Azeem Banatwalla: Problems (2019) - full transcript
In his second stand-up special, Azeem Banatwalla talks about stupidity, moral policing, racism, indoctrination, overpopulation, Kashmir, the government, and of course, Pigeons.
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Azeem Banatwalla!
Okay okay, shut up, shut up!
We got a show to do!
Alright! Cool. Let's do this.
As may, many of you may or may not
know, my name is, Azeem Banatwalla.
I am a, cool guy.
I hang out at cool places.
Like Café Coffee Day.
And people, they say a lot of shit
about CCD, you know people say,
“CCD is fuckall, this and
that, coffee is bad.”
But I've been there
and bathroom was very clean.
And really, that's the only
reason why anyone goes to CCD.
CCD at this point is a 'Public Toilet'
with Hotel Management degree.
When I went to CCD last week,
to use the bathroom, obviously.
And came out I saw that behind
the counter, serving
coffee to people was a
white guy working at CCD.
I was like wow, white guy at CCD
this Brexit is damn serious dude!
He had a name tag, it said "Dave",
Dave is working at CCD, I was like, wow!
And obviously, being a brown man seeing a
white person in my natural environment.
I had to speak to him
So, I went up to Dave,
but half way through walking
to Dave I realized
he's not a white guy.
He's an Albino.
And my life's dreams were shattered.
I went, I was like,
"Dave, What happened?
He was like,"Mazha naav Dave
aahe."
"Coffee pahije ka?"
I changed my order from flat
white to espresso, immediately.
I always start the show
with that stupid ass joke,
to lower your expectations.
Because, anything remotely
smart I say after this,
you'll be like,"Wah! Kya kavi hai yeh!"
But, this is my new show. I was
inspired to write this show,
by the rapper, Eminem. Yeah?!
No fans of Eminem? Alright, cool.
He didn't come to me directly
and say, "Write this show!"
But I was inspired by his work.
Because to me, Eminem is a genius.
He's an absolute genius, because he has
to be the only musician in the world,
who through his music, managed
to make millions of people,
memorize his life's problems.
Dude, I don't know where my life is going.
But, know everything about Eminem's.
You can wake me up in the
middle of the night,
I will give Eminem
entrance exam, on the spot.
No, genuinely. I feel, like I
know Eminem on a personal level.
I know how he reacts, for instance,
to getting nervous, I know
that when Eminem's nervous,
His palms are sweaty,
knees weak, arms are heavy. There's
vomit on his sweater already. I know this.
Don't trust, mom's spaghetti.
I know this.
But all of Eminem's
songs, if you listen to them,
they all have very hardcore
problems in the songs.
Always like,"I'm a drug
addict, my wife left me,
my mom hates me."
It has to be a really hardcore
problem to be an Eminem song.
Which leads me to believe, that there must
be an entire rejected catalogue of songs
with problems, that weren't
just not good enough.
Like, he's in the studio recording,
"I ordered noodles,
they sent me rice instead
my life sucks."
Dr. Dre's on the side like,"No, no,
this ain't goin' on the album."
"But, what do we do with these lyrics Dre?"
"Don't worry, I have
another rapper who can use them."
"Hello, Baba Sehgal?!
Got a new song for you."
Lovely.
But Eminem is my inspiration,
and what Eminem effectively does is that,
he tells people his
problems and makes money.
So, I was like, even I
will do the same thing.
So, this show is my problems
in exchange for your money.
Enjoy!
Now, in the course of this show I'm gonna
tell you a lot of my problems.
I'm going to solve a lot of problems,
In the course of this show, I'm going
to solve the Ram Mandir issue.
I'm going to solve the Kashmir Issue.
No, trust me. I will.
In the course of this show, there will
be two jokes that you won't find funny.
Those jokes are there just for me.
There will be one joke about Salman Khan
which you won't see coming.
And there will be one point in the show
where most of you'll think I'm an asshole.
But, then in the next line you'll
be like,"Wow, this guy is a genuis."
So, should we start the show, yeah?
So,
Problems. The biggest problem
in my life right now,
is that, I find myself in a very
weird position in my career.
When most of my fans are 16 year olds.
And I cannot stand any of them.
Dude, 16 year olds are so annoying,
they're just so smug, showing off
about some app or the other.
"I have a new app to improve my grammar."
Fucker! When we were growing up
we called it school.
Illiterate fuck!
Very entitled, these 16 year olds.
They send me messages on
social media, on Instagram.
They said,"Bro cannot
make it for your show.
I have exams.
Can you postpone your show?"
Fucker! You prepone your life no?
16 year olds, can't stand.
17 year olds, I can tolerate.
Because if you're 17 that
means you're born in a year
that starts with
19-and-something
And this is data, that my brain
can process.
Like, I see all these date of birth 2003,
one shudder goes down my spine.
Fuck! How is this Legal?
But 18 year olds, I have some
amount of respect for,
because when you turn 18, that means
you have responsibility.
Because when you turn 18, you
get from the government, the catalogue of
four new powers that
you didn't possess before.
You get the power to drink,
You get the power to drive,
you get the power to vote,
you get the power to fuck.
All very good powers. What's interesting
about these powers,
Is that you can only, legally,
use one of them at a time.
Drinking while driving, illegal.
Fucking while voting, definitely illegal.
Look at the other permutations and
combinations,
fucking while driving, illegal.
Driving while voting, impossible.
Voting while drinking, sometimes I think
that's what happened in 2014.
Which finally leaves you
with fucking while drinking,
which, while legal, results tend to vary.
But out of all these
powers, when you are 18,
driving is the most important
out of all of these, right.
See, Because to drink, you need money.
To vote, you need opinions.
To fuck, you need game.
And at 18, you have none of these things.
But at 18 you do have access to
your dad's car and
once we as guys have access to this
dad's car.
We truly believe that this
car is a chick magnet.
We believe from the bottom
of our hearts. That this car,
this Maruti Zen,
Estilo. Pink color.
Holds the key to infinite sex.
We believe this.
We roll down the windows, play loud music
that is our mating call.
But it does help to have a car,
In this sort of 18 to 22 dating
kind of age.
Because, It gives you a place,
If you have a girlfriend or boyfriend
where you can make out.
Which in this country is, prime property.
Yes.
But making out in the car, some
of you'll have done it before
this does come with its share of
logistical problems.
Chief of these being, that in this
country, Police catches you.
Because this is India.
And in India no car can compete
with Sanskar.
Car, Sanskar.
This is the hierarchy.
And, everytime we'd
get caught making out.
I keep thinking, Police dosen't
have any other work?
I think, the police they just go
everynight from car to car,
"Aye, who's making out?
Who's making out?"
"Hey! What's happening?"
"Sir, nothing kidnapping, kidnapping."
"Okay, okay. Carry on, carry on.
Just don't make out with
the victim, please."
Guy comes to you, right.
When you're making out,
knocks on the window,
then says those four words,
that strike fear into the heart of
every 18 year old in this country,
which are not, 'You are under arrest.'
That you can deal with. But,
"Baap ko phone laga!"
Obviously, I never had to call my dad.
Because I had my own four words to
get out of this situation.
Which is,"Yeh lo Paanch sau."
Because again, this is India.
And in India, Car, Sanskar,
Bhrashtachar.
And what a weird situation this is,
I have to pay police 500 to
make out with my girlfriend.
Feels like he's a pimp
in my relationship.
Dude, after the 5th time
we got caught making out,
I started suspecting my girlfriend.
I was like, 'She's
involved with the police.'
The moment I leave they split 250, 250.
Making a fool out of me,
that's what I thought.
But after many years of
research, me and my girlfriend.
We researched and found
a foolproof method,
to make sure that no police can catch
you while making out in the car.
And this method I will
share it with you.
It is to get married.
They can't do shit, dude.
We got married. We started making
out in the car next day,
just to fuck with cops.
Cop comes, sees us making out,
he's like, "Call your father."
I was like, "Take this
marriage certificate
and my phone, you call my father.
Checkmate.
He was so impressed.
He gave me 500 Rupees.
Plus, 1 rupee shagun.
But at 18, driving feels like the
most important power in the world.
But, when you grow
older, you turn 30,
like I have, you realize that actually,
voting, is the most important power.
And when you look at these 4 powers.
Drinking, driving, voting, fucking.
Out of them, only to
drink and to drive,
you require any form
of training or license.
Voting, fucking, figure it out yourself.
And there should be some screening,
especially for voting, and I feel,
this is the greatest beauty and
the greatest tragedy of
democracy which is that,
fucking anybody can vote.
Which I find this is a bit too much.
There should be some screening like,
even when you login to Gmail.
There is screening, you have
to press that captcha, right?
"Please, prove you are not a robot"
Click on it, they show you some
fuck all low resolution image.
Say, please click on all the
squares in which there is a car.
And you always get stuck on
this one last square,
where you're staring at 5 minutes,
like, "Is there even a car in this?"
"Is it a car or a dustbin, what is it?"
"What would a robot do?"
Sometimes you fail the test, you're
like, "Fuck! I'm a robot now."
Life is a lie.
You turn back your
parents are standing,
"We were waiting for the
right time to tell you.
Our entire family is gadgets.
The Father is an iPhone,
I'm a type-writer."
All of this you do just to login to Gmail.
But for voting, no screening..
All of this you do just to login to Gmail.
But for voting, no screening..
I think evenfor voting
there should be a captcha
Just before you walk into
the polling booth,
there should be a button you press,
'Please prove you're not a dumbfuck.'
Press the button then Amitabh Bachchan
appears,
"Come let's play, who
will create Democracy?"
For one vote, here is your question,
"Who's the chief of Indian Army?"
"Sunny Deol"
"Get lost, dumbfuck!"
I would pay money to watch that show.
In fact, I would pay 50 rupees everyday,
just to hear Amitabh Bachchan say,
"Get lost, dumbfuck!"
Genuinely.
But it does impact, voting
impacts the power of your life.
It impacts your wellbeing and it
impacts your mental health,
like the state of the
roads, the infrastructure,
is fucking with my head, dude.
I have started getting emotionally
attached to potholes.
No, because I've seen them grow from a
young age.
I go away for 3 weeks. I come back,
I'm proud, I'm like, "You've
grown up so big, wow!
Get him married with the speed breaker."
'Cause, I find it very hard to live
in this city, man.
Most like cities that we live in,
Like, this city Bombay specifically,
'Mumbai' specifically,
for Shiv Sena purposes.
But Mumbai, specifically I
find it very hard to
live here because this
entire city is just one
apologetic Mad Max: Fury Road episode.
There is just devastation.
And a sign, that says 'Work in progress.
Inconvenience Regretted.'
And that sign is a lie.
Work in progress inconvenience
regreted, bullshit!
Out of those 4 words only the
inconvenience is real.
Work, progress, regret, all imaginary.
Nobody gives a shit.
All across our city you see metro
barricades, metro construction,
even over there they put up this
lovely sign it says, 'Men at work.'
Has anyone seen these men?
Someone needs to tell the
government, men have fucked off.
Men have found new jobs.
Men are driving uber now.
Sitting in the uber bitching about
metro only.
Circle of life
But if you have to admire the traffic
that we have in our cities.
Like there is, consistency
to the traffic.
Like you can have proper traffic
time table. I have realized.
So, 7 to 8 in the morning, is 'Kids
being dropped to school,' traffic.
Then, 8 to 9 is 'Regular
office rush hour,' traffic.
Then, 9 to 10 is 'People who are late
for the office rush hour,' traffic.
Then 10 to 11 is, 'Lazy start-up
founder rush hour,' traffic.
Then, 11 to 12 is traffic for fuck's sake.
Nobody knows why there is traffic.
I think all the people, who missed
out on the original traffic,
they get together they're like,
"Haven't been stuck in traffic since
a long time, let's have nostalgia traffic."
Next hour, 1 to 2pm, 'kids being
picked up from school traffic.'
Circle is complete.
And It's that kids being
picked up from school traffic,
is the one irritates me the most, right.
Because these days, parents are sending
cars to pick up their kid from school.
And not like, regular size Swift, i20.
No. No.
Fucking, Range Rover!
Mercedes Benz.
Your child is not that good, dude.
Genuinely.
And it annoys me particularly,
because I grew up in an age
which I'm sure, lot of you did, where
to come back from school,
you had two options, right.
If your school was in walking distance.
You walked.
If not in walking distance.
You took the fucking bus.
If you missed the bus,
Fuck it. It's over.
Find a new home.
Dude, my parents didn't
even look for me man!
I missed the bus twice. I'm
on my third family now.
But, everywhere you go in
this country, you will see,
that there is hundered people
dancing on the roads somewhere.
Something or the other is going on.
Like, some festival or the other.
I, over time made my peace with this.
I was like, okay. There're certain
times in a year, certain festivals.
Where people are dancing on the road.
And this is a part of Hindu culture.
And as a secular Indian, I
must be okay with this.
But then, earlier this
year I saw during Eid,
even Muslims are dancing on the road.
I was like, this is a bit too much.
I have two problems with this, Muslims
dancing on the roads in a procession.
Two problems, number 1,
Us dancing on the road, goes
against one of our core rules,
which is that nobody is
supposed to have fun.
And number 2, if you are dancing
on the road in a procession,
there needs to be an
idol to go along with that,
We don't have an idol!
Are you guys dancing with Atif
Aslam's photo, what are you doing?
I was stuck in traffic, I
roll down the window asked
other guys, "Why're you dancing?" He was
like, "I don't know, it's too much fun.
They are serving Roohafza shots
inside, are you coming, bro?"
As if this was not enough.
Last year during Christmas, I see even
Christians are dancing on the road, now.
Wearing that Santa hat, Rudolph ears.
Dancing.
So I think, the religious
establishment in this country,
basically needs to recognize
that religious people,
basically just want to dance.
So to rectify this, I proposed that
all houses of worship.
Which is Churches, Temples,
Mosque, all of them should
just have a dance floor
built into the premises.
After that, do whatever you want,
Have a religious rave party.
All the idols are standing
there like this anyway,
put one lever, they can also
bounce with the music along with you
But I get in a trouble, you know
for saying these kind of
things like bitching about the
infrastucture and
people of this country.
Like, specifically when I
complain about the roads
people come to me and say, "You
shouldn't say all this stuff."
We're a third world country. We
have to accept these things,
It's okay. Don't talk about it.
I'm like, see for any
government, for any country,
I honestly believe that
one rule should apply.
Which is that, If you
cannot give good roads,
I honestly believe that
one rule should apply.
Which is that, If you
cannot give good roads,
then you have to give freedom of speech.
Out of the two, minimum
one you have to give.
Like you look at Dubai.
No freedom of speech, but amazing
roads, everyone's happy.
Get upset with the government,
go for a drive on good roads.
Come back, you are not upset anymore.
But I started to get a bit disillusioned
with life in this country,
over the course of the past year,
and I was like, let's go abroad and
see what, first world life is like.
So I went earlier this year,
I went to Melbourne,
to perform at the Melbourne
comedy festival. Lovely experience!
And... yeah, thank you.
Yeah, okay. It's alright. It's over now.
No, but I went there,
and you go to cities like Melbourne,
you see the problems they have,
they're so cute, dude!
Adorable! I was sitting in a cab,
in Melbourne at a traffic signal.
The cab driver is getting upset.
Because, there's 10 cars in front of him
and he thinks this is traffic.
I was like, Aww!
Dude! If you saw in Mumbai,
only 10 cars in traffic
in the middle of the day
forget happy, you would be worried, like,
'Where'd all the people go, bro? Fuck!"
The apocalypse is here,
My Zomato Gold got wasted, shit!
But whenever you talk about
Australia, in the Indian context
there is always been one word
buzz word that always popped up.
Which is, racism.
There's always been a big racism problem
in Australia, pertaining to Indians.
And to their credit,
the Austrailian people
did manage to find a
solution to this problem.
And the solution was not
to get rid of racism.
It was to get better at it.
Because, why give up something you love?
They're professionals dude,
we would, especially when
you go to interior Austrailia,
the outback, right.
We were performing there,
touring, going to small towns.
First of all, we went to one town,
which had a population of 1050.
Which again as an Indian,
blows your mind entirely.
Entire population expressed in four
digits.
How is this possible?
Dude, I have seen 1050
people on a BEST bus.
And those were just the guys on the roof.
But, we went to this small town, right.
And after the show there was 3 or
4 comedians performing together
typically we would take pictures with the
audience after the show
and
after the show, this one old
white Australian lady came
and she said, she wanted a
picture with me, only me.
And I was flattered, I was like, Wow!
She is appreciating my art.
This is very nice.
And she came, she took a selfie,
clicked it.
Looked at it, just very happy.
Then she looked at me,
she said, "Thank you.
You're the first Muslim I've ever seen."
and she fucked off!
First of all.
What is this hybrid racism?
When you say something racist and
thank you in the same sentence?!
Secondly, what a bitch!
This is like some bucket
list item for her.
She is taking this photo, you know
showing her grandchildren,
"You'll never believe what I saw today.
A Muslim!"
Learnt Hindi also apparently on the way
We went to an another small town in
Australia, even after that show.
Another old white
Australian lady came to me.
I think it's mainly the
old white Australian
ladies who are spreading the racism.
And she came to me, after
the show, slightly drunk.
She came to me, she's like, "You know,
there's a petrol station down the road.
Couple of Indian guys work there.
You should go!
You might know them."
I was like, of course, because that is the
entire population of India.
Me and those two guys. Yes!
Absolutely, "It will be great fun
when, we 3 friends sit together."
You, me and ignorance.
I love that tag line, though.
Aap, main aur Bagpiper. Remember that?
I think that's the only good thing
about that whiskey.
I think Bagpiper has got to be the
worst named whiskey in the world.
Like, you think of other whiskeys,
Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker.
All of these sound like people you'd
want to hangout with, at some point.
Even Black Dog will become
your friend eventually.
Who wants to hangout
with a Bagpiper, dude?!
Nobody looks at Bagpiper and says,
"This is my true friend."
No.
Bagpiper is the lowest musician on
the musical food chain, you know.
Him and that guy who does the
shake shake with the salt shaker,
they're at the same level.
If anyone comes to me and
says, "You, me and Bagpiper."
I'd say, "No.
Only you and Bagpiper."
Count me out, I'm with guitarist.
This is the first joke
which is only for me.
But then I was in Australia.
And I was enjoying, this first world life,
this freedom of speech, a lot.
Too much, in fact.
I started doing radical things,
which I shouldn't have.
I decided while in Australia,
to record a video for Youtube
for Indian people to consume.
Very bad idea.
So, In this video some of
you would have seen it,
I was talking about
India and Australia,
comparing specifically
the healthcare system.
I was like where Australia's
healthcare is so advanced,
that they have fixed all the basic issues.
And now their number one priority
is to stop people from smoking.
And to do that they increase the price
of cigarettes by 12.5%, every year.
And I was like, wow,
hats off to you Australia!
I could never expect my
government back home in
India to do this, because,
we have other priorities.
Because, we
are still trying to figure out how
to get people
to shit indoors.
Yeah.
Don't have the bandwidth for
this level of 'woke' just yet.
And you guys laugh at that,
you chuckle at that, that is
the appropriate response.
But people online here,
the trolls online, they
started coming to me,
they said, "Azeem you are going abroad
and misrepresenting the country."
I was like,
How is this misrepresentation?
I saw three people shitting
on Juhu beach today.
I know this because
I was one of them.
And this is not a misrepresentation.
I'll tell you.
This would be a misrepresentation. Right,
if I went to Australia, stood on a stage
and I said, "Yeah India is
amazing, there is no corruption
the infrastructure is brilliant, the
government is fantastic, the government
would never interfere in
the media or the judiciary,
in fact the government would
under no circumstances
hire a loud mouth
ego maniac fuck head.
To run a propaganda agency
masquerading as a news channel."
If I said that.
That would be, a misrepresentation.
What do you want me to do?
Go abroad and lie.
About what's happening in my country.
Not going to do that.
Because see there is already a job
description for somebody who goes abroad
and lies about the country.
And I'm not going to do his job for him.
I pay taxes for a reason
he can do it himself.
But you know people come to
me they say, "You just
have nothing positive to
say about current government."
You just say there are good for nothing. I
disagree, they're good at a lot of things.
Just that running a secular
democracy is not one of them.
Good at a lot of things. They have very
good skills, they are good speakers,
writers, orators, they are very good at
advertising, marketing,
lynching all of these things.
Skill is undeniable.
It's there, it's there.
And of course then there is the
lot of people have a criticism
of the man at the top
you know our "supreme leader".
No. But lot of people say that
you know all the decision he makes
are haphazard,
random, there is no thought
to what he is doing.
Here, I disagree. Here
I think there is a
foolproof method
which is being followed.
Which I think this is how it's works.
Which is that
basically whenever they need him
to make a decision
to make a choice.
They go to him
with a sheet of paper that has a
list of options on it.
In alphabetical order.
And he always chooses the first one.
They went to him, "Sir, who is going
to be your best friend?"
"Amit"
"Sir we need to tie up with some
businessmen can you choose one?"
"Sure. Adani"
"Choose one more?"
"Ambani"
"Sir, Chief Minister of UP?"
"Adityanath"
"Sir, we need to buy a journalist"
"Arnab"
"Sir, campaign slogan?"
"Achhe din"
"Sir, finally one last question
"Who is your favourite God?"
"Allah" "Wait. What?"
"Trick question"
But whatever you say
about him, I believe he is an honest guy.
He gives a honest
representation of himself
Like his speeches are very honest.
Like I remember that speech.
That he gave initially,
which is the 'Chowkidar'
, speech right?
"I'm the watchman of this nation"
I love that. I think
that is the perfect analogy.
Because when you think about it in your
life. In your experience in this country.
Have you ever seen a watchman
who was good at his job?
If Desh is the building
he is the Chowkidar.
Think about your building
watchman.
What are his key hallmarks?
Number 1,
He serves one or two families
that give more bakshish.
Number 2. He has a couple
of well trained pets
who they are, I'll leave to your
imagination.
And number 3 and most important,
which is that when you need the
watchman the most.
He is nowhere to be found.
Why?
Because he is in other building
chilling with their chowkidars.
It's a good joke I know.
But I hate the level of political
conversation we have in this country.
Right. You go to current government
you asked them questions about today.
Current. 2018.
They give you answers
from 70 years ago.
You'll say, why are fuel prices rising?
They say, because
Nehru smoked cigarettes
Does this make any sense.
You asked them for civics
They give you history. This is the
transaction that happens. Right?
Thank you, one
Giraffe, for laughing at that.
No. But that's genuinely
what happens right but
And a key
exponent of this behaviour
is the Yogi.
Yogi Adityanath.
I love him. Like he sound so cute.
Sounds like a cartoon
character. You know.
Like growing up we had that cartoon
Yogi Bear - smarter than the average bear.
I had hopes.
I saw Yogi Adityanath may be smarter
than the average Adityanath.
Did not turn out to be so.
He became Chief Minister of UP. I was
expecting a game changing government.
It turned out be just a
name changing government.
Changed lot of names in UP. They
renamed Allahabad to Prayagraj
They renamed recession to Acche din.
Many things they have done.
But I love Yogi Adityanath.
He gave my favourite political
speech of the decade.
This year standing in the UP bypolls.
He was standing talking to the people
of UP in complete seriousness.
Telling them, "Now you
have to take decision
what do you want?
Ganna
Or Jinnah?"
What?
What options are these?
This is the Chief Minister of the largest
state in the country.
Man who cannot frame a realistic
multiple choice question.
Ganna or Jinnah?
One of them is a cash crop.
The other is a dead Muslim separatist.
You cannot substitute one for
the other in any circumstance.
Yogi Adityanath should never
open a juice center.
You will go to him like, "Yogi today
I feel like a Ganna juice."
"Sir, today Ganna juice is out of stock,
today only Jinnah juice available.
You want it? We'll partition it
and serve to you one by two.
