Pod#112 - Neelaksh Mathur - Standup Comedy in India, Pakistan, home & more!

Neelaksh Mathur is on the show! One of India's Top 100 most famous comedians! Always love having people from India on the show and this episode is no different. A lot of things regarding standup in India were discussed as you can imagine, and a surprising amount of things related to Pakistan were discussed at length too! Really glad we got to know about him and hope he comes back soon! Things discussed in this episode: 1. 00:00 Intro 2. 01:41 People doing podcasts, productivity gurus & is this his dayjob 3. 07:31 Comedy club scenes in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore 4. 12:49 How standup comedy began in India & how Neelaksh started 5. 18:27 Neelaksh’s life-changing set 6. 23:39 Ali tries to describe Pakistan’s standup scene 7. 30:38 How do cities in India differ in comedy tastes 8. 33:46 How do audiences feel about political comedy 1 9. 36:20 How real is the threat to comedians in India? 10. 39:57 How do audiences feel about political comedy 2 11. 42:14 Is Twitter toxic there too? 12. 43:58 His video about the Partition and its reaction 13. 50:30 Short interlude - is it as good to be an army brat in India? 14. 52:08 Where is home? 15. 55:17 Talking about the Pakistani Creator Economy (check out Pod#106) 16. 1:00:25 Why make podcasts 17. 1:02:38 Talking Irfan Junejo’s impact 18. 1:06:01 Have audience’s lost empathy? 19. 1:08:45 Bo Burnham’s Inside 20. 1:10:47 COVID catchup 21. 1:12:49 His upcoming Zoom show & outro LINKS: Neelaksh's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neelakshmathur/ Neelaksh's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/NeelakshMathur/ Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (https://ko-fi.com/tprpod)! Find all our previous episodes on SoundCloud, Spotify & Apple Podcasts and follow us all on Twitter! Links to everything below! SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tprpod Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tprpod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: https://twitter.com/themaholupper Rizwan: https://twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar Sarkhail: https://twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan