[bright tone]
[birds chirping and twittering]
♪ slow jazz music ♪
Okay, be careful,
but you can go on any of these, all right?
[metallic creaking]
[Romesh] If we went to school in America, how would you feel?
I'll try it.
It's just, like, I'm not really 100 percent
on the idea.
What I'm thinking is
we go to America,
see how it goes,
I become a comedian over there,
and then we just stay there.
But it's not gonna be as easy as that, is it?
Why do you not think it's gonna be easy?
It wasn't that easy when you started out
as a comedian, was it?
No, it wasn't.
So why'd you think it'd be easier
doing it in a foreign country?
♪ lilting instrumental music ♪
[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome to the stage
Romesh Ranganathan.
[Romesh] I've been doing stand-up
for seven, eight years in the U.K.
[man] ...Romesh Ranganathan.
Got my own BBC show.
- [cheers and applause] - Pretty good.
Nominated for a BAFTA.
And award-winning comedian Romesh Ranganathan.
One of the biggest tours in the U.K. last year.
How are we?
[cheers and applause]
Now I'm gonna walk away from that
and...do it all again in America.
[car horn honks]
Excuse me, madam. Are you free
on the 21st of December?
Hi, do you like stand-up comedy?
I'm doing a show. Sir, look, I'll just
show you quickly, then we'll go.
No hablo Español.
This is it for me. I'm taking my family.
I have booked your return ticket,
just in case things don't go to your plan.
Stand there, hold your balls, be a fucking man, right?
[man] It's gonna get harder, okay?
And they've been smoking weed in that room.
[laughter]
The photo was not for promotion.
This is just a girls' stupid version
of a Hollywood tour.
Don't behave like a dickhead.
There's nothing that's gonna stop me.
I've already booked a gig at the Greek.
[cameraman] Really? How much did that cost you?
Let's just say it puts... some added pressure
on my situation.
You're completely insane.
Uh...
You just lied to me about everything.
I wouldn't do this to my family.
[all] Bring down the wall! [all cheer]
[yells]
Shut up.
- [cries] - [glass shatters]
[gasps]
Fuck.
♪ piano arpeggios ♪
♪♪♪
♪ hip-hop music ♪
♪♪♪
♪ Yo, it's exquisite ♪
♪ Lyrics visit you like a neck spirit ♪
♪ My CD's like a fucking jewel ♪
♪ You wanna flex with it ♪
[car horns honking]
- [Romesh] Hello. - [driver] It's Romesh?
- Romesh, yeah. - With an M?
- [Romesh] Yes. - Bloody all right. [laughs]
Is that your British accent?
I love your accent.
Oh, thanks very much.
First of all, when you spoke,
not to be...um...
judging a book by its cover, 'cause I never do,
but I expected a whole different voice
to come out of there.
Oh, really? What were you expecting?
[imitating Indian accent] I own a 7-11.
I thought you were gonna talk
- like a 7-11 type. - Right.
There you are, you got the English accent, mate.
You started talking English,
I go, [British accent] "Oh, this guy's fucking cool."
[laughs] I was like-- yeah, so...
[cameraman] Did you find that a little bit racist?
No, it was nice racism. I know that sounds weird,
but it was the nicest racism I've ever received.
[driver] Eh, Romesh. We're here, brother.
[cameraman] Did you ever have an accent?
[Romesh] Did I ever have an accent?
I was born in West Sussex.
So no, I didn't have an accent. We-we're not all born with it,
and then we lose it based on the environment.
We're all as little babies... [Indian-accented baby talk]
And then eventually
it gets coached out of us.
[Romesh] That's not how it works, mate.
I've got to say, his delivery of racism
was a lot nicer than yours.
♪ I got that bounce that they can't achieve ♪
♪ So phat, the shit is clogging up their arteries ♪
[Romesh] Well, this is it. This is the theater
that I'm going to be playing,
so I've just come,
have a little look around,
see what it's all about.
♪ exotic hip-hop music ♪
[doors clanging and scraping]
Wow.
[wings flapping]
[bird cawing]
[cameraman] Probably standing right where
Jimi Hendrix stood.
Did he stand exactly here?
Do all the shows sell out here?
A lot of 'em do.