Sir, we have more options
would you like to try our
seasonal menu sir. What do
you want Peru or Nehru."
You'll be standing there going,
"Is this guy on ganja?"
Sir what do you want, Ganja
or bhanja. Like fuck.
Shut up now.
But no matter how much you talk about
government, politicians all of that.
That's all in its place. But I
think the biggest problem and the
root of all our problems in this
country is overpopulation.
Because I don't know if you've been
outside but there are a LOT of people.
And genuinely like
It comes back to that same drinking,
driving, voting fucking thing. Right?
To fuck
Nothing.
No permissions, no screening required.
Now, let me tell you, I was reading
the article about this. Right.
It says that in 2018
To raise a child
Sorry
In 2018 to raise a good quality child
You need a minimum of 35 Lakhs
over 18 years to do it right.
Now if you go to any bank
today and ask them for 35 lakhs loan
they ask you
for shit to prove
that you can pay it back.
Right they ask you for bank statements,
salary slip, Aadhar card Whatever.
They ask You..
But for voting, for fucking
Nothing.
No questions asked
which is why I believe even here.
Captcha,
required.
Press the button Amitabh
Bachchan appears again,
"Let's play who wants to
pay the school fees."
"How many kids do you want?"
"Four."
"And how many rupees in
your bank account?"
"Four."
"Do you have anything else?"
"Aadhar card."
"Get lost, dumbfuck!"
The population explosion in this
country is out of control dude!
Babies are just flying
out of vaginas,
like a machine gun.
Walk down the road random babies
flying into your face.
"Whose it this? Take it back!"
And on paper, the solution
to this seems simple. Right?
Birth control!
Government has been going
to people for decades
Please use condom.
Please take a condom.
Condom please.
Indian people are like no, no.
We don't need condom.
We have God. Thanks for asking.
I do yoga. I have control.
Can't leave it to the people that's why
China's been doing It the right way.
Until very recently in China you were
allowed one kid. That's it.
In China, government is the condom.
Can't fuck with them.
Go to them and say I
want to make a baby
they would be like fuck off!
You make iPhone.
Priorities.
Yeah.
But when you think about all of this,
boils down to religion.
Because in this country, what
does every religion preach
that a child is a blessing.
"Child is a blessing!"
No. No. It's not.
Every three weeks I get a message
from some idiot couple or the other
"We have been blessed with a baby boy"
No No you have been burdened
by society's expectations.
Child is not a blessing dude.
No blessing requires you
to pay for its education.
No blessing shits in a bed.
Like when you sneeze, somebody
says "God bless you"
that's a blessing, they
don't give you a child.
Like, ",
here's a child, congrats"
But, I've realized after much
thought, I've realized,
that the solution to this
population problem is,
Baba Ramdev.
Yeah.
Because Baba Ramdev says
any shit, people believe it.
Sells any product people buy it.
The solution is right
in front of us, guys.
Patanjali condoms.
Just take a regular Durex condom,
add Gau Mutra, It is ready.
Yeah.
Patanjali presents Moo-rex condom, yes.
Now I see, some of you laughing, some
of you're on-board with this idea.
In some of your eyes,
I see doubt.
Lot of you are staring
at me saying, "Azeem,
this product and all is very nice,
but I have MBA degree.
I would like to know, how are you
going to market this product?"
Allow me to explain.
Right, so, what we do is, we
announce the Patanjali Moo-rex condom,
along with that, we
announce a competition.
Between, Hindus and Muslims.
And we say that, whichever group
over the next 20 years,
uses more patanjali condoms,
gets to decide, once and
for all,
"Will a Mandir be built
or a Masjid?"
Problem solved, dude!
Two birds with one stone.
Because see, number 1,
first, over 20 years of
people using condoms,
population will come back on track.
First problem solved. Secondly,
all the people who
currently, today are doing,
"I want a Temple" "I want
a Mosque." They'll be like,
"Fuck it, dude!
I've been getting laid for 20 years
I don't care about this shit anymore,
you make whatever you want.
Mandir, Masjid, McDonald's
anything will do, no problem"
I've solved this thing
many times in my head,
this is also the second
best solution that I have.
Number one solution..
Is that, there should neither
be a Mandir nor a Masjid.
Instead over there, In
that place, open Subway.
Because, then everyone
is equally disappointed.
Because, nobody in their
life has ever walked into
an outlet of Subway and
been like, "I won."
It's never happened.
This is what I believe man, but birth
control clearly is not happening,
and if we cannot use birth control
to fix the population problem
and we are going to fix it.
Today only.
But if you cannot use
birth control to do it.
Then, you have to move into,
darker territory
Which is to say, that if you cannot find
a way to control the rate of birth,
then, you have to find a way,
to accelerate,
the rate of death.
And see by accelerate death, I don't
mean just to walk into hospital
and pull life support and
be like,"Bye, Grandpa, see you later
TTYL fam."
Now see, all of you guys
have laughed at that,
and by that you have given
me your comedic consent.
Right!
So wherever this bit goes,
you have to stay with me.
And it is going to go places.
We are in this together.
We talk about accelerating deaths.
I can think of a lot of candidates.
And I guarantee you that every single one
of you in your day-to-day life,
over the 24 hours
of your day,
sees at least 3 people.
Where you look at them,
and there is a small,
very small subconscious voice
at the back of your head,
that looks at them,
and is like,
"Why?"
"Why does he exist?"
All of you fucking do it, don't lie.
And we have many examples of
these people in our life.
Like, I know a guy,
a really stupid guy, his name Aslam.
He lives in dharavi which is A Slum.
Name is also his address, very convenient.
And everyone knows Aslam.
See, Aslam has no caste, creed, religion.
Aslam is a template.
Aslam is a concept.
Aslam is a state of mind.
Aslam is a prototype and all of us
have seen this prototype.
I think the best explanation
of the Aslam prototype,
I can give you is that Aslam is,
part time Salman fan
I freelance eve teaser.
We've all seen him.
Aslam's
stretched career goal in life
is that one day he wants to
do a wheelie on an Activa,
with 3 of his friends. That's
what he wants from life.
Aslam is a guy who goes to the zoo,
sticks his hand in the tiger cage, "Aye
tiger, here, have Tiger biscuit, haha!"
That's Aslam.
And Aslam has no potential,
no scope in life.
But the good news is for us is that Aslam,
has stupid ideas,
which can put his life in danger.
All we have to do,
is encourage him!
And to do this, it's very simple, right.
My proposal,
Is that all warning signs
across the country, we remove.
Replace them instead,
with vaguely motivational quotes.
Right!
Tiger cage has a sign says, 'Do not put
your hand in the Tiger cage.' Remove that.
Put something abstract.
'It is magical to shake
hands with a Tiger.'
Attribute the quote to Dr.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Most quotes have been
attributed to him anyway.
You see electrified fences, right?
Live wires.
There's a sign there,
it says, "Do not touch."
These are the wrong three words.
What it should say is, 'Try it out!'
See what happens.
On a train, on our local trains there's
a lady who makes an announcement, Right!
She say's, 'It is dangerous
to travel on roof.'
Remove it.
Re-record it with her,
singing 'chaiyya chaiyya' instead.
After the third chorus, people will have
enough room to sleep on a Virar fast train.
I understand this has got a
little bit dark right now.
I understand, what you
guys are thinking, I'm
self aware, I know what
you guys are thinking.
You guy's are looking
at me and you're saying,
that, 'This is a Muslim
man standing on stage.
Advocating mass murder.' I
realize, it sounds bad.
I realize this.
At this point, I'm
Six months of bad beard
growth away from
sounding like Dr. Zakir Naik.
I realize this.
But I can't help it, dude,
I'm sure this happens
to you guys as well, right, you just
wake up in the morning just,
from the wrong side of
bed, and you just wish
just wish,
that magically half the
population, while you were
asleep had just painlessly
dissappeared. Right?!
Like the Avengers movie,
right, Infinity War?
Yeah, Thanos!
He realized, there's too
many people in the world.
Not enough resources, he got his gauntlet,
snapped his fingers, half the
population disappeared.
And I was watching that movie I
was like, "What a nice happy ending!
Why are people crying? Are you guys mad?"
The only people who had a
problem with Thanos's plan
were the Avengers.
And, this is because,
Avengers are super heroes.
And super heroes have two problems.
Number 1,
none of them have jobs.
Number 2, all of them can fly.
If Iron Man had to drive in peak traffic
from Juhu to Lower Parel, everyday!
He would've welcomed Thanos with
Pan Parag.
"Come come Thanos, I waiting
for you only, come come."
"Yes, snap once, snap twice, no problem."
"Even I'll order it, will I
find this gauntlet on Amazon?"
Subtle sponsor integration.
No man, but I didn't always have
these dark thoughts in my head, you know.
I was a nice guy.
Made nice jokes.
I know, lot of you guys are thinking,
"We came here after watching the
Gujarat Tourism video, what is this
casual genocide?
I know.
And I used to be a nice guy right,
but something happened in my life
earlier this year,
I had my first tax audit.
And it was 28th September,
I went my C.A., you have to
pay tax under Audit on 30th September.
I went my C.A. on the 28th,
I saw the numbers,
I was like, Fuck! I have
to pay this amount of tax?
I was depressed, dude.
I went, I sat in my car,
I was sitting looking
outside, looking at the
road outside, I was like
fucking, this road I have paid for.
It should be named after
me, who's this Pedder?
Aslam, he doesn't pay tax.
He's cutting me off on his Activa.
I have to brake to save his life.
Dude for the amount
of tax I pay, I should
legally be allowed to drive
with two hands in the air.
Fuck you! Fuck all of you!
This is my road.
I will not steer, you jump out of the way.
And a lot of times I think
that, even Salman was
thinking the same thing.
I told you, you wouldn't see it coming.
Because this is my conspiracy theory.
That the A1 bakery incident also
happened on 28th September 2002.
I think he had just got the news.
Went to his C.A., C.A. was like, "Dude,
you'll have to pay 5 crores of tax.
Salman did 3 lines of coke.
Got in the car, "This footpath is mine.
Fuck off!"
That's why dude, like I get very
upset, very insulted.
When people come to me
as a Muslim man in this country.
And they say,
"What have you done for this country?
You go to Pakistan."
I am like, "Bastard you refund 5 years
of my tax. I will buy Pakistan."
I love this whole "Go to
Pakistan" brigade.
This is what they do. They go to
Intellectuals,
Left liberals, Comedians, they
go to all of these people,
and they say, "You go to Pakistan."
And I love how nobody has asked Pakistan
How they feel about this?
Like, even they have
Immigration department.
We just assume that
there's just this open
door policy for all rejected Indians.
A guy standing there, "You too?
Come, come."
come come come.
Have you met Fawad.
But while I disagree with the targets
of these go to Pakistan statements,
I'm principally on-board with the idea of
sending people to Pakistan.
Like, send all the useless
people there.
And now this raises,
Two Problems,
number 1, how do we select the
people to send to Pakistan.
We are sending them to Pakistan.
Number 1, how do we select them.
Number 2, how do we get Pakistan
to accept these people.
Let me tell you.
Number 1, how do we select
them? Simple, Democracy.
Right
Go to every neighbourhood,
every constituency in the country.
And ask the people, "Who is the
biggest Idiot in this colony?
Vote!"
If you win the election
you have lost at life.
And you can't, even if you're
elected you can't protest.
You can't be like, "What
did I do, I did nothing." They're like,
"We have the data.
3000 people have called you an idiot.
Amitabh Bachchan said, "Get lost,
dumbfuck!" to you."
"So, you, justifiably go to Pakistan.
Do you have any last wish?"
"Sir, I want to do wheelie on the
activa, only once. That's all."
"What is your name? Aslam. I see."
That's solved.
Now number two, how do we get Pakistan to
accept these people.
What we do is, that we put all the people
that we rounded up
on a giant ship.
And we name this ship,
Kashmir.
So we call up Pakistan.
Like, "Bro Pakistan?
Do you want Kashmir?"
Like, "Yes, of course."
"Okay, you'll get it in 3 days."
3 days later he calls back, "What the fuck
who are these people you've sent, dude?!
