Aaron Chen

Sorry.

He just never dealt with the jet lag.

Was that out when you were 13?

That's crazy that you knew that stuff. I didn't know anything.

But you've leveled out since then. You've finished puberty, your hormones.

what age are you on uh 37 37 yeah that's nice that's a good age you think so i'm excited to be 40 what oh because that's when the goats get like yeah big and comedy that's when you start that's when you really start i hope to get past at the cellar by the time i'm 45

Yeah.

That's really sad.

We started to have mics, like, four years into me doing comedy. But, like, the thing that we would do is, like, we had, like, open mic competitions. So, I would enter all these, like, different competitions. Wow.

But it was, like, kind of a scam. Not a scam, but it's, like, at the first half, they'd have a pro show and then an open mic competition where everyone would bring their friends to, like, vote.

I wonder if those guys ever make it.

That's crazy. That is nuts. I didn't know that.

No, I mean... I mean like...

yeah it's kind of kind of brand world that type of thing yeah i'm i i yell at peter dutton that's who i yell at that's good yeah that was who the prime minister was when we were there at the time i think so maybe he kind of looked like a penis he's like bald he's like completely like yeah yeah yeah he looked he looks kind of evil but i don't i don't know what he's got going on you know i'm kind of he was a cop

He was a cop. Kamala. He's an Aussie cop.

You like it? It's a good name.

Tony Abbott. He was like loose.

He wore Speed Dealers.

He just had a lot of... If he did comedy in Brooklyn, he would talk about autism.

Definitely not. You couldn't call him identity style, but...

Yeah, he'd be a clown.

Yeah, I heard about this at like the Lyric Hyperion or something.

Yeah, clown school. Can you cut that? You would send them to clown school before they did that.

I reckon clown school saved a lot of lives.

I mean, like, when you're Australian, you go to Edinburgh Fringe a lot and Melbourne Comedy Festival and the clowns are there, you know. I think in the years of, like, 2019, that kind of era, that was big clown world.

These guys... And then COVID. Then COVID, yeah.

It's crazy. There was, like, 20 to 30 clowns at the festival, you know. They'd all share one car.

I'm a married man, yeah.

Not art school. Well, regular school. Sydney University.

Go SU. Were you in a frat? I was not in a frat. The difference is in Australia, we go to the school that is in your town. So you don't move.

Cartman's funded by the community, by Israel.

i love australian lebanese guys that's like the best subculture oh that's a type of guy well there's like kind of lebanese it used to be the greek guys like they were that type of guys now it's kind of everyone like even vietnamese people are lebanese what style is the lebanese australian guy lebanese metrosexual

not a man oh some sometimes but like the I guess the stereotype is that like you know they they're in a specific area of Sydney they um they like um a certain type of Aussie drill music they got an accent you know Nick Kyrgios the tennis player he's the man

he's the man he's like he's the man he's like kind of that style a guy and he's like the best guy in the world he's the coolest but he's he's the best he's greek no or something he's greek see so it's like kind of a vibe of a person i like how he has a bad attitude he's got a naughty attitude on the court he's the most talented guy in the world as an analyst he's amazing he was doing the u.s open this year yeah he's funny and he loves kobe

I really wish he won a Grand Slam. I mean, like just even one open, you know. Yeah, yeah. Because I support him wholeheartedly.

Do you really?

Did you finish?

What's your degree say? Politics.

Because I only did it one hour. If I stuck with it, I would be able to say like the levels of stuff that Gadsby says, but I just didn't want to get to that.

I was still getting to paint, like what is a paintbrush and stuff like that.

You know Snowpiercer, the movie?

She's like at the front of the train and I'm the guy at the back of the train.

have you met Nanette she's nice to you Nanette the year Melbourne Comedy Festival she won like Hannah won the the best show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and I I won best newcomer so I was at the back of the train you know Yeah, but you were at the awards.

Hong Kong.

