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The Rich Eisen Show
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on The Rich Eisen Show
"It's a great time in my house. Huge. Big time. We'll go through the whole over. At kumail and on Twitter and Instagram. Thanks for coming in here. Anytime. Thank you so much for having me. And Johnny right here on the rich eisen show will wrap up this Thursday show in a sec. The NFL has done this last several years and it's a great idea to take two teams from Thanksgiving and have them kick off the following week on Thursday Night Football, so it's a full complement of rest, kind of messes obviously with their schedule where normally you travel on a Friday or Saturday, not on a Tuesday or a Wednesday and your final week of practice. Final day of practice is normally as we all know at the end of the week. But they still have a full week's worth of rest. They being the bills and the Patriots. Unbelievably, week 13, the bills do not still do not have a divisional win. Don't still don't have one. Now, the Patriots and dolphins kicked off the season and the dolphins beat New England. In that game, and then since then, New England has beaten the jets twice. So New England has a better divisional record going into this game than buffalo. Now then, buffalo still has a better record than New England. We bring all this up because buffalo is still trying to win the division and still trying to get a one seed and still trying to figure out how they can make the Super Bowl and have the road to the playoffs go through western New York and tonight's a big game for that. Because if you think the chiefs have their hands full and Cincinnati this weekend, the bills posting a 9th win and then sitting back over the weekend and watching Cincinnati and the chiefs pound on each other, if the Bengals beat the chiefs, then the bills would, in fact, be the one seed if the forty-niners beat the dolphins. So the bills have a shot a very believable shot at the one seed by the end of this weekend. They can go from 5 to one and then just try and win out from there and have everybody come try and chase them. That is a huge game as we all know between Miami and San Francisco coming up later on. This weekend and you've got the jets sitting right there in front if we put it back up on the screen one more time if you don't mind mister hock Hoskins. You've got the jet sitting in front of the Patriots. If the Patriots win this game and go to 7 and 5, the bills fall to 8 and four and that would be a debilitating or crushing loss for them, but they would fall to zero and three in division. Their best finish in division would be 500. And you have to wonder if that's a tie break that might be an issue for them moving forward. And then the Patriots sitting there at 7 and 5 at the jets lose in Minnesota, the Patriots would no longer be sniffing it, they would be in a wild card spot. The Chargers as we all know have a big game themselves trying to come off of that win that last second win that they just posted at Arizona. They're at Vegas. So this is a huge football game tonight. The Titans are taking on the eagles, the Baltimore Ravens, with Lamar Jackson dealing with a leg injury, wasn't able to practice yesterday, so keep an eye on that, the Baltimore Ravens have a home game against Denver. Talk about another winnable game. They supposedly had one in Jacksonville last week. So there's a lot of ground that could be made up fast. A lot of ground that can be lost fast. This week in the AFC is going to be really, really crucial and important and we'll see how it all plays out starting tonight between the bills and the Patriots. Fun show, Kumail Nanjiani, in studio, want to thank him, want to thank Mike florio as well. As RG three. Tomorrow's show tyron Matthews schedule to appear on our program. Great job, felly. Great job sitting there. Two folks. Last 40 minutes. Couldn't tell the difference. It was seamless from Mike to you. Great. Thank you. Very well done.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"I know, Fred. Remember when he hosted SNL? Yeah, I do. I do remember when I hosted SNL. What was that like? It was great. It actually ends up I was so nervous for it, but it's really not a nerve wracking experience. It's really more than anything an exhausting experience. Because you do that show twice that same night. You do a dress rehearsal that's longer with three more sketches and then the cut them. And there's this like, you know, you don't like that weak is so busy, you're like going, going, going, going, going, and then I went up, and I did the first show, and it went great. And I was like, yes. And then I was like, oh shit, no. That was the rehearsal. I have to do all that again. But that was the I don't think that I wouldn't say that was the last time, but that I was like, oh, I want to write a good stand up set. And I hadn't been doing stand up a lot, and I just kind of wrote this new 7 minutes that then I went to the cell or a whole bunch and did it. And that was really, really fun. And I would say that was the last time I was really trying to build a stand up thing. If you watch that clip of me hosting the opening monologue, they were like, so sometimes Steven Spielberg comes in watches. And I was just like doing my set and I looked over and it was like that far that just like the right row 7. I'm talking suddenly, I'm like, oh, that's definitely Steven Spielberg. And if you watch it, you could see the moment I spot him and I like stumble for a little bit. And you can see, if you watch it, you'll know exactly what moment it is. And then I take a deep breath and I look away. And then I go back to it. So that was very exciting. Do you have any advice for an aspiring comedian? You just have to do a lot of sets. There's really no shortcut. And I think I read a book called zen and the art of stand up. And the piece of advice from it that I really got was. So work is all the writing. That's the work. Being on stage is a payoff for that. And that changed how I approached performing, because it used to get really nervous to get on stage. And I was like, no, that's true. I've done all the work. This is where this is the part that's the payoff. And last one, do you have a joke that you thought was really funny? You tried a bunch of times. It never worked, or almost never worked. But you will go to your grade, being like, that was so funny. I was right there wrong. Yeah. Oh, for sure. I'm trying to think of what it was. Shit, I wish I had prepared. Oh man, this is really gonna bug me because I have a few jokes like that where I'm like, you're all how is everyone I remember? Oh God. I'm trying to think of how I did it. Oh, I can't. It's embarrassing. Now that I think of it, I'm like, no, they were right.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"So really, it's heroin. It's mostly heroin. Heroin is doing the heavy lifting. And then I had more that was like, I can't add a heroin to pancakes and go, I made a new drug. It's called shake cakes. I forget what the rest of it was. But I say basically it's heroin, it's mostly heroin, like someone I remember, I got off stage in Julian McCullough, was like, you say heroin, 23 times in that job. And I was like, sometimes, you know, that one I was like, how many times can I repeat the same thing and get a laugh from it? You got a joke, where someone calls you Kumar, and then to joke goes to basically you explain that your goal is to be so famous that you are the name people shout at you. Do you feel like you're that famous now? Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I was trying to think, you know, Hasan minhaj did like fucking 5 minutes on me on his Netflix special, which is very funny, but I was like, oh, I didn't know that I was like, that famous. But did you see that special? Yeah. Yeah, I think that job that joke's very funny, but I didn't know that he was doing that. I don't know. I mean, who else would it be? Like, listen, if you had to be racist to a brown man on the street. I will say, especially now with the muscles, it's only you. It's only me. That looks like you. That's very, that's a shame. There should be more of us. Are you a brown guy? You're half Mexican. Okay. So you Brown. So work out a lot, and then someone else. Yeah, please. I want to test out this hypothesis. So that sound means it's time for the final segment of this show. It's called a laughing round. It's like a lightning round, because this is a comedy podcast. I call it the laughing round. Okay, laughing? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I like that. That's Pete Holmes laugh. Sure it is. He's got a very specific laugh. Is there a joke that you wish you could steal? You saw another comedian. There's a joke in the community and you're like, I wish I had that joke, I can tell that joke is my joke. No one will be mad at you. There were a lot of there was a lot of jokes Johansson. You know, Jack Johansson is a very, very funny comedian. One of the reasons I got into stand up as well, he has a joke about he man that I was like, oh, I would be great with that joke. I could really wear that joke. Yeah. Do you have a short story of an interaction with a legendary comedian living or dead that you would be willing to share with us? Well, Robin Williams won for sure. I'm trying to think who else, I sort of, when I meet someone who's super legendary, I kind of do this thing where I pretend like I don't care. Because I'm like, I don't want to come off like a sycophant, and then sometimes I think I'm rude. When I met Fred Armisen for the first time, I had this I was doing a show at the bell house. And I'm a huge fan of friends. This is before portlandia. Huge fan of Fred. I thought he was the funniest guy in the world. And I had this little article in The New York Times about me. And so I met him, and he's like, hey, he was like, hey, you were just in The New York Times, and I was like, I know. And then I walked away.