Mega Late Show

Voice actor and veteran comedian in the Tokyo stand-up community, Vinay Murthy! 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. We discuss: Growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs and the Valley Girl accent, Pearl Jam and Toe Jam & 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, Roast Battles and improvisation, canned jokes, Manzai-style Japanese comedy, 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 comedy. the parallels between rap and stand-up comedy. plus a bunch more. Guest Host: Television and film actor Alexander "Lex" Hunter (Previ