Episode 324 - Fahim Anwar
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What humorous story does Fahim Anwar share about his father?
You have a very funny joke in the special about your father, immigrant father. Like if you were to give him a really nice car, that would be.
Yeah, 2010 used Toyota Corolla with low miles. It'd be like, oh my God. Like if I got him a BMW, he would be like, I didn't raise you this way. What are you doing? You're wasting money. But if I got a really great deal on that used Corolla, it'd be like, oh my God. You shouldn't have. And then I keep tagging it. I'm like, dad, it's the original owner. He's like, oh, original. I raised you right.
It's breaking bread. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. This is fantastic. We've wanted to make this happen for a long time. Yeah, I'm so glad that we could finally do it. I'm so glad that we wasted enough time and didn't put it together and it gave you time to come out with a new special.
Yeah, now I actually have a reason to be on here instead of coming on and being like- Just hanging. Man, the world, huh? You got anything to plug? I have some tweets. You want to pull those up?
Yeah. Are you on an all red meat diet? Yeah. No, it's called intrusive thoughts. Yeah. It just came out on YouTube. It's on YouTube. YouTube exclusive. You are one of my favorite comedians. That means so much. You make me laugh. I think I texted you off of a tonight show years ago.
And that meant so much to me because like, you know, you're a veteran. I love your stuff too. And you do the tonight show in this era.
How does Fahim Anwar feel about parental expectations in his career?
Yeah. You feel like nobody watches it. I mean, I was joking to Neil Brennan that doing The Tonight Show now, it's very cool, but it feels like you're doing The Magic Castle. Like you're going to The Magic Castle, you put a suit on, and you pretend that you're a famous comedian from the 80s, but then you wake up and it's no different whatsoever. It's so, it is wild. So it's this great artistic win that you always want. And then sometimes you feel like it means nothing. But then when you texted me and I'm like, oh wow, Tom Pop actually watched it. And he actually liked my late night set.
Yeah, it was so good. It was really so good. You did that thing about people who get up too quickly on the airplane and they just- Yeah, as soon as the wheels touched down, they just pick it up. Under the overhead. For like 40 minutes.
Yeah.
I could just wait. It was so silly and perfect. Thank you, man. It was great. And the special is great. Congratulations. Thanks. And I just really feel like I was saying to these guys, you're going to pop. You're too good. You're too funny.
and uh it's such a slow burn as a comic sometimes you don't know if it's gonna happen or not all you can do is just create and keep putting it out there and then hopefully you find your people yeah and then hopefully you you you think that there's people out there who still just like jokes yeah and kind of old school comedy yeah which so much of the new class now you got to talk to people people like that on on the internet and sometimes as a joke guy you're like oh man yeah is there a place for me anymore definitely i'm gonna say and i don't know anything
But I'm going to say there definitely is, and it will have more long-term lasting effect than crowd work and stuff. I think that it's a cool forum, and it's kind of a fun thing, and it's like an event. I'm happy for everybody who's able to find. Yeah, it becomes an event, and it's a thing. You're not listening to that on Sirius XM in your car. You're not. There's a new station. It's called Crowdworks Greatest Hits. Every track's like, what do you do? What do you do? What do you do? Yeah. It's all visuals. It's all stuff you have to see. You're just trying to listen to it. No, but there is that real thing. And I think that really well-told jokes really are, they're dominant. They're long lasting. And I think that's, you're totally in a good space.
my brother came to see you when when when you're in seattle and he same thing he's like oh man i love papa oh that's great seattle is uh
What did you do, the Moore, or what was the venue you did, or the Paramount? I think it was the Paramount was the last one, I think.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What humorous story does Fahim Anwar share about his father?
0:00–1:22
2
How does Fahim Anwar feel about parental expectations in his career?
1:22–4:20
3
What challenges does Fahim face as a comedian in the current landscape?
4:20–6:18
4
How does Fahim Anwar describe the impact of social media on comedy?
6:18–8:02
5
What insights does Fahim share about performing in front of large audiences?
8:02–10:42
6
What does Fahim Anwar think about the evolution of comedy specials?
10:42–13:27
7
How does Fahim balance new material with audience expectations?
13:27–16:02
8
What advice does Fahim give about the importance of authenticity in comedy?
16:02–1:07:40