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"Writer kumail. No, there was a moment earlier when you said, you are a committee. You were a comedian, and that hurt my feelings. I was like, this motherfucker over there. Yeah, no, I definitely consider myself a comedian. I definitely consider myself still a comedian. And I love doing it. I just haven't done it since February 2020. At all, I don't know why I stopped that specific date. Something happened. 2020 was the year I just finished shooting eternals and I was like, this will be the year I do stand up. It didn't happen. I mean, right now you're in front of an audience, or you're like, oh baby, this is what I yeah, I love it. It's great. I love it. I love it. The hardest thing about getting back to stand up. And I've had little breaks before I kind of stopped over two years ago. The hardest thing about coming back from a little breaks is for some reason, the jokes that you were doing before stop working. So when you come back from a break, you come back from a three month break, you need new jokes. But it's very hard to get into the gear of writing new jokes if you're not used to being on stage. So that's always a tricky thing when you come back is for me the big barrier to coming back is having the time to do jokes and test them out and do jokes and test them out. It's sort of a commitment for me to getting ten great new minutes. Would take me a while. Yeah. You mentioned before this. If you had another joke in this vein that you might remember, was it the thing joke or do you have another joke that you feel like? You might remember. I think the thing joke was the one that was about movies, but I was really trying to, like, I did a joke about the cyclone, which was the oldest functional roller coaster in the world. It's like, and that was another one that was the same structure that was like, so in Coney Island, they were all a structure that's a rolling rolling coaster.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"So I've read that you were hesitant to first take on this part, but when I was watching the series, it felt like you're able through this part to express a thing that I feel like you haven't been able to improve your work and things that you've talked about before in terms of your own insecurities and your own relationship to anger. What was it like having this project to channel that? What was this project like? I think you talked about how it physically hurt you. It was absolutely amazing. It's the first thing I've done where my character isn't funny, you know? I've done obviously a big sick has dramatic stuff in it. But everything I've done has a pretty high percentage of comedy. This was the first time that that wasn't part of it. So I was scared to do it because I knew being funny was something I knew I could do. I had. And even if I've done some movies that I don't think are good movies, but I'm happy with some jokes in them. And I'm like, that's great. I was able to sort of show the thing that I feel is one of my strengths. So this didn't have that. But in a way, it's when I was first sort of on stage starting to get a little bit frustrated, not being able to do anything except get laughs. I don't want to say the combination of that. But this was exactly the kind of thing that I would never have been able to do. And it really I really was the anger stuff and all of that. So the people who don't know, the guy who created chippendales was an immigrant from India and the stories like wild. People get murdered and stuff. It's a true story. And I play a guy who's like, would you say he's a bad guy? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I play a bad guy, you know, which is very exciting. And so I was able to do a lot of the things that I had never figured out to be able to really talk about on stage. I want to ask you a stupid question, which is, is acting fun, it seems like you really like acting. Listen to you in podcasts over the last ten years, it's like, I love stand up, I'm doing a process with stand up, and then you just see you fall in love with acting, and is acting really fun. It's so fun. It's the fucking best. It's so it's so fun. I love it so much. I don't know why. It's the same feeling like when you're on stage and you're really sort of in the zone. Sometimes I remember having this feeling, which is like, oh, knowing what the laugh is going to be before you say the line. Sometimes when you really like in the pocket, you have that. Sometimes you say something and you're like, oh, if you thought that was funny. Wait for that. That's kind of why I would riff so much on stage at the beginning because I was like, oh, wait till I get to the shit I actually sat down and wrote, you know? But sometimes I would get this feeling on stage that I was like, I knew what the laugh was going to be before I stayed. In the present and the future at the same time, it's like just really exciting thing. And that's sort of with acting, it's the same kind of thing where you're sort of like talking to somebody and you really feel like you're kind of surprising yourself. I think that that's what's really fun about it. You're just sort of I prepare a lot. I do a lot of prep for acting. And I work on the scene a lot. And then when they yell action, I forget all that, and just try and just be in the moment and see what happens and sometimes you go to weird places. That's kind of at my best when I was doing stand up was the same where it was like, I've written the jokes, but I've forgotten them. And now I'm on stage, just seeing how it comes out, see what happens. That's why it was never tried to be word perfect. It's the same with acting, or you just really like the and you're like, wow, wow, that was exciting, and it's a scene where you just like very quiet. And I learned that excitement from working with Holly Hunter on the big sick, where I was like, oh, acting can be that. That is really exciting. I imagine stand up, especially the writing it can be a very intellectualized exercise. And there's an acting when you're doing it right. You're in your body and you're doing it. I imagine. Yeah. I think the prep for acting is very intellectual, like figuring out how to play that character was like months of intellectual work. And then it's completely not intellectual at all. You're just really, really just sort of reacting and in the moment and really seeing the other person. I know this sounds all insufferable. But it really, really is completely your brain is completely off. And for someone like me who has a problem who's always had a problem with overthinking, sometimes would stand up, that was also something that would come in, you know, when I would start over thinking a joke wouldn't do well. And you're like, why didn't that do well? That should have done well, maybe I should have done it like this. What do I do next? All these things are happening, and they pull you out of the moment because you're looking at what you just did and trying to see how to with acting the goal is to not think at all just be in the moment. It almost feels to me like meditating or something. Today, November 12th, where it's speaking, do you think of yourself as a comedian? Like, if I were to say comedian, actor, Kumail Nanjiani, would probably think you mean actor comedian Kumail Nanjiani or actor writer kumail. No, there was a moment earlier when you said, you are a committee. You were a comedian, and that hurt my feelings.