Different cultures express themselves through unique non-verbal communication styles, such as head movements (side-to-side in India, front-to-back in Mexico), which reflect broader cultural values and priorities; understanding these differences helps bridge cultural gaps and promotes mutual respect.
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Gabriel Iglesias: It Felt Like Everyone Was Named DaveAdded:
My favorite country outside of home is Australia.
And I'll tell you why.
Australia, much like us in America, has its list of priorities. You know what's not on their list? Political correctness.
They do not care about your feelings.
It's like a country full of Daves.
Believe it or not, it's very refreshing to be around such a large group of people who speak their minds so freely.
And if you know that before you go there, you're going to have an amazing time. But if you don't know that and you show up, it is a culture shock and a half because I showed up and I didn't know. Everybody says you got to see the beaches. And I went to to the beach. I had people coming up to me. Hey, somebody help me get them back in the water.
Yeah. Look at right there, big fella.
Look at you right there.
Oh, look. He's moving. He's moving. He's moving. Oh, he's crying. He's crying. I bet it tastes like gravy.
It's not bullying if everyone does it.
Yeah. That being said, I'm in Australia, Sydney, Australia, at the Opera House.
For me, it was one of the most iconic places I've ever got to perform in. It was bucket list, definitely. After the show, I wanted to go hang out with some Aussies and see what that was like. I'm hanging out at a pub. First things first, Australian people do not drink Fosters beer. That's an American thing.
They don't drink that over there. I tried ordering one to fit in. Didn't go over well.
Bartender looked at me. Hey, you like the taste of piss, do you?
Okay. Don't order that again.
So, I'm hanging out with these two Aussies and we're drinking a rum called Bundy Burke. At first glance, it looks like a Coca-Cola bottle because there's a polar bear on the front and then you drink it and you're like, "That's not Coke."
As we're talking, a third Australian joined the conversation and he sounded a little bit different from the other two.
He had more of a raspy voice, MORE LIKE HE sounded like a drunk pirate underwater.
These two guys didn't like him, so they called him a name and they left. And now it's just me and drunk pirate.
We're talking about life. Life in America, life in Australia, talking about our differences. He tells me that he's a professional knife maker. He's showing me how it's done. He's showing me pictures. We wind up polishing off three bottles of this rum. And drunk wasn't even the right word to describe our level.
My tour manager, Ryan, he comes up to me and he says, "Gabe, time to go." And I look at Ryan and I'm like, "But Ryan, I just made a friend and he makes knives and look pretty."
My tour manager always knows how to talk to me no matter what condition I'm in.
If I'm drunk, he knows better than to talk to me like I'm an adult. He talks to me like I'm two.
He looks at me and he says, "Hey buddy, you hungry?"
Well, listen. If we don't leave right now, they're going to close McDonald's and you're going to have to eat at the airport.
I got a girl.
I If YOU GOT TO GO, YOU GOT TO GO. NO WORRIES. AND HE GOES to shake my hand.
And when he shook my hand, he put his personal pocketk knife that he made in my hand as a gift. As for you, Mike, thanks for being nice. Thank you. Thank you. I'mma cut cheeseburgers with this.
Martina and I just got back from India.
Yeah.
So, let me tell you. I started posting on Facebook and Twitter that we were going to go out there to do these shows.
And then people started sending me messages questioning what I was going to do. First of all, are they going to understand you in India? Will they understand English? Okay. Will they be able to follow along with your stories?
Once we got there, I come to find out that more people speak English in India than in all of the US and Canada put together. Might as well throw Mexico in there for extra credit.
because there's that many people and yes they have the internet they got the internet they got Bollywood they got Hollywood they understand American culture so much more than we understand theirs second thing people tried to warn me about going over there Gabriel be careful India is a third world country don't drink the water in India it contains parasites that'll make you really sick don't eat the food from the street people especially the street meat it contains a parasite that'll make you really sick. And most importantly, there's a lot of crime over there. Don't stay out late. When the sun goes down, you go down.
I'm like, is it that bad? Parasites.
So, I'm like, let me get this straight.
There's a lot of crime. Don't stay out late. Don't eat any of the food from the street vendors. And don't drink the water. Why does that sound familiar?
That's Mexico.
When Martine and I got over there, we found out that Indian people and Mexican people have so much in common. You guys, I'm telling you, it's insane how similar we are. Especially the food. The food is so similar. For example, Mexicans love tortillas. Indian people love naan bread, which is a fluffier form of a tortilla. Mexicans love chicken. Indians love chicken. Mexicans love hot and spicy. Indians invented hot and spicy.
Most popular drink in Mexico is fanta.
Most popular drink in India is Fanta.
Indian people worship cows. Mexicans love barbecues.
lot of similarities.
Most of the people that I met over there were very hardworking and humble. And I got to tell you, every time I talked to someone, I was always greeted the same way. They'd look at me, they put their hands together, they do a little bow, and they say namaste, which is an endearing hello. It's really nice and sweet. And then I noticed that Indian people when you're talking to them do this thing with their head where it will begin to move side to side as they're speaking. Now at first when you notice it you think oh he slept wrong.
He just got a kink in his neck. Get a temper pedic.
Now when they they start speaking their head starts moving. And I noticed this.
