm not going to lie, that was a pretty scary moment in that fucking set where I was like,
0:52.4	you know, I think they might be uncomfortable, and then you're just kind of onstage going,
0:56.2	oh, I was so right, I need to dig myself out of this right now.
1:02.4	Hello, and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes, I'm your host, Jesse David Fox.
1:17.5	Each episode of guest comes on to play a clip of one of their jokes, and then discuss
1:21.0	this how they wrote it, and how it represents what they're trying to do with their comedy.
1:25.3	This week's guest is Veer Dawes.
1:27.8	Since 2017, Veer has released four specials on Netflix.
1:33.2	That is so many in such a short period of time, but for 2021, he decided he needed to do
1:38.3	something completely different, something I've never really seen before.
1:43.2	Instead of another hour, Veer is doing something called 10 on 10, 10 minutes specials release
1:48.1	on 10th of every month, filmed in a secret stage, deep in the forest of Goa, and released
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