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[Das] If I could tell you
four things about my country,
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where I'm from,
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what would they be?
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We'd probably agree
on about three of them,
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and we'd probably fundamentally disagree
on one of them.
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And that's okay.
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That one would be just for me.
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That's all tonight's show is.
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It's three for you, one for me.
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Are you ready to begin?
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[applause, cheering]
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All right, cool.
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Now, just to establish
the format of the show,
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you will notice we have guests
with us this evening...
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[laughter]
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...in their very own special section,
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just like at the airport.
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Welcome non-Indians.
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What I'm trying to say is,
I love you guys very deeply
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but they pay in dollars, all right?
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So, periodically, through the show,
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I will take time to explain
some references and context
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to the non-Indians,
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and let's face it, many, many Indians.
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Yo,
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I did the show in Mumbai recently.
I was like, "Who discovered India?"
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A girl was like, "Christopher Columbus!"
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These explanations are for her as well.
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And no judgment,
Columbus made the same mistake.
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[laughter]
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[scattered applause]
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It's gonna be a long evening
for some of you.
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Everybody knows big things about India.
We're going to start
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with five really small things about India.
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If you want to experience our country,
you have to taste our country.
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Therefore, the first thing
you must put in your bloody mouth
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is chyawanprash.
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Non-Indians, this is, like,
an herbal organic paste for good health.
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It's like peanut butter
if you hate your children.
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But this paste is also a mystery.
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Over 50 years, nobody knows
what is actually in chyawanprash.
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To write this joke, I Googled,
"What is in chyawanprash?"
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Google, the Google,
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says gooseberry jam,
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ghee, honey,
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some herbs and spices.
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When even Google is like,
"I don't know, man. Stuff."
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And yet, you feel healthier
when you have eaten chyawanprash.
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Like... like, you buddy,
if you have a headache,
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and I take a knife
and I stab you in your spleen,
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you don't have a headache anymore.
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And that is the core principle
behind chyawanprash.
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It inflicts upon you
a taste so terrible, at the end,
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just survival is considered good health.
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There is no one word
to describe this taste, right?
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It tastes like commitment, that's all.
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It's the only food I've ever seen
where you eat it with your face.
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Up here.
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And when you do, your leg shakes.
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Have you seen children eat chyawanprash?
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[groans]
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It travels through your body
faster than the neurons in your own brain.
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It's basically a stroke.
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Fifty years of advertising,
there is no slogan for chyawanprash.
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You know,
I think the slogan is just... [gags]
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That should be the actual ad:
"Chyawanprash...
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[gags]
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Choke your children the legal way."
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The one thing you must put on your face
in our country is Fair & Lovely Cream.
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Guys, it's racism in a tube,
that's basically what it is.
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And yet we blame this on colonialism. Why?
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The British were never nicer
to fairer Indians, were they?
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No, only we are.
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The British had a very clear policy, man.
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They were like, "We are beige.
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Anything darker than beige, we oppress,
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anything lighter than beige is German
and we don't fuck with those guys."
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In my industry, Bollywood,
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we have 10,000 projects a year
for fair heroines.
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We have 10 projects every year
for dusky heroines.
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All of them are art cinema.
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Because apparently nothing glamorous
ever happens to dusky people in India.
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They fall out of their bed into pathos.
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And Radhika Apte
is in all of those projects.
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If we ever make a biopic
about Radhika Apte,
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Radhika Apte will have to play
Radhika Apte in her own goddamn bio.
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Even in the south. Any South Indians here?
Make some noise, yeah?
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-[cheering]
-Where you have duskier heroes,
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you overcompensate for that shit.
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You put them next to the fairest girls
in the world.
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That's all a South Indian movie is,
it's contrast.
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You can't find the right setting
on your television.
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If you look at the poster of
a South Indian movie and blur your eyes,
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it looks like the symbol
for yin and yang, all right?
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The first thing you must drink when you
come to our country, ladies and gentlemen,
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is Old Monk rum. Yeah?
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Non-Indians, this is just diplomacy
in a bottle.
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If we find a foreigner who likes Old Monk,
we'll just give them a fucking passport.
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That's the rules.
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This rum is so strong,
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if you begin a story with,
"So we were drinking Old Monk..."
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you can skip to the end of the story.
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We don't need the beginning,
we understand. Or the middle.
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"So, we were drinking Old Monk,
and now my right pupil doesn't work."
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"So we were drinking Old Monk,
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and the next morning the currency was
demonetized, and the economy had crashed.
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We didn't know how."
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Old Monk was launched in 1954.
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It takes seven years to age
a batch of Old Monk.
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Which means we started making Old Monk
in 1947.
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Which means the British left
and we were like, "Shots! Let's go."
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Because you know colonialism
had to have a wrap party, right?
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The night before they left.
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It's probably a pretty cool wrap party.
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You know, like, Mountbatten, Jinnah,
Nehru, Gandhi, everybody's there.
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They had food and hors d'oeuvres.
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As usual, nobody was offering
Gandhi any food.
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"Guys, they are leaving, I can eat now.
I'm off duty."
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Jinnah showed up. They're like,
"Hey, man, what are you drinking?"
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"Oh, Bloody Mary?
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Need some salt for the glass, though.
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Gandhi?"
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Gandhi was like, "All right."
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And then Nehru showed up
and he was like,
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"Guys, we're free, we should do shots!"
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They're like,
"Yeah, here's to freedom!" [slurps]
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[groans]
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But if I had to pick one for me,
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I grew up spending my summers in Patna
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in a house with an aangan.
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Non-Indians, an aangan is just a random
open courtyard in the middle of the house,
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where there should have been
more fucking house.
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Sometimes we would just build
a house around a tree
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so that tree can die of loneliness.
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At tea time, I would run across
the aangan, burn my feet,
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sit on my grandmother's lap,
listen to a long, bullshit story,
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waiting for biscuits.
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Because he who has the biscuits
gets to tell the story.
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At the end of the story, my grandmother
would pull out a steel tin
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and pull out the greatest biscuit
in the world...
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-[audience] Parle-G!
-The Parle-G.
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Non-Indians, on behalf
of a billion people, can I humbly say,
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"Fuck your cookies."
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Sorry. Sorry.
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You don't even know.
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A cookie is just an overweight biscuit
with low self-esteem.
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That's all that shit is.
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Parle-G, yo, is the greatest biscuit
in the world...
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with tea.
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Parle-G with tea,
you will not share with anybody.
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Parle-G without tea?
"Doggy..." [clicks tongue]
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It's because of the physics
of the biscuit.
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When it's dry, it's hard as fuck!
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But you dip it in anything...
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no spinal cord, no core strength,
just falls apart like a dead hamster.
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Who...
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designed this biscuit where the minute
you expose it to liquid, it's gone.
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It's like an edible Mumbai road.
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Parle-G's not a biscuit, it's a test...
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of your own timing and reflexes.
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No matter which country we are from,
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we have all had that moment
where we have...
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over-dipped the biscuit.
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We must now, quickly,
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get the biscuit from the cup to our mouth.
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Over 73 years of independence,
nobody has figured out
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you need to start out with the cup
closer to your mouth!
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No, we start out with the cup in Pakistan.
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We are dipping over there.
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The only cup Pakistan will win this year,
by the way.
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[laughter, applause]
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Hatred, hatred!
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And the worst feeling in the world
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is when the Parle-G
falls into the cup of tea.
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[audience] Ooh...
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And you have to use another Parle-G
to scoop out that Parle-G.
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That one falls in as well.
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Now you're just stuck in an infinite loop,
right?
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You have to keep going,
commit to the process
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until you hit incest, basically, right?
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Where there's no tea, it's just biscuit
penetrating biscuit, again and again.
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At the end of it, you turn it over,
it's just one big cylindrical biscuit.
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You flip that over to the side,
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and you slice it,
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and that's how you make Marie biscuits,
guys. That's the recipe, actually.
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If you want to tell the story
of our country,
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you have to begin with the stories
of our country in the year 1,000 BC
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with the Vedas.
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The Vedas are the original Sanskrit
instruction manuals for Hinduism.
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There are four main Vedas.
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Underneath them are 209 sub-Vedas.
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This is how studious Indians are.
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Our first book is 213 books.
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There is one Bible.
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One Quran.
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Buddhists just have, like,
a tree and a pamphlet, that's it.
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Fun fact, if you can read all the Vedas,
you are not just a devout Hindu,
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but officially a chartered accountant,
apparently.
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And yet we will not shut up
about how these Vedas
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have all the wisdom of the world.
Have you met these people at parties?
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"You know genetics? First in the Vedas."
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"Pythagorean maths, first in the Vedas."
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"Astronomy, first in the Vedas."
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"The recipe for caramel custard,
first in the Vedas."
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"Bitcoin exchange rates,
first in the Vedas."
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"Harry was a horcrux?
No, he wasn't. Harry was a Veda."
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In my life, I have actually met
a polyamorous,
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atheist, trans man from Noida.
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I haven't met one dude
who has actually read a Veda.
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See, look at your faces.
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You're like, "Fuck the Vedas,
who's the guy from Noida?
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That sounds like a story!"
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America had Archie's.
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Europe had Tintin.
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Asterix and Obelix was set in Gaul.
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I don't know where Gaul is, it's somewhere
near the bladder. I don't know.
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But in India, we had our very own comic,
which was...
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Tinkle, bitches, that's right, yeah!
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No, not Tinkle Bitches,
that's a very different comic.
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That just sounds
like Peter Pan was a pimp.
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"Yo, what up? I'm Peter P.
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These are my tinkle bitches."
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"Hey, P."
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"I need some fairy dust, bitches. [sniffs]
I can fly, bitches, I can fly!"
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Tinkle had three lead characters.
There was Suppandi,
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stupid common man, also known as a voter.
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There was Shikari Shambu, failed hunter.
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Just a guy who ran around with a gun,
but never actually killed anyone.
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Also known as a Delhiite.
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Or an American.
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And the third...
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was a crow named...
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Kalia.
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Just a crow who flew around the forest
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giving people advice
they never fucking asked for.
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Proving both in literature and in life,
crows will not shut the fuck up.
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Doesn't matter what you do to a crow.
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Seventeen of you could stab a crow,
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he will still come back to life
in season six.
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Yeah, Tinkle gets dark, man. Yeah.
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Like, Kalia comes back to life,
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and then he hooks up with Suppandi,
they have mad sex.
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But then you find out Suppandi's his aunt
and this is incest.
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And then Kalia stabs Suppandi and she dies
but everybody wanted them to be together,
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even though if they had,
this is still incest.
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They would have had, like, fire-resistant,
mentally challenged babies together.
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Some of the old people are like,
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"I have not read this issue
of Tinkle at all!"
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Should I explain?
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Fuck it, let's not.
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Because neither did the people who made
Game of Thrones, so let's move on.
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Sometimes when we are mad at the book,
that actually works for the book.
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I submit to you The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie.
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Have you heard of this book, yes?
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He went into hiding for ten years,
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it was considered a distortion
of the Quran, he got a fatwa.
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It was the first time I realized
you could be upset at a book...
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that wasn't published by
the Central Board of Secondary Education.
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I didn't know that.
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I didn't even know what a fatwa was
before The Satanic Verses.
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Fatwa just sounds like an Uber driver
with a five-star rating.
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"Fatwa will be arriving in one minute.
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Start hiding."
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By the way, a fatwa's not actually
a death sentence. You know that, right?
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You can have very chilled out fatwas,
they're just proclamations.
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You could have a fatwa that is like,
"Hey guys, Friday is smart casual.
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And if you get time, kill Salman Rushdie."
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You can have chilled out fatwas.
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'Cause Hindus, we don't have a death
sentence in our culture. Do we, guys? No!
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If we want to target a particular
community or person,
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we have to design an entire election
campaign around that shit.
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Hypothetically.
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If I could pick a book for me,
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it would be the largest selling work
of fiction in the history of India.
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Yes, it's our national newspaper
in English.
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I cannot say their name,
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because I am told they will sue
the ever-loving shit out of me,
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but I'm told you can. It's got
three words in the title, it is the...
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[audience] Times of India!
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If you insist.
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When I was 27 years old, I did a corporate
show for our national newspaper.
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They offered me a job on television
the next morning.
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I'd never been to Bombay,
they said I had a week to move here.
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I walked from their office on VT station
to Marine Drive,
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looked out at the skyline of Mumbai,
smoked a cigarette,
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and never left.
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That is a true story.
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Which is why it will never be published
in our national newspaper.
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Our newspaper's like a gigantic,
leather dildo, let's be honest.
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We know it's not real.
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Doesn't even feel very good.
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Yet, I can't start
my morning without one, yes.
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That is not a true story.
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Which is why it will probably be
published in our national newspaper.
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I read this newspaper cover to cover
every morning
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and then, just to be safe,
I read my deodorant.
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Just so I can have one actual fact
in my mind for the rest of the day.
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Like, "Okay, I don't know
what's happening in Kashmir,
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but polypropylene glycol
definitely is flammable."
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They have a local supplement here,
let's call it the "Wombay" Times.
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They actually will sue, guys, okay?
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Do you know you can buy the front page
of the "Wombay" Times for about 15 lakhs?
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Do you know how I know?
I've done it twice.
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Yeah, I'm not famous, I'm just rich, guys,
that's all that shit is.
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That's the only reason I'm putting this
in my special. It's an experiment.
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I want to see if they deny it.
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'Cause if they deny it,
they'll have to do an article.
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And if they do an article saying,
"Vir Das never bought the front page,"
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historically,
that is the first free article
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ever published by our national newspaper.
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But I submit to you that we do not tell
our stories in our books.
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We tell our stories in our movies.
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So if you're going to watch our movies,
young and old,
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the first movie you must begin with
is a movie by the name of
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Amar Akbar Anthony.
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Non-Indians, let me take you through
the plot of this bad-ass Bollywood movie.
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The year was 1977.
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Three baby brothers
were separated at birth.
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Because in the '70s,
that's just shit that happened every day.
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You could not find one responsible
maternity hospital in all of India.
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We just treated babies like IKEA products,
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we unpacked them
and threw away the paper work immediately.
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Now, these three brothers,
one grew up to be a Muslim,
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one grew up to be a Christian,
one grew up to be a Hindu,
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Muslim fell in love with a Muslim,
Christian a Christian, Hindu a Hindu,
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because even in fiction,
we shall not dilute the race.
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It has the greatest cinematic miracle
I have ever seen.
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So check it out, the mom is blind.
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Now, at some point this lady
goes to a Sai Baba Temple.
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Sai Baba's like a chain-smoking guru.
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She prays to his statue...
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We're gonna pretend like
I didn't say that. Fucking stay with me.
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She prays to his statue.
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Sai Baba statue's eyes light up with fire,
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which floats into the mom's eyes
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and that chick can see again.
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Why are we wasting our time with Hinduism,
Christianity, and Islam?
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Sai Baba is doing Lasik surgery
on a daily basis.
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What a movie, man. Three brothers
who look nothing like each other at all.
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Nobody ever spoke about it.
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Not one brother was like, "Hey, Mom.
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How popular were you in college, Mom?
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I know you're blind,
but could you not recognize Dad's...
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Couldn't you give him a password
or something?
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He comes into the room like, 'Marco!'
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You're like, 'Open!'
I don't know, a system?
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A system?"
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My career is over, it's fine.
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The next movie you must watch is a movie
by the name of Dil Chahta Hai.
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This is our first realistic
coming-of-age story.
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Three boys.
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One gets a job in Australia,
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one falls in love with an older woman,
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one exists.
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The reason I like this movie
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is it redefined
the wedding interruption scene forever.
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See, in Bollywood we interrupt weddings,
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because who cares about
what the girl actually wants.
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White people have a clause
for this in their weddings, right?
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At some point, the priest goes,
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"If any man here
should object to this union,
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let him speak now or..."
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-[audience] Forever hold his peace.
-"...forever hold his peace."
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Now, in India, we can't work with a clause
because that requires punctuality.
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So, we interrupt the wedding
whenever the fuck we feel like it
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with the greatest line
in cinematic history.
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[Das, audience speak Hindi]
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Translation: This wedding cannot happen.
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Look at the arrogance.
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Not, "This wedding should not happen."
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Not, "This wedding might not happen."
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"This wedding cannot happen."
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And nobody ever counters that shit
with logic, right?
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Nobody's ever like, "Bro, look around.
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There's a tent and a bride and a groom
and a pandit
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and a fire and vanilla ice cream
and chocolate sauce and a pasta station.
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00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:11,960
It's happening, bro.
378
00:21:13,360 --> 00:21:16,880
These things do not randomly come together
on a Tuesday for no reason."
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That's the reason I love this movie,
it simplified it so much.
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The boy, Aamir, shows up at the girl
Preity's wedding.
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Aamir is like, "Hi."
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And Preity's like, "Hi."
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And then her fiance, Ayub,
shows up, right?
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And Aamir is like, "Uh-uh."
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And he stops.
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And then they leave.
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And the movie's over.
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00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,000
That's... Who the fuck are you?
Iron Man? What happened?
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I don't...
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00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,000
He was so efficient, just vote
for congress, bang the girl, that's it.
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Now if that was the elections,
Rahul Gandhi would be prime minister now.
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Can you imagine if that actually happened?
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00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:08,640
Like, you went in the booth
and you voted for congress,
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and then a girl showed up,
like, "Come on."
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That's an actual acha din.
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If you're going to watch our movies,
watch The Jungle Book.
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Not the bastardized
Disney live-action version.
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Way before that, we had our own
weekly cartoon on television
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with the best opening song ever.
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[sings in Hindi]
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[audience singing along]
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[Das singing in Hindi]
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Translation...
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00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:49,120
Big news from the jungle.
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00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:51,920
The jungle has a new flower
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and he has grown inside an underwear.
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00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,520
Ladies and gentlemen, I do not know
what is growing inside your underwear,
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00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,200
but if it resembles horticulture,
call a doctor right now.
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It's so Indian--
Don't worry. [speaks Hindi]
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00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:09,480
Don't worry.
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We forget that this is an Indian story,
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because the panther is British,
and the bear is American,
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and the snake is a white lady.
414
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,040
Fuck off, where is this diverse jungle
with loose immigration policies?