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"15 times. So it starts to feel a little awkward. And it was a little bit awkward, you know? Because the scene is awkward and so then when we cut it, they took that joke out and I was like, guys, we have to have that joke in. And I think we tested it without that joke. And I was like, let's just test it. If they don't laugh, and I was truly the only one pushing for it. Just be like, just test it with it. Which is when you show it to an audience that before the movie's done and you get scores and you figure out how to re edit it. And it did so well at the first screening that there was no discussion about that after that. And I was just pushing for it because I thought it was very funny and surprised. I just thought it was a great joke. I mean, it's also like thinking about your character have to be a comedian for the movie to make sense. And part of it is it depicts how a comedian would interact in this situation. You are a comedian when the situation happened. For you not to be a comedian, it would be weird that this is how we interact with people. Yes. That's right. Exactly. He's always making jokes, you know? And obviously love stand up comedy. And from the beginning, Judd was like, you should be a comedian because then you could just do that. Yeah. And so, yeah. And then you can have a character who's saying the worst possible thing at every moment. And it's fine, because that's kind of what comedians do. You know, following your career closely, it did feel like this movie coming out really did change something in that you took this very personal story that was about your experience. And then when it was received, it became about a lot of people's experience. Can you talk about what it was like to go from doing a thing just because you want to express yourself personally to realize it will be meaningful to other people? And how did it change how you thought about your career? Good question. I honestly had just really needed to make this movie. For me, I was like, we have to do this story. And I had to convince them only to do it. She didn't want to do it at first. She didn't want the story to be told. And then when she didn't want the story to be told, she didn't want to be part of the team doing it. So the first draft, which I have to stress, was not the movie and absolutely terrible. It was just me, but it was not. And then when Emily came on, suddenly it was like way better. So we were sitting at Sundance, it was the first time really people were going to see it. And it's a big theater, so it's like a thousand people in a theater. And to this point, nobody's seen a tiny test audience. Now sitting there in Emily turned to me and she was like, just so you know, this is the last time this is going to be our story. And suddenly it hit me like a ton of breaks. I was like, I had never thought far enough that anybody would see it. For me, the goal was just to make the movie. Having people watch it was not something that was part of my math at all. I hadn't even considered it. It's not like I had no expectation for it. I just had not thought about that part of it. I was like, I just want to make this movie great. When the movie's done, you're like, I really like that movie. I thought that's the end of it. And as the lights are going down, it's really kind of hit me. I was like, wow, this is like a pretty big matzo ball, you know? Like you really wear something very, very personal, that now people are going to see at least these thousand people. And so people's reaction to it and people really sort of connecting to it and seeing themselves in it was surprising and I didn't quite know how to handle it. And I still really don't know how to handle it. And I don't know if it's affected how I do my work going forward. I don't think you can anticipate any kind of reaction from people. I think all you can do is make something that you can be proud of. That's really as far as you can think. I think that's part of the problem with Hollywood as people try and guess what people want. And there's just no way to know that, you know? That's why I think once you have a movie that's ahead that has dragons suddenly there's a ton of movies that dragons people are like, people want dragons. No, they just like that movie. Yeah. And so all the we did not leave a wake of coma movies after us. I was like, oh, that's what people want. Could anyone pitch the bigger sick? Yes. We have actually been contacted about a sequel. And I was like, what is it going to be? This podcast. It's very uninteresting. Our lives became boring after that. Yeah. So one of the byproducts of this movie's success is you're able to very deliberately pursue acting in a way that you hadn't. So I want to play a clip of the upcoming acting projects. I want to play the teaser for chip and Dale's play that teaser now. Wonderful actually. I had no fingertips. Anything else. This is my life. How are you ready? This is business. November 22nd on Hulu.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
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"Back to Kumail Nanjiani, live from ultra festival. So speaking of movies, you made one. I've made more. Yeah, but you made one. Maybe one that's really, you made one that goes into the question I'm going to ask. So around the time you're working on the special in 2012, you appear on a live episode of you made it weird with Judd Apatow, south by Southwest. No one was 2012. Yeah, I was there. You were there. Wow. Wow. This led this led to you having meeting with Judd. You tell him the Emily story. He tells you to write that movie. This was a story that you said you didn't think you would be able to work into your stand up. Again, there's longer stories in here, but also you worked on unpronounceable. And felt you didn't want to keep on working on it. This all to say, were you feeling there's a limit to what you personally could express through stand up around that time? Definitely. I was starting to feel that. I just want to say another weird thing about that show. It was a Pete Holmes panel show and the show was we'd all met Judd for the first time and it was me and Judd produced a big sick. Pete Holmes and Judd ended up producing crashing. Chris gather, Judd ended up producing a special and taught Barry. But Todd left early before judge showed up. And he's like, that's the worst fucking thing. Yeah. Worst show I've ever left early. It's a viable lesson. It was like everybody on that show ended up doing something with Judd. Yeah, I was starting to feel on stage, you know, that if it doesn't get a laugh, it's not successful. And that's limiting, you know? About the things you can sort of talk about or do. And so I don't remember what it was, but there was a bunch of jokes that I would trying to do on stage that were sort of vulnerable and personal, but weren't working, because they just weren't meant to be stand up jokes, or I hadn't figured out. How to make them stand up jokes. So I was feeling a little bit like sort of a little bit constrained by stand up. There are great comedians who have are able to do everything on stage. I never got to the point where I felt absolutely completely creatively fulfilled during the stand up. So I want to play a clip from that movie, 2017s the big sick, play the big, sick clip, please.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"She understood what makes a good show and what makes a bad show. She knew immediately what it was. And she had these specific rules about how to do a great show. And her thing was like, our show starts on time. It was an 8 o'clock show. She was like, it starts on time. Audiences will get trained. Don't show started on time. They still don't. They still don't the only shows to ever. It was like, if it was like 8 O three, Emily was living. She was like, what are you doing? Get on stage. So she was like, it starts on time. And that first show that we booked, we basically called in every favor we had. So we always had huge comedians, but that first one I think we had like Marc maron, and we basically every it was like 6 headliners on the first show. And it was okay. But really a couple months in suddenly it started getting packed. And we would have it's sort of, I think the best show in LA that's outside of a comedy club for 6 years, almost exactly 6 years. And it was great because it was the opposite of Chicago outside of the lines then, which is a really easy, very supportive crowd. And every week I would just like try new stuff on stage and everybody would go up and kill. And I can count on one hand. The number of people who had a bad set there was just ten year old list all the people. Yeah, here we go. I could think of three already. You'll tell me later. You'll know, you'll know at least two of them. No. Okay, I think a four and you'll know three of them. Or you'll know of them. I don't know. During this panel, I'm going to think about who they probably is. Okay. Yeah, good luck. And so that just became like this party that we would do every week. And everybody would kill. And it was great. For me, the highlight of it was when Robin Williams dropped in. And yeah, and it was my birthday. And Emily and I have back to back birthdays. Yeah, I know. It's disgusting. And I was on stage. I had someone come on stage and I went back there. And it's like, in the green room, it's a tiny green room, like it's tiny, and it was like unmistakably, Robin Williams. And like he's like, you know, one of the reasons I started doing stand up is because of Robin Williams. I watched the biggest fan. And he's like, hey, I'm like, hey, I'm coming out and he's like, hey, I'm Robin. I'm like, oh, okay? And I was like, do you want to go up on stage? And he said, oh, no. And I was like, are you sure? And his hat and his coat were off and he was like, okay, just two minutes. And then on stage, I was like, ladies and gentlemen, Robin Williams, and people are kind of clapping because they think it's some UCB comedian.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"Which is not part of the joke. No. Because I didn't want to I didn't want to. I didn't want to. When you saw that, did you immediately like this is jokes? This is the thing I need to tell people about. Yeah, that really was because it really was people like in the audience when he says, you know, he says, what he says about going after her, people in the audience were like, oh, yeah, man. He's a serial killer. And before he was like an undead, he was like a child molester. He's a bad guy. Yeah, yeah. Also, he's like kind of racist, yeah. That was like immediately. I was like, okay, that's a joke. Yeah. The line is that killing kids with his murder gloves. But racism, not up in here. And what I like about that line, or it's interesting, I remember years ago we were talking and you talk about playing alternative rooms, especially they want you to hide where the punchline is. You don't end on you don't end on murder gloves. You put it and then you end on up in here. Talk about that. Developing a conversational style, how do you, what that means, people who were not at that conversation we had about it. I'm sorry. They were an at that conversation. No, are you guys were not, right? No, you weren't. Who's in those feelings? 