Episodes
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Happy Dragon Boating long weekend! We have no idea what a weekend is, what a what a long holiday is, or what day of the week it is most of the time. Vivek had one hell of a gig opening for Jason Leong in front of an audience of over a thousand people in Hong Kong, meanwhile, Mohammed somehow ended up in the same room as the Hong Kong Chief Executive, and the very next day had another rollercoaster of a day emceeing the 50th anniversary of a private member's club!
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Monday Jun 03, 2024
#172 - Hong Kong Slang with Author Lindsay Varty
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Monday Jun 03, 2024
Ever feel like a chicken talking to a duck? Ever ask a girl out only to be forced to eat lemons? Maybe you've been told that you're a peanut guy? Or perhaps someone has warned you that you're wearing a green hat?
No need to be confused, "Hong Kong Slang" is a little dictionary of Cantonese slang that will supply you with the appropriate knowledge to get by in Hong Kong and make you cool at office parties. We chat with author Linsday Varty about her new book, her fascination with the Cantonese language and some of the funniest expressions in Cantonese.
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Monday May 27, 2024
#171 - We shot an Ad for Samsung in Hong Kong!
Monday May 27, 2024
Monday May 27, 2024
Another busy week for us in Hong Kong. Both the hosts were together on an ad for Samsung Hong Kong, our first major ad! Also on this episode, comedian Annie Louey joins us to chat about credit card fraud and how she has been trying to live like a Hong Kong local after spending two weeks in the city. We also save a seat for Jesus.
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Monday May 20, 2024
Monday May 20, 2024
(This episode was recorded on the weekend when the sun was shining and the weather was nice!)
Hong Kong students are gearing up for exam season. Vivek reflects on his own experience, having gone to a local HK school and now being a regular speaker at both local and international schools. We wrap up the first week of the residency at the Grand Hyatt hotel. Back in April, Hong Kong rolled out the ban on single-use plastics. How is that going?
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Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
After almost two months, both our hosts are back in the studio in Hong Kong recording the podcast together in human person, and we have a lot of updates to share. Our video studio is almost finished, and the podcast will be on video very soon. And we are starting a Vegas-style residency at Grand Hyatt Hong Kong five nights a week!
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Tuesday May 07, 2024
#168 - A tale of Two Comedy OGs
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Vivek Mahbubani and Chris Musni started off in the world of stand up comedy in Hong Kong at around the same time, but different personalities, obstacles and joke-writing styles have lead them to different paths in the world of comedy. In this episode they go deep into how their comedy fates have differed over the years with Vivek having just returned from his Australia and New Zealand tour and Chris gearing up to take his comedy to another level here in Hong Kong. Mohammed is missing from this episode because he's busy in Australia with Annie Louey performing comedy... and cuddling?
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Monday Apr 22, 2024
#167 - Reviewing Our Reviewers: We Give Zero Stars
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
We wrap up our run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2024 and we sit down to debrief and reflect on the past couple of weeks. Annie and Mohammed's show "Too Haram To Handle" received 3 reviews and they are all wildly different from each other. We go through them one by one, including a review we never read before the episode recording.
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Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
#166 - "The Best in Your Race" Featuring Some of Asia's Top Comics
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
As we enter the last week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, We seize the opportunity of having so many of Asia's top comics in one room, and we record what will most definitely go down in history as our biggest episode ever, featuring five guests! Daniel Fernades (IND), Dr. Jason Leong (MAL), Annie Louey (AUS), Qam Haziq (SIN), and Jacky Ng (SIN)
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Monday Apr 08, 2024
#165 - How Comedians Get Ready for Major Festival Shows
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Recorded in Melborune, Australia, comedians Vivek Mahbubani, Annie Louey, and Mohammed Magdi are all gearing up for their shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. They catch up on the podcast on how they have been preparing, their different ways of promoting the show, and why the "festival club" is a pit of diseases.
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Monday Apr 01, 2024
#164 - The Risky Business of the Hanging Bamboo Scaffolding
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
On this week's episode, Vivek is dealing with handymen invading his house and installing a hanging bamboo scaffolding platform through his living room's window on the xxth floor! The hanging bamboo scaffolding is a pretty common practice in Hong Kong, but there is something particularly dangerous about those hanging ones, not erected from the street level up.
Check out the SCMP infographic on bamboo scaffolding in HK: https://t.ly/MOtJO
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