But some must not, right?
Some don't.
[Romesh] So what do you reckon is the lowest
number of people you could have in here
that would still feel like a show?
I would say anywhere from 2,000 and above.
2,000 and above.
Yeah.
Shit.
[Romesh] Looking at that room empty,
it's pretty terrifying.
[cameraman] How many seats?
5,900.
♪ suspenseful music ♪
[cameraman] It's a lot.
It is a lot, yes.
[Romesh] But I'm due to meet
a number of promoters today,
and they're gonna talk to me, hopefully, about
what I should do to sort of get bums on seats.
The reason I sort of, uh, asked you to meet me is,
I have booked this venue
to perform here on the 21st of December.
What do you think?
[laughs]
Have you already made a deposit on the theater?
- Yes. - Okay.
That's--of your-- your own money?
- Yes. - Right.
This is a little bit crazy.
I would not do this.
[promoter] Why don't you try a club first,
like 200 seats,
and just see if you can even
sell out something like that first?
Well, she was gobsmacked by the fact that I'd booked it.
- Good luck. - Thank you, cheers.
- All right, okay. - Thank you.
- [laughs] - Nice to meet you.
[cameraman] How did the rest of the promoters take it?
Uh...
How would you go about doing it, do you think?
That's a good question. Um...
You think you could fill this up?
Well, I don't know.
Um...hmm...
Man, normally, I wouldn't do comedy
in an outdoor theater up here.
- Right. - [laughs]
[Romesh] Every time
I spoke to a promoter,
I felt the Greek get bigger.
[promoter] Maybe it would work
if we could get
a couple other famous comedians
to drop on with you.
You may have to change your last name.
To what?
Shorten it to, like... Range.
Rang.
Just, "Here, I'm Romesh Rang"?
Yeah, call yourself Romesh Rang.
Has a nice...ring to it.
Romesh Rang.
Do you have a catchphrase?
Well, I say "prick" a lot.
- So you're the prick comedian. - Right.
This wasn't a success.
- Thank you very much. - Thanks, brother.
- Good seeing you. - Take care. You too.
- Nice meeting you. - Cool.
This series of meetings was a nightmare.
Don't forget: Rang. The telephone.
[Romesh] No, I've got it, yeah.
- I guess I'll be in touch. - Great.
I'll call you. If you miss the call,
I'm sure somebody'll tell you that Romesh rang.
Fuck.
♪ sedate music ♪
[Romesh] Have you got anything without dairy?
[Jose] We do, like, a veggie taco.
- Could you do it spicy? - Yeah, we could do it spicy.
Right, yeah, could I get one of those, please?
- Veggie burrito? - Yeah.
Do you get a lot of people asking for cow head?
Yeah, that's more of an acquired taste
because it's really, like,
liquid-y and mushy.
- [Jose] A lot of the-- - Okay, cool.
- Well, no, I mean-- - Without an eye socket.
Yeah, good. Thanks, man.
♪ instrumental waltz ♪
[cameraman] Do you, um--
do you ever comfort eat?
♪♪♪
Sometimes, yeah.
♪♪♪
One night, I, um...
I got home from a gig that had gone really badly,
and I ate six packets of instant noodles.
[cameraman] Six?
Well, I don't think there's anything much darker
than your family being asleep upstairs
and you're sitting alone in a kitchen in the dark,
eating six consecutive packets of instant noodles.
[Jose] Sorry. Did you like the sauce?
I haven't tried the sauce.
I-is one of them hotter than the other?
The habanero's the hottest thing we have right now.
That is the hottest thing?
- No, no. - That's the habanero?
- Yeah. - Okay, I'll try it.
Be careful. Don't mix 'em up.
[Romesh] All right.
[Romesh] I don't understand the customer service here.
Like, it felt like he actually cared
about how I was enjoying the food.
Nobody in Britain gives a shit.
I barely give a shit how much I enjoy this.
♪ rap music ♪
♪ Yo, look ♪
♪ She's dressed up, I don't know why it's over ♪
♪ I just hug her and I watch teddy over her shoulder ♪
♪ She said that I was cold and uninvolved ♪
♪ And that I don't talk enough ♪
♪ I said oh ♪
♪ instrumental string music ♪
[Romesh] We are on Sunset.