The guy is checking us into the hotel and he's really cool. is like listen if you have any problems at all okay you call the front desk you press zero we will send somebody to your room to help you whatever you need we got it for you right here okay it's very good now one thing I notic is the more they talk and the more excited Indian people get the more the head starts to move around somebody at the hotel yelled out to the clerk that's fluffy and the guy was like oh my god I don't believe it I can do it I thought it was you I thought it was you oh my god I cannot believe this is so crazy oh my god fluffy fluffy fluffy Even crazier than that is that the mouth is actually connected to the neck. When the mouth stops moving, the head stops wherever the mouth left off. And when you see Indian people talking to each other, you can see it. Okay, let me tell you something. Okay, okay, hold on.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, wait. Okay, like if you're Indian and you stutter, you are so screwed.
I I I I I I I I I I I SOMEBODY STOP HIM.
I'm not going to lie, you guys. When I first saw this happen, I thought it was hysterical. I thought it was funny. But then I started thinking about it. Head movement is just a form of expression.
No matter where you live in this world, people express themselves in their own unique way. Whether through facial expressions, hand gestures, body movement, extra words, everywhere you go, things are different. And that's just how they express themselves in India. Now, back to the whole Indians, Mexican thing. That is something else that we share in common with Indian people. Head movement. Now, some of you in the building tonight are like, "Stupid, we don't have head movement."
Yes, we do. It's a little different. See with Indian people the head movement is side to side. Mexicans our head movement is front to back.
The difference between that is that with Mexicans we have to be very very upset in order for you to see the head movement. Otherwise you can't tell. With Indians it's all the time. Oh today is such a nice day. It is such a beautiful day today. I'm so happy. It's very nice.
Very good. Oh my god. I can't believe it's so nice.
Mexicans, when we're mad, that's when it comes out. For non-Latinos, hey, trust me, you cut off a Mexican in traffic, see what happens.
That's funny. I don't know why the black people are laughing. You guys take it all. Oh, no you didn't. Oh, hell no. I know he ain't talking about me. Uh-uh. I hit a bell. I hit a bell.
I made myself dizzy.
So, let me tell you guys, if you ever get the opportunity to travel to India, I encourage you to check it out. You are going to see some beautiful things. You are going to see some amazing things.
You are going to see some sad, depressing things and some real horrible things. Overall, it's a well- balanced trip.
But when you get back home here to the United States, you will have a whole different appreciation for your life.
Believe that.
I guarantee this. You guys, there's a lot of people in India and with a lot of people comes a lot of traffic. First things first, American traffic and Indian traffic very different.
Here, whatever happens on the freeway will stop the whole freeway. In India, there's 10 times the traffic, but it moves.
See, the problem is Americans, we're fascinated by accidents. We're fascinated by the idea of seeing potential death.
That's why we slow down on the freeways.
We say we don't want to see it, but what happens IN TRAFFIC? YOU KNOW, what's going on over there?
There doesn't even have to be a collision. You could be on the 101 freeway and a car has a a tire blowout and it spins, doesn't hit anything. It's now facing oncoming traffic. You know what happens to the rest of the freeway?
Even on the other freeway where there's no accident.
And again, what what's going on? What's going on? I'm sorry. Hey, somebody might be dead. Sorry.
In India, if there's an accident in the middle of the street, you know what they do? They drive right around it. They don't stop. And it's not that they're not sensitive to the situation. They are. It's just that there's so much chaos that happens on a regular basis.
They just need to get to work. They do see what's happening. And believe me, they're heartfelt. You know, they'll drive around. I am so sorry for you.
Nothing stops the flow of traffic in India. They need to get from point A to point B. And so they go, they go. If there's an accident, they drive around.
If there's something blocking the street, they get on the sidewalk to go around. It's amazing the way they drive.
And here's something else. No one uses turn signals over there. No one uses turn signals. They use a horn. Now, if you go to India tomorrow, from the time you get there to the time you leave, you're constantly going to hear a horn.
It's an actual language. When people are driving, I'll show you. You're driving, >> car on your right, >> car on your left, >> light up ahead. They talk to each other while they're driving and they barely miss each other every single time. Also, you'll be on the 101 freeway here and there'll be six lanes. In India, you'll see six lanes, but guess what? You'll see 12 cars across.
Yes, they have lines, but they're basically there to let you know more or less the direction you might want to go in.
They're this close to each other. And even at the light, they communicate.
They see everything. Cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles, pedestrians, cows, children, all waiting for the light.
And they talk at the light with the horn.
>> Kirk.
>> Very good. You can go. You can go.
>> Welcome. You're welcome. Go. Go.
Nothing stops the flow of traffic over there. Indian people drive. Think of ants. You know how ants travel in a straight line and if there's something in their way, like a rock, ants will split up, go around the rock, and reunite or climb over the rock. Worst case scenario, they dig a hole and go under the rock. That's the mentality of driving in India. A man can get shot in the middle of the street.
People just look at each other. Somebody pick him up and they'll drag his ass onto the sidewalk. And if there's an accident and they need to get around, guess what's going to happen to that guy on the sidewalk?
Nothing stops the flow of traffic in India.
except a cow.
Now, I know we've always heard the stories and the jokes about, "Oh, Indian people don't eat hamburgers." I asked the question and I found out it's believed that cows are people who have died and they've been reincarnated and their new life is now the cow, which is why they don't eat them and why they give them all the love and respect in the world over there. I saw this firsthand. There's a cow crossing the street while we're driving. And the cows know, they're cocky. They know that they can cross.
All the cows out there all cocking.
No one honks at the cows. No one yells at the cows. No one touches the cows.
They wait for the cows to finish crossing. The cow that we had laid down.
The driver just shut off the car, started tweeting. There is a cow in the middle of the street.
#momo.
I asked the driver, "What's going on?"
