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Akaash Singh: Where Comedian's Interact with Crowd or Just Tell Jokes | The Tyler Wagner Show

Name: Akaash Singh: Where Comedian's Interact with Crowd or Just Tell Jokes | The Tyler Wagner Show
Uploaded: 2022-08-26T15:49:57+00:00
Duration: 1 min 15 s
Channel: Tyler Wagner
Description: Akaash Singh talks about performing at Village Lantern, a tiny basement bar in New York where he and Andrew Schultz learned to roast drunk audiences…

26 Aug 2022 · 1 min

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Akaash Singh talks about performing at Village Lantern, a tiny basement bar in New York where he and Andrew Schultz learned to roast drunk audiences instead of telling straight jokes. The intimate, unpredictable crowd forced him to develop crowd-work skills, making a traditional monologue feel unnatural by comparison.

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One of your recent, uh, YouTube videos I was watching, and you, uh, it was like 30 minutes basically of you just roasting the audience. Yeah, it wasn't like too recent. I think it was like 3 or 4 months ago that you posted. But, um, so is that kind of like planned, or is that a situation where you just had some like extra time and you're like, let me just fuck around with the audience for a little?
No, I, I like to start shows talking to the audience. And where Andrew— Andrew Schultz is the guy I'd be flagrant with. He and I came up in a place called the Village Lantern. It was a Shithole, dude. You would have to get people in off the streets of New York in the Village. Half of them are drunk anyway. It's in the basement of a bar. They shut it down, that part, but you would have to get people in for your own show and then you would do comedy for however many people were down there. Sometimes 3 people, sometimes 5 people. You'd get good shows, but there'd be a lot of nights where it's 5, 6, 7 people. So if I go up there and I just do my jokes, it's mad weird. Everybody's like, Why are you doing a monologue? Like, are we gonna pretend there's not 4 of us right now? So you had to learn to talk to them and get funny that way. And I think that's how I'm naturally funny anyway, but it forced me to like work on that thing. And that's why Andrew and I both like fucking with the crowd. We just came up that way. And to me, it got to the point where it just feels super unnatural for me to just go up and do jokes.