True Patriot Love - Renaissance Man： Jay Martin Talks Comedy with Crystal Ferrier & Jesse Singh

00:00:00.000 welcome welcome welcome it's yours truly mr jay martin renaissance man and welcome to true

00:00:08.560 patriot love and today is one of my first podcasts but i'm happy because if i'm doing comedy as a

00:00:14.880 comedian i've got to bring the best of the best so i grabbed these two not even the best of the

00:00:19.920 best but i grabbed these two i'm kidding wow i grabbed two good friends two good comedians here

00:00:25.920 uh they're here joining me for this special today and it's going to be amazing we're just

00:00:29.280 going to talk comedy and why people love comedy comedy makes you laugh it makes you feel good it

00:00:34.240 builds up the endorphins it's what people need to stay alive but in these times that we are living

00:00:39.920 in i think is the most important time for comedy so let me introduce my guests to you while we have

00:00:44.880 them here first we have crystal farrier say hi tell them a little about yourself i'm crystal i've been

00:00:49.520 doing comedy for almost 20 years now yes and and i've known jay for that whole time yes i remember

00:00:56.000 i remember and we have here mr jesse singh in the house yes my name is jesse singh i've been

00:01:02.720 doing comedy for about 10 11 years and uh bro when i started i was a huge fan of your work so it's

00:01:08.640 dope it's like a full circle moment so thank you thank you you're aging me uh uh yes i started

00:01:16.800 doing it kind of 30 years but publicly we did about 23 25 years uh me and my boy john paul we

00:01:22.720 developed that trinidad versus jamaica show and it's different coming into comedy we're different

00:01:28.240 so now that we have like the 25 plus and the 20 and the 10 11 years difference in coming in first

00:01:36.000 time give them an experience of your first time and i'll give them an experience of my first time

00:01:40.080 you want to go first sure go ahead the first time like comedy yeah we're talking to your first

00:01:44.160 comedy experience not when you were whatever um first time doing comedy was at a little bar in

00:01:50.800 brampton okay and the bar was called cc's on kennedy road if you're familiar with brampton i'm

00:01:56.640 sure it's closed down now i'm sure it is too okay um but i did like three jokes kind of about my mom

00:02:03.280 and being indian it was about five minutes okay and it went super well for my first time which

00:02:09.760 i've heard after that people bomb on their first time so i was really lucky and then i met a few

00:02:16.880 comedians uh keisha brownie who introduced me to this mike right and cedric newman for the first

00:02:23.920 that's the first time i met said there there and he actually introduced me to kenny wow like a few

00:02:30.480 weeks later and kenny put me on the nubian show wow yeah so my second time my second time was

00:02:37.760 the nubian show to you right which is which is i didn't know that was incredible you didn't know

00:02:43.520 no yeah yeah yeah we lived kind of like the same kind of life real quickly i'm not gonna

00:02:48.640 gaslight it but i did my first comedy show private with some friends invited them a dare

00:02:54.020 i had my jokes hidden behind a speaker so i could read them yeah but i did like 35 minutes feeling

00:03:00.640 great and my first ever show was at uh york event theater down at young and eglinton russell peters

00:03:07.540 was the host i did the show nervous like you were nervous right of course like i wanted to vomit it 0.53

00:03:13.060 was terrible. And, um, I get out there and I do my set and I ended on an Indian ending dance,

00:03:19.880 which was my trademark. Thank you to Indians. Uh, yummy peoples. Um, and I got a standing

00:03:26.200 ovation and Russell was again, this is my second time. First time was private. That was public

00:03:30.880 first time. And Russell was like, when did you start? And I said today. And he's like, no way.

00:03:35.740 yeah and he brought me again to kenny and my my second show was at newbie i started in june

00:03:43.820 and i headlined by december which is crazy which is so i didn't know we had a similar

00:03:51.180 so it wasn't like i did open mics i never did that and i headlined by by by by um december

00:03:57.420 when was your first time tell us about it the experience like yeah loosen up yeah first time

00:04:02.460 no yeah bro first time i was 18. um okay and uh it wasn't as extravagant as that

00:04:11.180 first time i did a it was an amateur night at absolute comedy which okay even still is like

00:04:17.100 kind of an anomaly because usually the first time people do open mics there's like you know it's just

00:04:21.180 a rundown bar yeah right but this was like first time at a comedy club and i remember leading up