Is he good at tailoring, though?

well you can get his ass oh is he like a viral guy he's like viral yeah yeah in hong kong you can get suits and make like amazing suits tailored to you for very cheap yeah you'd used to fly out to do that if you were chinese and in australia you'd fly to hong kong should we go shopping it'd be fun yeah you want to go to hong kong right now you want waiting for the private jet like era of my career i think when you get like 500 million dollars you can have your own plane

That's crazy. That comes up on my YouTube shorts, this guy who sells private jets to people.

It's like, this is how you sell a private jet.

So, these guys, they'd come to him and they'd be like, oh, I'm... So, it's like, where are you flying to? And they'll be like, I'm flying from Louisiana to Los Angeles five times a week. And he's like, how many people? And then he's like, what you want is a Learjet, you know, that's comfortable.

I knew him from way back, but he's from Adelaide.

Adelaide's crazy.

It's a satellite city. I don't have a beef with them, but that's probably more offensive, you know? Like you just don't even think about Adelaide that much.

But I like it. It's a beautiful, beautiful city. I'm going to be there in the new year.

It's good. It's efficient.

I think clowns are like, we're not mimes, but they don't also... They're like, we're not fucking mimes.

And mimes can't say anything about that.

That's not bad, huh?

Yeah. Are you still doing your weekly comedy show in Brooklyn?

I bombed so hard that time.

That's what I felt.

It forces you to be better in that hour.

why but then you're very funny this guy's one of the funniest comedians that's so nice to say in australia well because like i feel like the vibe was like i was scared i wasn't like saying enough crazy stuff you know that's what people think yeah people think i think you go into it thinking that and then yeah and you're about to pop off and then you hold back and you're like lauren michaels could be here

Yeah. Lorne goes. Because he's scouting you guys to host SNL.

You're on a different internet.

They put blockers.

Yeah. It's a lot of effort for Comptown.

How would that work?

Did you hear about in Australia, it wasn't a Muslim cleric, but it was like maybe some type of Orthodox from the Middle East, and he was blowing up on TikTok, and then he got stabbed.

He represents kind of the Middle Eastern Australian community, a section of the Middle Eastern Australian community.

Is that your first telling of the story?

You're close to overcoming the grief of the moment.

Did they put the smoke on and stuff like that?

Did you grow up going to a synagogue or anything like that?

Pretty good. I think he's got it.

Not bad.

What's that?

I don't know it, no. I choose you, babe.

Yeah, I listen to Crowded House.

Sometimes in America when I do a set, they'll play Land Down Under. It's so offensive. Yeah, it's offensive. I'm coming in from the back, you know, I have to box my way out of the corner.

Is your car one licensed? I thought it was.

Comptown used the home improvement theme song.

Yeah, he's like that.

I don't know. I never met him. Be excited to.

Yeah, do you run any podcast? Do you listen to any podcast?

That's crazy. I'm a Tottenham guy.

What do you think of Tottenham?

Well, I love the coaches in Aussie.

You could go on Weekend Update.

I think it's unfounded.

Yeah. We got to back end.

like soccer fan is the lamest thing it can be kind of cringe when it is the lamest kind of guy you can be yeah it's like the things that get me is like because in um in a like in america a penalty kick they'll call it a pk like yeah but in the uk they'll just call it a pen you know

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Every team he supports is... Arsenal does pretty nice at the moment. Stop it.

Well, last season you were kind of hotter a bit. We should have won the league last season.

You should have, yeah. But we lost, so you couldn't win.

It does affect everything.

But it doesn't affect them. You know, the murders don't affect them as much.

Their lives are some of the worst lives.

Yeah.

What happens on game day stays on game day.

They kind of need it to sustain themselves.

that's the vibe of it yeah they're like ordering a corona they love this kind of thing i took a picture with one of the guys and i was like i was like proud of my club yeah yeah i went to american los angeles uh tottenham bar and one of these old blokes he starts singing like all the tottenham songs as soon as he stopped singing an american the opponents score a goal That's pathetic.

That's so you.

Well, next couple of years it's going to be good.

He can struggle. He struggles with reading. But he can read.

It's really difficult. Every day is kind of a struggle. It's painful. Yeah, but I'm going to see the Rockettes.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Otherwise, why would they do it, you know?

