Pod#132 - Shaan Baig - Comedy While Brown, SNL, Hasan Min...

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This week the very funny Shaan Baig joins the show! Shaan's a comedian who's been active in the LA sketch scene for over 10 years! He is also a dentist and also desi. So you know his story has his parents involved. We talk about his lifelong interest in comedy, taking a gap year in MED SCHOOL to pursue it, moving to LA, getting into the UCB sketch team after FIVE YEARS, starting the first all-brown sketch group there, SNL dreams, Hasan Minhaj friendship, jinn stories, and ofc a whole bunch about representation. Great chat! Things discussed in this episode: 00:00 Intro 02:12 COVID update for LA’s live comedy scene 07:04 Loving comedy as a child, giving it up for med-school 15:19 Taking a gap year to pursue comedy in Chicago, pivot to dentistry 20:55 Moving to LA, diving into comedy - sketch vs standup 23:55 His FIVE YEAR (!!) process of getting into the UCB Maude team 29:46 The Get Brown story - inception, audition, possible tv show(s)?? 40:43 Getting onto TikTok, impression clips going viral, locking down characters 47:07 Submitting tapes for SNL - how the process works & his experience 53:09 10 years in, how do the parents feel about the whole situation? 57:54 Common ground in diaspora/immigrant experiences & The Bollywood Boys podcast 1:02:13 Talking brown representation - hypothetical ideal scenarios, unconscious biases 1:11:43 Is it weird being friends with Hasan Minhaj? 1:15:42 Jinn stories! Two! 1:20:53 Outro LINKS: Shaan's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shaan_baig Shaan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ilikeburdz/ Shaan's YouTube: https://twitter.com/notoriousBAIG Support the podcast by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon (www.patreon.com/tprpod) or send a one-off token on Ko-fi (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: @tprpod Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6PvTahp... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram: www.instagram.com/tprpod/ Twitter: twitter.com/TPRPod Ali: twitter.com/themaholupper Rizwan: twitter.com/RizwanTakkhar Sarkhail: twitter.com/Sarkhail7Khan

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