Nimesh Patel
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29 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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This week on Net Worth and Chill, I'm talking with comedian Nimesh Patel. From his days as an SNL writer crafting jokes for television's biggest stage to developing his own comedy specials, he's breaking down the business of funny money like nobody else can. How do you actually turn jokes into cash? What's the real hustle behind making people laugh for a living?
Nimesh tells all on building a comedy empire, navigating the entertainment industry, and turning his wit into wealth.
Whether you're an aspiring comedian or just curious about the money side of making people laugh, this episode is packed with insights you won't want to miss. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or watch on youtube.com slash yourrichbff.
I don't have the power to return him to the United States.
But as a Harvard alum, and as you know I am as well... I know many alums, including people I know very closely and faculty members like me. I know you look really surprised because I'm wearing a tie you've never seen before. It has... It has a little Latin word inside each one of those symbols there. The word veritas, meaning truth, of course. And this is the one night.
It's a one night only appearance of this tie.
Let me just say confessionally, I went to Harvard College. Most of the good things that have happened to me in some way trace back to Harvard. You and I, as Harvard Americans, I first heard him speak as a guest lecturer at Harvard. Okay, well, I got into Harvard, too. In fact, it was the only college I applied to.
Ron Chang, everybody. Man.
Forgettable.
I'm so excited.
I'm here for his spot. I've been on the road for so long. It's so good to be back in New York. I was on the way here, and this is true. I was with my Indian friend. We were walking, and this homeless guy goes, look at these two computers. And... I miss that kind of racism. It's just like, you ever want to control ultimately a homeless guy? Like, what the is he talking about?
What were you... When we met in 2011, you were ex-law school? I was still in law school.
And you were at NYU. I was a... I had just graduated two years from graduating at NYU as a pre-med finance... I was pre-med finance. Pre-med finance?
I wanted to be like this evil private equity manager. Doctor, you want to be a private equity doctor? When I joined NYU, I was gung-ho on being a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon.
But it was definitely, there was definitely some good intent. And then I saw all my finance friends like, oh yeah, that seems fun. Being evil seems fun. But I was, I was gung ho on being a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon. And then I got a C plus in organic chemistry. And I was like, those kids. And I'll never, I'll never forget.
I'm sure you have a moment where like you called your parents, like I'm not doing law school anymore. No, I never told them. You never told them. They still don't know, to be honest. You look the part. I called my mom. I called my mom. I said, Mom, I'm dropping pre-med. And she screamed. I've never heard her scream that loud since. She screamed as if someone told her I was dead.
And she was like, what? We pay for you to go to school? This is how you repay us? You're going to end up running a liquor store just like your dad. And my dad's in the corner like, the f*** did I do? I'm just... Just trying to support my family. And then I did finance, and I graduated in 08 with a finance degree. And that obviously did not work out.
But the problem is, now all my friends are finance millionaires, and I still think I could do finance. I still think I know math. You're not alone. Apparently everyone in America thinks they can do finance. And I learned that I should just stick to jokes, because I was out to dinner with one of my friends, hedge fund guy. One of the good ones.
And he's telling me he was up like, he's managing $10 billion and he's up 70% on the year. I'm like, you're up $700 million? He's like, no man, that's $7 billion. I was like, oh yeah.
Yeah, look, that's Trump's DEI, Indian people, the dick-eating Indians. Dude, there's so many Indians that love Donald Trump, like Vivek Ramaswamy. Yeah. Some Indians, yeah. Another Harvard guy. Was he a Harvard guy? I'm pretty sure he's a Harvard guy. I mean, what a herb. If you don't know what a herb is, a herb is what we called people in the 90s when they were being herbs. Like, he's a herb.
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