MLS 125: "The Manzai Late Show?" Featuring Vinay Murthy w/ Alexander Hunter

<p>Voice actor and veteran comedian in the Tokyo stand-up community, Vinay Murthy!</p> <p><br></p> <p>Vinay has been performing comedy in Tokyo for almost 15 years. Speaking in both English and Japanese he has been apart of the small community of stand-up comics developing a western-style comedy scene in Japan.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>We discuss:&nbsp;</p> <p>Growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs and the Valley Girl accent, Pearl Jam and Toe Jam &amp; Earl, moving to New York and developing an interesting stand-up comedy, early Comedy Center, the rise of Alt-comedy, regional comedy styles and attitudes, starting his comedy career by helping a friend, &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Roast Battles and improvisation, canned jokes, Manzai-style Japanese comedy, &nbsp;helping to develop western style comedy scene in Japan, the difference in preparing comedy in Japanese and English, Netflix and the Japanese community having more access to translated western-style &nbsp;comedy. &nbsp;the parallels between rap and stand-up comedy. plus a bunch more.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Guest Host: Television and film actor Alexander "Lex" Hunter (Previous episode #115)</p> <p><br></p> <p>Music for the episode provided by the incredibly dope, Soul.dope.95</p> <p>Find him everywhere you can find music and peep his newest release Mamba Day on Spotify.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>Thanks to Alex Camp for recommending Vinay for the show. Thanks to both Vinay and Lex for joining us! Thanks for listening. &nbsp;Both Vinay and Lex will be back.&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Find several of Vinay's videos on Youtube. Tokyo Roast Battles</p> <p><br></p> <p>@vinaymurthy</p> <p>@sageofstone</p> --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/megalateshow/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/megalateshow/support</a>