Sir, there there is a cow. I see that there's a cow. Are you going to honk at it? Go around. What? What's What's going to happen? Uh, we cannot uh we cannot uh honker the cow. We must wait for the cow to move. You're kidding. I am not kidding. We must wait for the cow.
We drove past a dead body 15 minutes ago.
That is probably him.
Like seriously, the driving situation over there is so intense, you guys. One morning, one morning while we're there, I needed to get to the airport fast because I overslept. And so I get in the cab and I hand the driver a $50 bill.
And I go, "Sir, I am running very late.
I need to get to the airport as soon as possible. Whatever side street you have to take or back road, I'm all for it.
Whatever you have to do, let's do it.
And I hand him the money and he goes, "Very good. Let's go." And we take off.
The guy is hitting anywhere from 50 to 70 m an hour on the street. We are making incredible time.
I notice that we're heading in the direction of a red light.
You ever been in a car with someone and you're paying attention to what's going on and you notice that you're about to hit a red light and you you know how you start to mentally and physically prepare yourself for the deceleration of the car and you start anticipating the pressure from the brake and if you don't get the sensation of slowing down by a certain point, all alarms go off in your head and you sock the driver in the chest. Hey Not only did I not get the sensation of slowing down, I got the opposite, he gunned it towards the light and it caught me off guard. I couldn't even scream. I was like and then and then I GOT AIR. HEY, PULL OVER. PULL OVER.
He didn't even know what he did. He looks at me. He goes, "What is wrong?"
What do you mean? What is wrong, dude?
Didn't you see the red light? As calm as can be. Didn't you see there was no one there?
You told me whatever you have to do.
Okay. Whatever you have to do, you do.
Do you want to yell or do you want to make plane?
He made a good point. I sounded like a third grader.
>> I want to make plane.
Like seriously, that's a video game. I want to see I want to see Grand Theft Auto India.
It was so crazy you guys and this is just us being there. I haven't even gotten to the part of us performing. We were in Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.
Okay, these three places is where we went to perform. Mumbai and Bangalore.
The shows went over very very well.
Okay, there were about 1,500 to 2,000 people which is amazing for a few going over there. I was like excited. Yes. And then we get to Delhi. And when we got to Delhi, you guys, it got a little crazy.
Martin walks out on stage and the crowd recognized him and they started chanting Martin.
Anytime I hear that, I'm like, they know him. It's going to be a good show. So Martin starts cracking jokes. The crowd starts laughing. He's cracking more jokes. The crowd keeps laughing. All of a sudden, I hear this.
Ah ah ah ah ah a a Martin doesn't say a word to them. He gets off stage. Next comedian comes out and then Martin comes over to me and he says, "Bro, I don't know what's going on, man. I don't know what's going on out there. There's these three guys in the front row. They're laughing like Klingons from Star Trek.
I'm not going to address them. I'm going to save them for you." I was like, "Oh, thank you."
So then Martin goes back out. on stage and he introduces me, ladies and gentlemen, Gabrieli Glacias. And then I run out on stage and the crowd started chanting fluffy fluffy. And I was like, woo, what's up, Delhi?
And I start cracking jokes, start getting laughs, start cracking more jokes, start getting more laughs. And then it happened.
Ah, now see me, I can't avoid things, especially when it's front row center.
So, I addressed it. I came right out and I said, "Well, hello."
I said, "What do we have here?" I said, "So, where are you guys from?" And the guy in the middle looks at me and he goes, "We are from Germany." I said, "Cool. We have Germans in the house."
And the whole crowd got really weird.
You could hear them.
They freaked out because they thought I was going to start making fun of the German people. And one guy even stood up. DON'T DO IT. DON'T DO IT. DON'T DO IT. I go, "Relax, bro. Have a s Don't do it. I'm not going to make fun of the German people. That's the last thing I want to do is offend them. I don't want to end up outside in an alley somewhere freaking in 2 hours. Since this is the last time, they are going to tell you, "Do not make fun of German people."
As I'm doing this joke about a German kicking me on the floor with the accent, here's where it gets crazy. I get hit in the side of the head by a bat.
Listen to what I just told you, Bay Area. I get hit in the side of the head by a bat. Not major league baseball. I'm talking about I want to suck your blood.
In India, there are millions and millions and millions of fruit bats and one of them, actually six of them made it inside of the building and they're flying around and they're hanging out in the rafters and one of them decides to fly down and basically when I was doing the kicks, I stepped into the line of flight of the bat and he caught me right here. I'm like, "What the hell?" And I look up and you see it and you could hear it.
The Indian people saw that and they freaked out. They were yelling, "They did it. They did it. We told you DON'T DO IT. THEY told you don't do it. They are evil. They're evil." I'm like, "Dude, I don't care how evil you think the Germans are. They don't have control over bats." It wasn't like the guy got offended and said, "Oh, really?
Released the bat.
So now the crowd is weird.
These guys are laughing. Ah ah ah ah and there's freaking bats flying around the theater. First two minutes of my show. I got to do an hour and now I've already lost the crowd. They're freaking out.
These guys are laughing weird. I'm nervous. It's my first time there. I don't know how to get out of this. So, I literally walked over to the other side of the stage and I started just performing for this side of the room, trying to redirect the focus right here.
And I'm so nervous. I'm stuttering. I don't even have a segue. I'm like, you know, it's crazy in America.
Everybody in America likes drinking, you know? It's just real crazy. Like, like, for example, Mexicans, uh, most Mexicans, we like drinking tequila. Um, most black people like Hennessy. Most white people like Jerger. Here in India, you guys like Fanta.