There's a good chance I won't get stage time
at The Comedy Store,
but The Comedy Store in London,
you often drop in,
and sometimes, if you're very lucky,
they'll say, "Oh, do you want
to jump on and do five minutes now?"
So that's what I'm gonna try and do.
[Romesh] What I'm asking of you
is that you just stay back and don't cock it up.
Okay, do you want to just
stay back a little bit, please?
Do not--what I don't--
what I don't want is to be this prick
that turns up, "I've got a camera crew, let me in."
You need to-- do you know what I mean?
Hello, how you doing?
Um, my name's Romesh.
I'm a comedian from the U.K.
- [man] Yes, sir. - [Romesh] I just wondered
if I could come in and, like,
see about getting some stage time.
[Romesh] Like, do you mean like an American comic?
- [Romesh] Okay. - [man] Yeah.
[groans]
[cameraman] What do you do now?
I'm going somewhere else.
♪ instrumental waltz ♪
Hello, mate. For Romesh?
- [woman] Yes. - Thank you.
[Romesh] Could you take me to the Laugh Factory, please?
Hello. Um...
I'm just wondering if I could
talk to someone about getting some stage time.
[Romesh] Okay.
[cameraman] If we'd sorted out a car,
this would've been easier.
[Romesh] Gonna try the Improv
and see if I can get on there, but...
I'm not feeling as positive as I have been,
but I'm just gonna keep trying.
♪♪♪
No.
Hello, mate. For Romesh?
[groans] Shit.
[cameraman] Still, the night's--
night's young.
♪♪♪
- [cameraman] Good? - No.
♪♪♪
[cameraman] Where you heading now?
[Romesh] Going to the Pleasure Chest.
[cameraman] What's that?
It's a gig inside, like, a sex shop.
[Romesh] I mean, it's in a sex shop.
I've got to be able to get on at this one.
Is there any way of getting on tonight here?
The end of the year?
This is a fucking waste of time.
- Is there no way to jump on-- - Shh.
- [quietly] Sorry, sorry. - No, no.
[Romesh] He shushed me at one point,
and he sort of-- he says, "I can't get you on,"
then you look down and there's a dildo there.
I don't know, that's-- it makes it sadder, somehow.
♪♪♪
[cameraman] Uh, how would you sum up this night?
Uh, abject failure.
[cameraman] Where you going?
I'm going--get something to eat,
and then I'm going back to the hotel.
♪ despondent music ♪
[cameraman] Well, should we see you at the motel?
Whatever, man.
Just--maybe just leave it
for tonight.
♪♪♪
[man] ...Bias
[thudding, laughter]
Oh! Oh.
♪♪♪
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
[man] Yeah!
What?
[laughter]
[cameraman] What's going on?
Huh? Nothing, just chilling out.
What's going on in there?
Nothing. I'm just hanging out.
[laughter]
I just sort of come back
and relax in the room for a bit.
[cameraman] Who-- what do you mean,
"hanging out"? With who?
[bell rings, laughter]
[Romesh] It's just been an absolute shit night,
so I just sort of thought,
"Can I...salvage something
and not make this day an entire...
disaster?"
So I'm just having a bit of fun.
Do you know...
Do you know the place
we went to get the burrito from?
[cameraman] Yeah.
[laughter]
[man] Keep it up! Punch, punch, punch!
[thudding, bell dings]
[man] In a real match, here's how it would've looked!
Remember Jose?
Hey.
Uh, this is Jesus.
Hey, nice to meet you guys.
And this is Kevin.
Hey.
- Yeah. - You want to jump in here?
- You got next, man. - [Romesh] Okay, yeah.
I'll take out Jose.
[Kevin] He's won four in a row.
- Has he really? - [Kevin] Yeah.
One more, and I win the streak.
- Okay. - [laughs]
- [bell rings] - [man] Hook!
Uppercut!
Straight!
Rapid fire!
Keep it up! Punch, punch, punch!
It's pretty good.
- [man] Oh, oh, yes! - [bell rings]
- [man] Yes! - [man] Yeah!
[man] Yes!
♪ tranquil music ♪
[Leesa] Are you doing any gigs?