00:04:26.700 to it it was like you had the sign up was like the first tuesday of every month at 10 a.m you had to

00:04:32.860 call in but you were literally calling for like to not even exaggerate like 200 times like they

00:04:38.220 would just have the lines always busy so like i would just i would literally run i would be i was

00:04:43.340 at work at the time and i would be like yo i gotta use the washroom and then i would go to run to the

00:04:47.420 washroom just start calling for like 30 minutes straight wow then for three months consecutively

00:04:53.740 i called in called in then they gave me a spot for the month after so you you book a month uh

00:04:59.500 you booked yeah a month in advance right and at that time i didn't think far enough ahead so as

00:05:06.380 soon as i got the spot that's when i was like oh i need material i can't just show up and then i

00:05:14.940 remember like scrambling to like come up with five seven minutes and then i it was show day and i

00:05:21.580 brought up a bunch of my friends people came out to watch and i still remember the guy hosting was

00:05:26.460 his asian dude with dreads i don't think he still does it he doesn't do it dude named alan you i

00:05:34.460 think he became like a mortgage broker he got really yeah he got a real job after i don't know

00:05:39.100 of a rasta asian yeah i don't think it was rasta i think he just i think it was just cosplaying but

00:05:44.700 But because I was going to say, like, because Rasta's don't eat pork.

00:05:48.160 No, no, no.

00:05:49.000 Yeah, yeah, bro.

00:05:50.000 How did the first Rasta that had gout that I got with you?

00:05:54.160 I can't with you.

00:05:57.000 But anyways, I go up and like same thing, bro.

00:06:00.360 It was like I crushed and it went really well.

00:06:04.360 And I think I've been chasing that dragon like forever because it's like a real good.

00:06:10.460 Yeah, that's like the first.

00:06:11.860 it's the first is always the craziest experience in any scenario yes it is yeah and every like

00:06:17.860 life experience your first one your first punch in the face yeah is an experience you know you're

00:06:22.980 like how the hell did that happen so i get you i get you so that being said the three of us had

00:06:28.580 a very good story for our first time um but then with everything good in the world yes back 100

00:06:35.780 and so your first bombing oh your first bombing i'll start my first bombing was exactly after

00:06:44.020 that i'm here six months in i'm headlining i'm the i think i'm the best

00:06:49.060 comedian ever i'm like what are these people taking so long and i get booked

00:06:53.060 uh that's how russell peters had an agent ed smiel and he booked me for a show at the

00:06:58.180 nigel falls casino and i'm like who does casinos in six months yeah i'm the man but i thought it

00:07:03.460 was like welcome to casino jay martin and i was like nah this was like a room in the side corner

00:07:10.100 where people go to lose money and they aren't happy at all and i mean it was just a clock i

00:07:15.620 went there with mark trinidad and there was a clock there that had 30 minutes in a countdown

00:07:19.460 and there's a track that just said introducing the next comedian no name no intro no dj nothing

00:07:26.260 to what i was used to i lasted 19 minutes in the first set and this couldn't do it anymore

00:07:32.420 and mark came in and cleaned up my time and then um we did it again for another hour it was paying

00:07:39.220 wicked it was like three grand of course and the next one i made it to 21 and mark saved my life

00:07:43.540 so mark will always be known as a lifesaver to me yeah good jokes or bad jokes mark trinidad saved

00:07:48.980 my life that day second time i gotta tell you i got the same year into the halifax comedy festival

00:07:55.460 and they came to see us at yuck yucks at the showcase and they're like there's no way he's 0.95

00:08:00.020 a rookie like we're not gonna put him in new faces which they should have put my ass as new faces 0.98

00:08:05.700 because i ate it ate it yeah like jib cameras were coming at every joke i told was this one lady was 1.00

00:08:13.940 like ah ah one there's this but one i couldn't go back to the green room the green room had

00:08:22.980 everybody there john dore right all these big comedians i couldn't go back to the green room

00:08:27.940 i was just like going back to the green room i wanted to vomit i'm like i'm that i'm this

00:08:32.340 like why do i bob on national television i was in the corner crying like real crying and john

00:08:38.180 paul was like cut that out yeah i'm like i'll never do this again so every comedian has a bad

00:08:43.940 day and i've never had another bad day again like that like we've had bad shows that yeah