8 years ago. Wow. Where was it? Specifically. Was it a meltdown? No, no. It was at the coffee shop. Oh, right. Gotcha. Gotcha. Me, Emily and Joan on you. Yeah, that's right. That's right. You've been like a very helpful to me for many years. So thank you. You really have. From back, even with the big seconds. Yeah. So what he's talking about that I really felt was I was in Chicago, and I had these sort of one line and re jokes with a very specific like on stage character. And I started feeling towards the end of my years in Chicago, which I was in Chicago for 6 years. I started feeling, I wanted to do something else on stage. I needed to sort of be more like myself on stage. And then I actually ended up right after Emily got sick. When she was okay, I wrote this very, very personal one man show. That is you can't find anymore. And I went from doing just like one liner each jokes. They weren't about myself at all to really doing an hour and a half show that really was very, very personal. Right after Emily got better. It's crazy. It's one of those things. You know, I'm Lee and I were both like, we didn't think anything had changed after that. But if we look back, we both quit our jobs. I wrote this very personal one man show. We moved to New York, and we got secretly married. All within three months of her getting sick. So clearly some parts. So I did this one man show that was very personal and then that got me a manager and I moved to New York. And when I moved to New York, it was the alt scene and I think it was like Aziz had been the biggest guy and he was sort of now moving beyond. So he had like 30 minutes or less coming out. So it's sort of a little bit graduated from the old comedy scene, but still he would do sets. I would see him. So that's the era. This was like 2007, 2008, 2009. He was sort of the big comedian. But everybody who was there, their whole style was the UCB style was, it can not sound like a joke. He can not sound anything like a stand up comedian on stage. It has to feel very conversational. As soon as I got to New York, I was like, oh, none of the jokes I have for the last 5 years, 6 years really work because they're like jokey jokes. And this is very much hiding what the jokes are. But I found it very exciting. I found that very freeing. That I could sort of go up and just be myself and tell a long story. And really soon as I moved to New York, the persona on stage completely flipped. And I sort of became more like myself on stage. And he just started writing a lot. And I would say the best jokes I've ever written in my life all came from that two years I was in New York. So I want to talk about so we got New York, but so I want to talk a little bit about your Chicago time and LA, which is you were part of two pretty seminal alternative comedy spaces. One was when you were in Chicago in the early 2000s, you performed the Lions then with a lot of people who became comedians now know, Hannibal buress, Pete Holmes, Canaan was there. Matt brauner. My Bronco. Yeah. And then the meltdown obviously, which was the show you did with Jonah, that Emily produced. Can you tell a story about each of those scenes and how it affected how you saw comedy, how you wanted to do comedy? Well, the great thing about the lines then was, so we were in Chicago. I moved there and 2001. Some of them maybe weren't born. Yeah, yeah, I know. There's like 2001, or yeah. Just that was a time. Dragons roamed the land. But I moved there and we were doing stand up and stand up was like not cool in Chicago. The Lincoln launched the place I mentioned was the only place that we're drawing audience and we had a bunch of open mics. And nobody would go see anybody at these open mics. We were performing for each other. So because of that, there were all these really funny comedians who are like huge now. We were performing for each other, really. So more than anything, originality and point of view was the thing that was prized in Chicago. You could not do anything that smelled hacky at all. You'd get crushed. There was a place called the Lions den that he's talking about. It's an open mic, that's where everyone from Chicago would like meet up on Monday nights there, right? The show started at 8 30. You put your name in a hat, and they'd pull it out and you get like 60 comedians doing four minutes, 60 comedians doing four minutes. And it was like a massive party and the night would start so that from one to like 20, the room was packed, then it would clear it out a little bit, and then around 35, one like the stand up comedians who worked at restaurants would get off, work, and then they would come with all their friends who worked at the restaurant. So around ten 30, it would get packed again. And then it was packed like 2 a.m. and we would just go and kill. We were kings, you know? But I remember going up once when it was particularly a great night. And I just wanted to kill. So I did a joke from a couple weeks ago. And Kyle was like, that was funny. But I saw you do that earlier. And so it was really like you had to bring new shit every week. Killing is not as valuable as doing something new. No, killing, killing can be like actually they were comedians who killed that nobody respected. It was very, very much about just being original and new. And having a perspective. That was the most important thing. Yeah, and then the meltdown. And then the meltdown was very different from that. Because that really felt like we were sort of in the trenches. Those years were hard in terms of audiences. There weren't there was nobody coming to see us. The meltdown was the opposite of that. I moved to LA. I was acting on a TV show. That's why I moved here, but the TV show wasn't like Franklin and bash. Yeah, it was Franklin and bash. What it wasn't was really, what were you going to use? I had a great time on that show. I did. I really did. I had a great time on that show. And I really wanted a place where I could be funny. And so I just was like, I just wasn't, you know, I was in crisis on that show. I hadn't ever really acted before and suddenly. I was like acting of people who were very, I just felt out of my element there. And so we were like, let's start a show. So we looked at a bunch of places, and then Jonah, we met Jonah and become friends with him, and he was like, I do a show. In the back of a comic book store, once a month, why don't we partner up and do it weekly? And so basically an Emily was like, I'll produce it. And Emily's so good because I've been to all my open mics and Chicago all my open mics in New York and she's so smart.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"The end. So. I remember that. Yeah. So you see that. That's like 30, 40 seconds of setup, and then every line is a punch line. Yeah. That's what I was trying to get at. How did it feel to do it now? Felt like really honestly fucking great. Really dead. I sort of, at some point, started feeling like it used to feel. Back when I could smell ring. As you might know, part of the goal to do this panel is to try to convince you to do stand up again. Is it? Yeah, that's a subtext. That's a follow that along. We're going to circle this around. Switch joke. It's similarly has a longer setup. And it feels like a baby version of that type of joke where you're like, do a longer setup. But the thing that feels most like the kumail is how vividly you describe the hostel. You could just be like, oh, it's like if you're watching a hostel and then this thing happens. But instead, you describe a scene from the hostel to then set up the cotton candy thing. Right, 'cause I felt very important that they have to be going a certain way for them the image of the kid like eating cotton candy for the first time to work. So I was like, you really have to go hard in the bad way and trust that it's like really shocking. If you go the other way so that the thing that's sweet is really shocking. So I was like, I'm going to like really go there because I saw that movie and that scene really I was like gross. And so I thought that joke only works if I really go to the darkest thing from that movie and then I veer back. Take me to watching Freddy versus Jason in that actual moment in that scene. So just so you know if you haven't seen that movie, it's Kelly Rowland. It is Kelly rose from Destiny's Child from Destiny's Child. And the scene that follows is kind of messed up. She says some inappropriate things. Nonetheless. Yeah, she does. Not that long ago. You're sort of like, you're like, oh, now it's very quick. It's going to kill her. Then she says some stuff and you're like, okay, yeah, go get her. She uses like a homophobic slur. Against Freddy Krueger. And you're like, oh my loyalties are divided now.