415
00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:20,000
Please tell me.
416
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,400
It's not a jungle,
this is a garden at the Google campus.
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00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,560
This is an Indian story, all right?
418
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,280
These are Indian names. Hathi.
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Bagheera.
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Baloo.
421
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,280
And yet, I've never met one Mowgli.
422
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:36,840
Not even in Noida.
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00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:40,600
You? Anybody met a Mowgli?
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00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:41,760
Mowgli Sinha?
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00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,320
Mowgli Gupta?
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Narendra Mowgli?
Anybody met a Narendra Mowgli?
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00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:54,080
Maybe that's who Mowgli
grew up to be, huh? Their prime minister.
428
00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,280
Just in the forest
forcibly hugging animals.
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00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,640
The crocodile's like, "I'm not really
crying, man, this is a PR opportunity."
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00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,160
Having gigantic Howdy Mowgli events.
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00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:12,800
Holding hands with orangutans really hard.
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Same orange.
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00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,520
Just standing in the forest like,
"Animals!
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Tomorrow morning,
these trees are invalid!
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00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,120
And meet your new home minister,
Shere Khan."
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00:24:36,120 --> 00:24:37,600
If I have to pick a movie for me,
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00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,160
when I was eight years old, my parents
decided to scare the shit out of me
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by showing me a movie called
Bees Saal Baad.
439
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,680
Have you seen this movie, yeah?
440
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,760
It introduced me to the witch.
441
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,640
Non-Indians, let me explain the witch.
These are female demons, right?
442
00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,040
Oh, and they've got fucked up hair
and long fingernails,
443
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,360
and they come out at night to kill men.
444
00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,280
And they have backwards feet.
All witches, backwards feet.
445
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,280
I grew up in Delhi,
anybody else grew up in Delhi here?
446
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,520
We have actual witches in Delhi, right?
447
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,560
I did not mean to point
at you when I said that.
448
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,640
What I mean is... No, I apologize.
449
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,640
It's a general statement.
That's not...
450
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,160
[in Hindi] This is a Netflix special.
I wouldn't lie about that.
451
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,320
We have...
We have actual witches in Delhi, right?
452
00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:27,840
Like, have you heard of the lady
in the white sari? Have you heard of that?
453
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,600
Yeah, this is an actual chudail,
who comes out in the middle of the night,
454
00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,320
in Delhi, in a white sari.
455
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,680
And she asks gentlemen driving alone
for a lift.
456
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:42,000
And if you do not give her a lift,
she runs backwards alongside your car.
457
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:47,000
Making eye contact with you
through your own window.
458
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,520
As your car speeds up,
20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 90,
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00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:53,600
she keeps time on backwards feet.
460
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,840
'Cause that's how much Delhi girls
hate rejection, all right?
461
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,640
Look, I'm not trying to be an asshole,
okay?
462
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,840
I'm just saying, this woman has been
keeping time with cars at top speeds
463
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:09,880
for 50 years!
464
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,560
And in 50 years, not one person
465
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,000
from the Indian Olympics Association...
466
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,560
has considered this an opportunity?
467
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,480
This is an Olympics I'd love to see.
468
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:29,000
"Welcome to the 2046 Olympics
women's 100 meters finals,
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00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:30,520
three women in the finals:
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from America,
Florence Griffith Joyner Jr.,
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00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,200
from China, Xing Wang,
472
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,280
and from India-- Ah! Jesus Christ!
473
00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:42,800
Savitri the witch, all right.
474
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,200
The gun is fired, the women are off,
the American in the lead,
475
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:47,680
the Chinese in second
476
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:51,240
and the Indian is fucking moonwalking,
ladies and gentlemen, she's moonwalking...
477
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,600
I've never... Oh, my God,
she's stabbed the Chinese runner
478
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,600
in her chest with her fingernails.
479
00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,800
The American now running for country...
480
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:01,400
and life...
481
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,280
has crossed the finish line,
broken in the 100-meters world record
482
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:10,560
and is still running,
ladies and gentlemen, yes.
483
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,160
Both women have left the stadium,
the American is in a car,
484
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,520
the Indian is running alongside backwards.
485
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,280
The Indian appears to be screaming
something, I believe it's,
486
00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:22,960
Drop me to 'Greater Kailash', please!
487
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,320
So now I believe in chudails.
488
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,440
If we're going to understand our country,
we have to understand our beliefs.
489
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:36,280
-Do you agree?
-[audience calling out]
490
00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:39,480
Right? And what we must understand
is that they are not true,
491
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,040
but we really fucking believe them.
492
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:46,560
For instance, all Indians must stand
for the national anthem.
493
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:48,560
I believe it.
494
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,600
But technically, we don't have to.
495
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,640
Probably should. Safety issue.
496
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,120
Because there are other dudes
multitasking in the room,
497
00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,120
singing while whooping.
498
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,240
[singing]
499
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,040
So, stand for the national anthem, man.
500
00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:07,320
It's pretty chilled out,
our national anthem.
501
00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:09,360
Like, a definitive end,
it's not too long, right?
502
00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:11,440
You know when it's over.
We all just kind of go...
503
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,200
[murmuring]
504
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,160
Nobody died. Okay, sit down.
505
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,360
[laughs]
506
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:23,600
These guys never know when to sit down.
507
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:27,160
♪ For the land of the free ♪
508
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,080
♪ And the home of the... ♪
509
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,080
♪ Brave ♪
510
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,160
[holds note]
511
00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,920
[continues holding note]
512
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,520
[holds, releases note]
513
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:49,800
That football player
who took a knee,
514
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,040
he wasn't protesting,
he was just resting, all right?
515
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,680
We don't have to stand for the national
anthem, do you know how I know?
516
00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,320
The announcement says "please."
517
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,400
"Please stand for the national anthem."
518
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:05,280
In standard Indian rules,
519
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,960
if the announcement says "please,"
we don't do that shit!
520
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,040
"Please wait till your plane has reached
the gate before you use your cell phone."
521
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:17,920
Fuck off!
522
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,640
We are in the air,
we see a building we recognize,
523
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,800
we'll start trying to call people, right?
524
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:25,880
"Please don't piss on the wall."
525
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,720
That's what walls are for!
526
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,720
America should be very grateful
they share a border with Mexico, not us.
527
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:35,800
Because, you know...
528
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:39,440
if it was us and they build a wall,
529
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,520
they'd have a very different problem
on their hands.
530
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,360
"Why do they keep pissing on us?"
531
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,160
You're picturing that now, aren't you?
532
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:55,960
Sorry.
533
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:02,480
"Atithi Devo Bhava."
This is a big Indian value. Translation?
534
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,600
-[audience, Das] "Guest is God."
535
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:07,480
I believe it. But technically,
having legendary hospitality
536
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,000
has not really worked out
for us throughout history.
537
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:14,560
When you greet every foreigner with,
"Namaste, you are God,"
538
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,400
they tend to stick around for a while.
539
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:19,600
We go too far with the hospitality
540
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:21,640
with the tikka, the garlands
and the welcome drink,
541
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,800
because we don't actually mean that shit.
542
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,760
I mean, we like you guys,
we love it when you come to India,
543
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,240
but we just wish we got the same
hospitality when we went abroad, right?
544
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:31,720
Like, maybe a good start is
545
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,280
don't make us submit fingerprints
to come to your country.
546
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,640
That's-- I always find that embarrassing.
547
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,960
I have to submit my fingerprint
to enter your country.
548
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:40,960
Which is why when you come to mine,
549
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,720
I take the same fingerprint
and put it on your head.
550
00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,200
That's not respect, that's revenge, guys.
551
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:58,600
My biometrics are not just in your system,
they're on your face, bitch! On your face!
552
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,560
Just look at our face
when we garland you at the hotel.
553
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,920
We look like brides who have been
forced into arranged marriages
554
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,880
to avoid honor killings, all right?
555
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,720
But the welcome drink
we get excited about, right?
556
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,680
Have you seen a hotel's face when you
refuse a welcome drink?
557
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,800
It's like... [gasps]
558
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,160
You look like you punched a baby
or some shit like that.
559
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:24,280
I'm assuming.
560
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,760
Fuck, you guys are damn uncomfortable,
man.
561
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,400
Relax, I would never punch a baby, guys.
562
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,800
Unless that baby stole my Parle-G.
I'll punch the shit out of that baby.
563
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:36,560
That baby's going down.
564
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,880
For a nap, relax, guys.
565
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:40,800
The baby's sleeping.
566
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,240
'Cause I punched him. Twice. That's why.
567
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,880
I wrote that joke at seven o'clock
in the morning
568
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,840
on the breakfast table and my wife
was like, "What are you giggling at?"
569
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:55,400
So I told her
570
00:31:56,240 --> 00:32:00,200
and watched her just re-evaluate
every life decision she had ever made.
571
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:03,600
And then I punched our baby. Uh...
572
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:07,640
I'll stop. I'll move on. I'm done.
I'm done. I'm sorry. I apologize.
573
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:10,960
I can do this for six hours.
It's really easy, guys.
574
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,400
It's like punching a baby, actually.
That easy.
575
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,120
You guys didn't see that last one coming.
576
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:19,720
Neither did the baby.
Even he was surprised.
577
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,400
Really? "Punching babies, yeah!"
578
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaking of punching babies...
579
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:34,320
Our biggest value:
All Indians must respect their elders.
580
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,920
This is our greatest hit.
Our "Sweet Child O' Mine."
581
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:40,760
I believe it.
582
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,440
But, technically, old people are useless
and entitled when you give them power.
583
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:47,760
Have you ever seen
an Indian uncle at a restaurant?
584
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,480
"I will have omelette."
585
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,320
"But Uncle, this is a Chinese restaurant."
586
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:56,800
"Yeah."
587
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:01,320
"Omelette."
588
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:04,680
"But we don't do that."
589
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,960
-"Omelette!"
-"I guess we're serving breakfast now.
590
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,760
Come on, break some eggs.
Make an omelette."
591
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,120
We have the youngest population
in the world,
592
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,800
with some of the oldest leadership.
That's how they rule us.
593
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,880
"I will have hatred."
594
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,840
"But we're a free country
with human rights."
595
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:22,640
"Yeah."
596
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:30,120
"Hatred."
597
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:32,760
-"But we don't do that."
-"Hatred!"
598
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,880
"All right, I guess we're serving hatred
now, break a masjid, make a mandir."
599
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:43,960
Hey, look, I get that Indian grandparents,
old people, had tough lives. We know this,
600
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:47,400
because they wouldn't shut the fuck up
about how tough their lives were.
601
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,760
We have all heard these stories
of walking, yes? Yeah?
602
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,720
"We had to walk 65 kilometers
to school one way,
603
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,000
and 145 kilometers the other way."
604
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,880
Why? Was the shape of the Earth
shifting while you were in school?
605
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,000
Were tectonic plates moving?
606
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:08,920
You had to walk to school, and sunlight
and books and sanitation...
607
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,200
Why was nobody living near the things
you needed to survive?
608
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,880
Who did your civic planning?
609
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,120
Oh, wait.
610
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:18,200
[audience groans, laughs]
611
00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:21,720
Come on.
612
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,880
This is just revenge for every [tuts] joke
we see in American stand-up comedy, right?
613
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,280
And I know you didn't do
our civic planning.
614
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,360
It was your granddad, relax,
we all know this.
615
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,840
If I had to pick a value for me,
I hear this everywhere I go:
616
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:44,880
Indians don't have a sense of humor.
617
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:46,520
And that pisses me off.
618
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,720
Because it's true,
but you don't say that shit out loud.
619
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,760
So I need to apologize to multiple brands
620
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,320
because the people who are going
to boycott me and this special
621
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,520
and have a reaction,
they don't read much.
622
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,640
Yeah, I know. React first, read later.
You know what I mean?
623
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,560
So they're going to boycott, like,
Netflix, Nutflex, Nutriflex, Nutflax...
624
00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:13,120
Vir Das, Sur Das, Sun Das, Haagen-Dazs,
Adidas...
625
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,720
Snapdeal, Snapchat, Amazon...
626
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,600
and Ayushmann Khurrana, it's gonna happen.
627
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,280
Sorry, Ayushmann.
628
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,000
As long as India
has had legendary hospitality,
629
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,760
foreigners have always shown up
to our shores to find yourselves.
630
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,480
I think that's a beautiful journey,
631
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,840
that you come to India to find yourself.
632
00:35:35,240 --> 00:35:37,000
It really is a very beautiful thing
633
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:40,720
because Indians, we go abroad
and hope nobody finds us at all.
634
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,840
Including our own fucking families.
635
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,160
So, here are some foreigners
that really found themselves in India.
636
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:52,760
You have to begin with the man who
discovered India. A man by the name of...
637
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,200
-[audience] Vasco da Gama.
-Vasco da Gama, well done.
638
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,640
Portuguese explorer.
639
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,360
Took a Spanish armada, sailed around
Africa through Mombasa,
640
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,440
met Columbus, gave him shitty directions,
moved on...
641
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,680
landed in Calicut.
642
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:09,320
Not to be confused with Kolkata.
643
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,000
That's a different discovery of India.
644
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000
If he met Bengalis first...
645
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,760
Any Bengalis in the audience?
Make some noise. Bengalis, yeah?
646
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,560
Yeah, you're Bengalis, you're kind of
like the Indian hipsters, no?
647
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,120
Except hipsters choose poverty.
648
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,560
But you know, you're all thinkers,
you write poetry.
649
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,840
All the poetry is about
how awesome you are.
650
00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:36,720
There's no angst.
Bengalis, it's not hip hop.
651
00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,720
They never write like, "Fuck the police."
652
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,680
Bengalis write,
"If I was police, police would be better.
653
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:45,040
I'm a police."
654
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,320
If Vasco da Gama-- If he had met Bengalis,
he just wouldn't have gone back.
655
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,400
They send another ship,
find him 40 kilos overweight,
656
00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,640
chain-smoking at two o'clock
in the afternoon.
657
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:58,720
"Are you Vasco da Gama?"
658
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:00,200
"I used to be.
659
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,440
Now I'm Vasco Brother"
660
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:10,960
"But the queen wants to see you."
661
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,120
"Tell didi to wait!"
662
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,400
[inhales]
663
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,240
What other foreigners found themselves
in India? Oh, Mother Teresa.
664
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,320
[audience murmuring]
665
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:26,760
All right.
666
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,080
Here's what's going to happen.
667
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:34,000
I'm gonna do a Mother Teresa joke, guys.
668
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:39,560
I have to, guys.
669
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,480
I don't want to, but...
670
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:44,360
she's on the list.
671
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,600
[laughter]
672
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,520
Now, when I do this joke,
your entire body's going to seize up.
673
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,240
It's true, you're going to be like,
"Fuck this guy!"
674
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:57,760
And then I need you to just breathe.
675
00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:00,160
All right, just breathe, don't laugh yet,
no pressure,
676
00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:01,960
just take the joke home with you,
all right?
677
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,400
Sleep on the joke.
678
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,560
Tomorrow morning, you might realize
that words have alternate context,
679
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:08,320
and the joke's actually harmless.
680
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:14,120
Are you ready?
681
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:18,080
I'm joking, I don't have
a fucking Mother Teresa joke.
682
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,240
You can't, man. It's hard to write a joke
about her. She's too nice.
683
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,920
You know, she had, like, the lepers,
and the homeless, and the needy.
684
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,760
I guess what I'm trying to say is
when it comes to comedy,
685
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,480
Mother Teresa is untouchable.
686
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,440
[audience groans]
687
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,960
Breathe everybody, just breathe.
Just breathe.
688
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,040
I'm sorry to lay it on you like that.
Just... No pressure.
689
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,680
No pressure, if you're not feeling it,
it's fine.
690
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:41,840
Just sleep on the joke.
691
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:45,840
Tomorrow morning, you might wake up like,
"Oh, fuck, he's good."
692
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:50,760
Who else found themselves in India?
693
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,120
The East India Company?
Those guys stuck around for a while, huh?
694
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,880
Do you know the first thing
they traded with India was?
695
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:58,360
Cinnamon.
696
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,200
That's what led
to 200 years of oppression.
697
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,560
The one spice we use least
in Indian cooking.
698
00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:09,360
Tell me you did this for garam masala
and I'd understand.
699
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,720
Fuck, you want bhindi,
you can attack us again, I get it.
700
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,000
Fucking cinnamon?
701
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,640
You ever been at a dining table,
somebody's like,
702
00:39:16,720 --> 00:39:18,280
"You have more cinnamon for the tikka?"
703
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:19,240
"Fuck off!"
704
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:21,800
Cinnamon.
705
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,120
That's like me colonizing
England for sunlight. Are you insane?
706
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,200
Cinnamon.
707
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:32,800
But the bright side is
because we gave you cinnamon
708
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,080
we get to feel part of your process,
you know what I mean?
709
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:38,960
At least now you know that Muslims
and Hindus gave you that Christmas spirit.
710
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,000
Cinnamon.
711
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:43,680
Yeah, that came from us, guys.
712
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,280
Those things Santa Claus was whipping?
713
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,240
They were brown but they weren't reindeer.
714
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,480
[audience groans, laughs]
715
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:54,320
That wasn't Rudolph, that was Rajeesh.
716
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,640
Did I ruin Christmas for anybody else?
717
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,600
If I had to pick a foreigner for me,
718
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:06,640
it would be a man
by the name of Tom Alter.
719
00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:08,760
Do you guys know Tom Alter?
Young kids? Yeah?
720
00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:11,680
He's just the white guy
in every Bollywood movie.
721
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,200
Like, what Dev Patel is to them,
Tom Alter was to us.
722
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,680
You know, he played every role
that a white guy could play in 140 films.
723
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,800
We gave him a Padma Shri,
did you know that?
724
00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:26,640
That's one of our highest civilian honors,
it's like our knighthood.
725
00:40:26,720 --> 00:40:28,720
He's Padma Shri Tom.
726
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,680
That's like Archduke Jignesh.
727
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,680
But it's still an achievement,
you know what I mean?
728
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,600
For a man with a different skin color
to cross over into drama
729
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:43,920
and music and movies and...
730
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,560
He's a white Priyanka Chopra,
that's who this guy is, right?