[Romesh] Uh, I'm trying to get some stage time, yeah.
Um, hopefully, I'll be gigging soon.
Okay, well, it sounds like you're making
good progress, anyway.
[Romesh] It feels like it, yeah.
I've made friends, as well, by the way.
With who?
His name's Jose.
Okay.
It's a bit--it sounds a bit weird, they ca--
him, his brother, and a mate
came back to my hotel room.
What, you only met him yesterday?
[Leesa] He's heading back to your hotel room?
Just to play on the Switch.
And a little bit of cock play as well.
[laughs] Oh, my God.
[Romesh] No, joking.
I'm joking. I only fucked one of them.
I have been supportive,
but rather than booking
a 5,000-seater venue,
shouldn't you be finding
somewhere for us to live, for example?
Well, look, it's all in hand.
That's what I was calling to say.
- Okay. - [Romesh] Okay, love you!
Don't have sex with anyone else!
Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
[cameraman] How're you today, Rom?
You seem in a good mood.
I'll tell you why I'm in a good mood.
Because...
got this...
from Showtime.
Two tickets to see the L.A. Chargers for today.
VIP tickets.
[cameraman] Do you know who the Chargers are?
No.
Absolutely no fucking clue.
[cameraman] Who're you gonna take?
♪ Let me show them where the future is ♪
♪ You underachieve under a chief's tutelage ♪
♪ While you're moving as model citizens ♪
♪ Did your brand of ignorance ♪
♪ Come with a free crucifix ♪
♪ Pump powders into snotty humans ♪
[Romesh] My first NFL game
at the StubHub Center.
Excited about that.
This is mad.
[Romesh] I'm looking forward to seeing my first game.
I'm happy about bringing Jose.
[cameraman] And you were saying that you had
a surprise for Jose?
Yes, I do have a surprise for Jose, yes.
[Romesh] We've actually got field passes.
[cameraman] How do you think he's gonna react?
I don't know. It's very difficult,
because Jose smiles at everything,
so I'm expecting, when I say to him I've got field passes,
like, the top of his head'll open up or something.
Ho-ho!
Good, right?
Good to be you. [laughs]
♪ "Charge" fanfare playing ♪
[all] Charge!
Whoo!
♪ "Charge" fanfare playing ♪
[all] Charge!
[cheers and applause]
♪ Sometimes ♪
Dude, do you know, um...
Oh, whoa.
♪ I get a feeling ♪
Do you know who that is?
- Jim Norton. - Yes!
Yeah, that's Jim Norton.
- That is him, right? - Yeah!
[laughter]
Just shout "Jim" and see if that is definitely him.
Just shout it, quickly, quickly, quickly.
Jim!
He actually turned.
- Did he look? - Yeah!
He actually looked.
[Jose laughs]
Jim!
[Romesh] For some reason, we just thought,
even though we 100 percent know it's him,
let's just shout, "Jim," to see if
it is him and he also responds to the name "Jim."
♪ contemporary music ♪
- Jim! - Jim.
♪♪♪
I don't know why I d-- I would hate that.
[Romesh] Jim!
- Did he look? - He's trying not to.
[Romesh] All right, serious question.
How do we meet Jim Norton?
Are you up for trying to meet him, yeah?
Oh, yeah.
What if we try and sneak into
his box?
We could try that.
♪ jazz music ♪
♪♪♪
All right, come on.
[cameraman] Why were you so keen to meet Jim?
'Cause it's Jim Norton. He's amazing.
It'd be this one?
♪♪♪
[electronic beeping]
Scanning error.
Ordinarily,
I wouldn't push
as aggressively as I did...
[handle rattling]
[cameraman] What are you doing?
[Romesh] ...but there's a number of things
getting to know a U.S. comedian could do.
[knocks]
[handle rattles]
[cameraman] Let's try to go around the front?
One, you know, he's well-respected.
[Jose] Maybe we could climb over
the railing, if we have to.
He might have connections.
Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit,
shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.
He might have an inroads
into the best way to promote a big show.
Try one more time and then go back to our seats?
♪♪♪
[handle rattling, knocking]
[door clicks open]
Oh.
Oh, hello, sorry.
Holy shit--come, come. Sorry, sorry about that.
