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 (Previous episode #115)

Music for the episode provided by the incredibly dope, Soul.dope.95

Find him everywhere you can find music and peep his newest release Mamba Day on Spotify.

Thanks to Alex Camp for recommending Vinay for the show. Thanks to both Vinay and Lex for joining us! Thanks for listening. Both Vinay and Lex will be back.

Find several of Vinay's videos on Youtube. Tokyo Roast Battles

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