731
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,600
Yo, Priyanka Chopra has cracked the West
like no Indian before.
732
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,040
You gotta give it up.
I promise you, in 20 years,
733
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,840
Priyanka Chopra will get the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in the White House.
734
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,160
It's gonna happen.
735
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:04,400
She'll be standing there
and all the Jonas sisters and the...
736
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:08,520
The brothers and the...
737
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:11,120
The Joni will be behind her.
738
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:17,040
They'll be in the Oval Office
and President Putin will invite her up...
739
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:17,960
[audience] Ohh!
740
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,760
Come on. To bail me out,
my grandfather was Padma Shri as well,
741
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,040
and on his 80th birthday,
742
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,720
the government was getting together
to celebrate my daada.
743
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,360
And I had to change plans
and I couldn't host the event anymore,
744
00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:37,000
and my family was really mad,
745
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,280
so I called Tom Alter
in the middle of the night.
746
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,440
And he did it. For free!
747
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,680
I called up my grandparents
the next morning.
748
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:46,360
They were like, "He was amazing,
but he was white. He was white!"
749
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,560
See, they grew up
in a pre-independence India,
750
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,720
so they couldn't fathom that a white man
was working for them.
751
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,480
So they kept trying to impress him
while he was working for them.
752
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:03,120
Tom called me, he's like,
"I love your grandparents
753
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:06,040
and I own your family business now,
apparently."
754
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:10,360
As long as foreigners have shown up
to our shores, we've had to defend them.
755
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,600
Here are some of the battles
that have defined us.
756
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:14,240
Number one, World War Two.
757
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:19,200
Did you know that 1.2 million
Indian soldiers fought in World War Two?
758
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:20,240
Throughout Europe.
759
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,440
That's the easy way
to get a Schengen visa.
760
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,600
Must have been confusing
for German soldiers, right?
761
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,240
See British soldiers running at them
762
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,240
and there's just one Mumbai guy
behind them.
763
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:38,320
"Hello, Nazi guy."
764
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,600
[in Hindi] Hilter! Hilter! Where is he?
765
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:52,440
[in Hindi] Bless you!
766
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:54,720
[in Hindi] This idiot."
767
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,480
Just gathering in their bunkers,
[in German accent] "The enemy...
768
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,600
is a master of disguise.
769
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:12,440
He has the ability to look like us.
770
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:14,800
We discovered this...
771
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,200
Fair & Lovely Cream."
772
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,720
India paid for World War Two,
it led to a famine in Bengal.
773
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,760
When we wrote to Winston Churchill saying,
"Hey, could we use the food from Bengal
774
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:31,800
to feed the people of Bengal,
because, you know, it's right there?"
775
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:34,360
Churchill wrote back saying,
776
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,400
"Well, if the famine is so bad,
why hasn't Gandhi died of starvation yet?"
777
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:39,800
[audience gasps]
778
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:40,760
Yeah.
779
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,040
To which I'm sure Gandhi ji
wanted to reply,
780
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,160
"Because I'm not an overweight bitch
like you!"
781
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:49,560
Yo, Gandhi ji was fit as hell, all right?
782
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:51,680
That dude was on keto
for a very long time.
783
00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:57,160
Gandhi ji did 17 hunger strikes.
Seventeen.
784
00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:58,360
That's intermittent eating.
785
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:05,200
Have you... Have you seen all the videos
of Gandhi ji walking? He's just...
786
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:06,920
[huffs]
787
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,080
Everybody behind him is like,
"Oh, you bitch."
788
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:13,360
For salt?
789
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,800
Say what you will about being oppressed,
you get to sit down quite a bit.
790
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,120
What are we protesting?
Colonialism or body fat?
791
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,960
The Battle of Panipat.
This began the Mughal Empire in India.
792
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:34,280
Non-Indians, Panipat is like a small town
about 90 kilometers outside of Delhi.
793
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:35,760
Two men were in this battle.
794
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,480
Ibrahim Lodi, owned all of North India.
795
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:41,960
Babur, an invading Mongol,
who descended from Genghis Khan.
796
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:44,320
Now, Babur had only 10,000 men,
797
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,760
Ibrahim Lodi had 40,000 men,
plus elephants,
798
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:51,440
because North Indians must have loud,
obnoxious vehicles throughout history.
799
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,960
[audience laughing]
800
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:57,520
On the back of every elephant,
"Rocky Loves Mommy."
801
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:03,000
If the tail was up. If the tail was down,
it was "Ricky Loves Mommy."
802
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:04,720
Because the... Right?
803
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:07,400
[audience groans]
804
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:11,640
So stupid.
805
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,080
What Babur did was he fired trumpets
and cannons up into the air,
806
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:20,240
the elephants panicked,
ran over their own troops
807
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,280
and they lost the battle.
That's what began the Mughal Empire.
808
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,200
Just loud music and gunfire
on the outskirts of Delhi.
809
00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:32,720
It's the first farmhouse party, guys.
That's what that shit was.
810
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,120
No, Delhiites, there are shootings
in Delhi every week, right?
811
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,360
But they're safe because Bhangra music.
812
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,560
That's what America needs to do,
just play Bhangra music everywhere.
813
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:46,800
Because Bhangra changes the direction
of a shooting.
814
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,080
You go from... [imitates gunfire]
815
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,280
To... [imitates Bhangra beat]
816
00:45:53,720 --> 00:45:54,600
Safe.
817
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,560
So, you choose, you can have
zero shootings but also zero eagles.
818
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,160
Kargil, 1999,
India and Pakistan went to war.
819
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:05,440
It was a weird year.
820
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,600
The Pakistani forces crossed the Line
of Control dressed as Indian insurgents.
821
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,200
It took us three days
to confirm it was them,
822
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,040
because forget white people,
even we can't fucking tell the difference.
823
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,280
Eventually we got them
on a trick question.
824
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,440
Two soldiers were like,
"Hey man, where are you from?"
825
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:22,600
"Around."
826
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:26,680
"What's in chyawanprash?"
827
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,440
Our prime minister Vajpayee called up
Nawaz Sharif in the middle of the night
828
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,680
and said, "You have violated
the Line of Control, we are now at war."
829
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,520
He replied, "My army must have
done it without my knowledge,
830
00:46:41,600 --> 00:46:43,440
I didn't order anything."
831
00:46:45,840 --> 00:46:51,080
To which Atal said, "You can't say
'I didn't order anything,' this is a war.
832
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,240
I don't work for Zomato, motherfucker."
833
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,960
And now everybody's so angry
about this whole Kashmir thing.
834
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,040
Even Indians are so angry.
835
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:05,680
Like, "We took Kashmir back!"
836
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,040
"From who?"
"Ourselves!"
837
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:17,400
Do you ever walk into your own kitchen
like, "This is my spoon!
838
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,360
"Taking this spoon back...
839
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:24,680
from myself!
840
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:29,040
I will lock this spoon in a drawer
and cut off access to this spoon
841
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,800
to prove my kitchen is functional."
842
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,440
[laughing, cheering]
843
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,160
I don't know what to do about Kashmir,
I'm not a wise man.
844
00:47:37,240 --> 00:47:39,840
I feel like sometimes, like,
one day in the middle of the night,
845
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,920
we should just go
and give Kashmir to Nepal.
846
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:48,320
Because then everybody's unhappy.
847
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,560
Including Nepal.
848
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,760
Be like, "You're number one Hindu, no?"
849
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,800
[in Sanskrit] "Guest is God."
850
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,280
If I could pick a battle for me...
851
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:07,240
In the year 2005, I lived in Chicago
852
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:11,680
and my roommate was
a homosexual man from Amritsar, Punjab.
853
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,800
And I was in Chicago to learn
how to do stand-up comedy,
854
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:19,560
and he was there to learn
how to be gay openly.
855
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,360
Because those were two things
neither one of us could do here at home.
856
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:29,080
And look how much the world
has changed now for the better.
857
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,720
It's 2019, we both live in Mumbai,
858
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,680
I get to do stand-up four days a week
and he gets to be gay,
859
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:37,760
I'm assuming more than four days a week.
860
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:41,600
I don't think their club
shuts down on Mondays.
861
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:44,680
But, the point is,
when I did my first Netflix special,
862
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,760
you know,
homosexuality was against the law
863
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,880
and, since then, we won a battle
for the LGBTQ community.
864
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,920
Section 377 was defeated.
865
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,680
We decriminalized homosexuality
in this country.
866
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:57,320
That's an amazing thing.
867
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,640
It is, because Indian uncles
868
00:48:59,720 --> 00:49:02,280
were holding out for a while
on that one, right?
869
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,400
Uncles were not having that shit.
870
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,120
"Well, if we legalize it,
they will come for us next."
871
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:11,480
They're gays, not zombies.
872
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,160
They don't have to spread.
873
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,480
If a gay dude bites you,
you don't become fabulous overnight.
874
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,800
They wouldn't do that.
They eat healthy from what I hear.
875
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:27,120
Here's the thing. Indian men, you're not
afraid of being hit on by a gay man.
876
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:29,880
You're just afraid you might like it.
877
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:38,880
'Cause look, it took my roommate 20 years
to figure out that he was gay,
878
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:41,200
so maybe there's some shit
uncle hasn't figured out yet.