And when I said Fanta, the crowd went crazy because it was such a local reference. They freaked out. They were like screaming, "Oh my god, HE KNOWS. HE KNOWS." They started singing, "Panta, the roar was so big, it allowed me to restart my show. So, I started cracking new jokes and more jokes and these jokes and those jokes. Five minutes go by.
Five minutes go by. All of a sudden, the Germans got offended at the fact that I left them out of my drinking joke.
The one in the middle stands up and he approaches a stage. Now, this stage has got to be about 5t tall. The guy's head was about this high. He was like 6'4. He looks at me and he starts pointing and he's yelling, "Hey, Fatan.
Batman, what about us, huh? What about the Germans? What do we drink? I was like, dude, that was like 5 minutes ago.
We were giving you a chance. What do we drink? I'm like, first of all, sir, I apologize. I'm really nervous right now.
Um, I had no idea there was going to be Germans here tonight.
Felt like Poland.
I don't care if you laugh or not. That's a smartass joke.
That's a smart ass joke. It's not my fault some of you Pendos failed history.
You better Google that and find out why it's so damn funny.
So all the older white people, God damn it. Yeah.
So anyway, so I'm standing there and I go, "Listen, sir, you need to have a seat, okay? The people are getting nervous. You need to have a seat so I can finish the show." And the guys, he refuses. I will not sit down, fat man, until you tell us what we drink. I go, "Listen, I don't know what you guys drink." And the Indians are being so cute. They're trying to help me. They're yelling, "Hey, they like Fanta, too."
And the guy was like, "WE DO NOT LIKE FANTA, TOO." I go, "Sir, please have a seat." I will not have a seat except you tell us what we drink. Tell us fat man.
I go, "Listen, sir, you need to sit down and you need to stop calling me fat man." Now it's starting to bother me.
This is like the sixth time he does it.
And I didn't just lose 100 pounds to now get called fat man.
So I go, "Sir, if you don't have a seat, we're going to have a problem.
Especially if you call me fat man again." And he freaking did it. What are you going to do, fat man? What do we drink? Even Martin, who's behind the curtain, knew. He knows when I'm at that point where I've crossed over, I can hear him in the back.
>> Don't do it.
Too late. Fluffy's pissed. So I said, "You want to know WHAT YOU DRINK? TELL ME." DON'T ASK ME WHERE this came from.
I got right in his face and I said, "Blood of Jews."
Now see, automatically you guys gave me a whole different reaction in Delhi. That was probably the most shocking thing ever said on that stage.
So shocking that 2,000 people at the exact same time got so quiet, you guys.
So quiet. You could hear everyone's ass just and I'm still standing there, my hands out. Have you ever said something that was so bad? And I mean, you knew it was bad as it was coming out of your mouth and you're trying to stop it, but it's too late. It's already out. And you're like, "No.
And it's too late. Blood of Jesus is all over his face. Right. I'm standing there, my hands up. I'm looking at him.
He's looking at me. AND I'M LIKE, "AH."
HE SAYS, "THAT'S a good one." Yeah, that's a GOOD ONE. OH MY GOD. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU.
It doesn't end there.
I'm telling you guys, this is so crazy.
So, next morning, Martina and I are flying back home to Los Angeles from Delhi. We're taking an airline called British Airways. We go from Delhi to London, England, and we have a connecting flight over there. Once we get to England, they cancelled our connect for whatever reason. And so, we got rebooked on another airline called Luansa.
It's a German airline.
Now, this is why I believe in karma.
Seriously, Martine's like, "Really?
Blood of Jews?" I'm like, "I know."
I felt like they phoned ahead. Owns.
Take care of Fluffy.
So, I put down my credit card. I made sure that Martine and I got upgraded to at least their business class cuz it's like a long flight. And um so we're in there. We're on the plane and the plane takes off about 20 minutes into the flight. We're just sitting there. We're laughing. And the flight attendant, she starts coming down the aisle with a little cart. Okay.
She's coming down the aisle and she sees me and she goes, "Hello, sir. Do you have a preferred drink of choice today?
>> Martin looks at me, taps me in the chest, and he goes, "Hey, tell her.
Tell her, bro. Come on, ask for it. If anybody has it, dude, shut up." And then she looks at Martin. Sir, do you have a preferred drink of choice? And Martine's like, "Yeah, you guys got blood of She's like, Bloody Mary?" Yes. Yes.
Bloody Mary freaking macheta is going to get me banned from flying.
So, we make it back home. I'm trying to tell the story to my girlfriend and my son. And my girl, she's barely laughing.
She's like, like she's jaded. She doesn't laugh at my jokes anymore.
My son Frankie, on the other hand, he is dying.
And I'm like, really? He's 16 years old.
I go, "Really, Frankie? You thought that was funny?" He goes, "Yeah, it's funny."
I go, "What was so funny about my story?" He goes, "Those people you're talking about." I go, "Who? The Indians?" He goes, "No, the other ones."
I go, "The Germans." He goes, "Yeah, that's funny." I go, "What's so funny about the Germans?" "The way that they speak." I go, "What's so funny about the way that they speak?" He goes, "They sound like the three little pigs from the movie Shrek."
I had to go on YouTube and freaking find it. And sure enough, all three little pigs. Hello, Shrek. I was just waiting for one of them to go fat man.
