#1217 - Nimesh Patel

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Two, one, fucking kids today.

Nimesh Patel (0:09)

Fucking kids today.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Fucking kids today.

Hasn't everybody said that from the beginning of time? I bet K people were saying that shit. Uh-huh. You know?

It's just, it is what it is, right? Every new group comes up, they try to reestablish themselves as smarter. You know, there's the new group coming up, they're going to change the rules.

Nimesh Patel (0:34)

I don't know what's so wrong with how we turned out. You know what I mean?

Joe Rogan (0:38)

Oh, we're a mess.

Nimesh Patel (0:40)

I mean, I'm saying that from, like, I mean, every, I think every generation is better than the next in terms of how, like, things, this is the best times have ever been for most people.

Joe Rogan (0:50)

Right.

Nimesh Patel (0:51)

But I'm saying from, like, how we handled things perspective, things seem, I'm like a fine human being. You seem like a fine human, like, most human beings are fine. And we were raised quite, I don't want to say differently, but a little better in my perspective than, like, what's happening now. Like, what is being corrected is strange to me.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

To people that don't know the story, let's fill them in on your story and how we got together. So you're doing a gig, you're at Columbia.

Nimesh Patel (1:19)

So a few months ago, I got this group called the Asian American Alliance at Columbia University hit me up saying, hey, you know, we're big fans of your work. I was the first Indian to ever write for SNL. And so that was a story in the Asian American Indian community. And so they hit me up in like May or June, like, hey, come, we have this show in November. It's called Culture Shock.

It's a big like fashion culture kind of event. And I've done like tons of these before, you know, because my sister and I, we both went to NYU, but my sister like helped put on these kinds of shows. So I would attend them. And like, I've seen them ever since high school, because I went to high school in Parsippany, New Jersey, which is like a hyper diverse kind of place, at least with like Asians and Indian people. And like, I went to a few in high school, I got laid after one of them when I was in high school. So they had like a, I lost my virginity after one of them. So like, it was like, they held a special place in my heart. And so I like, I went thinking, okay, this is gonna be fun. And they know who they're getting in that, the email says, we're fans of your work. Like, we want you to come do the show. It's about like representing Asian identities and all that. I'm like, dope.

And that's, I get there at like 7.30, and I walk in and I'm like, okay, I know all these kids. I mean, they're like 20 or something, but like, I know them. I grew up with these kids, you know, like Abigail's and Pratik's and whatever. Like, I know all these guys.

And immediately my comic hat turns on. I'm like, okay, the show itself, the energy is dope, but the show, like acoustically, I'm looking, okay, this is a high ceiling, the lighting shit. It's not set up for like a comedy event, but I still think, okay, this is gonna go well.

8.30, 8.45, I get on stage, and I'm like, I do some Columbia stuff, because I went to Columbia for like a summer program. I started making fun of the kids a bit. And I say, do I have to give like a trigger warning? Almost like joking. Like, do I have to give a trigger warning? Because I know, you know, that's a thing. And I say, like, be careful, some of this might be sexist, some of this might be racist, you know, just buckle up. And one girl booze. And I'm like, you're booing?

Already? It's like two minutes in.

And I'm like, well, look, this is the, I literally said, I just listened to the set on the way here. And I said, well, buckle up, you know, because this is the real world or whatever. And then I go into material and about, and it's going well. This is one story I want to dispel. Like, I will fully own a bomb. If I'm bombing, I know I'm bombing. I will tell you that I bombed before a billion times. I'm doing fine, 60, 70% of the set.

17 minutes in, I tell the joke where I say, effectively, you know, I don't think being gay is a choice, which is, I don't think it is at all. But this is how you know, because there's gay black people and no one's gonna choose to be gay if they're already black, right? No one's doubling down on hardship.