I guess the choreography is impeccable.

Oh, yeah. Maybe it was the combination of humor and sex appeal.

because you know the cheekiness yeah yeah it'd be like oh my gosh you know yeah but it's like you get like a 0.5 seconds of uh that's hilarious and guys are like awoo god you know how that's most most of comedy back then is like pretending like yeah to stalk a woman but then it's actually like a fat guy yeah yeah yeah that's funny yeah also like the they used to do this with their

You could if you went on NoFap.

I hope I don't get dementia and spill, you know?

Same kind of thing about Russia.

It's crazy, huh? We don't really have that. We have Empire Strips back. What is that, Mike? It's a Star Wars burlesque comedy type of thing and Shrek-lesque.

You're doing a bit. Parody theme.

Yeah. It was in LA as well.

Empire Strips Back.

Yeah. Cut that.

My big closer?

Um... Do you ever think about your future? No. Thank you so much. You say that to an audience? You ever think about your future? Yeah. Yeah. I say it when people like, you know, when they go out for a cigarette and stuff. You're kind of like, what's going on?

I'd love to do that, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, what do you hope to get out of this?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Dying? I don't know.

It's got to end at some point.

You want it to keep going.

That could be tough, you know?

You're really scared of it.

I will be in the new year. I will be in Spokane, Honolulu, and Sacramento.

This is not our values.

We the crazy guys tour.

Yeah, do a few regional dates.

I'll say the actual names.

Nary Warren. Shut up. Geelong. Toowoomba.

Toowoomba, yeah.

There was like a sewage problem in Toowoomba one year. It smelled like poo-poo? All the headlines were Poo-woomba.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's pretty good.

Thank you, Adam.

Did Comptown have like a charter, like ethics, mission statement, that type of thing?

There's one called The Project, which is right in between comedy and the news. They'll love to have you on.

It's like a news show. It's genuinely the news, but they got three comedians on the panel. So it's like they're saying, oh, there's a war.

That's what some people think.

It's close. We got one called Fitzy and Whipper. That's our guys. That's your Prime Minister.

Yeah, we do the land acknowledgement now as well. Oh, you copy? Yeah, we copy.

We're trying to be like New Zealand. But you don't have a dance. Not a unifying one.

We get taught dances, but they're to like Tina Turner songs and stuff.

well yeah it's like yeah good yeah we do to the nut bush that's what we do who's that tina crowded house nah tina your girl you know her

She's from America.

We just know the song. We know the dance.

We acknowledge the traditional owners, that type of thing. It's kind of rude.

I don't think they will, yeah.

Because they're building more apartments and stuff. Last time I checked, they're actually building more stuff.

Well, I go CCP. Will you go Russia or Ukraine?

Right. That's still kind of going.

You're not putting odds on.

Butch caucasity.

That's what they're going to remake it to, you know?

I know, Oaxaca, yeah.

They got cheese.

That's pretty good. That's a professional broadcaster.

But that's all the context.

From TikTok? Oh, yeah. I don't know. I think she likes it. She really likes it. It kind of enriches her life a lot. Come on, dude. It's really good. I like the CCP. TikTok should not be banned, you know?

Not the biggest, but one year I did do the most sales at Melbourne Comedy Festival.

No, I don't like TikTok. I don't have TikTok.

I do YouTube Shorts. That's, like, the most right-wing one.

Yeah, what they did.

We get the same suits. You get the same suits. Gadsby does, we get the same stuff.

It'd be crazy.

So, yeah. I know Matty Weiner.

What was your favorite city in Australia?

I mean, you like, you'll go back.

It's a big flight. It's so far. 22 hours. It's horrible. Yeah.

Yeah.

i like it i think this will be a real we'll do a real back here is nice or one way is like really nice like you don't feel it at all i think australia going back to australia it's good yeah you're the good there but you come back and you're destroyed i don't know you you have to be disciplined

Andrew Tate would say what you want, but he'd be good at dealing with jet lag. I imagine if you ranked everyone.