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"Didn't he go to a research facility? We could have cured death. Instead, you just like talking about this old baby. See? Yeah, no, it was a good bet. Yeah, I had like three minutes on her. And remember being like, oh yeah, this movie's gonna be like Forrest Gump. The same screenwriter. And it wasn't. But yeah, I started sort of doing jokes about movies and stuff, 'cause I would watch them a lot. And then the elephant man thing is real. I remember it so is the ugly duckling thing. Yeah. I remember watching ugly duckling as a kid and really, really crying. Really hard, feeling maybe sadness for the first time in my life. And my mom was like, they're just drawn. Does real life look like that? And I was like, even then I was like, this is a weird tact mom. But she had me when she was 16. So she was probably like, you know, 19. Leave me alone. Your brain is so small. And then the elephant man, I remember I watched also as a little kid, and I think it was going to be a superhero movie. And then it wasn't. And yeah, so all that was kind of real. And it sort of seemed to just fit in together, because I had two sort of separate bits about it. And then I realized, oh, they're the same bed. Where did that memory live before you did it? Was that a thing you were thinking about? You would think about that time periodically or were you just sort of thinking about things for material like, oh, that was a weird thing that happened. How did it even come to you? It's just one of the things that I think just was just part of the memories of my childhood, like me crying at ugly duckling, for sure. And then elephant man was the scene that I remember was I mean, this is a real bummer. So maybe I shouldn't get into it. Just specific scene. At this point, people are curiosities too. To bring out the Doctor Who's I think I forget who the bring out naked elephant man on stage for all these doctors to see. And they're all like gasping and all that. And he's just like this really lovely guy. And so I remember that was really, really devastating. Yeah. So it's just two different devastating things that taste great together. In that joke, you have the line, that movie took something from me, lost the ability to smell rain. I knew that's what you were going to say. Yeah, it's amazing to be rude that. Yeah. It's a pretty good thing to write. It's a good line. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. You know, I always thought that that was specifically was a thing an idea I had that I was like, if you lose your humanity, you stop having some sort of beautiful experience. And I don't know, but it was like this free floating, funny thing I had at one point, I was like, you can't see the color purple anymore, but then people thought I was talking about the Whoopi Goldberg movie. And
Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
"Didn't really do a good job of there's a lot of stuff in that that I would change. I should just go rerecord that special. Yeah, right now. Yeah, here we go right now. Do you remember about the first time I cried? So this is a podcast about jokes. How did you write jokes? What was your process? How did it evolve? I believe you were right everyday guy. Yeah, so the types of jokes I wrote really changed. And that was sort of the beginning of the new way that my jokes were. For a long time, I was in Chicago and I was just kind of like waiting for, I don't know, God to speak to me, which is how everybody was like, oh, you can't force it, you have to wait for the heavens to open up. Just such bullshit. And at one point, I decided that I would write for at least ten minutes every day. And that changed my life. Because sometimes it would just be ten minutes, but most of the time it would go longer. I had to at least write for ten minutes without stopping. It's called free writing. And without deleting anything without judging. And so that really took the pressure off because sometimes I would feel like anytime I had to write it had to be really good. And when I took the pressure off, having to be good when I was writing, it genuinely changed my life in so many ways. So that's how I would write and usually in the beginning it was all sort of one liners, you know, like in a minute I could tell like four or 5 jokes. Yeah, and then so also in the special, there's longer stories. Would you be word perfect for everything? Was everything written down? Everything was written down. I would always write down everything and I would have like the big word Doc and where the laugh lines were, I would have like bold. They didn't just look at it and see if there were enough laugh lines or not. But then when I was really good at the performance aspect of it, which I would say, I had a few years where I was like, honestly, I just was like feeling very confident in my stand up for a few years. And that's what I miss most. That feeling of being confident. In my stand up, you know? I don't have that level of confidence at anything in my life now. I really don't. I really don't. It doesn't feel egotistical to say it now, because I don't have it now. But there were a few years where I was like, I felt like I could grow up in front of any crowd in any city and any stage and do really well. And I had that full belief. How did it evolve? Were you word perfect on long jump? No, I would sort of try and remember the month day. And it would be different. And if I was really good, they would come out pretty different because I knew what the joke lines were. But getting to the joke lines would keep me in the moment if I wasn't worked perfect. So I was right everything worked perfect, but I would try to not be worth perfect and try to forget it so that you don't just you're not just reciting. Yeah, I try to be loose on stage. And when I was feeling really confident, I would do this thing where the game was, how long can I go without doing any material on stage? So I had gone on stage and truly the plan was no plan. I was like, I do not know what I'm going to say until I get to the microphone. And that was the game. I was like, I'm going to pick up the mic and figure out what you say. And see how long I could go without doing a single joke. It was a long as you're able to go. I probably have done a full 20 minute set without. But never like a 45 minute set, like fully riffing. But I had a lot of sets where it was really just sort of riffing. And if it's working, it's really pretty great. So the first step with writing often is just sort of observing that there might be a joke to write in that area. What did that feel like for you when you're especially when you're watching a movie to be like, what is happening in your brain and be like, oh, there's something here, remember that. Yeah, so when I was first doing stand up in Chicago, all my jokes, like I said, was sort of one liners, and I really had this. That really on stage is sort of how I am off stage before that I wasn't like that. I had sort of a persona on stage because I was so nervous, so I was my thing on stage was to be very nervous. Pete Holmes still makes fun of me for it all the time. He does impressions of old people. They're not flattering. His new komal sucks too. And because I was nervous, there were only certain kinds of jokes I could do. I'd like to say a certain kind of jokes I couldn't do. I couldn't really do anything that was personal. And I don't mean personal in the sense of opening my heart and my soul. I mean, even like, I watched a movie or something that happened to me. I couldn't do my personal would not allow for that. And I remember the night I was doing stand up on stage at a place called the Lincoln lodge, which is where I met Emily. The woman I married. Weird way to say wife. I thought you're gonna be this subject of the movie about right. And I was on stage, and I just seen an episode of Star Trek that I really liked. And I was on stage and I was like, shit, I really want to, I think I have something funny to say about that Star Trek episode, but I can't do it with the persona I have. So that was the moment I was like, okay, I have to change myself on stage that I can sort of talk about whatever I want to talk about. And that ended up being something that's close to how I am asked. Does your brain still do it? You're watching your living around and be like, that's the thing. Are you still even when you're not doing standard? Because your brain is a muscle that you develop. Yeah, but it really is a gear you have to switch into, is that what you
Eyewitness Beauty
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Eyewitness Beauty
"The biggest news this week was Kim Kardashian launches a skin care brand called SK N by Kim neutral packaging. I know it's all eco friendly and sustainable because Brian rotenberg who designed necessary with me and home court with me did the packaging. What are your thoughts? Well, it's expensive. That's for sure. Listen, it's 9 pieces. It's all face cleanser toner. It's fully hyaluronic serum. Vitamin C 8 serum. What do you think that is? And then she has a vitamin C oil drops. Face cream eye cream, hydrating night oil. Seems a little dated. It seems dated also, she's wearing so much makeup in the pictures. Like you're not known for your skin, you're known for wearing makeup. What? Yeah, I mean, true, but there's been a lot of people that are not even known for their makeup launching makeup lines. It's true. I don't know. I'm sick of the Kardashians. Yeah, look, we're all over it. Celebrity lines don't care. Even is my friend. I'm excited to see what she does. I'm excited to see the packaging, I'm excited to see the campaign, but will I buy the products? I don't know. And she's cool. And I actually think she's like the one person doing interesting stuff in beauty. Okay, so can I say one thing about Kim Kardashian that I found interesting. So there was this breathless puff piece profile of her in The New York Times yesterday when the skin care brand launched. And one of the things that she's asked about in the story is about her comments about dropping 15 pounds for the Met. And how that was met with a lot of upset and outrage from the body positivity movement. And she says, to me, it was like, okay, Christian Bale can do it for a movie role, and that is acceptable. And true. I mean, we don't talk enough about manorexia in Hollywood. I agree, but also Kim, it's not okay, where do I start? Okay, yes. Christian Bale can do that. He's an actor. He's not like a personality, so it's not like people look up to him. He's playing a role and Kim is trying to pretend that she's like playing a role, but that's just like what we as a culture of projected onto her is that she is some sort of like a symbol for something, but I'm like, you're like a girl that other girls look up to. And you're also, it's not like Christian Bale was glamorizing. He was doing it to look terrible. Do you know what I mean? Okay, what about the Top Gun: Maverick or marvel superheroes, like all those men? It's like Kumail Nanjiani, where yes, he had this dramatic body transformation..