[Romesh] I'm in a situation. I've seen him.
He's right there, so I've got to grab the opportunity.
Excuse me. Sorry.
Uh, Jim? [Jim] Yes.
Hello. Romesh.
- What? - Romesh Ranganathan.
- I'm a big fan, man. - Thank you, man.
Uh, this is, uh, Jose, a friend of mine.
- Hi. - How's it going?
- Big fan. - Sorry to bother you.
Sorry to bother you.
I'm a comedian from the U.K.
It's nice to meet you, buddy.
- [Romesh] Yeah, thanks. - Good luck out here, man.
Yeah, maybe catch you while you're round, or whatever.
Cool, man, yeah. Check the site.
Pleasure, man. All right.
- Have a good one. - Be good, man. Nice.
Did it go well? No.
♪♪♪
That didn't feel great, did it?
Eh...
[Jose] He wasn't rude.
But Jose and I are like brothers.
I love that man.
[Romesh] I might end up
playing an empty Greek,
but there'll be one person sitting there,
and he'll be smiling his little ass off.
Jim!
Don't do it again. Don't do it again.
- Are you shitting me? - [laughs]
♪ upbeat Latin music ♪
[laughter, indistinct chatter]
[Romesh] I've had a nice day, fun at the game,
and now Jose's invited me to, uh,
hang out with his family.
Hey, how you doing, man?
- How's it going, man? - Good, thank you.
[Romesh] You know, it's been quite intense
since I've arrived here,
so tonight is just about--
I'm just having a night off.
[Romesh] So I'm interested in
the naming conventions in this family,
because Jose
- and then Kevin. - [woman] Yeah.
[Kevin] There's a funny story.
Like, he was named after my dad,
- so he's Jose Esteban II. - [woman] Yeah.
[Romesh] Right.
I was named after Kevin Costner.
- Are you serious? - Yeah.
[laughter]
[Romesh] It was a great day. I'm very, very happy.
[cameraman] Isn't it a bit surprising
that you've been embraced so quickly into the family?
[all] Cheers.
[Romesh] Well, let's actually look at
how this relationship's gone down.
Within three hours of meeting him,
I invited him back to a hotel room.
♪ upbeat Latin music ♪
[Romesh] Then we had our first date at the Chargers.
After the night in the hotel
and then going out for a date together,
he's now decided that I can meet his parents.
- [laughter] - [man] Yeah.
[Romesh] I mean, what's weird about that?
[laughter]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, great, great, great.
[Romesh] Thank you very much.
♪ tranquil string music ♪
[man] What is your plan?
- He doesn't have a plan. - You don't have a plan?
The plan is to go and be a stand-up in America.
So I've booked our tickets,
and we've got return tickets as well.
I go out first...
- Yeah. - [Dinesh] Yeah.
Tee it all up.
Sort out accommodation, right?
And then Leesa and the kids come out,
and it's all set up for them.
I'm just thinking that Leesa thinks you're gonna fail,
'cause it's two months and then come back.
That's the first thing he says.
[Romesh] That's the first thing he said
after what you just said.
I believe in you 100 percent.
I have been praying, son,
that you will do very well
in USA
and I have been fasting as well.
So when you fast, what do you actually have?
Uh, uh, only fruits.
- Okay, so it's not fasting. - [snickering]
Believe in me
- the way I believe in you. - [Romesh] Okay.
- [indistinct chatter] - And shut up.
[child giggling]
Alex, do you think I could make it in America?
- Yeah. - [Shanthi] Yeah.
See? Look at that.
[Romesh] The children have got more faith in me
than any of you.
No, I believe you can do it.
Do you think that Mommy
should book a return ticket from L.A.?
- Yeah. - Okay, he's
just nodding at anything.
♪ sedate music ♪
[cameraman] How are you this morning?
I'm actually feeling pretty good,
because I have made further progress
settling into my life in L.A.
[cameraman] What do you mean?
I cannot travel around constantly
in this traffic. It's gonna do my head in.
[cameraman] What's the solution?
Well, I am waiting on a delivery.
♪ Scoot ♪
♪♪♪
♪ You see me driving, see me driving ♪
[cameraman] Watch the guy with the ladder!
Shit. Oh, God.