These people got off the boat they
are terrorising our civilians."
Like, "Well, now you know
what that feels like."
"Yes, I'm still here, people were clapping.
And this is the power
of Aslam without guns.
You think that's bad? Next week
MSG's devotees are coming.
Enjoy."
Even this Kashmir situation, I've solved
it many times in my head.
This is also the second best solution.
Number 1 solution is that Kashmir should
neither go to India nor Pakistan.
It should remain autonomous.
And to do this we just rename it from
Kashmir to Subway.
Then both sides will be like, 'No, no
I don't want Subway, you keep it.'
I have these thoughts in my
head. I feel like human beings
we're a very overrated species.
Like, we're very selfish.
We make everything about us.
Everything!
It has to be about us, like,
as individuals.
You even see, like..
Facebook now has this new
feature which is the,
'Mark yourself safe' feature.
You've seen that right?
Whenever there's a..
Natural disaster, terrorist attack,
you get a notification saying,
XYZ person, has marked themself safe.'
And have you noticed that the people
whose names pop up in that notification,
are the same people who,
if they died you wouldn't mind.
Now you're doubly disappointed.
Fucking terrorist attack
happened, he's still alive.
Call up the terrorist, "Finish the job."
Like the people who pop up
over there are the same people who,
If you see them in public,
you hide and walk away.
You mark YOURSELF safe
from them in real life.
One species in the world
that I absolutely cannot stand,
Is birds.
You think of all other species
in the world, right?
They all serve a purpose.
You think of Lions, Tigers,
predatory animals,
they lend balance to the food chain.
Serve a purpose.
Think of Cows, right? Cows
are very nice animals.
Cow is such a nice animal, wow!
- Aww!
What a cow, what a wow! Superb! Amazing!
Great! No complaints about cows.
Cows are very good.
No, no, cows are very good, no.
Yes, we should applaud for cows. Yes!
Cows are very nice, they, they give milk.
They give right wing nationalists a
purpose to life. They're good animals.
But, birds.
All birds do, is shit.
They shit on you, they shit on your
car, they shit on your property
and they fuck off!
And you can do nothing about this.
But these people come to me,
these bird apologists.
The defenders of bird rights.
#NotAllBirds
#MePoo
They come to me they say, "No Azeem, no,
birds do more, okay? Birds
help in pollination."
All that means is that
they're pimps for flowers.
Goin to the flower saying,
"Do you want seeds?
I'll seed, you leech
we'll become a Torrent together.
Beautiful.
Joke for six piracy enthusiasts.
But, I don't want to,
like upset people, I understand lots of
people are very passionate about birds,
and lots of people,
they take binoculars, go into the forest
to look at birds it's a very common hobby.
It's called 'Loneliness.'
My god! What a shit
hobby to have, dude.
Birdwatching?!
And they always tell you,"I'm
an avid birdwatcher, avid."
They have to add an adjective to
their hobby to make it sound fun.
That's how shit it is.
Because without that,
what is birdwatching?
"This is bird, I have watched"
"Flew from here to there, shat
on my head, best day ever"
I've realised that people who watch birds,
and people who watch golf as a
sport, are the same people.
Because, birdwatching and golf
watching at a core level are the same
It's the process of watching
nothing happen very slowly.
Also, I don't understand these
idiots who want to feed birds
You've seen those maniacs going
around throwing seeds for birds.
You see them at that Dadar
Kabutar Khana.
National Tatti Capital of India.
Throwing seeds for birds,
like if you're throwing seed at the bird,
and attacking it, I'm with you.
Very good idea.
But why are you feeding birds?
This is counter productive.
Because, by feeding birds,
all you're doing is providing ammunition,
to the enemy.
Because that same seed is coming back,
to your car,
with compound interest.
I was reading an article
on an online forum,
It said, the average pigeon shits,
48 times in a day!
I shit you not.
48 times! Listen if you do anything,
48 times in a day.
That's a full time occupation, alright?!
This shitting is not a hobby anymore.
I think there's a corporate
machinery in the bird world.
The pigeons are the corporate slaves.
And they have been given targets.
They've been told, "You shit 48 times,
In exchange you get to build
a nest on this guy's AC"
This is the housing plan, that
they've been offered.
That's why you see,
pigeons, they are the most
charged up, motivated birds in the
world like they're on cocaine. Like,
Charged up!
They achieve their target they say,
"Wohoo!" that's what the sound means.
You and me, we see a car,
but a pigeon sees performance incentive.
Sometimes you see a car that's
plastered with shit, back to front.
That - month end pressure.
And in this corporate bird world,
in this corporate machinery there has
to be has to be a head bird, a CEO
bird, leader of all birds and for
me that bird had got to be a crow.
Cause crows are sly
motherfuckers dude.
Crows have a plan
to ruin your life.
Like you look at a car...
If there is a shit on the windshield.
That's a pigeon.
Pigeon has no plan.
Pigeon has target
But when there is shit
on your car door handle.
That's a fucking crow.
Because crow has done
market research.
Crow knows what you pisses you off.
Look at the shit. Look up. Crow's
staring back. "What's up mother fucker?"
"Just chilling" Two sparrows
giving him a blowjob one the side
"What's happenin' playa?"
"Shit's goin' down, you want
some seeds brotha?"
This is the biggest problem that
I have with bird is that birds
Are the only species in the world
that can shit on you.
From an elevation.
No other species, has a horse
ever shat on you from the third floor? No!
If anyone has arguments,
I'm willing to hear them.
They shit on you and fly
away, no consequences,
We are so helpless.
We can do nothing. We are so helpless
that in some point in our history
We had to convince ourselves.
That when a bird shits on
you, It's good luck.
No other explanation.
They shit on you and fly
away, no consequences.
I want this ability dude.
I think this is a super power.
I think.
This was the original
first draft of Superman.
Which explains a long last
why the underwear is outside.
All the superman comics, people see
Superman from a distance,
What's the first question they ask?
"Is it a bird?"
Now you know
Second joke. That's just for me.
I honestly believe that
if birds could not fly.
We would've killed all of them.
I think the flying was
added by nature, later
to circumvent the design flaw
of the shitting.
I think earlier they were just
feathery blobs, just running
- around shitting everywhere.
- Humans were like dead.
Nature was like, "Okay. Fly now"
You look at examples from history right?
Dodo.
Flightless bird.
Fucking extinct, dude.
And the people come to
you and say, "No, no, dodo
went extinct because of
the carelessness of man."
No, no. Man knew what he was doing.
He's was like, "Fucking Dodo
is back on my property again"
"Fuck off, Dodo!"
This was the first Dodo that ever flew.
Other flightless birds you look at, right?
Chickens.
Can't fly. We were like "Fuck it
we'll eat all of them"
They kept coming back. We said
"Eat them before they are born"
Ostriches, you look at Ostriches.
We couldn't catch them, they run very fast.
We decide to shame them from a distance.
Like, "Shame on you, Ostrich!
Shame on you!"
Ostrich got embarrassed
and put its head underground.
Remaining flightless birds.
Emus, Kiwis, Rheas, Cassowaries.
Those we put in geography textbooks.
For children to learn that
these are still left for us to kill
We were told this romantic story
about the Wright brothers.
You know the Wright brothers
Built the first airplane to take
mankind to the skies.
Very romantic but.
I have an alternate theory here
I do not think the Wright Brothers
were pointing to the sky saying,
We'll go there.
No. No they were pointing
to the crow in the tree
saying, "Wait mother fucker.
I'm coming. Wait."
We've reached the point
in the show now where
I have to tell you about
my personal problems.
You've paid money. So now listen.
So, I've been married now for 5 years.
And, me and my wife are very in love
with each other. Like disgustingly.
In love with each other.
Thank you wife's sister. Right.
But like in any relationship we
have our share of ups and downs.
Fights and battles all, of that.
And, I have realized that
I win most of them.
Because there is a very
important factor over here.
I have a lot of sympathy
for my wife because
she is not married to a regular person.
She's married to a comedian.
This changes the game entirely.
Because see, when you are
married to a regular person,
and fight with a regular person
A regular person will take all the
stupid shit you say in this fight.
File it away.
And use it
to win a future argument.
But comedian,
will take all the stupid
shit that you say,
File it away.
And then tell it to strangers for money.
And if the strangers laugh, you've
lost the argument forever.
It's true man, me and my wife,
we've reached a weird point
in our relationship where my
wife now has dreams about me.
And whenever she has dreams about
me, it's never anything positive.
It's never like, '
he bought a house.' No,
It's always, 'He forgot my birthday
because he's a drug addict.'
The other week, my wife had
a dream in which I was
cheating on her.
She awoke from this dream
and she was upset.
With me.
For her dream.
I was like, how is this fair?
I was here.
In this bed.
With you.
Asleep.
Having my own dream about
cheating on you. So, what...
No no. I could never
cheat on my wife. Never.
But,
I've thought about it.
The thought has crossed my mind.
And there is no human being in a
commited relationship who can
look me in the eye and say that
you haven't had this thought
fleetingly somewhere.
And some people have this
thought more often than others.
They called men.
Right?
And I don't think I can
speak on behalf of women.
But on behalf of men
let me tell you women,
Something about the men that
you are here with today.
This is where it gets awkward.
This is where the drive back home
gets very awkward.
Ladies you should know
that every married man,
at any given point of time
in his head,
is planning an affair,
that he is NEVER going to have.
But he is planning it anyway.
For recreational purposes.
And whenever I do this bit, there are
always pockets of silence across the room.
And that is the collective
sound of all the
married men with their
wife shitting themselves.
"Dude, we had one secret. Why
you're saying all this in public?!"
I almost have admiration for
people who have affairs.
How do you guys find the time?
I can barely go jogging in the morning,
He's running a parallal family. Wow!
I tip my hat to you, sir.
For your time management.
Can't cheat my wife dude.
And honestly because I've invested
too much into this relationship.
I've put a lot of work in it.
And to throw it all away for an affair
for a something as trivial as sex
makes no sense to me. Because let
me tell you from a young age
I had to work on my personality.
Alright.
To find a woman
who would like me in a pre-Tinder era.
After that, successfully
faked many many opinions.
So that she would have sex with me.
Faked more opinions so that
her parents would like me.
Spent all my savings
on a wedding to feed
five hundred relatives
I didn't know I had.
Give all of that away for an affair
and in exchange get what?
One slightly different orgasm?
I think not.
Listen I have minus four
power on my glasses
I can barely see who I'm fucking.
It makes no difference.
But once you have been
married for a long enough
in this country, married
people you will know that
after three or four years
of your married life
you start getting
pressure from relatives.
Start telling you to do
things but they don't
tell you what it is
that you have to do.
Because when it comes to
sex, we must speak in code.
In random family gatherings
there will be one aunty
who'll appear out of nowhere like a ninja.
She was not there before. She just
somersaults into frame.
It's been three years.
Do it!
One uncle comes from this side.
It's grandpa's dying wish!
I'm like I don't like grandpa
that much anyway.
I killed him six jokes ago.
If he dies unfulfilled, I
could not give a shit.
But then,
Something changed, right.
My mom came to me couple of
months ago gave me this entire
Ted talk about life.
She came to me, she was like
Azeem, it's time.
You're old enough. You are 30 now.
Don't you think you and your wife,
You had a new bundle of joy,
a new soul in your lives to
bring you both closer together,
take your relationship to the next level,
start a family, make us all proud.
And I was like,
okay that sort of broke
through to me right!
And I went to my wife and I was like,
"It's been three years
We should do it.
Are you ready?" And to my
surprise my wife said, "I'm ready."
And it's a big deal for me to announce
this but over the last couple of months
me and my wife, we've actually
started trying. Its a huge deal. Yeah.
Thank you. Genuinely.
Yes.
We've started trying
to have a threesome
and
I mean I don't even want to do it, dude.
It's family pressure. What can I say?
So any of you know somebody who's
interested, we're auditioning next week.
So let us know.
And I want you guys to understand
I'm not doing this for myself.
This is an entirely selfless act.
It's grandpa's dying wish!