879
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,240
Maybe five years later,
you'll see uncle in a restaurant.
880
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:46,680
"I will have cocklet."
881
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:53,240
"But Uncle, you don't do that."
882
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:54,920
"Yeah."
883
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,120
I'm saying it's not real until people
put our shaadi where our mouth is.
884
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,720
We gotta have gay marriage
in this country, are you with me, yeah?
885
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:07,680
[cheering]
886
00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:10,760
There are gonna be some roadblocks,
some confused pandits...
887
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,200
sitting around the bonfire
with two grooms, like,
888
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,840
"I don't know, man.
Which direction do you want to go in?
889
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:19,640
It's my first time."
890
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,800
We could outlaw the baraat,
that's a juvenile ritual.
891
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:25,600
Non-Indians, I'll explain, the baraat
892
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,880
is where we make the brides' family wait
for one hour.
893
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:32,840
We put the groom on a horse
and we dance around the groom.
894
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:34,520
For no reason.
895
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:36,480
What is the messaging of it?
896
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,040
♪ Look at this boy ♪
897
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,080
♪ Tonight, this boy will have sex ♪
898
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,440
♪ Not on the horse, he will get off ♪
899
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:49,200
♪ He will use his nunu tonight
With that girl ♪
900
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:51,200
♪ They will have sex ♪
901
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,960
Her whole family just stands there,
like...
902
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,360
"The sex is going to be a lot shorter
than this performance, I promise you."
903
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,880
So, I'd love to see
a lesbian Hindu wedding.
904
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,360
No dancing. Firm handshake.
Five minutes, done.
905
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,040
Or just a two-boy wedding,
which is no wedding, all dancing.
906
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:14,560
The priest has to work his shit
into the dance.
907
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:17,760
Just make it like a conga line...
908
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:19,000
Swaha!
909
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:20,200
Swaha!
910
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:26,040
Be a good day.
911
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,400
It's not always been good days
in our history, has it?
912
00:51:35,240 --> 00:51:36,120
You ready?
913
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:39,480
I can skip it.
914
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:42,720
Our history books have.
915
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,160
[audience] Ohh!
916
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,000
Can we find sparkles of light
in our dark days?
917
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:51,120
Are you ready?
918
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:52,440
Sure?
919
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:54,040
Nirbhaya.
920
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:55,960
The horrific gang rape of a girl in Delhi,
921
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:57,800
young people took to the streets
in protest
922
00:51:57,880 --> 00:51:59,960
to clash with the police for three days.
923
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:01,880
Can we learn anything from Nirbhaya?
924
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:03,720
I humbly submit to you this.
925
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:06,600
Under-25s,
I'll talk to you guys specifically now.
926
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:12,000
When you get truly pissed off,
oh, man, that is a thing of beauty.
927
00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:13,560
It really is.
928
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:17,800
Nothing scares those politicians more
than you doing that.
929
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:20,520
God, I wish you would do it more often.
930
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:24,520
'Cause there's nothing those politicians
can do to you. You are untouchable.
931
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:25,680
Different context.
932
00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:28,320
What'll they take from you?
933
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,920
They shut down your porn, your ozone,
your right to information,
934
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,800
what do they take?
If they shut down TikTok, you'll survive!
935
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,120
And those of you that don't, shouldn't.
936
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,080
You are leaving us in a better world.
937
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,960
That riot, you remember?
It was a thing of beauty, man.
938
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:48,800
The Delhi police petrified,
calling politicians.
939
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,880
"Sir, the young people
are very angry, sir."
940
00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:53,720
"But, have you tried tear gas?"
941
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,000
"Yes, sir.
942
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:58,840
But the thing is, they were crying
before the riot, sir, so...
943
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:01,840
that just made them angrier, sir."
944
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,560
"What about rubber bullets? You know,
the ones that don't kill people?"
945
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,080
"There are bullets
that don't kill people?
946
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,800
Sir, I wouldn't say that out loud
in Delhi, you might start a hobby."
947
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:17,600
"Well, what about water cannons?"
948
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:19,920
"Yes, sir. We've been hitting them
for 12 hours, sir.
949
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,000
But they have a lot of stamina, sir.
950
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,040
They go to these music festivals
and train, sir.
951
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,160
Every time we threaten them,
952
00:53:28,240 --> 00:53:30,000
'Stop, or I'll fire my gun!'
They reply..."
953
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,520
♪ All we need is somebody
To lean on, lean on ♪
954
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:34,000
I don't..."
955
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:41,400
Jallianwala Bagh, probably our most
horrific tragedy before independence.
956
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,640
Multiple Sikhs had gathered in a garden
957
00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:46,160
to peacefully celebrate
the festival of Baisakhi.
958
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:50,160
Reginald Dyer and his men opened fire
on them for upwards of four minutes.
959
00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:51,280
Horrible tragedy.
960
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,560
Can we learn anything
from Jallianwala Bagh?
961
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:57,080
I think that time has
a beautiful sense of humor.
962
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,560
The Dyer family was court-martialed.
963
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,960
They then moved up north in India,
where they started a brewery.
964
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,280
When India got independence,
they were forced to sell that brewery
965
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:10,160
to a man by the name of Mohan,
who started a company called Mohan Meakin.
966
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:15,240
That very Dyer Brewery now manufacturers
Old Monk rum.
967
00:54:15,320 --> 00:54:19,680
-[audience] Ohh! [applauds]
-Yeah!
968
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:23,120
So the family that is responsible
for our most horrific tragedy,
969
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,600
their land supplies happiness
to millions of Indians.
970
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:30,480
It's crazy. That taste that you taste
when you are drinking Old Monk,
971
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,440
that is not 42% alcohol,
that is 99% justice.
972
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:36,480
I promise you, that's what that is.
973
00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:40,320
And 1% vanilla essence.
974
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:43,000
It's mostly vanilla essence, guys.
975
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:46,040
But you can't create a good applause
out of vanilla essence.
976
00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:49,200
I've never said vanilla essence
and people just started clapping.
977
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:51,960
Vanilla essence.
Fuck you, don't you dare do it.
978
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,000
-[applause]
-Don't you dare. No! No! Fuck you!
979
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,440
I don't need... No, I don't need
sympathy claps, all right?
980
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:57,760
I earn my claps.
981
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,480
I'm a patient man.
Vanilla essence will have its time.
982
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:04,920
Twenty years from now,
scientists will have a press conference.
983
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000
"Ladies and gentlemen,
we found the cure for AIDS.
984
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,080
And we found it in...
985
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,600
The Vedas, guys,
you should have read that shit."
986
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:17,520
The Ram mandir.
987
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,680
Non-Indians, this is a really fun story.
Let me take you through it.
988
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,440
So, in Ayodhya is the birthplace of Ram.
989
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,960
And then Babur built a mosque
over the birthplace of Ram
990
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:30,680
and everybody got mad
and Hindus broke down the mosque.
991
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:33,480
They were gonna build a temple there.
They will build a Ram BHK...
992
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:35,240
That is the whole message of this...
993
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,960
It is the first time I've ever seen people
tear down a place of worship
994
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:42,800
to create another place of worship.
995
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:44,880
Makes no sense to me.
996
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:46,800
It's like saying, "We'll attack the Taj."
"Why?"
997
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,920
"We want to build a Marriott."
Are you insane?
998
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:54,680
Look, forget Hinduism and Islam,
let's talk about India's real religion:
999
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:55,680
Property.
1000
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,040
Do you know what the square footage
of the Ram mandir is? It's 2.7 acres.
1001
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,360
In 2.7 acres, you could have a mandir,
1002
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,840
like, a church, a synagogue, a mosque,
anything.
1003
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,320
You could have the new gods!
You could have the Ambani office,
1004
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,280
the Adani office, the KVN office...
1005
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:14,840
Whoever the politicians worship.
1006
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,480
Unless you're talking about the actual
birth space of Ram,
1007
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:20,760
the physical birth space,
in which case, how big was Ram?
1008
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:23,840
Fuck it.
1009
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:25,320
Because Ram.
1010
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:27,960
So, you can't be so angry.
1011
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,080
You can't be like...
[angrily] "Mandir vahin banega!"
1012
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,480
You have to be like...
[gently] "Mandir vahin banega."
1013
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:41,720
Uh, if I had to pick a tragedy for me,
it would probably be our tragedy.
1014
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:43,600
26/11, right?
1015
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:47,040
We all lost somebody.
1016
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:48,320
I did.
1017
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,480
I lost a friend who was
like a... a mother figure,
1018
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,720
mentor figure to me.
She helped me start my career.
1019
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,720
I really respected her
and I... I never got to say thank you.
1020
00:56:57,040 --> 00:57:01,560
On the day of the 26/11 terror attacks,
I produced my first comedy pilot.
1021
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:06,680
So, I had my first crew of people, actors,
and a spot boy all working for me.
1022
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,120
And when I found out
that my friend had died,
1023
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:11,680
she was gunned down in the Taj...
1024
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:16,920
I'm ashamed to say I felt extreme hatred.
It just bubbled up inside of me.
1025
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,120
And the spot boy knocked on my door.
His name was Babu.
1026
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:22,800
And he's like, "Sir, the shot is ready."
