#1334 - Fahim Anwar

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Two, two, What's �up, brother?

Fahim Anwar (0:06)

What's pénth?

Joe Rogan (0:07)

How are you?

Fahim Anwar (0:07)

Good.

Joe Rogan (0:07)

Good to see you outside the store.

Fahim Anwar (0:09)

I know.

Joe Rogan (0:09)

Isn't it weird strong when you run into a comedian that you don't normally hang oud with outside the store?

Fahim Anwar (0:13)

I mean, I would recognize you, but sometimes you'll meet someone nd you met at a meeting, and then it's ick other ralphe and you can't place the context.

Joe Rogan (0:19)

That's pad, especially if ick it's like an executive Dunbar's. Number.

Fahim Anwar (0:52)

Oh, is that like how many number of people, is it like 100 or something you can keep in your head?

Joe Rogan (0:56)

I don't think it's an exact science, but I think they think it's somewhere around 150

Fahim Anwar (1:00)

I believe it.

Joe Rogan (1:01)

You got about 150 people in your head. And after that, you fucked.

Fahim Anwar (1:05)

Yeah.

Yeah. It's tough.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

It makes sense, right? There's no way you can keep them all in there. No. That doesn't make any sense.

Yeah.

Fahim Anwar (1:11)

It's cool outside the store, you know, having a chat.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Yes. It's like, you feel the most camaraderie with other comedians outside the store Show when you run into them at an airport.

Fahim Anwar (1:21)

I was just thinking about that. Every time I go to LAX, I'll bump into someone like Joe Coy, or last time it was Bert Kreischer, and like, Hey, this is Trey Ho, we're going to do, I think Utah.

It's just like a hub for all of us.

Joe Rogan (1:33)

Yes.

Fahim Anwar (1:34)

So you'll see so many, because we're all just transients. We're here for the middle of the week, and then when the weekends come for the clubs, we're all going somewhere.

Joe Rogan (1:42)

Yeah, like people that want to come to the store, Tuesday is probably the best night.

Fahim Anwar (1:45)

And people don't understand why, it's so stacked, like, why is it you? Why is it Burr? Why is it Crusher? Why is it Joey Diaz? You're like, well, we're just biding time until the weekend, right?

Joe Rogan (1:54)

And practicing.

Fahim Anwar (1:55)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (1:55)

Yeah, it's one of the weird art forms that you can't practice alone. You have to use an audience.

Fahim Anwar (2:02)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:03)

Don't you think?

Fahim Anwar (2:04)

Oh, for sure. And even like, I'll be telling the same joke, and I won't really change the words, but it'll be like an inflection. It's almost like, I don't know, when a jazz musician or something like plays a note just a little differently. You know, you ever notice that like a joke won't work? Maybe because I'm like making a meal out of this word.

But if I kind of just like throw it away, yeah, oh, now that fixes it. It's interesting to do it long enough where you realize it's like, it's not the words sometimes.

There's like a performance nuance to it to fix the joke.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Yeah.

Fahim Anwar (2:33)

Like it's on paper, it's the same joke.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

You know what's really weird is that none of this shit is written anywhere. Like what we're talking about.

Fahim Anwar (2:40)

You know what the worst is? Like I did, like JFL, they're doing a taping out there for TV, and they're like, send us your transcript. So that means you have to sit at a computer and like it takes the magic. Like whatever your seven minutes you want to do for the taping, they want you to sit on a Mac and open up Word and be like, how are you guys doing? Or whatever, just like type it all out.

Joe Rogan (3:01)

You need a better manager.

Fahim Anwar (3:02)

No, but the thing like I refute, I didn't do it, I just dodged it. I asked Aliyah, because I used to do it in the past, and I was like, yo, they're asking me to write this out. It's taking all the fun and organic. Like I feel it would really hurt my performance if I literally wrote a transcript, then I'm like a robot up there.

And he was like, just don't do it. And I go, what happens? He's like, nothing, nothing happens.

He's like, I've done it a million times, just keep, just be dodgy.

Joe Rogan (3:28)

It's some pencil pusher that doesn't make any sense.

Fahim Anwar (3:31)

I think they get, you know.

Joe Rogan (3:33)