Covert Nerd Podcast
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Covert Nerd Podcast
"11 brand new characters, you've got the eternals, you've got, and then you've got Kit Harington's black knight character. You're setting up 11 characters and we don't have context for any of those characters. It makes it difficult. Part of me wonders in a post Disney+, if it wouldn't have made sense to have a ten episode series that focused on each of the eternals to give all of them a full episode to kind of understand who they are because eternals are what would you say maybe not necessarily B class, but just not as well known as a Spider-Man. We don't need to explain to the audience, how Spider-Man became Spider-Man. Yeah, everybody knows. Even looking at D.C., right? You know Bruce Wayne is Batman and Superman, you know. We don't need to see Bruce Wayne's parents kill every single time because we know his origin story. The thing is with the eternals. I am a comic book fan. I don't know Shang-Chi, I don't really know the eternal. I've read the Neil Gaiman eternals because you're a Neil gaming thing. You can't not. But even then for as much of a genius in it and as much as I admired Neil Gaiman, his eternals are on doesn't stick in my brain. I've read the current run by a Kieran gillen. And it doesn't stick in my brain. Okay. I've read some of the older Jack Kirby stuff and it just doesn't stick. I don't know what it is about the eternals that just for me personally doesn't resonate. Here's what did resonate. Kumail Nanjiani, playing kingu. I feel like he stole the movie every time he showed up. It was great, but then in the climactic fight at the end, he disappears. He's like, I can't be a part of your whatever, but he's the eternal who has the most ties to humanity. And so having him leave, felt like you were leaving out a key point of what made the eternal feel relatable. Okay. And I also felt like we had a decent villain and did not need to have Icarus as betrayal. That felt very cheap. Because we could have just stuck with the villain that we already had from the deviance and leave Icarus for another time. Or even have him betray everybody, but then regret it. I didn't need to have his betrayal being the crux of the third act really kind of bummed me out. It's almost sounds like the you got 11 new characters and then you throw in two possible villains just too much. It was a lot to juggle. I barely know who Icarus is so why do I care that he betrayed them? I will say my favorite part of eternals was Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh is the best character. I know Kumail Nanjiani stole the movie every scene he's in. He just elevates it. Gilgamesh, I need to look up the actor who played Gilgamesh because he did such a good job. As much as I didn't care about Icarus betrayal, I cared about Gilgamesh caring for thena. I loved, I loved Gilgamesh that actor nailed it completely best best character. They have the marvel legends figures only eternal. You can't buy on his own as Gilgamesh because he's the build a figure..
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
"I've never, I've never read any comics. What are their names? So I mean, I don't want to talk. I don't want to spoil. I want to spoil the post credit singers. Okay. I'll just say that they're one two of these characters are more cosmic minded characters. Again, never heard of them. One of the characters is a British superhero who, again, I heard of never read any of the comments. Again, we have extended beyond my knowledge. And this is another problem I think for the MCU is that they are starting to get into very much like third and fourth tier characters. In the distant realms of my memory, sunny, 'cause I was a marvel kid, not a D.C. kid. There was a giant figure who kind of loomed over everything he was bald. And I don't know what he was. He was the watcher of the world. Yeah. Did you show up in the credits? Because I've been waiting for the watcher to show up someday. The watcher. So the watcher has been in the series that has been on Disney+ called what if, what if this series of alternates, history marvel, it's essentially essentially asked what if something was different than the Marvel Universe. So the first episode is what if Peggy Carter became captain American instead of Steve Rogers, right? And that tells the story of what would have happened if so the watcher is in all of those. I'll put it that way. All right, so my question to you, sunny, is it a good thing for movies that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby invaded cinema? Because it is a whole different universe of cinema. It's going. It's like the Big Bang happened when Iron Man came out. And it's just it's an expanding universe and it's getting bigger and it swallowing things. Is it to the bad or the good of movie making? That's a hard question to answer. I mean, look, here's I will say objectively, objectively speaking, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is the most successful and most popular franchise that has ever been made ever. More popular than Star Wars more popular than James Bond. It is the most popular and most successful franchise in the history of the world. You have to give a lot of credit to Kevin feige who is the producer who kind of spearheaded all of this. And you have to give a lot of credit to the filmmakers that they have been able to rattle off such a string of both frankly confident artistically, even the marvel movies I didn't like. I am happy to recognize our generally speaking successful pieces of storytelling. And this is the real problem with eternals. That is just not a very good piece of storytelling. I mean, there are individual actors who do very good job. I really like Kumail Nanjiani in this as king go is the character he plays he's very funny. He's got a valet at human valet called carroon, who, again, it's like kind of classic marvel comedy, very funny. There's the guys who plays Gilgamesh. His name is donley. Again, very funny. He plays Gilgamesh as kind of a happy warrior type. And they're a little individual things in this movie that worked and the inner very good. But the thing is a whole doesn't work. And that is unusual for a marvel movie. I mean, they have been very, very good at making discrete impressive pieces of storytelling that have all worked. Is this good for cinema as a whole? I mean, look, if you ask theater owners, they'll tell you what's good because you know what the movie you have done. They've brought a lot of people into the theaters. The marvel movies have been extremely successful. You can't argue with their business. Is it good for cinema as an art form? I think not probably. I mean, these are better thought of as television episodes, right? This is the 26th episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's not really a movie. These are all they're so connected and they're so they kind of changed how people watch movies. Just one small anecdote when people got done watching dune when dunes stopped when the movie stopped. And the credits started. People sat around in theaters waiting for a post credits scene and were angry when they didn't get one. And that is the kind of thing that marvel. It is trained people to watch movies in a different way. And not necessarily a better way. We are, I want to return to this. I may devote an hour and get Schroeder to call in as well. Because I love that I want to think about. I need someone to tell me the scope of the marvel meteor on movie making. Because it's enormous. And I don't know if it's going to kill all the dinosaurs or launch a new age. But we know now that the eternals is not necessary. Sunny bunch on Twitter. The movie master official movie, we might send him some extra airline miles for this week's presentation. Sunny botch also across the movie aisle and the bulwark ghost in the movie is two podcasts. I need to go to relief after dot com because it's that time of the day. There it is. It's Friday am spending the weekend with grandchildren. That means picking up a two year old. That means I will hurt on Monday. But that's okay. It's worth it. Two year olds are not made for 65 year old backs. That's all I'm here to tell you. But there isn't a 65 year old grandpa with a two year old that doesn't pick them up all the time, even if the fetching misses saying don't pick up that baby. I'll do it. But Roy factor dot com makes it possible to do it. Repeatedly, as often as two year old watch because that's what fathers are for. And relief active dot com is for bob is, but they're also for 20 year olds who are going to do a marathon this weekend. It did a marathon. The memory corp marathon last week virtually, whatever you're aching pain is for whatever reason. Give relief factor dot com a try. Sunday, sunny thank you, Douglas Marie's is next for the college football playoff show podcast prediction. Stay with us. Welcome back America it's Friday I'm here inside the.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"kumail nanjiani" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"That and multiply it, go to 30 episodes a year. That's when you're like, oh, there's no time off. And then maybe, maybe if you have a 22 episode season or something, you'll get a break at the end of the season. And then you'll take a month or two off maybe and then get into the next season. But there's no respite for a network show. That's a world that I haven't been in in a while. I'm like, me and Z's or me and Matt harbor to my Rudolph when we do a show, it's like, let's do ten, you know? Let's do ten. And that's by the way, that's as big as a movie in some ways because, you know, a ten episode, even if it's a half hour show, that might be a 60, 70 day shoot. That's longer than that's like a marvel movie. I mean, that's a long time. So I don't want to make it sound like it's a hard job. It's a really fun job and it's a huge privilege to get to do. But there's a lot. There's a lot of work to be done when you do it. I don't think people understand the amount of time it's in a one of my old oldest friends, bill, Callahan. It was on spin city. It was on scrubs, Bill Lawrence, and, you know, I was at a birthday party for him, not that long ago. And it was funny because everybody gave up and gave toast and it was like half a table of comedy writers. And it was I would have paid money to watch it. If I didn't know anyone there. And I think people can always like turn on TV. And again, when I grew up, it was very formulaic. It was like setup set up laugh track, set up set up laugh track and I don't think a lot of comedy people grow up going. That's exactly what I want to do. But, you know, paid gigs of paid gigs and some of these shows absolutely work. But you'll see, I don't know, it was just weird to be at this dinner and to see all these guys that like everyone took turns being the funniest person in the room. And I think people from the outside would be like, oh, I know these guys in Hollywood are funny and you're like, they're actually insanely funny. It just sometimes does stuff doesn't work. Well, that's my mom, right? My mom's like, why is everything so bad? I'm like, mom, people I guarantee you people are actually pretty talented and trying. It's just, you know, look, 95% of everything is bad, right? 