The Saudis had such an amazing sense of humor. They were laughing and carrying on and I had no idea they were going to be like that. And then after the show, I got a chance to meet some of the locals and one guy was almost in tears. He was so emotional. He walks up to me and he's just like, I cannot believe that I am standing here in front of you, Mr. Fluffy.
Oh, well, thank you. Please, please, when you return to United States or wherever you travel, let the people know what you saw. Okay? Let them know that we are not all bad, that we are not all those bad people from Fox News. Okay?
You let them know because we see Fox News and Fox News believes that everybody in Middle East is bad.
Everybody's terrorist. Everybody has a bomb. He has a bomb. He has a bomb. He has a bomb. Oprah is here giving away bombs to everybody. Everybody has a bomb.
Please you let them know we are not all bad people, okay? We are not all terrorist. My cousin maybe. What? I kidding. I kidding. I kidding. Look at your face. Look at your face. Oh, I'm going to die. Look at you.
A plane. WHAT PLANE? I GOT YOU AGAIN.
TWO FOR TWO. I got you. He is raising my blood pressure every 7 seconds.
And then he starts breaking it down for me. How standup comedy is starting to bring people together in the Middle East. and how he's starting to do, you know, he's doing comedy. It's it was crazy the conversation, you know, here in in Saudi Arabia. Um uh people they they like watching the the standup comedy because uh we love to laugh.
Okay, we love to laugh. It's great to laugh. And uh people don't think that people in Middle East have sense of humor. They they see videos, they see TV, they think we are the same. They say, "Oh, Middle Eastern people are all angry. Look at their face. They're angry. Everybody angry. Everybody mad.
Everybody angry." My friend, we're not angry. is hot.
Okay, it's 117°.
Everybody is not mad. They're hot. Look at everybody has a hot face. Hot face.
Everybody hot face. I promise you give me air conditioning, I am so happy.
We are okay. We love to laugh. I've been doing the standup comedy for about six months now. And um I have jokes. Good for you. May I try? Oh, great.
All right, man. Go ahead. Okay. Very nervous. Very nervous. Okay. Here we go.
Okay.
Okay. Here we go.
Two Jews walk into a bar.
Not in my country.
Man, you're going to get my ass arrested, bro.
The Saudis had such an amazing sense of humor. They were laughing and carrying on and I had no idea they were going to be like that. And then after the show, I got a chance to meet some of the locals.
And one guy was almost in tears. He was so emotional. He walks up to me and he's just like, I cannot believe that I am standing here in front of you, Mr. Fluffy.
Oh, well, thank you. Please, please, when you return to United States or wherever you travel, let the people know what you saw. Okay? Let them know that we are not all bad, that we are not all those bad people from Fox News. Okay?
You let them know because we see Fox News and Fox News believes that everybody in Middle East is bad.
Everybody's terrorist. Everybody has a bomb. He has a bomb. He has a bomb. He has a bomb. Oprah is here giving away bombs to everybody. Everybody please you let them know we are not all bad people, okay? We are not all terrorist. My cousin maybe. What? I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I kidding. Look at your face. Look at your face. Oh, I'm going to die. Look at you.
A plane. WHAT PLANE? I GOT YOU AGAIN.
TWO FOR TWO. I GOT YOU. He is raising my blood pressure every 7 seconds.
And then he starts breaking it down for me. How standup comedy is starting to bring people together in the Middle East. and how he's starting to, you know, he's doing comedy. It's it was crazy the conversation, you know, here in in Saudi Arabia. Um uh people they they like watching the the standup comedy because uh we love to laugh.
Okay, we love to laugh. It's great to laugh. And uh people don't think that people in Middle East have sense of humor. They they see videos, they see TV, they think we are the same. They say, "Oh, Middle Eastern people are all angry. Look at their face. They're angry. Everybody angry. Everybody mad.
Everybody angry." My friend, we're not angry. is hot.
Okay, it's 117°.
Everybody is not mad. They're hot. Look at everybody has a hot face. Hot face.
Everybody hot face. I promise you give me air conditioning, I am so happy.
We are okay. We love to laugh. I've been doing the stand of comedy for about 6 months now. And um I have jokes. Good for you. May I try? Oh, great.
All right, man. Go ahead. Okay. Very nervous. Very nervous. Okay. Here we go.
Okay.
Okay. Here we go.
Two Jews walk into a bar.
Not in my country.
like, man, you're going to get my ass arrested, bro. Martin and I just got back from India.
>> Yeah.
So, let me tell you, I started posting on Facebook and Twitter that we were going to go out there to do these shows.
And then people started sending me messages questioning what I was going to do. First of all, are they going to understand you in India? Will they understand English? Okay. Okay. Will they be able to follow along with your stories? Once we got there, I come to find out that more people speak English in India than in all of the US and Canada put together. Might as well throw Mexico in there for extra credit because there's that many people. And yes, they have the internet. They got the internet. They got Bollywood. They got Hollywood. They understand American culture so much more than we understand theirs. Second thing people tried to warn me about going over there. Gabriel, be careful. India is a third world country. Don't drink the water in India.
It contains parasites that'll make you really sick. Don't eat the food from the street people, especially the street meat. It contains a parasite that'll make you really sick. And most importantly, there's a lot of crime over there. Don't stay out late. When the sun goes down, you go down.
I'm like, "Is it that bad?" Parasites.
So, I'm like, "Let me get this straight.
There's a lot of crime. Don't stay out late. Don't eat any of the food from the street vendors. And don't drink the water." Why does that sound familiar?
That's Mexico.
When Martina and I got over there, we found out that Indian people and Mexican people have so much in common, you guys.