1027
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,880
And I said, "Babu, there's a terror attack
happening outside."
1028
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:29,680
And he was like, "Yeah, so?
1029
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:32,520
It's Mumbai, let's get to work."
1030
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,000
I said, "I just lost my life savings."
1031
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:38,040
He was like, "Cool.
1032
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,000
I don't have any life savings.
1033
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:44,360
But both of us need to eat tomorrow,
so let's get to work."
1034
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:46,600
So, as Mumbai burned,
1035
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:49,200
me and Babu and this crew of actors
1036
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:53,200
shot stand-up comedy and sketches together
and laughed all night long.
1037
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,800
I've worked with Babu every year
for a decade now.
1038
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,120
I didn't know this then,
but I know this now.
1039
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,240
His full name is Kabir Mohammed Hussain.
1040
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:05,400
That is a pretty Muslim name, guys.
1041
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:09,000
That's like three different Muslim dudes
in the same time.
1042
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,680
That's like you made Amar Akbar Anthony
without Amar and Anthony.
1043
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:16,920
But think about the messaging of that.
1044
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,680
On the night that my friend
was gunned down
1045
00:58:18,760 --> 00:58:20,920
in the name of what terrorists call Islam,
1046
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:24,080
and real Muslims know has
nothing to do with Islam whatsoever,
1047
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:27,280
me and Kabir Muhammad Husseini
1048
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,880
laughed together all night long
because both of us were broke
1049
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:32,800
and needed to eat tomorrow.
1050
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:35,800
And that's why they'll never win.
1051
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,320
And that's why you can't fuck with Mumbai:
1052
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:43,360
because we are too fucked to begin with.
1053
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:46,120
[applause, cheering]
1054
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:54,880
We are pre-fucked!
1055
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,280
We don't have time for tragedy,
we've got to get up and go, right?
1056
00:58:58,360 --> 00:58:59,280
You blow up a building,
1057
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,080
we will sell Bombay sandwiches
outside that building the next day.
1058
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:03,480
You shoot at Cafe Leopold,
1059
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:05,920
we will shoot selfies the next morning
at Cafe Leopold.
1060
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:07,880
You shut down our trains, our roads,
1061
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:13,600
our Tiffin, our Dabba arrives
on time the next day in Mumbai. On time.
1062
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,600
You want to stop this city?
You can't stop lunch in Mumbai, all right?
1063
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,600
The purpose of terrorism is to propagate
permanent hatred.
1064
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:25,200
In Mumbai, there is no time for
permanent hatred. Only dhanda, right?
1065
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:26,480
This is Mumbai hatred:
1066
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,600
"Fuck you, Hindus.
You Hindus should die."
1067
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:30,680
"Fuck you, Muslims.
You Muslims should die."
1068
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,840
Train, train, train, train, train.
1069
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,240
And then we hug each other
and go to work like this.
1070
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:39,080
We exchange breath
and bodily fluids for an hour.
1071
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:41,840
The only thing dividing us
is our underwear.
1072
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,120
We're not divided
by the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
1073
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:47,280
We are divided by Lux Cozi, all right?
That is Mumbai.
1074
00:59:47,360 --> 00:59:48,720
That's Mumbai.
1075
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,800
[cheering continues]
1076
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:00,000
Guys, sometimes I feel like
I've over-intellectualized this show.
1077
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:06,760
I don't know, man,
1078
01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:09,800
maybe the reason we travel
this country is just to look at shit.
1079
01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,560
That's why we go abroad right?
See pigeon, palace...
1080
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,520
Those two things are always together,
I don't know why.
1081
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,040
So, here's some shit that everybody
needs to look at in India.
1082
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:28,480
Number one, the Buland Darwaza,
built by Akbar the Great.
1083
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:29,800
Have you heard of it, yeah?
1084
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:32,320
Go see it because of how random it is.
1085
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:36,800
It's a giant door
in the middle of nowhere.
1086
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:40,600
Why would you put a door
in the middle of nowhere?
1087
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:44,760
[laughter]
1088
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:49,400
Built by Akbar the Great.
1089
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,120
I want to be there for this conversation
with the architect.
1090
01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:55,280
"Rashid, my head architect,
come here, come here.
1091
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,200
I want you to build me
a giant door to nowhere."
1092
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:00,880
"No house, Akbar?
1093
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:03,160
A door to what?"
1094
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:04,640
[clicks tongue] "Ah.
1095
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:06,280
The other side of the door."
1096
01:01:08,520 --> 01:01:09,720
"What are we going to call it?"
1097
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:13,160
Buland Darwaza. Translation: Giant door.
1098
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:15,120
"Ashwagandha?"
1099
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:21,480
And that's how Akbar the Great rolled.
1100
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:24,600
He built a giant door
and he called it "giant door."
1101
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:27,880
Then he built a fort in Agra
and he called it...
1102
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:29,680
[Das, audience] "Agra Fort."
1103
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:33,560
Then, he made a tomb for Humayun
and he called it...
1104
01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:35,520
[Das, audience] "Humayun's Tomb."
1105
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:39,600
How was this man not called
Akbar the Literal? I don't understand.
1106
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,400
If you're in India, go see the Taj Mahal.
Have you seen it, guys, yeah?
1107
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:48,320
Beautiful symbol of love.
1108
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:50,440
But FYI, his third wife.
1109
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:53,480
How did the first two feel?
1110
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:58,360
My wife finds a photo of an ex-girlfriend,
we have to go on vacation for six days.
1111
01:02:00,320 --> 01:02:01,920
How did he have this conversation?
1112
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,000
"Rashid, family architect, come here.
1113
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:08,120
Rashid, I need a tomb for my wife."
1114
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:10,440
"Which one, sir?"
1115
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,200
"The dead one, man.
Which one do you think?"
1116
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:25,680
"What is this on either side?"
1117
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:28,080
"Those are two mini-tombs...
1118
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:30,080
because if you build this for her,
1119
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,640
you're going to have to kill
the other two, I promise you."
1120
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:36,240
"Rashid, stick your arms out."
1121
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:42,240
You know that shit, yeah?
1122
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:45,920
Shah Jahan cut off the arms of half
the people who built the Taj Mahal.
1123
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:49,040
That's the world's first NDA,
non-compete agreement.
1124
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:52,520
"Hi, welcome to Taj construction.
1125
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:55,200
We're gonna need you to sign an NDA
before we get started."
1126
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,680
"Okay, do you have a pen?"
"We're doing footprints, actually."
1127
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,440
Non-Indians,
if you're coming to my country,
1128
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,280
please go and see
the Bhakra Nangal Dam, all right?
1129
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:07,840
It is Asia's highest dam.
1130
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:10,280
I beg you to go and see it
because we haven't.
1131
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:13,800
And somebody should.
1132
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,440
It's a very good dam, guys.
Please go see it.
1133
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,520
Because they cram that shit down
our throats in schools for no reason.
1134
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:22,560
It was a chapter.
1135
01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:24,640
Do you remember that shit?
It was a full chapter.
1136
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:27,160
"Bhakra Nangal Dam is the highest dam
in Asia.
1137
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,880
The cubic centimeter of the dam...
I hope terrorists blow up this dam...
1138
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:35,200
Children are suffering enough
with the whole chyawanprash situation."
1139
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:37,760
What is Bhakra Nangal?
1140
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,640
It just sounds like a position
in the Kama Sutra.
1141
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:43,080
Bhakra Nangal.
1142
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,440
When you're naked and feed each other
Gujarati snacks.
1143
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:53,720
Sorry, non-Indians,
I can't explain that one.
1144
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:56,400
That one's just for us.
1145
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:00,520
There are men here tonight,
1146
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:02,640
they're looking at their wives like,
"Tonight."
1147
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:08,640
Fafda Nangal.
1148
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:19,840
You can't expect kids to be excited
about a dam. I'm sorry, man.
1149
01:04:19,920 --> 01:04:22,640
We're not going to get
emotionally invested in a dam.
1150
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:24,000
I was 12 years old
1151
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,320
the year the prime minister of India
was assassinated.
1152
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:29,840
We were in school, they rang the bell
in the middle of lunch in school
1153
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:32,960
and said, "The prime minister
has just been assassinated,
1154
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:36,440
you now have a school holiday."
And we clapped, all right?
1155
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:41,480
We weren't going to care about a dam.
1156
01:04:47,600 --> 01:04:49,240
If I had to pick a monument for me,
1157
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,240
it's just this beautiful monument
with culture and heritage.
1158
01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:53,560
Antilia, guys.
1159
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,680
Antilia is the most expensive home
on Earth.
1160
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:07,080
It is a billion-dollar skyscraper
belonging to the Ambani family.
1161
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,000
Non-Indians, the Ambani family
is the richest family in India.
1162
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:15,600
They own our gas, our electricity,
our telecom, us and soon you.
1163
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:23,400
Have you seen the big... They just...
Check it out when you go.
1164
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:25,240
I performed at Antilia for the Ambanis.
1165
01:05:25,320 --> 01:05:28,760
It made my heart happy and proud
to see such an amazing home for an Indian.
1166
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:29,680
It did.
1167
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:33,000
I always do my Ambani jokes
at the end of the special, guys.