00:08:48.820 but like bomb like that like god put me in my my head was like

00:08:52.420 pop like that was it when's your first bonding come on let me hear it girl you know what i don't

00:08:58.640 know which came first i have two that stick out and i think they were the only two times that i

00:09:03.520 really really bombed right but one of the times that stuck out was at that time tricks had just

00:09:09.320 gotten let go from flow okay and so he was like building ranting and he told all of us that we

00:09:17.140 have to diss flow like you gotta go flow sucks wow right and we're like yeah yeah yeah all right 0.69

00:09:22.580 the battles with it what's going on like cool and at that time i didn't really know any better

00:09:26.900 you know i like tricks i was like wow he's really funny yes and so i'm gonna do what he tells me to

00:09:31.220 do okay so i get on and i didn't even make a joke about it i just i just said i just want you guys

00:09:36.340 to know flow sucks and it was like in the beginning of my set real amateur you know and then they 0.61

00:09:42.020 kind of looked at me like huh and you know when you hear the rumble oh yeah i was like oh no and

00:09:48.180 then you know you feel the sweat oh it's coming you're like oh it's coming it's coming luckily i

00:09:52.900 was able to save it yeah i didn't get booed or anything lucky you so i just started like into

00:09:57.940 my material and i pretended like nothing happened right but it was work you know i have to work it

00:10:03.380 back to have to get it back second time give it second time i was on stage with actually keisha

00:10:08.260 brownie we were doing a two-woman show where we dress up i was the old indian auntie i remember

00:10:13.540 these the old jamaican auntie and we're used to like we did it at nubian and killed it like i'm 0.74

00:10:19.460 talking standing old like you know people loved us so we're feeling nice we go to do it on a tuesday

00:10:25.460 night all white people in the audience they were like at yuck yucks yo someone called keisha miss

00:10:31.860 doubtfire i can't i can't who's this jamaican miss doubtfire yelled it out do you know how 1.00

00:10:39.060 embarrassed we were we left out the back door we could not even face anybody

00:10:50.100 i heard it i heard it so those are the two stories for me yes i uh bro so after that first time

00:10:58.020 like the same thing you were talking about in my head i'm like i'm untouchable right and then i

00:11:03.860 still remember this mike rita uh shout out to mike rita he was the first person to give me yeah

00:11:08.900 first person to give me a paid spot it was 20 bucks but for a first time community like that

00:11:15.700 this is mine so and it was at vapor central which if anyone is familiar with is like this weed

00:11:22.980 lounge and it was always packed 100 plus people yes and this is my first time ever performing in

00:11:29.540 front of a high crowd but also having to follow mike rita because he used that's not what you do

00:11:35.580 no and he used to host so like he was going up destroying killing yes and first of all it's like

00:11:44.200 it's a high crowd already which people think when you tell them like oh they're like oh they probably

00:11:48.860 laugh at everything it's the it's the opposite they don't even know where they are yeah like

00:11:53.280 100 100 it's just silence bro they're looking at you like you're a tv like they're like

00:11:59.180 is this guy real why are you talking back to you yeah exactly and i remember i had 10 minutes i

00:12:06.400 probably did three because i was talking so fast i was talking over my punch lines i just wasn't

00:12:14.360 used to the silence right like it was like silence is one thing but when it's quiet and the only

00:12:20.040 thing you hear is a man coughing like dying it's nasty it's the worst nasty and yeah i remember

00:12:26.920 getting off and i remember apologizing to mike yeah i'm being like bro i'm so sorry he's like 0.56

00:12:33.000 nah man don't worry about it yeah he's like don't watch that yeah those words suck because you're in

00:12:37.720 those cases not to cut you but you want to give the money back yeah it feels so bad you know what

00:12:42.680 i mean i've had some shows where i'm like well it's 450 bucks you probably need 150 back it's

00:12:49.160 just it's just it's just the law of the game but we're needed to do this we're laugh doctors which

00:12:53.880 i like to refer to us as and we keep going we just keep going we keep going right and why i chose you

00:13:00.360 guys to be one of my two first guests is because you guys share a common denominator as being we

00:13:07.560 both have beards oh yes both you trimmed yours you trimmed yours well done thank you

00:13:16.360 um so i i you're both you're both indian but you're married to non-indians like yeah how

00:13:22.760 did you guys manage that how was that what happened are you ostracized from other indians