I'm telling you, it's insane how similar we are. Especially the food. The food is so similar. For example, Mexicans love tortillas. Indian people love naan bread, which is a fluffier form of a tortilla. Mexicans love chicken. Indians love chicken. Mexicans love hot and spicy. Indians invented hot and spicy.
Most popular drink in Mexico is Fanta.
Most popular drink in India is Fanta.
Indian people worship cows. Mexicans love barbecues.
Lot of similarities.
Most of the people that I met over there were very hardworking and humble. And I got to tell you, every time I talked to someone, I was always greeted the same way. They'd look at me, they'd put their hands together, they do a little bow, and they say, "Namaste."
Which is an endearing hello. It's really nice and sweet. And then I noticed that Indian people when you're talking to them do this thing with their head where it will begin to move side to side as they're speaking. Now, at first when you notice it, you think, "Oh, he slept wrong. He just got a kink in his neck."
get a tempropedic.
Now, when they they start speaking, their head starts moving. And I noticed this. The guy is checking us into the hotel and he's really cool. He's like, "Listen, if you have any problems at all, okay? You call the front desk, you press zero, we will send somebody to your room to help you. However you need, we got it for you right here." Okay, it's very good. Now, one thing I noticed is the more they talk and the more excited Indian people get, the more the head starts to move around. Somebody at the hotel yelled out to the clerk, "That's fluffy." And the guy was like, "Oh my god, I don't believe it. I can do it. I thought it was you. I thought it was you. Oh my god, I cannot believe this is so crazy. Oh my god. Fluffy, fluffy, fluffy."
Even crazier than that is that the mouth is actually connected to the neck. When the mouth stops moving, the head stops wherever the mouth left off. And when you see Indian people talking to each other, you can see it. Okay, let me tell you something. Okay. Oh, okay. Hold on.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, wait. Okay. Like if you're Indian and you stutter, you are so screwed.
I'm never I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I SOMEBODY STOP HIM.
I'm not going to lie, you guys. When I first saw this happen, I thought it was hysterical. I thought it was funny. But then I started thinking about it. Head movement is just a form of expression.
No matter where you live in this world, people express themselves in their own unique way. Whether through facial expressions, hand gestures, body movement, extra words, everywhere you go, things are different and that's just how they express themselves in India.
Now, back to the whole Indians Mexican thing. That is something else that we share in common with Indian people. Head movement. Now, some of you in the building tonight are like stupid. We don't have head movement. Yes, we do.
It's a little different. See, with Indian people, the head movement is side to side. Mexicans, our head movement is front to back.
The difference between that is that with Mexicans, we have to be very very upset in order for you to see the head movement. Otherwise, you can't tell.
With Indians, it's all the time. Oh, today is such a nice day. It is such a beautiful day. Today, I'm so happy. It's very nice. Very good. Oh my god. I can't believe it's so nice. It's such a Mexicans. When we're mad, that's when it comes out for non-Latinos. Hey, trust me. You cut off a Mexican in traffic.
See what happens.
That's funny. I don't know why the black people are laughing. You guys take it all. Oh, no you didn't. Oh, hell no. I know he ain't talking about me. Uh-uh. I hit a bell. I hit a bell.
I made myself dizzy.
So let me tell you guys if you ever get the opportunity to travel to India I encourage you to check it out. You are going to see some beautiful things. You are going to see some amazing things.
You are going to see some sad depressing things and some real horrible things.
Overall it's a well balanced trip.
But when you get back home here to the United States, you will have a whole different appreciation for your life.
Believe that.
I guarantee this you guys there's a lot of people in India and with a lot of people comes a lot of traffic. First things first, American traffic and Indian traffic very different.
Here, whatever happens on the freeway will stop the whole freeway. In India, there's 10 times the traffic, but it moves.
See, the problem is Americans, we're fascinated by accidents. We're fascinated by the idea of seeing potential death.
That's why we slow down on the freeways.
We say we don't want to see it, but what happens IN TRAFFIC? YOU KNOW, what's going on over there?
There doesn't even have to be a collision. You could be on the 101 freeway and a car has a a tire blowout and it spins.
Doesn't hit anything. It's now facing oncoming traffic. You know what happens to the rest of the freeway?
Even on the other freeway where there's no accident.
And again, what what's going on? What's going on? I'm sorry. Hey, somebody might be dead. Sorry.
In India, if there's an accident in the middle of the street, you know what they do? They drive right around it. They don't stop. And it's not that they're not sensitive to the situation. They are. It's just that there's so much chaos that happens on a regular basis.
They just need to get to work. They do see what's happening. And believe me, they're heartfelt. You know, they'll drive around. I'm so sorry for you.
Nothing stops the flow of traffic in India. They need to get from point A to point B. And so they go they go. If there's an accident, they drive around.
If there's something blocking the street, they get on the sidewalk to go around. It's amazing the way they drive.
And here's something else. No one uses turn signals over there. No one uses turn signals. They use a horn. Now, if you go to India tomorrow, from the time you get there to the time you leave, you're constantly going to hear a horn.
It's an actual language. When people are driving, I'll show you. You're driving, >> car on your right, >> car on your left, >> light up ahead. They talk to each other while they're driving and they barely miss each other every single time. Also, you'll be on the 101 freeway here and there'll be six lanes. In India, you'll see six lanes, but guess what? You'll see 12 cars across.
Yes, they have lines, but they're basically there to let you know more or less the direction you might want to go in.
They're this close to each other. And even at the light, they communicate.