♪ You say mother hens forever vibing ♪
[Romesh] I'm calling it the wasp,
because it's yellow and I'm brown,
and what are wasps?
[cameraman] Yellow and black.
Yes, they are, so--but,
you know, what you gonna do?
♪ You say mother hens forever vibing ♪
[cameraman] What else is going on today?
Well, I have found out that Jim Norton's
playing at The Comedy Store this evening,
and so I am gonna go and sort of
secrete myself at The Comedy Store.
♪ You say mother hens forever vibing ♪
[cameraman] All right. Good luck.
- Thank you. - [engine turns over]
See you later, bitches.
♪♪♪
[cameraman] Look behind you.
[indistinct chatter]
That's him.
Jim.
I don't know if you remember me.
Romesh.
I was at the, um, Chargers game.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Hey, what's up, man? - How you doing, man?
- How's it going? - You were from Australia?
No, uh, U.K.
- Okay. - Uh, London--
- well, just south of London. - Cool.
- How you doing, man? - Good, man.
- I'm a big fan, man. - Thank you, man.
- Yeah, yeah, how's your-- - Hold on one second.
[buttons clicking]
Uh...I'm sorry?
I'm just trying to get to know people
and get my name known a bit over here.
- Yeah. Right. - Do you know what I mean?
'Cause I can't even-- like, I'm struggling, even,
to get stage time. Do you know what I mean?
If you go around the back,
there's always people hanging there.
It's a good place for comics.
I spent a lot of time over the years
- in the back. - Right.
Um, it took me a lot of years
to get--to get, uh--
[buttons clicking]
Um...
Have you, um--have you--
- [Pauly] What's up? - [Jim] Oh, hey, man.
- What's up? How's it going? - What's up?
[Jim] What are you doing? Do you wanna sit?
Yeah, okay, cool. What's up?
Hi, I'm Romesh.
- What is it? - Romesh.
Nice to meet you, Rom.
Are you an open mic-er,
or is he a comic, or what?
Oh, yeah, I'm a comic from the U.K.
Oh, cool, awesome.
You smell like alcohol, kind of.
- [Romesh] Do I really? - Yeah, it's cool.
I mean, I'm not saying it's bad.
I'm just saying you smell like alcohol.
Oh, okay.
I was telling him the best way to meet people
- is around the back. - You look kind of suspicious.
In what way?
I don't know, looks like you're--
you got something, like you're holding something.
- No, I'm not. - You're good?
- Yeah, yeah. - All right.
How long you been doing stand-up?
Uh, like, eight years.
Why'd you look over there?
- I don't know. - What's over there?
That was weird. He went over there to look.
By the way, did I ever--
you did something for me for MTV in 2004.
Did I ever thank you for that?
[Romesh] Pauly Shore was there.
Jim was, like, engaged with him.
They were--you know, they were chatting,
having a great time.
I saw how charming and wonderful
Jim Norton could be
if he doesn't think you're an asshole.
All right, I gotta go. I gotta go to the back.
Cool. You should show him
where the back is.
Well, he knows where the back is.
Just go to the back.
- Okay. Nice to meet you. - Cool. All right.
- Later, man. - Thank you very much.
- Don't be so conspicuous. - I won't, no, sorry.
Keep your hands out
of your thing. You know what I mean?
- Sure, I will, yeah. - All right, later, man. Bye.
Thank you. See you.
That's cool man. So you got what you need.
Sometimes it's-- that's what I'm saying.
Hanging out. That's all that is.
- Thanks, man, I appreciate it. - Yeah, no problem.
I don't think I did anything, but cool.
And then Pauly Shore left,
and then I was, like, reminded
of what he thinks of me.
♪ xylophone music ♪
♪♪♪
He's a nice guy.
He is, yeah. I like him a lot.
♪♪♪
I had some of the most awkward moments of my life tonight.
♪♪♪
[indistinct chatter]
- Can I get you a drink, or-- - No, no, no, I'm good.
Thank you. I'm still drinking this one.
[Romesh] I think the best thing I can do
with regards to my relationship with Jim Norton
is never, ever contact him
ever, ever again,
and if I ever saw him again, to hide.
♪♪♪
Well, I guess I'll--
I'll leave you to it, man.