90% of restaurants are kind of bad, right? It's like there's a lot of it's just accentuated more when you're turning on your streaming service or whatever. And it's like, why are these shows bad? It's art is a lot of art is bad, you know? It's like there's actually town to be funny, you know, you should mention like you get spoiled when you're in this world when you're working with comedy people or writers or whoever. They are talented and they're very sort of creative, you know, I find them to be very intelligent and stimulating people. We were me and my girlfriend were having dinner with Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon, who we do little America with. And kumail and I were talking. He was like, I just take it for granted how smart and funny everyone I know. Like all my Friends are now, because they're just they're all writers, actors, whatever, and they just, you know, especially stand ups, whatever like, you you've honed it, right? You hang out in a room. They might not be the friendliest people, but they are funny. Like you said, it's a wedding toast thing. Then you go to a wedding that's non comedy people are like, why isn't this like guy as funny as like the funniest stand up in the world? It's like, yeah, that's a normal guy. He's like an accountant or something. Cut on some slack. He has other skills. But that's how he feels sometimes out of wedding, you know? That's why he always tell anybody, they're like, what do you do? Oh, sincere. They're like, unless you're really funny, go sincere because it's not going to I don't know. That's the best thing. You're a comedian, you're your tell me a joke. Say something funny. It's like, oh, I don't want to do that. I can tell you about how to break a story, baby. When I do that, I can tell you what I look for in a screenplay. It's a little boring, but I can't believe I remember this because I did interrupt you when you were giving us this answer. But give me, let's go back to what you were halfway answering, which is my fault for interrupting you. But on the now consuming it removed, getting the consumer and completely different way. Because I made this joke that when I was when I first moved to LA, I was working very little and I was working on other stuff. So I had a lot of free time and it was one of the first times I'd ever really binge watched a show. I know everybody does it. I normally can't just be like, you watch 7 episodes in one day, like how could you even like anything that much? And I started watching The Office religiously just binging. I was like, whatever. And then I noticed I was like, man, Pam kinda sucks. Week to week. Yeah. Like, when you get a week off from her, she's America's sweetheart. I go four episodes in a row, you start noticing some flaws there, which I actually asked Rainn Wilson about on get up and he looked at me like I was the worst person of all time, but I had to I had to stay. Same thing. No, I've heard the same thing about Jim and Pam because they're, you know, America was in love with them, right? But if you binge it.
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"Doesn't do a lot of big events these days so there hasn't been a lot for apple to bail on during the corona virus outbreak. Say Hello to south by South West or actually say goodbye to it. Variety says plus has pulled out of the South by southwest film festival that means no festival premiere for the Spike Jones documentary. Beastie boys story. The company had also planned to hold a conversation about the series little America with show creators. Kumail Nanjiani and Emily Gordon. That's not happening. Neither are the first looks at the Animated Series Central Park and the Docu series home and the political coming of age documentary film. Boys State will also Miss. Its first big audience as Napa Property Amazon Studios facebook twitter. Tick Tock Mashal Intel all our companies. That just like apple have decided to give south by South West. Amiss and yet organizers say the festival will happen as scheduled as of now. Variety has show organizers saying that the annual music technology and Entertainment Festival in Austin Texas is still on the thirteenth through the twenty second of March
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Dave Bautista, Keita And Makita discussed on The Frame
"They were coming out a week after Spiderman far from home and a week before lion king I mean could we have like one shot at it. You know that weekend doesn't go well for gone forever. That's not Camille Janis only problem. It is new movie stupor. He plays an uber driver who picks up a nightmare passenger. Who's got a gun? That's Today on the frame weekend. Plus for filmmaker Lewan diverse casting is key even if it surprises surprises movie goers type of American lead that we're used to but that's part of it you know people need to get used to these faces as being part of the faces of America re talk too long about her new movie the farewell and we'll say hello to the LUBEC sister's piano duo from Paris who wowed the crowd at the Hollywood bowl this week. It's the frame weekend from the Broadcast Center at K._P._C._C. John Horn stay with us. I'm John Horn and this is the frame weekend on this show we talked with creative people about how and why they do what they do and about how their art is shaped by the wider world a little later today. We're going to find out why Tuesday nights are taking off in downtown L. as little Tokyo but I this you know there's a sense that certain movies theatre movies and certain movies are not theater movies. I think comedy's our theater movies to Oh. Actor and screenwriter male Nanjiani hopes that audiences agree he's going for big laughs and his new dark comedy. It's called Stupor the film just open this weekend. It's an action packed buddy cop flick with with a twist Nanjiani stars as an uber driver and he picks up a total nightmare of a passenger and out of control policeman played by Dave Bautista. He's losing his eyesight and he's got a gun. AFTER JANIS 2017 seventeen breakout film the big sick he was looking for an entirely different kind of role for a follow up so when he came across the script for Stupor he thought he'd found one as long as he could help tweak the script a bit genuine motto of the L._A.. L._A.. Times was my co host for the frames recent summer movie special and Nanjiani was one of our guests we started out by asking him to explain the premise. That's driving the stupor storyline. An Uber driver gets kidnapped by a COP and forced go on an adventure to catch a murderous drug dealer and the cop can't see because he just got leasing just got Leszek. That's the thing I don't know why it's not in the trailers. The cop just got laid sick and so there's like over the course of the whole movie. He's got this chart that he's staring at waiting for it to get on blurry so I'm curious how this came about. Were you looking for something like this. After the big sick I sort of had a little bit of paralysis about what to do next ext so I decided that the only way I wouldn't put too much pressure on myself was to do something completely different that nobody could compare it to the big sick right and so I kind of was I want to do like a big studio action comedy type movie so then descript came in and I read it and I thought it was really fun and funny by was like if I want to do like an action comedy with guns and all this stuff there has to be a reason for it to exist like it conscious be that it's entertaining and so I actually talked to to Fox a bunch about it and was like hey. I think there's some like underlying themes in this movie that I think we should really bring up to the surface and if you guys are willing to do that then I think this could be a cool thing to do. We'd be able to talk about things you don't normally see in like a big action movie like this. That seems like such a guy movie toxic masculinity in men talking about their feeling exactly exactly I was like if we're doing a movie in twenty nineteen about out angry dudes with guns. We have to talk about that. I feel like we're obviously in a narrow where you know. Masculinity is under the microscope and we're really sort of figuring out. Most of the world's problems come from men who can't feel their feelings so it was like I think this is a great rate way to talk about that stuff in a movie. That's traditionally a very like man movie and for people who don't know what's tuber means what does to remain Camille so my character's name is Stu and Driving Uber so my boss calls Me Stupor to make doc fund me and it really gets under by skin cancel. It affects my rating icon trouble for stars lose this job. ooh Do right now that that you for this stupid you can stop calling me that he really loves you. I think that's it's a really fun too because we were like let's take all the male types and reconstructive so this guy is sort of the you know the petty tyrant type of guy and we do a scene where we deconstruct that where he's just like kind of lonely and feels bad and insecure about himself on you have a whole seen in a male strip club. Yes exactly Steve. How is the name of the guy that I talked to a bunch and it's funny? He's like Hillary Clinton Tattoo. She was up twelve points in August. We just wanted to take a a bunch of different types of men and sort of deconstruct. All of the stripper is talking about being honest with your feelings and you know not hiding. You need to tell her you feel a relationship cannot thrive without honest and you know he's been body shamed by his his boss for being like you know one percent body fat as opposed to point five right right. He looks great by the way I'll tell you I felt