They you see everything. Cars, trucks, vans, motorcycles, pedestrians, cows, children, all waiting for the light.
And they talk at the light with the horn.
>> Very good. You can go. You can go.
>> Welcome. You're welcome. Go, go.
Nothing stops the flow of traffic over there. Indian people drive. Think of ants. You know how ants travel in a straight line and if there's something in their way like a rock? Ants will split up, go around the rock and reunite or climb over the rock. Worst case scenario, they dig a hole and go under the rock. That's the mentality of driving in India. A man can get shot in the middle of the street.
People just look at each other. Somebody pick him up and they'll drag his ass onto the sidewalk. And if there's an accident and they need to get around, guess what's going to happen to that guy on the sidewalk?
Nothing stops the flow of traffic in India except a cow.
Now, I know we've always heard the stories and the jokes about, "Oh, Indian people don't eat hamburgers." I asked the question and I found out it's believed that cows are people who have died and they've been reincarnated and their new life is now the cow, which is why they don't eat them and why they give them all the love and respect in the world over there. I saw this firsthand. There's a cow crossing the street while we're driving and the cows know. They're cocky. They know that they can cross. FREAKING ALL THE AND the cows out there all cing.
No one honks at the cows. No one yells at the cows. No one touches the cows.
They wait for the cows to finish crossing. The cow that we had laid down.
The driver just shut off the car, started tweeting, "There is a cow in the middle of the street."
# Momo.
I asked the driver, "What's going on?" I said, "There there is a cow. I see that there's a cow. Are you going to honk at it? Go around? What What's What's going to happen?" Uh, we cannot uh we cannot uh honker the cow. We must wait for the cow to move. You're kidding. I am not kidding. We must wait for the cow.
We drove past a dead body 15 minutes ago.
That is probably him.
Like seriously, the driving situation over there is so intense, you guys. One morning, one morning while we're there, I needed to get to the airport fast because I overslept. And so I get in the cab and I hand the driver a $50 bill.
And I go, "Sir, I am running very late.
I need to get to the airport as soon as possible. Whatever side street you have to take or back road, I'm all for it.
Whatever you have to do, let's do it."
And I hand him the money and he goes, "Very good. Let's go." And we take off.
The guy is hitting anywhere from 50 to 70 m an hour on the street. We are making incredible time.
I notice that we're heading in the direction of a red light.
You ever been in a car with someone and you're paying attention to what's going on and you notice that you're about to hit a red light and you you know how you start to mentally and physically prepare yourself for the deceleration of the car and you start anticipating the pressure from the brake and if you don't get the sensation of slowing down by a certain point, all alarms go off in your head and you sock the driver in the chest. Hey, not only did I not get the sensation of slowing down, I got the opposite. He gunned it towards the light and it caught me off guard. I couldn't even scream. I was like, and then and then I GOT AIR. HEY, PULL OVER. PULL OVER.
He didn't even know what he did. He looks at me. He goes, "What is wrong?"
What do you mean, what is wrong, dude?
Didn't you see the red light? As calm as can be. Didn't you see there was no one there?
You told me whatever you have to do.
Okay. Whatever you have to do, you do.
Out of all the countries I performed in, my favorite country outside of home is Australia.
And I'll tell you why.
Australia, much like us in America, has its list of priorities. You know what's not on their list? Political correctness.
They do not care about your feelings.
It's like a country full of Daves.
Believe it or not, it's very refreshing to be around such a large group of people who speak their minds so freely.
And if you know that before you go there, you're going to have an amazing time. But if you don't know that and you show up, it is a culture shock and a half because I showed up and I didn't know. Everybody says you got to see the beaches. And I went to to the beach. I had people coming up to me. Hey, somebody help me get them back in THE WATER.
YEAH. LOOK. RIGHT THERE, big fella. Look at you right there. Oh, look. He's moving. He's moving. He's moving. Oh, he's crying. He's crying. I bet it tastes like gravy.
It's not bullying if everyone does it.
Yeah. That being said, I'm in Australia, Sydney, Australia, at the opera house.
For me, it was one of the most iconic places I've ever got to perform in. It was bucket list, definitely. After the show, I wanted to go hang out with some Aussies and see what that was like. I'm hanging out at a pub. First things first, Australian people do not drink Fosters's beer. That's an American thing. They don't drink that over there.
I tried ordering one to fit in. Didn't go over well.
Bartender looked at me. Hey, you like the taste of piss, do you?
Okay, don't order that again.
So, I'm hanging out with these two Aussies and we're drinking a rum called Bundyberg. At first glance, it looks like a Coca-Cola bottle because there's a polar bear on the front and then you drink it and you're like, "That's not Coke."
As we're talking, a third Australian joined the conversation and he sounded a little bit different from the other two.
He had more of a raspy voice, MORE LIKE he sounded like a drunk pirate underwater.
These two guys didn't like him, so they called him a name and they left. And now it's just me and drunk pirate.
We're talking about life. Life in America, life in Australia, talking about our differences. He tells me that he's a professional knife maker. He's showing me how it's done. He's showing me pictures. We wind up polishing off three bottles of this rum. And drunk wasn't even the right word to describe our level.
My tour manager, Ryan, he comes up to me and he says, "Gabe, time to go." And I look at Ryan and I'm like, "But Ryan, I just made a friend and he makes knives and they're pretty.
My tour manager always knows how to talk to me no matter what condition I'm in.
If I'm drunk, he knows better than to talk to me like I'm an adult. He talks to me like I'm two.
