Tehran Von Ghasri | Comedian, Netflix Star & Former Lawyer | Coffeez with Joe Shalaby Ep. 304

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (0:00)
One, two.

**Joseph Shalaby** (0:14)
What's up, everybody, welcome to a very special episode of Coffeez with Joe Shalby. Today, I'm sitting with one of the most hilarious people, the Rizz Game Hat.
He's featured on so many things from Netflix to Comedy Central to his own residency at the Laugh Factory. Please welcome the one, the only, Tehran.

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (0:34)
Thank you, Joe, that was a great intro. I have a question, do you ever have not a special edition? Is it ever just like, hey guys, it's just another edition with this random, not special person or does everyone get that rollout, the red carpet rollout?

**Joseph Shalaby** (0:48)
I said extremely special.

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (0:49)
Yeah, I felt that.

**Joseph Shalaby** (0:51)
Another verb there.

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (0:53)
I wonder if I'm somebody else, by the way, and I watch this episode and then I don't get that, I'm going to be like, hey Joe, we need to talk. What's up?

**Joseph Shalaby** (1:01)
Man, I got a lot of comedy questions, some improv to ask you myself, my man.
Thanks for coming to the show. We're going to dive in today. So far, how's your drive up here?

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (1:11)
Honestly, we love to say it's the worst, but I've been all around the world. It's not the worst here. It's just worst for here. You know how that works? Like when you go to places like the Middle East, that's real traffic. See, in America, two lanes, two cars. That makes sense. You go to somewhere like Cairo, two lanes, 27 cars, 14 camels, three goats, and an Indian guy selling water and balloons in the middle of the street. Like why is that guy even there?

**Joseph Shalaby** (1:34)
Yeah, exactly. And we complain about that. So they've never been to Cairo, they've never been to Hong Kong, they don't know what's going on.

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (1:39)
Go to Hong Kong and see. In Hong Kong, they have people that will come pick you up in a motorcycle out of your car and take you to your destination while someone else drives your car there.

**Joseph Shalaby** (1:50)
That's next level.

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (1:51)
That's next level.

**Joseph Shalaby** (1:52)
LA will be there in 10 years.

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (1:53)
That's where we're at.

**Joseph Shalaby** (1:55)
All right, Tehran, I'd like to start the show off the same way I started with everybody. And what is a comedian's morning routine?

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (2:02)
Well that's the thing. A comedian doesn't even have a morning routine. Like waking up in the morning is usually not what a comedian does. Because our hours of work vary.
So the average person goes to work from 9 to 5, 9 a.m. 5 p.m. That's the work. We're like 5 to 3 a.m. We get up in the afternoon and we go out and start hitting the gigs. You start hitting the clubs and that's always a nighttime activity. So we're up and out until 2, 3 a.m., sometimes even later, then get back in. Now, some of us like myself who write on projects, we then have to wake up and be up by eight or nine and get to working because we have these deliverables. We have to turn in our scripts, our punch ups, our just add-ons to any script that is given towards us. So that's where it works. So I'm always up. I'm 7-Eleven. I'm 7-Eleven, Joe. I'm like you. I never sleep.

**Joseph Shalaby** (2:55)
It's the grind. That's the Middle Eastern in you.

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (2:57)
It is. It really is because a lot of people, and for those of you don't know, my name is Tehran. I'm half Iranian, half black. So I'm surprised I'm still alive. Like the fact that I'm in the United States and haven't been deported, the president wants to build a wall just around me. Like that's the idea of it.
But this work ethic background comes from my immigrant side and my black hustle side. So I work twice as hard as everyone else. I'm trying to be Kevin Hart.

**Joseph Shalaby** (3:27)
I love it, man. And you're growing so fast. You're starting to really dominate the comedy scene, you're doing an amazing work. I mean, you're on Netflix now, you're doing some just next level type of projects.
So I want to talk about Tehran, the black Middle Eastern, because that is such a unique approach to comedy. I think you're the first black Middle Eastern I've ever met. That's really kind of like the source of your inspiration for your comedy gigs, right?

**Tehran Von Ghasri** (3:57)