00:13:30.200 you came out of your race in such a race related time like i'll start with you jesse yes what's

00:13:36.760 where's your wife from and why'd you do it bro why did you disobey your people

00:13:41.960 i'm dead yeah your mom is not gonna do it right yeah bro this guy

00:13:48.520 all right um yeah man well wife is guy knees um so actually it's not super far off heritage-wise

00:13:59.960 they're indian but tell your mom that yeah yeah that's the thing though right they don't they 1.00

00:14:05.560 like uh so in the beginning i think i always knew that i wasn't gonna marry a punjabi woman just

00:14:12.600 because like not because like there's any animosity yeah wrong with it but i think

00:14:18.840 i think it's because similar to what crystal talked about this on stage like growing up

00:14:23.400 a lot of my community a lot of my inner circle were caribbean people right like you know i never 0.95

00:14:28.120 really grew up around indians and like after when i was out in the world on my own doing comedy and

00:14:34.680 i started getting booked for desi shows i slowly started realizing a lot of my people that are from

00:14:41.560 india or like people from my community actually didn't even really fully accept me because they

00:14:47.800 almost saw me as like oh this guy's not indian enough or he's cosplaying being right like this

00:14:52.840 brown face but that's not who he is and so i felt like there was this internal battle i had with

00:14:59.080 identity but the one people that did accept me were caribbean people there you go you know and

00:15:04.200 then i remember meeting my wife at a comedy show ironically she was in the audience and then really

00:15:10.760 best place to get that booty baby yeah wow and i was just doing crowd work and then after that

00:15:16.680 we kind of like you know chatting it up and one thing left led to another i think the biggest

00:15:21.480 hurdle though with my family was that was that like they didn't understand the culture they

00:15:26.440 didn't understand the background and like even trying to explain that like they're from india

00:15:32.280 it's just that during colonization they were taken as indentured workers whatever right they

00:15:37.720 they still saw them as like a different type of people correct right or like even in some cases

00:15:44.200 like a lower caste which is crazy well hey that's what we do anytime it's out of your race yeah the 1.00

00:15:50.120 other race is lower yeah like that's what ends up happening how about for you crystal like come on 0.99

00:15:55.240 girl i know your husband and i know i i gotta tell a story before you actually start i remember

00:16:01.960 when i did a show out in calgary or it was alberta out there you're out there and he came over to me

00:16:10.200 and he was like you know her and i'm like yeah and he wasn't asking me to help pick her up but

00:16:14.200 you should have seen he was nervous he was yeah i've liked her for some time like i don't know

00:16:18.600 if i should step to her and i was like well she loves jubbie i'm kidding lead with oxtail but tell

00:16:28.360 us tell us how did that kind of form yeah so just to just to like reiterate what jesse was saying

00:16:33.080 yeah same thing like i was born in india yeah exactly in canada yeah born in toronto that's

00:16:38.040 crazy i was born in india even when i go back to india they refer to me as nri which is a

00:16:44.280 non-resident indian wow that's a category like they're like oh she's an nri really and you're

00:16:50.680 born there and i was born there but when i came here the same thing i didn't really resonate so

00:16:55.400 like we we grew up catholic right so it's like a christian background and so a lot of people that

00:17:01.320 were here were punjabis in brampton and we didn't like punjabis don't look at us the same right they 1.00

00:17:06.920 look at us as very different right even though okay i think it's the same right but they're like you're

00:17:11.960 not punjabi you're christian right so i wasn't indian enough enough i wasn't white enough for

00:17:17.240 the white people are you serious okay obviously because i look girl i know yes tell that to my

00:17:22.680 mom um but it's jamaicans because we had a group of jamaicans at school always playing dominoes in

00:17:30.440 the cafeteria and you know you can't see it now but i have a back side yes and so they'd be like

00:17:36.120 like big Bhatia come sit with us and I'm like I don't know what that is but somebody invited me

00:17:40.260 to sit with them so I'm excited I'm like I don't have Bhatia is that yeah yeah the super fan

00:17:48.160 super is that my buff that Bhatia super Bhatia that's a superhero that could be my name right

00:17:56.900 that's funny super Bhatia yes but uh yeah so like for me I was always I was just happy to be invited

00:18:04.060 into a group of people that were like yo you're cool like you don't have to change they don't

