usamasiddiquee

This ep's Brown of the Week is Srikesh Kumar--a guy who came miraculously back to life after being hit by a motorcycle. We talk about Nargis and her evolving obsession with Mango Bae. Our topic: how our conversations with our immigrant parents evolved over the years. Were we just a form of labor? Probably! Then we talk about how the tension we felt with our parents ultimately helped us. Abuse, beatings, love--this episode has it all.

Introducing, Usama Siddiquee! A gloriously raunchy, bright eyed and extremely bushy-tailed comedy superstar - who was born in Canada and raised in a part of Texas that probably could very well have inspired scenes from Deliverance, and raised a Muslim - so you can imagine he has a particular view point on what it takes to make it out alive of middle school and succeed it in this racial utopia we call the United States.

I met him when he was doing stand up at a socially distant comedy show at Cooper Park in 30 degree weather, and I thought his particular brand of comedy and crowd control was so impressive I decided to invite him to my home and find out just exactly how far his rabbit hole goes down. 

AND DOWN WE WENT. Off like a herd of mentally challenged sea turtles trying to lay their eggs on particularly steep sand dune, we tackled many topics such as rubber gloved, direct eye contact handies in public, not having literally a pot to piss in/crashing in crack homes in the tuchus hole of Brooklyn to save money....barking like a rabid chihuahua for comedy shows, where the payment for your thankless work mirrors Spanish inquisition torture...making your father have slow fat tears run down his cheeks/having your mother throw pots at you, and all the bloody sweat and long nights that come with go after the world's most unforgiving profession. 

I adored him, and you will too! Enjoy! 

You can follow him at 

@Usamastandsup 

Check out all his youtube clips of his stint on AGT here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMkiML-uFGU

And listen to his podcast, Mango Bae here:

https://open.spotify.com/show/57jiIA07ChxbtWz0sjwKi1

As always you can follow me

@drznightingale

My website: www.zoenightingale.com 

Happy Holidays errrrybody! 

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Music: Noah Lampert - check out all his work at www.syncpod.net 

Usama Siddiquee (Mango Bae Podcast) joins us this week to discuss his upbringing as a Bengali-American in Texas, getting beatings from his immigrant mom, and disappointing his entire family by dropping out of medical school to become a comedian. We also unpack his notorious dating life and his breakdown on the rules of attraction. Youngmi talks about being single during the quarantine and Brian shares his anxiety surrounding his new hobby - the stock market.

This week we are joined by Usama Siddiquee. He’s absolutely one of the hardest and funniest comedians working today. Usama has been on BET's 50 Central. He has been a finalist for the 2017 NY's Funniest Competition at Caroline's; the 2017 NBC Standup Competition. He got 1st place winner of the 2016 Laughing Devil Cup Comedy Festival in New York; the 1st place winner of the 2015 Yonkers Comedy Festival as well as the 1st place winner of the 2015 Make Me Laugh Albany Comedy Festival. He was also featured this year on videos for NBC, Buzzfeed, Refinery29, The Scene, Mic.com, FusionTV, and Huffington Post. Most recently he was also featured at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival New Faces Showcase. We talked about comedy, work ethic, what it takes to be undeniably funny among other hilarious things. Tune in, if you dig it, subscribe!