1168
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:34,160
Because if I do them up top,
1169
01:05:34,240 --> 01:05:36,520
in five minutes the Ambanis
will just buy Netflix.
1170
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:39,920
They have that kind of money.
1171
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:42,760
Black Mirror will have
a gold border around it.
1172
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:47,960
Stranger Things will be
in Gujarati and shit.
1173
01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:51,000
Eleven will become [in Hindi] Six.
1174
01:05:56,720 --> 01:05:59,920
Have you seen Antilia? Sometimes
you miss it, it's such a subtle structure.
1175
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:05,080
This family is so rich, they own us,
literally.
1176
01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:06,800
I feel like every time they have a baby,
1177
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:08,920
they should just come out
to the balcony...
1178
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:12,520
We'll all gather at the bottom.
1179
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:15,320
[hums intro to "The Circle of Life"]
1180
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,080
♪ Ambani ♪
1181
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:29,720
See Mukesh on the balcony. "Everything
that the light touches is ours, Akash."
1182
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:36,200
I'm going to end by talking about
some good days.
1183
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:38,520
The day AR Rahman won two Oscars.
1184
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,120
That was a pretty good day, huh?
1185
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:44,200
Because of how chilled out he was.
1186
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:48,560
The Americans were so-- "I want to thank
my mom and my dad..."
1187
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:50,720
And he was just like, "God is great,
thank you so much.
1188
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:53,320
Two cappuccinos." He's so chill.
1189
01:06:55,240 --> 01:06:57,800
He tried a joke, do you remember
that shit? It didn't work.
1190
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:01,560
He was like, "When I was coming here,
I was nervous and terrified.
1191
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:04,240
The last time was at my wedding."
And nobody laughed.
1192
01:07:06,040 --> 01:07:07,680
And I was just, like, "Oh, fuck."
1193
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:12,200
This is not two-time Academy Award winner
AR Rahman.
1194
01:07:12,320 --> 01:07:14,680
This is first-time open mic-er
AR Rahman.
1195
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:18,480
The day we put a man on the moon.
1196
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:21,080
I know it hasn't happened yet,
but I wanna show ISRO some support
1197
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:24,120
and say we believe in them
and it will happen for us soon.
1198
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:28,240
I mean, our greatest achievement--
1199
01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:31,480
"We will not get there first,
but we will get there cheapest."
1200
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:38,840
Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.
He was like, "One small step for man..."
1201
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:41,480
Fuck that. Our guy will land and be like,
"How much? How much, huh?
1202
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:43,760
One small check for man."
1203
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:48,800
The night we got independence,
never forget that night.
1204
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:53,120
You know, Jawaharlal Nehru
made that beautiful speech.
1205
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:55,840
We said goodbye to the British,
in a British accent.
1206
01:07:57,680 --> 01:07:59,520
Nehru had that nice British accent.
1207
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:03,120
Do you know why? 'Cause his ruler...
His nanny was British.
1208
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:06,880
Yeah, his ruler was his nanny.
1209
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:10,760
That's a fucked up version of Mary Poppins
you never see.
1210
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,760
♪ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ♪
1211
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:17,280
♪ If you want independence
We'll oppress you with our forces ♪
1212
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:19,960
♪ Draining your economy
And natural resources ♪
1213
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,680
♪ Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ♪
1214
01:08:22,760 --> 01:08:24,200
[hums]
1215
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:30,880
The speech was called
"The Tryst with Destiny."
1216
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:33,680
"At the stroke of the midnight hour,
1217
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,520
while the rest of the world sleeps,
1218
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:40,120
India shall awaken to light and freedom."
1219
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:43,160
Everybody around then was mesmerized.
1220
01:08:43,240 --> 01:08:44,160
They were just like...
1221
01:08:45,200 --> 01:08:46,200
"Bro...
1222
01:08:50,840 --> 01:08:53,600
At the stroke of the midnight hour
in India...
1223
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:57,600
it's 2:00 p.m. in San Francisco.
1224
01:09:04,440 --> 01:09:05,800
It's evening in London."
1225
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:08,640
"So?"
1226
01:09:09,480 --> 01:09:12,000
"So the rest of the world
is not really sleeping.
1227
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:22,000
Should we tell him?
This feels like an important moment."
1228
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:25,240
"No.
1229
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:29,080
Let's just wait 73 years
until a comedian figures it out."
1230
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:36,280
There's a wrap party, come along!
1231
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:40,920
If I had to pick a good day for me,
it would be today.
1232
01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:44,480
Right now, because my show is now over.
1233
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:47,240
Yeah.
1234
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:50,360
I don't know. I never know
how to end shows, guys, I really don't.
1235
01:09:50,440 --> 01:09:54,600
You know, if this was an American special,
you know, you'd find a big laugh.
1236
01:09:54,680 --> 01:09:57,440
You'd be like, "Thank you so much!
Good night, Mumbai!"
1237
01:09:57,520 --> 01:10:01,200
But this is an Indian goodbye.
So it's going to take a while.
1238
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,760
[laughter, applause]
1239
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:11,280
I miss home.
1240
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:13,000
That's the truth. I miss home.
1241
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:15,640
I've traveled more
in the last two years of my life
1242
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:17,480
than I have in the last 20, man.
1243
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:19,720
And I think of home all the time.
1244
01:10:20,440 --> 01:10:23,680
And when I think of home,
this is the shit that I think of.
1245
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:32,560
You know,
we get told every day what India is...
1246
01:10:33,440 --> 01:10:35,200
by people who have power.
1247
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:37,760
And yet these people
come and go like the wind.
1248
01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:41,480
These little things that make us smile,
they stay.
1249
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,360
That's India.
Well, at least, it's my India.
1250
01:10:45,480 --> 01:10:48,960
I realize that your India
is probably very different from my India.
1251
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:52,120
You know, I suspect your India is better,
1252
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:56,280
more sensible, edgier, funnier,
more respectful...
1253
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:58,320
but hey...
1254
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:05,840
He who has the biscuits
1255
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:09,080
gets to tell the story.
1256
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:10,680
Thank you so much.
1257
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:16,000
["Firefly" by When Chai Met Toast plays]
1258
01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:28,600
♪ There, I see ♪
1259
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:31,560
♪ I feel no sorrow ♪
1260
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:37,520
♪ Chale, Nikale, Guchche Ki Tarah ♪
1261
01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:40,600
♪ There, I see ♪
1262
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:43,840
♪ I feel no sorrow ♪
1263
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:49,480
♪ Chale, Nikale, Guchche Ki Tarah ♪
1264
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:51,800
♪ Like a firefly ♪
1265
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:54,640
♪ Up in the night ♪
1266
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:57,840
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1267
01:11:58,440 --> 01:12:01,440
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
1268
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:03,840
♪ Like a firefly ♪
1269
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:07,000
♪ Up in the night ♪
1270
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:09,960
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1271
01:12:10,480 --> 01:12:13,520
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
1272
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:39,720
♪ Like a firefly ♪
1273
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:43,000
♪ Up in the night ♪
1274
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:45,680
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1275
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,400
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
1276
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:51,760
♪ Like a firefly ♪
1277
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:54,880
♪ Up in the night ♪
1278
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:57,840
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1279
01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:01,280
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
1280
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,040
♪ LIke a firefly ♪
1281
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:06,880
♪ Up in the night ♪
1282
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:10,000
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1283
01:13:10,440 --> 01:13:13,280
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
1284
01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:15,840
♪ Like a firefly ♪
1285
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:18,960
♪ Up in the night ♪
1286
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:21,880
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1287
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,520
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
1288
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:27,160
♪ Hey ♪
1289
01:13:29,320 --> 01:13:30,160
♪ Hey ♪
1290
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:33,320
♪ Hey ♪
1291
01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:36,280
♪ Hey ♪
1292
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:39,320
♪ Hey ♪
1293
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:42,280
♪ Hey ♪
1294
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:45,320
♪ Hey ♪
1295
01:13:47,280 --> 01:13:48,280
♪ Hey ♪
1296
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:52,760
♪ Hey ♪
1297
01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:55,840
♪ Hey ♪
1298
01:13:57,720 --> 01:13:58,720
♪ Hey ♪
1299
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:01,840
♪ Hey ♪
1300
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:06,080
♪ There, I see ♪
1301
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:09,080
♪ I feel no sorrow ♪
1302
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:15,040
♪ Chale, Nikale, Guchche Ki Tarah ♪
1303
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,080
♪ There, I see ♪
1304
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:21,080
♪ I feel no sorrow ♪
1305
01:14:21,480 --> 01:14:27,000
♪ Chale, Nikale, Guchche Ki Tarah ♪
1306
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:29,240
♪ Like a firefly ♪
1307
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:32,360
♪ Up in the night ♪
1308
01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:35,560
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1309
01:14:35,960 --> 01:14:38,880
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
1310
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:41,360
♪ Like a firefly ♪
1311
01:14:42,440 --> 01:14:44,440
♪ Up in the night ♪
1312
01:14:45,560 --> 01:14:47,360
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1313
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:51,400
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
1314
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:17,200
♪ Like a firefly ♪
1315
01:15:18,480 --> 01:15:20,480
♪ Up in the night ♪
1316
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:23,560
♪ Alive and bright ♪
1317
01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:26,720
♪ Chasing all shadows ♪
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