00:18:08.760 want me to become more caribbean they're just like we like this the way she is right so for me 0.99

00:18:14.100 it felt like love i felt accepted good so yes after that i dated mostly jamaican men right

00:18:21.080 and so with my husband now i did meet him in alberta right and he did try for a very long time

00:18:26.260 because you know what like you know sterling scott yes he was out in alberta and so my husband asked

00:18:31.820 the same thing like who's this girl like i really like her right and sterling was like yo that

00:18:36.620 girl's front is on auction like there's men lined up and they're like oh to the biggest bidder

00:18:50.460 yeah no but you know what i was coming out of a relationship at that time and no one really knew

00:18:55.820 it was kind of secret and so i wasn't really on the market so yes men that approached me i was

00:19:00.860 like no i'm good like you know and they're like but are you single i'm like yeah so that's why

00:19:04.540 they were like oh no like you know too much right good so anyways that's that's how i met him and

00:19:10.220 the thing with the family as well like i have this joke i'm like my mom loves my husband even though

00:19:15.020 he's jamaican because when i introduced them i just told um her that she that he's um sri lankan

00:19:20.780 and so i'm getting canceled guys so like they're like yeah so like you know it's it's a big joke

00:19:28.220 but my mom knew she told me she knew she knew that i would bring home like a jamaican man

00:19:33.340 this is where i have to ask this question is it like with the parents like i always knew he was

00:19:37.820 gay absolutely it was like i always knew she was going to be a black one like yeah my mom's like 0.92

00:19:45.340 i remember even her cooking like do you know what kebabs are you know like cooking kebabs and i

00:19:51.100 don't know i like my food like you know barbecue like burnt like you know so i'm like ma like can

00:19:55.340 can you burn my kebab and she'd be like of course you like yeah yeah i'm like oh she knows she knows

00:20:01.540 the word is out right speaking of the word is out i'm transitioning here the word is out that

00:20:07.580 comedians talk that's what we do for a living so after we're after we're on stage we get off stage

00:20:13.320 and all these little gossips and rumors are out there and i'm gonna touch on it because

00:20:18.960 from those rumors derives beefs yeah we're gonna hear a story from a comedian and we're gonna

00:20:24.980 embellish because that's what we do best but between all of that embellishment there's some

00:20:29.620 truth in it right um some beasts that you guys got into without even knowing you were in these

00:20:35.220 beasts within the comedy world you don't have to feel like nervous to call names but these happen

00:20:40.980 yeah yeah one of your experiences that you might not everybody's all great yeah you know when you

00:20:45.700 start give me an example um yeah probably without naming names but i think i've talked to crystal

00:20:51.140 about this one where it's like a bigger comedian approached me about teeth in a joke and for people

00:20:57.780 that aren't in the community that's like like the worst thing you could ever do well one of the

00:21:03.820 worst thing i'm not saying it's the worst but ever in your life but it's like that's someone's bread

00:21:08.000 and butter right that's someone's like you're like taking away someone's livelihood or you know

00:21:12.740 their career for instance and the thing is the joke that they accused me of was like a throwaway

00:21:18.380 line and what that basically means is it wasn't really a punch line to a joke it wasn't a setup

00:21:23.340 to a joke it was like it was just a it was just like a little throwaway that you might do to kill

00:21:28.380 time right or transition right and then the other joke that they accused me of was specifically about

00:21:35.900 same person okay uh was about uh justin trudeau bit about him doing brown face and then i

00:21:41.820 transitioned yeah i transitioned the punchline transitioned into my mom not getting why it was

00:21:48.860 racist and her experience of me showing a picture to her and her being like oh my god he loves us

00:21:55.280 and i'm like no right but then they took it as like yo i did this joke first i had the premise

00:22:00.420 about the brown face trudeau and then word got back to them that i was doing this joke in a

00:22:05.200 different city but they came at me and like my first instinct was like this is a comedian i

00:22:11.160 looked up to right right and i saw them as like yo like if they're coming at me i must have really

00:22:16.540 messed up right and then my first instinct was to apologize like you know like uh tackle the

00:22:22.340 situation and be like yo uh my bad like you know i didn't know this was a thing um or i didn't know

00:22:28.100 that you had the similar joke and i wrote out the joke for them right but they were still accusing

00:22:32.400 me of like taking it and like being like yo i'm doing you a favor by coming to you privately