very inadequate in that locker room because it's like Ted of the most gorgeous hunks and then me like I notice I watched this movie a bunch of different audiences. My posture is so much worse in that scene than any other scene in the movie the match up of you and Dave Batista his persona has his outward appearance appearance like it it lends itself to a deeper deconstruction along those lines. That's what's interesting about him is that he looks like such a brute. You know he's so big and he's looks like a scary guy but he's the sweetest most sincere man have truly ever met he he is completely in touch with his emotions. In a way are characters in the movie are Kinda swapped. He's the one who's really comfortable being sincere and crying and really talking about his feelings whereas I was the one who was really cut off for myself for a long time and in the last four or five years I've been sort of trying to do the work of getting in touch with my feelings and feeling comfortable expressing something other than anger anger you know what is that about. I mean is that about things that you think you can do. Through acting where you can start understanding yourself better yeah I mean honestly was I started taking acting classes like a year before the big sick because I knew that had got to be able to access parts of myself that hadn't been able to access an taking acting classes. It's Kinda was like therapy. I realized that for years I didn't know how I was feeling why was angry about stuff and so in doing doing acting work for the big sick I realized like Oh. There's a lot of stuff going on inside me that I thought was not good to feel and so after the big continued doing that work on myself like I cry it almost every movie movie now and I went like fifteen years without crying at all. When this movie came along? I was like well. I think this could be an interesting way to talk about some of the things that I've had to deal with on my own when I was sort of talking to Fox about this. I don't want to take credit for this movie in any way. All that stuff was in there but I was like I see these characters as one needs to get angry and one needs to cry. So how do you do that and make what is a summer movie with like you know. I won't say car chases but there's some car action. There's a ton of violence. There's a lot of like what we would see in a big action movie. How do you make sure that that is responsible as well that you're not just kind of random? gunplay people are just getting mowed down because that's what you have to do a summer movie I mean. That's tricky right. That's tricky so it is a shooting movie. It is people with guns. It is it is car chases. Those things happen in movie and that's the language of this type of cinema but I but I was like my cocker should be anti doc. I was very adamant. I was like fire. Hold a gun in this movie. I don't want to feel cool or good about it. The only time I fire is once into the air when we went to do the poster shoot for the movie. The concept was both of us holding guns and I was like I'm not going to hold a gun. That's completely not what this character is so I'm honestly not trying to take a big stand against guns or anything. Obviously you see I think gun control is very important but you know Dave has a lot of guns and he's a very responsible gun owner and he's very comfortable around guns. I'm not comfortable around counts I wanted. I thought that that perspective should be in their drive. I'm sue how do you do can get you some bottled waters and Canadian chocolate. It was one of those things where I thought was getting five bars Amazon but I ended Koreatown no rea- town now hold on. I'm going to bang a UEY Hero Quick Doc. No don't got it. It's clear that uber was a willing participant in this movie I mean they are all over the film and yet they're these jokes about the driver like Oh my God he took the right turn. It's now four minutes two minutes. How much freedom did you have to actually make fun of ride? Sharing Services and Uber particular first of all did not pay us any money for those people think this is like an ATF ruber. I'd be like this is a terrible herbal admiral the driver get kidnapped. How is this a positive thing for Uber? They wanted to make sure that the APP was used correctly. That was there. They wanted to make sure that that technically everything we were doing in the movie would have happened that way in real life they weren't too concerned about US making fun of Uber like they were kind of cool with that but they wanted to make sure that it was an accurate portrayal Nanjiani co stars in Stupor with Dave Bautista. It's in theaters now. You're listening to the frame weekend. I'm John. Do you know what if Akita is no well. A lot of people don't and a lot of future generations won't because it's almost extinct the vikings are a casualty of fishing nets in the Sea of Cortes off Baja California. The Nets are there to capture another species of marine marine animal the Totowa by the Documentary Sea of shadows examines not only the rapid eradication of Akita but also the nearly intractable plight of local fishermen. We sat down with the film's director Richard Laud Connie at at the Sundance Film Festival where see shadows premiered and he started by telling us more about this small porpoise like mammal. The Makita is the smallest waylon earth. It looks like it's very cute. It looks like a cross between a pond the baron dolphin there's so few left after them so the first mammal that may go extinct in a decade when we started there were less than thirty left now. We believe there's less than fifteen left so they're really declining fast but DEV akitas just a symbol for a much bigger story which is that the drug cartels tells the Mexican cartels in a Chinese mafia based in Tijuana are attacking this habitat of the Makita because they're looking for something else that cocaine of the C- the Toba and they liked that so much because the swim bladder ladder of this fish can fetch up to one hundred thousand dollars in China so they discovered it as an alternative to the drug trade so this is why story so big and dangerous because they're attacking a notion that Jacques Cousteau called the aquarium of the world and they are destroying it just to get this swim ladder and nobody was looking like when we did the IRA game the elephant crisis was known and it was a big deal and you know everyone loves elephants. This one was a silent war that no one knew about but it was so deadly because tens and hundreds of thousands of animals being killed in slaughtered and I was five hour south of Los Angeles Richard when I think about the challenges in making this movie obviously the first one is the by Keita. They're very few they're hard to find and there's certainly hard to document and then you're working in an area where there are people who don't want you to document what's happening and they don't want you interfering in their business and those people are powerful and they have guns so what were the biggest challenges is for you in trying to document what was going on outside of San Filippo. The Beach Chattan starts with that. Do you need a lot of money to make a film like that because Justice Security that goes into keeping us all safe because every day that we spend there we were noticed more and more and we try to pretend to be like a natural history kind of film team just doing a film on wildlife right but they were wondering why are they on the sea shepherd ship which is fighting the cartels house and why are they so interested in what's going on here so yes. It became the most dangerous film I've ever done. I set that as well. When did the every game they started sending us more clear messages that they do know who we are and especially the really bad guy? <hes> Oscar Para started to <hes>. Let us know by sending us a messenger saying. Why don't you interview me but we were like Oh? We're not going to do that because he had actually just murdered soldier in some Philippa a few weeks back caught on videotape too caught on videotape and we thought it could be a trap. There's a moment in the film where you were filming. If I keep that is in distress and to watch what is happening to this Keita's your cameras are rolling and the marine biologists who are trying to care for it is unbelievably difficult to watch because this is an animal. That's not only almost extinct it is in some ways kind of anthropomorphic and it's a it's an animal that has almost kind of human qualities in its face. Can you talk about without revealing what happens in the scene what was like to film that sequence where you see this Keita who is struggling to stay alive you know it took five weeks of us being out there on fifteen boats with ninety scientists who we're the best in the world to try to find them. You know for us. It was this journey this rollercoaster ride of emotions of being with a scientists looking for this animal which they wanted to rescue they wanted to extract all of Akitas and put them into a safe zone so they can stay alive because the thousands of ghost nets were going into catch to our killing everything they're like walls of death but yeah being close to that Makita that after five weeks was caught was was incredible. It was the first time Akita was even filmed like we were the first film team ever ever to film this animal in its entirety that was like Oh my God but then also watching it struggle with captivity that was emotional like you cannot believe it was tears of joy I to actually sleep find one bring it to safety but then also watching how it was struggling it was <hes> big rollercoaster for US emotionally direct KITA. There's maybe a dozen of them left. What would you say to people who say what differences the Fakih to make to the world? You know <hes> we have a responsibility I think to care into not look away and this story is remarkable because it is a small story but it's a small story that you find over and over again across the world. I want everyone to start looking at this and say like this can't happen like I can't allow this. I'm angry. I want to inspire especially the young people like our our hero Jack Drawn to these twenty one and he's risking his life every day and he's out there facing poachers and he's I angry and he's not ready to accept so he's fighting and to show here is like that I think it is very inspiring and empowering for young people who I think do
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