Comedians Mo Amer and Azhar Usman ask the big questions the modern world makes you forget. Are we living in a simulation? What is money? What is life after death? They get real when it gets uncomfortable and funny when it gets serious. Are they joking . . . or not? New episodes drop every Thursday.
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Oh, a young lad. I say younger than a young man, a young lad who was suffering from cancer. And he was in the cancer hospital being treated. And he told his father, he wanted to see go see Muhammad Ali. And his father, he detested Muhammad Ali, but, you know, he had to acquiesce to his son's request. Like, he or your son is on his way out, and he wants to go see Mohammed Ali. And so the father drives him up to the training camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania, And when he gets there, Ali is sparring. Ali stops the sparring session, drops everything, accommodates the young lad, humorous SIM probably does a couple magic tricks. Ali was a certified magician. And he was in a magician's union, and they kicked him out because he said I'm a Muslim, so Magic's haram's out to show people the secrets. So there's no kind of extraterrestrial metaphysical mysteries going down here. And so he was revealing all the secrets, so they kicked him out of the magician union. But he loved to do, like, his magic tricks for kids. So Adi dropped everything, entertained the kids, And when the man left, he loved our lead. It's like the story of the man who came to kill the prophet. So he said, Lenny left loving the prophet. Can you tell us that story? Yeah. He he came to kill the prophet. Those his intent. And when he he came to the prophet, he was very gruff in his treatment, and the companions wanted to waylay him and after, like, just chill out, relax. It's alright. It's good. And he looked at the prophe's face, and the prophet became the most beloved person to him.
Who's gonna book him? What venue is he gonna book him? I don't know who's gonna book him, but I know who's gonna open for him. Who? Hannibal Buress. He would never how weird is that? It would be dope if he, like, repented. Right. If he owned it, and he was like, yeah. I was a serial rapist. May god forgive me. I don't know that he's gonna do that. He's wearing a Tupac bandana. He has thug life on his chest now, and he curses now. Like, imagine a guy that was just like, stop cursing, and then he goes and rapes. That's crazy, dude. All in the ways, please I guess there's, like, some people that when they do material, it's like their material, and then there's them. And it's, like, it's nice when you just see that person, and it's. It's like it's just Explain. Can you pull up on the Wikipedia, please? This is a great word. Paul is so proud of this. Yeah. So a sprezzatura essentially, it means careless grace. It's like the ability to do something that's actually rehearsed or planned, and you do it in such a way where it's so graceful as if it was never planned at all. Paul, you wanna try to read this and I'll just respond. Can you? How would you do that too? Yeah. Why would you He already said On the day of today. He already said. He already said that you know how much pressure he was under to pronounce that. Bro, that's like the biggest word I think you know. Is that right? Why is this become about that? Exactly. Being real all the time is popping out the bed. I have such a drastic dementia, bro. I'm sorry. What about up from all of you? From all of you? The mom's Me me pronouncing up.
Is Alief you're from Alief. Your parents were just very smart and put you in a better school. They figured, like, you know what? Let's get them out of there for high school. Is Kempler a better school than Elsie? No. It was it was actually crazy. I don't think I saw as much drugs in my life than I did in Alief, and that was kind of the thing. It was, like, called suicide high. It had a lot of nicknames. I didn't know about a lot of things. I mean, and but but but I think about it, it's like it was it was crazy, though, like, how much how much you're just exposed to, like, just to certain things. You know? I I don't really any young age. Yeah. Hey, I'm Ryan Reynolds. Recently, I asked Mint Mobile's legal team if big wireless companies are allowed to raise prices due to inflation. They said yes. And then when I asked if raising prices technically violates those onerous to your contracts, they said, what the are you talking about, you insane Hollywood? Ass? So to recap, we're cutting the price of mint unlimited from $30 a month to just $15 a month. Give it a try at mintmobile.com/switch. 45 upfront for 3 months plus tax and fees. Promoting for new customers for limited time. Unlimited more than 40 gigabytes per month. So full terms at mintmobile.com. With LinkedIn jobs, we tap into a network of more than a 1000000000 professionals to help you find quality professionals quickly and easily for any role you need. Marketing wizards? Found them. Software engineers? Found. That project manager I could never seem to hire? And found. LinkedIn jobs quickly matches your roles with candidates with the right skills and experience. In fact, 86% of small businesses get a qualified candidate within 24 hours. Post your first job for free and get started at linkedin.com/spoken. That's linkedin.com/spoken. Terms and conditions apply. Hey. It's Paige DeSorbo from Giggly Squad. High quality fashion without the price tag. Say hello to Quint. I'm snagging high end essentials like cozy cashmere sweaters, sleek leather jackets, fine
To be myself on television, how dare you say something like that to me? And if you were in front of me, I would and he put a LOL, like, thinking that it's funny. I would bitch slap him right now. So incredibly disrespectful to 26 years of absolute grind and hard work. So relief and anger. Right. It's just like, man, the point is is, like, this took such a long time and required such patience and belief and vision and faith and faith and faith and faith in the vision, in god, in the divine. It's such a relief that it's there, and to be able to talk about Palestine without it be a Palestine, without it being a, like, overtly political or war based thing, it's gotta be a relief. Like, this is such a, like, almost like a peace vehicle understanding vehicle it could be by giving people who are afraid that necessarily wouldn't tweet or post something about Palestine or about people like us from our background because of how it could be perceived and what they believe. They could just be like, hey, man. This is a really dope show. You could see it. That's incredibly powerful. And it's, very special. It's incredibly special. And for those kids to see, like, somebody like them that's not like shying away from it, that's embracing it, that's hopefully, that's the way it'll be interpreted. It's somebody who's just being really authentic to their own experience.
Breaking through and making his groundbreaking Netflix series, Moe. You think you're hot to shit, don't you? Oh, it's live? Sorry. The saga starts with his interesting comedy growing up and doing impressions as a young teenager. He eventually finds mentors and collaborators to start him on a path to success. And with a special combination of hard work, luck, and a good helping of bullshit, he lived to tell us the secrets he learned along the way. This is The Come Up part 1. Enjoy. Joking not joking. What up, everybody? It's Moe. Moe. What's up? This is your boy, Azul Islam. From Luminary, this is joking not joking. Joking not joking. So 10 years old, you're like, I wanna do comedy. 14, I started doing stand up in school in like classes. Then I started doing it all the rest of my high school career, And I would put on a little jacket and impersonate Chris Farley, basically roast classmates as Chris Farley. I thought about the story recently. How did the teacher who offered you, like, oh, you could do stand up in the class, how did that teacher know you wanted to do stand up? I was outspoken about it. But she was just talking about it. You had never done it. Yeah. Weirdly, on off days. You know, you have, like, off days when they will show movie days or something. Yeah. Roll in the VHS. Yeah. Roll in the VHS situation, and they would sometimes play Cosby. And I'd be like, yeah. I saw him 4 years ago. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do stand up. Okay. So she knew from that. And I would just constantly walk around like, yeah, man. What are you gonna do? I'm gonna be a stand comedian. You know? Like, somebody would ask me, like, what do you wanna do? Or or what are you doing? I would practice, like, my m's and, like, my signature.