Ladies and gentlemen, you guys
have been absolutely fantastic.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you. Genuinely. This means the
world to me. Thank you so much.
Good night.
---
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Azeem Banatwalla!
Okay okay, shut up, shut up!
We got a show to do!
Alright! Cool. Let's do this.
As may, many of you may or may not
know, my name is, Azeem Banatwalla.
I am a, cool guy.
I hang out at cool places.
Like Café Coffee Day.
And people, they say a lot of shit
about CCD, you know people say,
“CCD is fuckall, this and
that, coffee is bad.”
But I've been there
and bathroom was very clean.
And really, that's the only
reason why anyone goes to CCD.
CCD at this point is a 'Public Toilet'
with Hotel Management degree.
When I went to CCD last week,
to use the bathroom, obviously.
And came out I saw that behind
the counter, serving
coffee to people was a
white guy working at CCD.
I was like wow, white guy at CCD
this Brexit is damn serious dude!
He had a name tag, it said "Dave",
Dave is working at CCD, I was like, wow!
And obviously, being a brown man seeing a
white person in my natural environment.
I had to speak to him
So, I went up to Dave,
but half way through walking
to Dave I realized
he's not a white guy.
He's an Albino.
And my life's dreams were shattered.
I went, I was like,
"Dave, What happened?
He was like,"Mazha naav Dave
aahe."
"Coffee pahije ka?"
I changed my order from flat
white to espresso, immediately.
I always start the show
with that stupid ass joke,
to lower your expectations.
Because, anything remotely
smart I say after this,
you'll be like,"Wah! Kya kavi hai yeh!"
But, this is my new show. I was
inspired to write this show,
by the rapper, Eminem. Yeah?!
No fans of Eminem? Alright, cool.
He didn't come to me directly
and say, "Write this show!"
But I was inspired by his work.
Because to me, Eminem is a genius.
He's an absolute genius, because he has
to be the only musician in the world,
who through his music, managed
to make millions of people,
memorize his life's problems.
Dude, I don't know where my life is going.
But, know everything about Eminem's.
You can wake me up in the
middle of the night,
I will give Eminem
entrance exam, on the spot.
No, genuinely. I feel, like I
know Eminem on a personal level.
I know how he reacts, for instance,
to getting nervous, I know
that when Eminem's nervous,
His palms are sweaty,
knees weak, arms are heavy. There's
vomit on his sweater already. I know this.
Don't trust, mom's spaghetti.
I know this.
But all of Eminem's
songs, if you listen to them,
they all have very hardcore
problems in the songs.
Always like,"I'm a drug
addict, my wife left me,
my mom hates me."
It has to be a really hardcore
problem to be an Eminem song.
Which leads me to believe, that there must
be an entire rejected catalogue of songs
with problems, that weren't
just not good enough.
Like, he's in the studio recording,
"I ordered noodles,
they sent me rice instead
my life sucks."
Dr. Dre's on the side like,"No, no,
this ain't goin' on the album."
"But, what do we do with these lyrics Dre?"
"Don't worry, I have
another rapper who can use them."
"Hello, Baba Sehgal?!
Got a new song for you."
Lovely.
But Eminem is my inspiration,
and what Eminem effectively does is that,
he tells people his
problems and makes money.
So, I was like, even I
will do the same thing.
So, this show is my problems
in exchange for your money.
Enjoy!
Now, in the course of this show I'm gonna
tell you a lot of my problems.
I'm going to solve a lot of problems,
In the course of this show, I'm going
to solve the Ram Mandir issue.
I'm going to solve the Kashmir Issue.
No, trust me. I will.
In the course of this show, there will
be two jokes that you won't find funny.
Those jokes are there just for me.
There will be one joke about Salman Khan
which you won't see coming.
And there will be one point in the show
where most of you'll think I'm an asshole.
But, then in the next line you'll
be like,"Wow, this guy is a genuis."
So, should we start the show, yeah?
So,
Problems. The biggest problem
in my life right now,
is that, I find myself in a very
weird position in my career.
When most of my fans are 16 year olds.
And I cannot stand any of them.
Dude, 16 year olds are so annoying,
they're just so smug, showing off
about some app or the other.
"I have a new app to improve my grammar."
Fucker! When we were growing up
we called it school.
Illiterate fuck!
Very entitled, these 16 year olds.
They send me messages on
social media, on Instagram.
They said,"Bro cannot
make it for your show.
I have exams.
Can you postpone your show?"
Fucker! You prepone your life no?
16 year olds, can't stand.
17 year olds, I can tolerate.
Because if you're 17 that
means you're born in a year
that starts with
19-and-something
And this is data, that my brain
can process.
Like, I see all these date of birth 2003,
one shudder goes down my spine.
Fuck! How is this Legal?
But 18 year olds, I have some
amount of respect for,
because when you turn 18, that means
you have responsibility.
Because when you turn 18, you
get from the government, the catalogue of
four new powers that
you didn't possess before.
You get the power to drink,
You get the power to drive,
you get the power to vote,
you get the power to fuck.
All very good powers. What's interesting
about these powers,
Is that you can only, legally,
use one of them at a time.
Drinking while driving, illegal.
Fucking while voting, definitely illegal.
Look at the other permutations and
combinations,
fucking while driving, illegal.
Driving while voting, impossible.
Voting while drinking, sometimes I think
that's what happened in 2014.
Which finally leaves you
with fucking while drinking,
which, while legal, results tend to vary.
But out of all these
powers, when you are 18,
driving is the most important
out of all of these, right.
See, Because to drink, you need money.
To vote, you need opinions.
To fuck, you need game.
And at 18, you have none of these things.
But at 18 you do have access to
your dad's car and
once we as guys have access to this
dad's car.
We truly believe that this
car is a chick magnet.
We believe from the bottom
of our hearts. That this car,
this Maruti Zen,
Estilo. Pink color.
Holds the key to infinite sex.
We believe this.
We roll down the windows, play loud music
that is our mating call.
But it does help to have a car,
In this sort of 18 to 22 dating
kind of age.
Because, It gives you a place,
If you have a girlfriend or boyfriend
where you can make out.
Which in this country is, prime property.
Yes.
But making out in the car, some
of you'll have done it before
this does come with its share of
logistical problems.
Chief of these being, that in this
country, Police catches you.
Because this is India.
And in India no car can compete
with Sanskar.
Car, Sanskar.
This is the hierarchy.
And, everytime we'd
get caught making out.
I keep thinking, Police dosen't
have any other work?
I think, the police they just go
everynight from car to car,
"Aye, who's making out?
Who's making out?"
"Hey! What's happening?"
"Sir, nothing kidnapping, kidnapping."
"Okay, okay. Carry on, carry on.
Just don't make out with
the victim, please."
Guy comes to you, right.
When you're making out,
knocks on the window,
then says those four words,
that strike fear into the heart of
every 18 year old in this country,
which are not, 'You are under arrest.'
That you can deal with. But,
"Baap ko phone laga!"
Obviously, I never had to call my dad.
Because I had my own four words to
get out of this situation.
Which is,"Yeh lo Paanch sau."
Because again, this is India.
And in India, Car, Sanskar,
Bhrashtachar.
And what a weird situation this is,
I have to pay police 500 to
make out with my girlfriend.
Feels like he's a pimp
in my relationship.
Dude, after the 5th time
we got caught making out,
I started suspecting my girlfriend.
I was like, 'She's
involved with the police.'
The moment I leave they split 250, 250.
Making a fool out of me,
that's what I thought.
But after many years of
research, me and my girlfriend.
We researched and found
a foolproof method,
to make sure that no police can catch
you while making out in the car.
And this method I will
share it with you.
It is to get married.
They can't do shit, dude.
We got married. We started making
out in the car next day,
just to fuck with cops.
Cop comes, sees us making out,
he's like, "Call your father."
I was like, "Take this
marriage certificate
and my phone, you call my father.
Checkmate.
He was so impressed.
He gave me 500 Rupees.
Plus, 1 rupee shagun.
But at 18, driving feels like the
most important power in the world.
But, when you grow
older, you turn 30,
like I have, you realize that actually,
voting, is the most important power.
And when you look at these 4 powers.
Drinking, driving, voting, fucking.
Out of them, only to
drink and to drive,
you require any form
of training or license.
Voting, fucking, figure it out yourself.
And there should be some screening,
especially for voting, and I feel,
this is the greatest beauty and
the greatest tragedy of
democracy which is that,
fucking anybody can vote.
Which I find this is a bit too much.
There should be some screening like,
even when you login to Gmail.
There is screening, you have
to press that captcha, right?
"Please, prove you are not a robot"
Click on it, they show you some
fuck all low resolution image.
Say, please click on all the
squares in which there is a car.
And you always get stuck on
this one last square,
where you're staring at 5 minutes,
like, "Is there even a car in this?"
"Is it a car or a dustbin, what is it?"
"What would a robot do?"
Sometimes you fail the test, you're
like, "Fuck! I'm a robot now."
Life is a lie.
You turn back your
parents are standing,
"We were waiting for the
right time to tell you.
Our entire family is gadgets.
The Father is an iPhone,
I'm a type-writer."
All of this you do just to login to Gmail.
But for voting, no screening..
All of this you do just to login to Gmail.
But for voting, no screening..
I think evenfor voting
there should be a captcha
Just before you walk into
the polling booth,
there should be a button you press,
'Please prove you're not a dumbfuck.'
Press the button then Amitabh Bachchan
appears,
"Come let's play, who
will create Democracy?"
For one vote, here is your question,
"Who's the chief of Indian Army?"
"Sunny Deol"
"Get lost, dumbfuck!"
I would pay money to watch that show.
In fact, I would pay 50 rupees everyday,
just to hear Amitabh Bachchan say,
"Get lost, dumbfuck!"
Genuinely.
But it does impact, voting
impacts the power of your life.
It impacts your wellbeing and it
impacts your mental health,
like the state of the
roads, the infrastructure,
is fucking with my head, dude.
I have started getting emotionally
attached to potholes.
No, because I've seen them grow from a
young age.
I go away for 3 weeks. I come back,
I'm proud, I'm like, "You've
grown up so big, wow!
Get him married with the speed breaker."
'Cause, I find it very hard to live
in this city, man.
Most like cities that we live in,
Like, this city Bombay specifically,
'Mumbai' specifically,
for Shiv Sena purposes.
But Mumbai, specifically I
find it very hard to
live here because this
entire city is just one
apologetic Mad Max: Fury Road episode.
There is just devastation.
And a sign, that says 'Work in progress.
Inconvenience Regretted.'
And that sign is a lie.
Work in progress inconvenience
regreted, bullshit!
Out of those 4 words only the
inconvenience is real.
Work, progress, regret, all imaginary.
Nobody gives a shit.
All across our city you see metro
barricades, metro construction,
even over there they put up this
lovely sign it says, 'Men at work.'
Has anyone seen these men?
Someone needs to tell the
government, men have fucked off.
Men have found new jobs.
Men are driving uber now.
Sitting in the uber bitching about
metro only.
Circle of life
But if you have to admire the traffic
that we have in our cities.
Like there is, consistency
to the traffic.
Like you can have proper traffic
time table. I have realized.
So, 7 to 8 in the morning, is 'Kids
being dropped to school,' traffic.
Then, 8 to 9 is 'Regular
office rush hour,' traffic.
Then, 9 to 10 is 'People who are late
for the office rush hour,' traffic.
Then 10 to 11 is, 'Lazy start-up
founder rush hour,' traffic.
Then, 11 to 12 is traffic for fuck's sake.
Nobody knows why there is traffic.
I think all the people, who missed
out on the original traffic,
they get together they're like,
"Haven't been stuck in traffic since
a long time, let's have nostalgia traffic."
Next hour, 1 to 2pm, 'kids being
picked up from school traffic.'
Circle is complete.
And It's that kids being
picked up from school traffic,
is the one irritates me the most, right.
Because these days, parents are sending
cars to pick up their kid from school.
And not like, regular size Swift, i20.
No. No.
Fucking, Range Rover!
Mercedes Benz.
Your child is not that good, dude.
Genuinely.