All right, man, good luck.
Yeah, yeah, check out the back.
- Yeah, thank you. - [Jim] The back is good.
That's where all the comics hang out.
Cool. Thank you.
♪♪♪
[cameraman] So tonight's a write-off?
Well, if that was the end of the night,
then I would say tonight's a write-off,
but...I've only gone and
received a text from Jose,
and he sorted me out a fucking gig, hasn't he?
I'm a little bit drunk.
♪ rhythmic percussive music ♪
♪♪♪
- [Romesh] Hey, man. - [Jose] Hey, man.
- How you doing? - How you doing?
- How's it going? - [Jose] All right.
Let's check this out.
[Jose] Oh, boy.
They told us we gotta meet him with--
in the back.
[Jose] This might be a nice little spot.
[all] Ey, puto!
[Jose laughs]
[Jose] Rom.
[Romesh] The hell was that?
Straight away, when we turned up,
I thought this
doesn't feel like
a regular comedy gig.
[man] Romesh! Cómo estás tu, amigo?
- Uh... - [speaking Spanish]
I didn't hear any English.
[all] Ey, puto!
Which is fine, except for the fact
I was gonna have to go onstage and perform.
♪ bright pop music ♪
Showtime! [laughs]
♪ sedate Latin music ♪
♪♪♪
Uh, good? How do you feel?
[man speaking Spanish]
I mean, I've been to this place, like,
- a bunch of times... - Oh, okay.
...so, like, I'm kind of, like, used to it, you know?
Yeah.
[man speaking Spanish]
[singing in Spanish]
[laughing]
♪♪♪
[audience exclaiming]
[cheers and applause]
It's genuinely one of, uh,
the most nerve-wracking nights of my life.
[speaking Spanish]
[man] Whoo!
Yo, Romesh!
♪ faint brass music ♪
[Romesh] Thank you.
[speaking Spanish]
[scattered applause]
Hello.
[audience, sporadically] Hello.
- Great, uh... - [man] Whoo!
I'm very excited to be here.
[Romesh] It's my, uh--
it's my first time, uh,
doing a gig here.
I'm from England.
[woman] English... [laughs]
No hablo, uh...
[man] Español.
Español. Lo siento.
I was having an absolute nightmare.
One of the worst gigs I've ever had.
I said to him, "Dude, a kid of your age
made that."
[laughter]
Cool, thank you.
[cheers and applause]
[Romesh] And then, suddenly, inspiration hit me.
I used my experience in the gig,
like, my comedic mind,
and I used what proved to be
my best bit of the night.
Ey...
[all] Ey, puto!
[Romesh] They went for it.
So much so,
I think I could've done
an hour of that,
and they would've fucking loved it.
[all] Ey
Puto!
If breaking America is as easy
as just repeating "Ey, puto" over and over again,
I'm about to have the time of my fucking life, mate.
[laughter and applause]
Thank you very much.
[cheers and applause]
Thank you.
[all] Ey, puto!
[Romesh] Muchas gracias. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you.
[cameraman] So how would you
sum up your first week in L.A.?
Um, it's been a mixed bag,
if I'm being honest.
There's been ups.
I mean, Jose's a very nice man.
- Thanks, mate. - [Jose] Yeah.
Honestly, I really do appreciate it.
- Thank you, Jose. - Yeah.
Meeting Jim Norton wasn't great.
[Romesh] Getting the bike was good,
but not now that I've had a drink.
Fucking hell.
Seeing the actual theater,
as daunting as it was,
was nice, but...
[man] Ey, puto!
[laughs]
It's amazing, isn't it, when it comes
from someone else, it's actually quite irritating.
♪ Uh, what, yeah ♪
♪ Armed with a cap, put your hands in the air ♪
♪ Why you gonna stand there looking like a spare baby ♪
♪ How you gonna feel when I put it there ♪
♪ Like doosh, doosh ♪
♪ Take it on the chin ♪
♪ Six million ways to shake it and it's grim ♪
♪ That's disgusting ♪
♪ No mistaking for the dim, baby, I'ma win ♪
♪ I'ma cut the cake and get it in ♪
♪ Uh ♪
♪ Bad man ting ♪
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