He looks at me and he says, "Hey buddy, you hungry?"
Well, listen. If we don't leave right now, they're going to close McDonald's and you're going to have to eat at the airport.
I got a girl.
I'm If you GOT TO GO, YOU GOT TO GO. NO WORRIES. AND HE GOES to shake my hand.
And when he shook my hand, he put his personal pocket knife that he made in my hand as a gift. That's for you, Mike.
Thanks for being nice. Thank you. Thank you.
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Oh my god, I'm such a dork. I don't care. I honestly don't think that the people that that work behind the scenes like the spotlight operators get enough credit. Whether it's the spotlight operators, the people that run the cameras, the people that set up the stages, the people that work security, the people that run the building, without them, there is no show.
And the same thing goes with me. I got my own support team, managers, agents, promoters, you know, uh freaking merchandise people. I have a bus driver named Dave >> who has never received any credit and he's been working for me for almost 10 years now.
>> This man this man has successfully gotten me to every single comedy show on time without fail.
>> If I had to describe him to you. Okay.
Dave looks like the word America.
Not America.
America.
He's about 6 feet tall. He's white. He has a gray beard. And he wears a trucker hat. And he's got to be one of the most hardworking people I have ever met. Now, when I say hardworking, hey, I'm on the road 46 weeks out of the year. So, I know differences. I fly home every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Dave stays on that bus and he gets it to the next city where we meet him. He works anniversaries, holidays, special moments. Christmas time, I was with my family. Dave was driving that bus on the East Coast. New Year's, I was with my family. Dave was on the East Coast driving that bus. One of the hardest working people I've ever met. I just want to give him a shout out.
In addition to being hardworking, he's uh he's he's very honest.
Now, when I say honest, I don't mean, oh, he does his taxes right.
I mean painfully honest. No filter honest. He talks the way people used to.
He does not have time to mince words. He just calls it like he sees it. before me, he used to uh work with a man by the name of Kenny G.
Grammy award winner. Amazing, amazing music. Um, one day Kenny G was on his tour bus that Dave was driving and I guess the two of them had a little discussion and Kenny G used some words that Dave would have rather him not have used. And instead of getting into it with him, this is what Dave does.
kicked Kenny G off of his own bus because he would rather lose his job than lose his selfrespect. And that's the man I work with.
He's a bad dude.
You guys are clapping, but you should have seen the interview.
Oh man, it was a good one. He looks at me and he says, "Hey, let's get one thing straight. I don't give a who you are. You treat me right, I'll treat you right. You pay me on time, you'll live."
Not to mention the fact that he keeps that tour bus squeaky clean and he takes a lot of pride in that as well. One night I was drinking on the bus and I go to put my my cup down and I missed the table and the cup hit the floor. I didn't get up right away to get the cup because I figured I'm going to get up in a couple minutes and make myself another drink. I'll pick up the cup. Then Dave sees the cup on the floor and then he looks at me and says, "HEY, I AIN'T YOUR MAMA. PICK THAT UP."
I get to the back of the bus and I'm like, "Wait a minute. I pay him."
Hey Dave, SHUT UP. YEAH, I'LL BE IN the back in my room. Thank you. Drive safe.
And people tell me, you work with a man who talks that way to you. Why? Let me tell you why. Because he's honest. With Dave, you know exactly what you get.
Nowadays, it is so hard for me to tell who's being genuine and who has an agenda. And with him, you know exactly where you stand.
If he likes you, he loves you. And if not, you're on the curb with Kenny G.
That being said, I have a story to share.
about a year and a half ago, maybe longer. We're on the bus and we're heading down the highway.
Just so you have kind of an understanding of the bus layout, let's say this is the front. Here's Dave, the driver, empty seat, and then a sliding door that goes in between him and the rest of the tour bus. My buddy Alfred and I are in the living room portion, and we're watching TV. We're watching the news. And on the news, there's this person who is running for some type of office.
No particular office.
And I guess their big plan is to erect a structure between two bodies of land somewhere.
And I guess they want one side of the structure to finance the entire project.
Well, my buddy Alfred and I, we have a lot of family that works in construction, and we know a bad job when we see one. So, we started to voice our opinion out loud about how we felt about this person and what they wanted to do.
We're being very loud. So loud Dave can hear us. And then we hear Dave.
AMERICA.
I yell out to Dave. I said, "Be quiet, Dave. This isn't about you." He taps a button on the dashboard that activates the sliding door. And when the door is about that far from closing, HE YELLS OUT, "I'M BUILDING A WALL.
I couldn't even get upset because I was too much in shock over the fact that that came out of someone 4 ft away from me. My buddy Alfred and I, we look like chickens. We're like, my cell phone goes off.
I take out my phone and there's a text message from Dave and I said, "That's right." He better say, "I'm sorry." He better say, "Just kidding." I open up the text message and it says, "And you're paying for it."
And people tell me, "You still work with him after that?" Yes, I do. I trust that man with my life every single night. I know where his heart's at. He can say whatever he wants. At the end of the day, he still has to drive around the king of the Mexicans.
The point to this story is just because you have a difference in opinion, it doesn't mean that you can't have respect for one another. that you can't have love for one another, that you can't have incredible friendships with one another. It's our differences that make us special.
What a lot of us need to work on is our delivery.
It's all in the way you say things.
That's why text messages are always misinterpreted cuz you read the text according to how you feel. What does he mean? Hello.
Yeah. Anyway, Dave has gotten us to uh 48 of the 50 states. Um he doesn't travel with us outside of America. He prefers it that way.
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