And it annoys me particularly,
because I grew up in an age
which I'm sure, lot of you did, where
to come back from school,
you had two options, right.
If your school was in walking distance.
You walked.
If not in walking distance.
You took the fucking bus.
If you missed the bus,
Fuck it. It's over.
Find a new home.
Dude, my parents didn't
even look for me man!
I missed the bus twice. I'm
on my third family now.
But, everywhere you go in
this country, you will see,
that there is hundered people
dancing on the roads somewhere.
Something or the other is going on.
Like, some festival or the other.
I, over time made my peace with this.
I was like, okay. There're certain
times in a year, certain festivals.
Where people are dancing on the road.
And this is a part of Hindu culture.
And as a secular Indian, I
must be okay with this.
But then, earlier this
year I saw during Eid,
even Muslims are dancing on the road.
I was like, this is a bit too much.
I have two problems with this, Muslims
dancing on the roads in a procession.
Two problems, number 1,
Us dancing on the road, goes
against one of our core rules,
which is that nobody is
supposed to have fun.
And number 2, if you are dancing
on the road in a procession,
there needs to be an
idol to go along with that,
We don't have an idol!
Are you guys dancing with Atif
Aslam's photo, what are you doing?
I was stuck in traffic, I
roll down the window asked
other guys, "Why're you dancing?" He was
like, "I don't know, it's too much fun.
They are serving Roohafza shots
inside, are you coming, bro?"
As if this was not enough.
Last year during Christmas, I see even
Christians are dancing on the road, now.
Wearing that Santa hat, Rudolph ears.
Dancing.
So I think, the religious
establishment in this country,
basically needs to recognize
that religious people,
basically just want to dance.
So to rectify this, I proposed that
all houses of worship.
Which is Churches, Temples,
Mosque, all of them should
just have a dance floor
built into the premises.
After that, do whatever you want,
Have a religious rave party.
All the idols are standing
there like this anyway,
put one lever, they can also
bounce with the music along with you
But I get in a trouble, you know
for saying these kind of
things like bitching about the
infrastucture and
people of this country.
Like, specifically when I
complain about the roads
people come to me and say, "You
shouldn't say all this stuff."
We're a third world country. We
have to accept these things,
It's okay. Don't talk about it.
I'm like, see for any
government, for any country,
I honestly believe that
one rule should apply.
Which is that, If you
cannot give good roads,
I honestly believe that
one rule should apply.
Which is that, If you
cannot give good roads,
then you have to give freedom of speech.
Out of the two, minimum
one you have to give.
Like you look at Dubai.
No freedom of speech, but amazing
roads, everyone's happy.
Get upset with the government,
go for a drive on good roads.
Come back, you are not upset anymore.
But I started to get a bit disillusioned
with life in this country,
over the course of the past year,
and I was like, let's go abroad and
see what, first world life is like.
So I went earlier this year,
I went to Melbourne,
to perform at the Melbourne
comedy festival. Lovely experience!
And... yeah, thank you.
Yeah, okay. It's alright. It's over now.
No, but I went there,
and you go to cities like Melbourne,
you see the problems they have,
they're so cute, dude!
Adorable! I was sitting in a cab,
in Melbourne at a traffic signal.
The cab driver is getting upset.
Because, there's 10 cars in front of him
and he thinks this is traffic.
I was like, Aww!
Dude! If you saw in Mumbai,
only 10 cars in traffic
in the middle of the day
forget happy, you would be worried, like,
'Where'd all the people go, bro? Fuck!"
The apocalypse is here,
My Zomato Gold got wasted, shit!
But whenever you talk about
Australia, in the Indian context
there is always been one word
buzz word that always popped up.
Which is, racism.
There's always been a big racism problem
in Australia, pertaining to Indians.
And to their credit,
the Austrailian people
did manage to find a
solution to this problem.
And the solution was not
to get rid of racism.
It was to get better at it.
Because, why give up something you love?
They're professionals dude,
we would, especially when
you go to interior Austrailia,
the outback, right.
We were performing there,
touring, going to small towns.
First of all, we went to one town,
which had a population of 1050.
Which again as an Indian,
blows your mind entirely.
Entire population expressed in four
digits.
How is this possible?
Dude, I have seen 1050
people on a BEST bus.
And those were just the guys on the roof.
But, we went to this small town, right.
And after the show there was 3 or
4 comedians performing together
typically we would take pictures with the
audience after the show
and
after the show, this one old
white Australian lady came
and she said, she wanted a
picture with me, only me.
And I was flattered, I was like, Wow!
She is appreciating my art.
This is very nice.
And she came, she took a selfie,
clicked it.
Looked at it, just very happy.
Then she looked at me,
she said, "Thank you.
You're the first Muslim I've ever seen."
and she fucked off!
First of all.
What is this hybrid racism?
When you say something racist and
thank you in the same sentence?!
Secondly, what a bitch!
This is like some bucket
list item for her.
She is taking this photo, you know
showing her grandchildren,
"You'll never believe what I saw today.
A Muslim!"
Learnt Hindi also apparently on the way
We went to an another small town in
Australia, even after that show.
Another old white
Australian lady came to me.
I think it's mainly the
old white Australian
ladies who are spreading the racism.
And she came to me, after
the show, slightly drunk.
She came to me, she's like, "You know,
there's a petrol station down the road.
Couple of Indian guys work there.
You should go!
You might know them."
I was like, of course, because that is the
entire population of India.
Me and those two guys. Yes!
Absolutely, "It will be great fun
when, we 3 friends sit together."
You, me and ignorance.
I love that tag line, though.
Aap, main aur Bagpiper. Remember that?
I think that's the only good thing
about that whiskey.
I think Bagpiper has got to be the
worst named whiskey in the world.
Like, you think of other whiskeys,
Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker.
All of these sound like people you'd
want to hangout with, at some point.
Even Black Dog will become
your friend eventually.
Who wants to hangout
with a Bagpiper, dude?!
Nobody looks at Bagpiper and says,
"This is my true friend."
No.
Bagpiper is the lowest musician on
the musical food chain, you know.
Him and that guy who does the
shake shake with the salt shaker,
they're at the same level.
If anyone comes to me and
says, "You, me and Bagpiper."
I'd say, "No.
Only you and Bagpiper."
Count me out, I'm with guitarist.
This is the first joke
which is only for me.
But then I was in Australia.
And I was enjoying, this first world life,
this freedom of speech, a lot.
Too much, in fact.
I started doing radical things,
which I shouldn't have.
I decided while in Australia,
to record a video for Youtube
for Indian people to consume.
Very bad idea.
So, In this video some of
you would have seen it,
I was talking about
India and Australia,
comparing specifically
the healthcare system.
I was like where Australia's
healthcare is so advanced,
that they have fixed all the basic issues.
And now their number one priority
is to stop people from smoking.
And to do that they increase the price
of cigarettes by 12.5%, every year.
And I was like, wow,
hats off to you Australia!
I could never expect my
government back home in
India to do this, because,
we have other priorities.
Because, we
are still trying to figure out how
to get people
to shit indoors.
Yeah.
Don't have the bandwidth for
this level of 'woke' just yet.
And you guys laugh at that,
you chuckle at that, that is
the appropriate response.
But people online here,
the trolls online, they
started coming to me,
they said, "Azeem you are going abroad
and misrepresenting the country."
I was like,
How is this misrepresentation?
I saw three people shitting
on Juhu beach today.
I know this because
I was one of them.
And this is not a misrepresentation.
I'll tell you.
This would be a misrepresentation. Right,
if I went to Australia, stood on a stage
and I said, "Yeah India is
amazing, there is no corruption
the infrastructure is brilliant, the
government is fantastic, the government
would never interfere in
the media or the judiciary,
in fact the government would
under no circumstances
hire a loud mouth
ego maniac fuck head.
To run a propaganda agency
masquerading as a news channel."
If I said that.
That would be, a misrepresentation.
What do you want me to do?
Go abroad and lie.
About what's happening in my country.
Not going to do that.
Because see there is already a job
description for somebody who goes abroad
and lies about the country.
And I'm not going to do his job for him.
I pay taxes for a reason
he can do it himself.
But you know people come to
me they say, "You just
have nothing positive to
say about current government."
You just say there are good for nothing. I
disagree, they're good at a lot of things.
Just that running a secular
democracy is not one of them.
Good at a lot of things. They have very
good skills, they are good speakers,
writers, orators, they are very good at
advertising, marketing,
lynching all of these things.
Skill is undeniable.
It's there, it's there.
And of course then there is the
lot of people have a criticism
of the man at the top
you know our "supreme leader".
No. But lot of people say that
you know all the decision he makes
are haphazard,
random, there is no thought
to what he is doing.
Here, I disagree. Here
I think there is a
foolproof method
which is being followed.
Which I think this is how it's works.
Which is that
basically whenever they need him
to make a decision
to make a choice.
They go to him
with a sheet of paper that has a
list of options on it.
In alphabetical order.
And he always chooses the first one.
They went to him, "Sir, who is going
to be your best friend?"
"Amit"
"Sir we need to tie up with some
businessmen can you choose one?"
"Sure. Adani"
"Choose one more?"
"Ambani"
"Sir, Chief Minister of UP?"
"Adityanath"
"Sir, we need to buy a journalist"
"Arnab"
"Sir, campaign slogan?"
"Achhe din"
"Sir, finally one last question
"Who is your favourite God?"
"Allah" "Wait. What?"
"Trick question"
But whatever you say
about him, I believe he is an honest guy.
He gives a honest
representation of himself
Like his speeches are very honest.
Like I remember that speech.
That he gave initially,
which is the 'Chowkidar'
, speech right?
"I'm the watchman of this nation"
I love that. I think
that is the perfect analogy.
Because when you think about it in your
life. In your experience in this country.
Have you ever seen a watchman
who was good at his job?
If Desh is the building
he is the Chowkidar.
Think about your building
watchman.
What are his key hallmarks?
Number 1,
He serves one or two families
that give more bakshish.
Number 2. He has a couple
of well trained pets
who they are, I'll leave to your
imagination.
And number 3 and most important,
which is that when you need the
watchman the most.
He is nowhere to be found.
Why?
Because he is in other building
chilling with their chowkidars.
It's a good joke I know.
But I hate the level of political
conversation we have in this country.
Right. You go to current government
you asked them questions about today.
Current. 2018.
They give you answers
from 70 years ago.
You'll say, why are fuel prices rising?
They say, because
Nehru smoked cigarettes
Does this make any sense.
You asked them for civics
They give you history. This is the
transaction that happens. Right?
Thank you, one
Giraffe, for laughing at that.
No. But that's genuinely
what happens right but
And a key
exponent of this behaviour
is the Yogi.
Yogi Adityanath.
I love him. Like he sound so cute.
Sounds like a cartoon
character. You know.
Like growing up we had that cartoon
Yogi Bear - smarter than the average bear.
I had hopes.
I saw Yogi Adityanath may be smarter
than the average Adityanath.
Did not turn out to be so.
He became Chief Minister of UP. I was
expecting a game changing government.
It turned out be just a
name changing government.
Changed lot of names in UP. They
renamed Allahabad to Prayagraj
They renamed recession to Acche din.
Many things they have done.
But I love Yogi Adityanath.
He gave my favourite political
speech of the decade.
This year standing in the UP bypolls.
He was standing talking to the people
of UP in complete seriousness.
Telling them, "Now you
have to take decision
what do you want?
Ganna
Or Jinnah?"
What?
What options are these?
This is the Chief Minister of the largest
state in the country.
Man who cannot frame a realistic
multiple choice question.
Ganna or Jinnah?
One of them is a cash crop.
The other is a dead Muslim separatist.
You cannot substitute one for
the other in any circumstance.
Yogi Adityanath should never
open a juice center.
You will go to him like, "Yogi today
I feel like a Ganna juice."
"Sir, today Ganna juice is out of stock,
today only Jinnah juice available.
You want it? We'll partition it
and serve to you one by two.
Sir, we have more options
would you like to try our
seasonal menu sir. What do
you want Peru or Nehru."
You'll be standing there going,
"Is this guy on ganja?"
Sir what do you want, Ganja
or bhanja. Like fuck.
Shut up now.
But no matter how much you talk about
government, politicians all of that.
That's all in its place. But I
think the biggest problem and the
root of all our problems in this
country is overpopulation.
Because I don't know if you've been
outside but there are a LOT of people.
And genuinely like
It comes back to that same drinking,
driving, voting fucking thing. Right?
To fuck
Nothing.
No permissions, no screening required.
Now, let me tell you, I was reading
the article about this. Right.
It says that in 2018
To raise a child
Sorry
In 2018 to raise a good quality child
You need a minimum of 35 Lakhs
over 18 years to do it right.
Now if you go to any bank
today and ask them for 35 lakhs loan
they ask you
for shit to prove
that you can pay it back.
Right they ask you for bank statements,
salary slip, Aadhar card Whatever.
They ask You..
But for voting, for fucking
Nothing.
No questions asked
which is why I believe even here.
Captcha,
required.
Press the button Amitabh
Bachchan appears again,
"Let's play who wants to
pay the school fees."
"How many kids do you want?"
"Four."
"And how many rupees in
your bank account?"
"Four."
"Do you have anything else?"
"Aadhar card."
"Get lost, dumbfuck!"
The population explosion in this
country is out of control dude!
Babies are just flying
out of vaginas,
like a machine gun.
Walk down the road random babies
flying into your face.
"Whose it this? Take it back!"
And on paper, the solution
to this seems simple. Right?
Birth control!
Government has been going
to people for decades
Please use condom.
Please take a condom.
Condom please.
Indian people are like no, no.
We don't need condom.
We have God. Thanks for asking.
I do yoga. I have control.
Can't leave it to the people that's why
China's been doing It the right way.
Until very recently in China you were
allowed one kid. That's it.
In China, government is the condom.
Can't fuck with them.
Go to them and say I
want to make a baby
they would be like fuck off!
You make iPhone.
Priorities.
Yeah.
But when you think about all of this,
boils down to religion.
Because in this country, what
does every religion preach
that a child is a blessing.
"Child is a blessing!"
No. No. It's not.
Every three weeks I get a message
from some idiot couple or the other
"We have been blessed with a baby boy"
No No you have been burdened
by society's expectations.
Child is not a blessing dude.
No blessing requires you
to pay for its education.
No blessing shits in a bed.
Like when you sneeze, somebody
says "God bless you"
that's a blessing, they
don't give you a child.
Like, ",
here's a child, congrats"
But, I've realized after much
thought, I've realized,
that the solution to this
population problem is,
Baba Ramdev.
Yeah.
Because Baba Ramdev says
any shit, people believe it.
Sells any product people buy it.
The solution is right
in front of us, guys.
Patanjali condoms.
Just take a regular Durex condom,
add Gau Mutra, It is ready.
Yeah.
Patanjali presents Moo-rex condom, yes.
Now I see, some of you laughing, some
of you're on-board with this idea.
In some of your eyes,
I see doubt.
Lot of you are staring
at me saying, "Azeem,
this product and all is very nice,
but I have MBA degree.
I would like to know, how are you
going to market this product?"
Allow me to explain.
Right, so, what we do is, we
announce the Patanjali Moo-rex condom,
along with that, we
announce a competition.
Between, Hindus and Muslims.
And we say that, whichever group
over the next 20 years,
uses more patanjali condoms,
gets to decide, once and
for all,
"Will a Mandir be built
or a Masjid?"
Problem solved, dude!
Two birds with one stone.
Because see, number 1,
first, over 20 years of
people using condoms,
population will come back on track.
First problem solved. Secondly,
all the people who
currently, today are doing,
"I want a Temple" "I want
a Mosque." They'll be like,
"Fuck it, dude!
I've been getting laid for 20 years
I don't care about this shit anymore,
you make whatever you want.
Mandir, Masjid, McDonald's
anything will do, no problem"
I've solved this thing
many times in my head,
this is also the second
best solution that I have.
Number one solution..
Is that, there should neither
be a Mandir nor a Masjid.
Instead over there, In
that place, open Subway.
Because, then everyone
is equally disappointed.
Because, nobody in their
life has ever walked into
an outlet of Subway and
been like, "I won."
It's never happened.
This is what I believe man, but birth
control clearly is not happening,
and if we cannot use birth control
to fix the population problem
and we are going to fix it.
Today only.
But if you cannot use
birth control to do it.
Then, you have to move into,
darker territory
Which is to say, that if you cannot find
a way to control the rate of birth,
then, you have to find a way,
to accelerate,
the rate of death.
And see by accelerate death, I don't
mean just to walk into hospital
and pull life support and
be like,"Bye, Grandpa, see you later
TTYL fam."
Now see, all of you guys
have laughed at that,
and by that you have given
me your comedic consent.
Right!
So wherever this bit goes,
you have to stay with me.
And it is going to go places.
We are in this together.
We talk about accelerating deaths.
I can think of a lot of candidates.
And I guarantee you that every single one
of you in your day-to-day life,
over the 24 hours
of your day,
sees at least 3 people.
Where you look at them,
and there is a small,
very small subconscious voice
at the back of your head,
that looks at them,
and is like,
"Why?"
"Why does he exist?"
All of you fucking do it, don't lie.
And we have many examples of
these people in our life.
Like, I know a guy,
a really stupid guy, his name Aslam.
He lives in dharavi which is A Slum.
Name is also his address, very convenient.
And everyone knows Aslam.
See, Aslam has no caste, creed, religion.
Aslam is a template.
Aslam is a concept.
Aslam is a state of mind.
Aslam is a prototype and all of us
have seen this prototype.
I think the best explanation
of the Aslam prototype,
I can give you is that Aslam is,
part time Salman fan
I freelance eve teaser.
We've all seen him.
Aslam's
stretched career goal in life
is that one day he wants to
do a wheelie on an Activa,
with 3 of his friends. That's
what he wants from life.
Aslam is a guy who goes to the zoo,
sticks his hand in the tiger cage, "Aye
tiger, here, have Tiger biscuit, haha!"
That's Aslam.
And Aslam has no potential,
no scope in life.
But the good news is for us is that Aslam,
has stupid ideas,
which can put his life in danger.
All we have to do,
is encourage him!
And to do this, it's very simple, right.
My proposal,
Is that all warning signs
across the country, we remove.
Replace them instead,
with vaguely motivational quotes.
Right!
Tiger cage has a sign says, 'Do not put
your hand in the Tiger cage.' Remove that.
Put something abstract.
'It is magical to shake
hands with a Tiger.'
Attribute the quote to Dr.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Most quotes have been
attributed to him anyway.
You see electrified fences, right?
Live wires.
There's a sign there,
it says, "Do not touch."
These are the wrong three words.
What it should say is, 'Try it out!'
See what happens.
On a train, on our local trains there's
a lady who makes an announcement, Right!
She say's, 'It is dangerous
to travel on roof.'
Remove it.
Re-record it with her,
singing 'chaiyya chaiyya' instead.
After the third chorus, people will have
enough room to sleep on a Virar fast train.
I understand this has got a
little bit dark right now.
I understand, what you
guys are thinking, I'm
self aware, I know what
you guys are thinking.
You guy's are looking
at me and you're saying,
that, 'This is a Muslim
man standing on stage.
Advocating mass murder.' I
realize, it sounds bad.
I realize this.
At this point, I'm
Six months of bad beard
growth away from
sounding like Dr. Zakir Naik.
I realize this.
But I can't help it, dude,
I'm sure this happens
to you guys as well, right, you just
wake up in the morning just,
from the wrong side of
bed, and you just wish
just wish,
that magically half the
population, while you were
asleep had just painlessly
dissappeared. Right?!
Like the Avengers movie,
right, Infinity War?
Yeah, Thanos!
He realized, there's too
many people in the world.
Not enough resources, he got his gauntlet,
snapped his fingers, half the
population disappeared.
And I was watching that movie I
was like, "What a nice happy ending!
Why are people crying? Are you guys mad?"
The only people who had a
problem with Thanos's plan
were the Avengers.
And, this is because,
Avengers are super heroes.
And super heroes have two problems.
Number 1,
none of them have jobs.
Number 2, all of them can fly.
If Iron Man had to drive in peak traffic
from Juhu to Lower Parel, everyday!
He would've welcomed Thanos with
Pan Parag.
"Come come Thanos, I waiting
for you only, come come."
"Yes, snap once, snap twice, no problem."
"Even I'll order it, will I
find this gauntlet on Amazon?"
Subtle sponsor integration.
No man, but I didn't always have
these dark thoughts in my head, you know.
I was a nice guy.
Made nice jokes.
I know, lot of you guys are thinking,
"We came here after watching the
Gujarat Tourism video, what is this
casual genocide?
I know.
And I used to be a nice guy right,
but something happened in my life
earlier this year,
I had my first tax audit.
And it was 28th September,
I went my C.A., you have to
pay tax under Audit on 30th September.
I went my C.A. on the 28th,
I saw the numbers,
I was like, Fuck! I have
to pay this amount of tax?
I was depressed, dude.
I went, I sat in my car,
I was sitting looking
outside, looking at the
road outside, I was like
fucking, this road I have paid for.
It should be named after
me, who's this Pedder?
Aslam, he doesn't pay tax.
He's cutting me off on his Activa.
I have to brake to save his life.
Dude for the amount
of tax I pay, I should
legally be allowed to drive
with two hands in the air.
Fuck you! Fuck all of you!
This is my road.
I will not steer, you jump out of the way.
And a lot of times I think
that, even Salman was
thinking the same thing.
I told you, you wouldn't see it coming.
Because this is my conspiracy theory.
That the A1 bakery incident also
happened on 28th September 2002.
I think he had just got the news.
Went to his C.A., C.A. was like, "Dude,
you'll have to pay 5 crores of tax.
Salman did 3 lines of coke.
Got in the car, "This footpath is mine.
Fuck off!"
That's why dude, like I get very
upset, very insulted.
When people come to me
as a Muslim man in this country.
And they say,
"What have you done for this country?
You go to Pakistan."
I am like, "Bastard you refund 5 years
of my tax. I will buy Pakistan."
I love this whole "Go to
Pakistan" brigade.
This is what they do. They go to
Intellectuals,
Left liberals, Comedians, they
go to all of these people,
and they say, "You go to Pakistan."
And I love how nobody has asked Pakistan
How they feel about this?
Like, even they have
Immigration department.
We just assume that
there's just this open
door policy for all rejected Indians.
A guy standing there, "You too?
Come, come."
come come come.
Have you met Fawad.
But while I disagree with the targets
of these go to Pakistan statements,
I'm principally on-board with the idea of
sending people to Pakistan.
Like, send all the useless
people there.
And now this raises,
Two Problems,
number 1, how do we select the
people to send to Pakistan.
We are sending them to Pakistan.
Number 1, how do we select them.
Number 2, how do we get Pakistan
to accept these people.
Let me tell you.
Number 1, how do we select
them? Simple, Democracy.
Right
Go to every neighbourhood,
every constituency in the country.
And ask the people, "Who is the
biggest Idiot in this colony?
Vote!"
If you win the election
you have lost at life.
And you can't, even if you're
elected you can't protest.
You can't be like, "What
did I do, I did nothing." They're like,
"We have the data.
3000 people have called you an idiot.
Amitabh Bachchan said, "Get lost,
dumbfuck!" to you."
"So, you, justifiably go to Pakistan.
Do you have any last wish?"
"Sir, I want to do wheelie on the
activa, only once. That's all."
"What is your name? Aslam. I see."
That's solved.
Now number two, how do we get Pakistan to
accept these people.
What we do is, that we put all the people
that we rounded up
on a giant ship.
And we name this ship,
Kashmir.
So we call up Pakistan.
Like, "Bro Pakistan?
Do you want Kashmir?"
Like, "Yes, of course."
"Okay, you'll get it in 3 days."
3 days later he calls back, "What the fuck
who are these people you've sent, dude?!
These people got off the boat they
are terrorising our civilians."
Like, "Well, now you know
what that feels like."
"Yes, I'm still here, people were clapping.
And this is the power
of Aslam without guns.
You think that's bad? Next week
MSG's devotees are coming.
Enjoy."
Even this Kashmir situation, I've solved
it many times in my head.
This is also the second best solution.
Number 1 solution is that Kashmir should
neither go to India nor Pakistan.
It should remain autonomous.
And to do this we just rename it from
Kashmir to Subway.
Then both sides will be like, 'No, no
I don't want Subway, you keep it.'
I have these thoughts in my
head. I feel like human beings
we're a very overrated species.
Like, we're very selfish.
We make everything about us.
Everything!
It has to be about us, like,
as individuals.
You even see, like..
Facebook now has this new
feature which is the,
'Mark yourself safe' feature.
You've seen that right?
Whenever there's a..
Natural disaster, terrorist attack,
you get a notification saying,
XYZ person, has marked themself safe.'
And have you noticed that the people
whose names pop up in that notification,
are the same people who,
if they died you wouldn't mind.
Now you're doubly disappointed.
Fucking terrorist attack
happened, he's still alive.
Call up the terrorist, "Finish the job."
Like the people who pop up
over there are the same people who,
If you see them in public,
you hide and walk away.
You mark YOURSELF safe
from them in real life.
One species in the world
that I absolutely cannot stand,
Is birds.
You think of all other species
in the world, right?
They all serve a purpose.
You think of Lions, Tigers,
predatory animals,
they lend balance to the food chain.
Serve a purpose.
Think of Cows, right? Cows
are very nice animals.
Cow is such a nice animal, wow!
- Aww!
What a cow, what a wow! Superb! Amazing!
Great! No complaints about cows.
Cows are very good.
No, no, cows are very good, no.
Yes, we should applaud for cows. Yes!
Cows are very nice, they, they give milk.
They give right wing nationalists a
purpose to life. They're good animals.
But, birds.
All birds do, is shit.
They shit on you, they shit on your
car, they shit on your property
and they fuck off!
And you can do nothing about this.
But these people come to me,
these bird apologists.
The defenders of bird rights.
#NotAllBirds
#MePoo
They come to me they say, "No Azeem, no,
birds do more, okay? Birds
help in pollination."
All that means is that
they're pimps for flowers.
Goin to the flower saying,
"Do you want seeds?
I'll seed, you leech
we'll become a Torrent together.
Beautiful.
Joke for six piracy enthusiasts.
But, I don't want to,
like upset people, I understand lots of
people are very passionate about birds,
and lots of people,
they take binoculars, go into the forest
to look at birds it's a very common hobby.
It's called 'Loneliness.'
My god! What a shit
hobby to have, dude.
Birdwatching?!
And they always tell you,"I'm
an avid birdwatcher, avid."
They have to add an adjective to
their hobby to make it sound fun.
That's how shit it is.
Because without that,
what is birdwatching?
"This is bird, I have watched"
"Flew from here to there, shat
on my head, best day ever"
I've realised that people who watch birds,
and people who watch golf as a
sport, are the same people.
Because, birdwatching and golf
watching at a core level are the same
It's the process of watching
nothing happen very slowly.
Also, I don't understand these
idiots who want to feed birds
You've seen those maniacs going
around throwing seeds for birds.
You see them at that Dadar
Kabutar Khana.
National Tatti Capital of India.
Throwing seeds for birds,
like if you're throwing seed at the bird,
and attacking it, I'm with you.
Very good idea.
But why are you feeding birds?
This is counter productive.
Because, by feeding birds,
all you're doing is providing ammunition,
to the enemy.
Because that same seed is coming back,
to your car,
with compound interest.
I was reading an article
on an online forum,
It said, the average pigeon shits,
48 times in a day!
I shit you not.
48 times! Listen if you do anything,
48 times in a day.
That's a full time occupation, alright?!
This shitting is not a hobby anymore.
I think there's a corporate
machinery in the bird world.
The pigeons are the corporate slaves.
And they have been given targets.
They've been told, "You shit 48 times,
In exchange you get to build
a nest on this guy's AC"
This is the housing plan, that
they've been offered.
That's why you see,
pigeons, they are the most
charged up, motivated birds in the
world like they're on cocaine. Like,
Charged up!
They achieve their target they say,
"Wohoo!" that's what the sound means.
You and me, we see a car,
but a pigeon sees performance incentive.
Sometimes you see a car that's
plastered with shit, back to front.
That - month end pressure.
And in this corporate bird world,
in this corporate machinery there has
to be has to be a head bird, a CEO
bird, leader of all birds and for
me that bird had got to be a crow.
Cause crows are sly
motherfuckers dude.
Crows have a plan
to ruin your life.
Like you look at a car...
If there is a shit on the windshield.
That's a pigeon.
Pigeon has no plan.
Pigeon has target
But when there is shit
on your car door handle.
That's a fucking crow.
Because crow has done
market research.
Crow knows what you pisses you off.
Look at the shit. Look up. Crow's
staring back. "What's up mother fucker?"
"Just chilling" Two sparrows
giving him a blowjob one the side
"What's happenin' playa?"
"Shit's goin' down, you want
some seeds brotha?"
This is the biggest problem that
I have with bird is that birds
Are the only species in the world
that can shit on you.
From an elevation.
No other species, has a horse
ever shat on you from the third floor? No!
If anyone has arguments,
I'm willing to hear them.
They shit on you and fly
away, no consequences,
We are so helpless.
We can do nothing. We are so helpless
that in some point in our history
We had to convince ourselves.
That when a bird shits on
you, It's good luck.
No other explanation.
They shit on you and fly
away, no consequences.
I want this ability dude.
I think this is a super power.
I think.
This was the original
first draft of Superman.
Which explains a long last
why the underwear is outside.
All the superman comics, people see
Superman from a distance,
What's the first question they ask?
"Is it a bird?"
Now you know
Second joke. That's just for me.
I honestly believe that
if birds could not fly.
We would've killed all of them.
I think the flying was
added by nature, later
to circumvent the design flaw
of the shitting.
I think earlier they were just
feathery blobs, just running
- around shitting everywhere.
- Humans were like dead.
Nature was like, "Okay. Fly now"
You look at examples from history right?
Dodo.
Flightless bird.
Fucking extinct, dude.
And the people come to
you and say, "No, no, dodo
went extinct because of
the carelessness of man."
No, no. Man knew what he was doing.
He's was like, "Fucking Dodo
is back on my property again"
"Fuck off, Dodo!"
This was the first Dodo that ever flew.
Other flightless birds you look at, right?
Chickens.
Can't fly. We were like "Fuck it
we'll eat all of them"
They kept coming back. We said
"Eat them before they are born"
Ostriches, you look at Ostriches.
We couldn't catch them, they run very fast.
We decide to shame them from a distance.
Like, "Shame on you, Ostrich!
Shame on you!"
Ostrich got embarrassed
and put its head underground.
Remaining flightless birds.
Emus, Kiwis, Rheas, Cassowaries.
Those we put in geography textbooks.
For children to learn that
these are still left for us to kill
We were told this romantic story
about the Wright brothers.
You know the Wright brothers
Built the first airplane to take
mankind to the skies.
Very romantic but.
I have an alternate theory here
I do not think the Wright Brothers
were pointing to the sky saying,
We'll go there.
No. No they were pointing
to the crow in the tree
saying, "Wait mother fucker.
I'm coming. Wait."
We've reached the point
in the show now where
I have to tell you about
my personal problems.
You've paid money. So now listen.
So, I've been married now for 5 years.
And, me and my wife are very in love
with each other. Like disgustingly.
In love with each other.
Thank you wife's sister. Right.
But like in any relationship we
have our share of ups and downs.
Fights and battles all, of that.
And, I have realized that
I win most of them.
Because there is a very
important factor over here.
I have a lot of sympathy
for my wife because
she is not married to a regular person.
She's married to a comedian.
This changes the game entirely.
Because see, when you are
married to a regular person,
and fight with a regular person
A regular person will take all the
stupid shit you say in this fight.
File it away.
And use it
to win a future argument.
But comedian,
will take all the stupid
shit that you say,
File it away.
And then tell it to strangers for money.
And if the strangers laugh, you've
lost the argument forever.
It's true man, me and my wife,
we've reached a weird point
in our relationship where my
wife now has dreams about me.
And whenever she has dreams about
me, it's never anything positive.
It's never like, '
he bought a house.' No,
It's always, 'He forgot my birthday
because he's a drug addict.'
The other week, my wife had
a dream in which I was
cheating on her.
She awoke from this dream
and she was upset.
With me.
For her dream.
I was like, how is this fair?
I was here.
In this bed.
With you.
Asleep.
Having my own dream about
cheating on you. So, what...
No no. I could never
cheat on my wife. Never.
But,
I've thought about it.
The thought has crossed my mind.
And there is no human being in a
commited relationship who can
look me in the eye and say that
you haven't had this thought
fleetingly somewhere.
And some people have this
thought more often than others.
They called men.
Right?
And I don't think I can
speak on behalf of women.
But on behalf of men
let me tell you women,
Something about the men that
you are here with today.
This is where it gets awkward.
This is where the drive back home
gets very awkward.
Ladies you should know
that every married man,
at any given point of time
in his head,
is planning an affair,
that he is NEVER going to have.
But he is planning it anyway.
For recreational purposes.
And whenever I do this bit, there are
always pockets of silence across the room.
And that is the collective
sound of all the
married men with their
wife shitting themselves.
"Dude, we had one secret. Why
you're saying all this in public?!"
I almost have admiration for
people who have affairs.
How do you guys find the time?
I can barely go jogging in the morning,
He's running a parallal family. Wow!
I tip my hat to you, sir.
For your time management.
Can't cheat my wife dude.
And honestly because I've invested
too much into this relationship.
I've put a lot of work in it.
And to throw it all away for an affair
for a something as trivial as sex
makes no sense to me. Because let
me tell you from a young age
I had to work on my personality.
Alright.
To find a woman
who would like me in a pre-Tinder era.
After that, successfully
faked many many opinions.
So that she would have sex with me.
Faked more opinions so that
her parents would like me.
Spent all my savings
on a wedding to feed
five hundred relatives
I didn't know I had.
Give all of that away for an affair
and in exchange get what?
One slightly different orgasm?
I think not.
Listen I have minus four
power on my glasses
I can barely see who I'm fucking.
It makes no difference.
But once you have been
married for a long enough
in this country, married
people you will know that
after three or four years
of your married life
you start getting
pressure from relatives.
Start telling you to do
things but they don't
tell you what it is
that you have to do.
Because when it comes to
sex, we must speak in code.
In random family gatherings
there will be one aunty
who'll appear out of nowhere like a ninja.
She was not there before. She just
somersaults into frame.
It's been three years.
Do it!
One uncle comes from this side.
It's grandpa's dying wish!
I'm like I don't like grandpa
that much anyway.
I killed him six jokes ago.
If he dies unfulfilled, I
could not give a shit.
But then,
Something changed, right.
My mom came to me couple of
months ago gave me this entire
Ted talk about life.
She came to me, she was like
Azeem, it's time.
You're old enough. You are 30 now.
Don't you think you and your wife,
You had a new bundle of joy,
a new soul in your lives to
bring you both closer together,
take your relationship to the next level,
start a family, make us all proud.
And I was like,
okay that sort of broke
through to me right!
And I went to my wife and I was like,
"It's been three years
We should do it.
Are you ready?" And to my
surprise my wife said, "I'm ready."
And it's a big deal for me to announce
this but over the last couple of months
me and my wife, we've actually
started trying. Its a huge deal. Yeah.
Thank you. Genuinely.
Yes.
We've started trying
to have a threesome
and
I mean I don't even want to do it, dude.
It's family pressure. What can I say?
So any of you know somebody who's
interested, we're auditioning next week.
So let us know.
And I want you guys to understand
I'm not doing this for myself.
This is an entirely selfless act.
It's grandpa's dying wish!
Ladies and gentlemen, you guys
have been absolutely fantastic.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Thank you. Genuinely. This means the
world to me. Thank you so much.
Good night.