00:22:36.860 and i left it alone um and like you know i uh i didn't i didn't think anything of it i thought

00:22:44.080 it was squashed and then you know as i started progressing in my career this person started

00:22:49.500 name started popping up but not in the most positive light right there was a lot of negative

00:22:54.200 connotations behind them and saying people were actually saying like specifically this person is

00:22:59.080 known for teeth in material okay so i don't know if it was like one of those things where they saw

00:23:04.440 me do a bit that was similar and then they're like oh this person's doing the same thing or whatever

00:23:09.480 but uh i thought it was squash said and done and then years later i heard them saying my name to

00:23:15.960 someone else right and they kind of brought it back to me be like yo i heard you did so and so

00:23:20.440 and i'm like dog this was years ago and i thought it was dead yeah it's never dead listen i don't

00:23:24.920 mean again i don't mean to cut you but i'm just like jokes people don't own premises right people

00:23:31.400 steal jokes directly and inadvertently we hang around for a week we're going to talk this right

00:23:39.800 we're going to use some of the same cadences uh i've had many of my jokes many of them i've heard

00:23:45.480 come out of other people's mouths especially when i started because we all start on the same type of

00:23:49.320 material our family beatings yeah so it's going to develop the way you develop as an individual

00:23:56.040 and my jokes were getting stolen by the minute to the point that i just started writing about

00:24:01.400 my own family my new materials unless you got kids that had this problem that problem that problem

00:24:08.040 you can't do it right one of my favorite crystal jokes is when she got pregnant and 1.00

00:24:11.880 not pregnant 10 months later and i love that i love that because you need to have someone who

00:24:19.320 had that crystal realized that you have to have someone that had to have two babies in 10 months 1.00

00:24:23.720 to come tell me that's your material right and you know i i started yeah exactly i started off

00:24:29.000 my show she actually did it for the bit because she's tired of people like these jokes i i start

00:24:35.880 off my bit by saying my first ever joke is me bussing on me having indian clothes under my

00:24:40.840 clothes and dancing to indian music and i walk into yunk yucks one day and i see a cat that's

00:24:46.200 not indian dancing to indian music and they're like jay's right there yeah you don't have to be 0.99

00:24:52.920 a joke thief maybe they saw it on the show and it inspired their mind and let's see i can take

00:24:57.160 it that way yeah people say that i encouraged you to come that way but no one can tell me 0.58

00:25:02.760 on no world earth that there is another black guy in england or wherever that was doing this 0.97

00:25:09.160 yeah for me you know what i mean but here how it goes joke thieves are out there they do your stuff

00:25:14.920 but it's it's a part of the business how do you experience it because you obviously wrote that

00:25:19.560 joke because you keep hearing stuff yeah you experience it i don't you know what like i've

00:25:24.360 seen um of course not naming names but i've seen clips go up with like my exact words yeah and then

00:25:33.480 i'm like uh i think i've spoken to you as well right where it's like okay what do i do here and

00:25:39.240 one time i i just like i was petty i put a clip of like with the date like you know that yes i took

00:25:45.480 it right down i did i did and then i i took it right down and i was like this i mean i didn't

00:25:51.480 I didn't want to show it to the other person.

00:25:52.940 I just wanted people to see that it's there.

00:25:54.820 Because then if people see that clip online first,

00:25:57.480 they're like, oh, like, Crystal stole that joke.

00:25:59.820 And I'm like, no, like, I did this 10 years ago.

00:26:02.120 Yeah, listen, I've had jokes that I've heard them yell,

00:26:07.200 that's Trix's joke, while I'm doing the joke.

00:26:10.540 And I'm like, no, that's my joke.

00:26:13.800 And me and Trix...

00:26:14.640 Oh, we're calling out names.

00:26:15.700 No, I'm calling this particular situation,

00:26:18.480 because he would get it too.

00:26:19.780 And there was a time where he would just say,

00:26:22.500 it's about Africans meeting people in the club.

00:26:24.880 It's not my premise.

00:26:26.240 That happens everywhere.

00:26:27.640 Right.

00:26:28.480 And I gave him Kofi and I'm calling my African guy

00:26:31.680 and I'm blowing the African dart, 1.00

00:26:33.280 I'm doing every racial slur you can act 0.99

00:26:35.500 about Africans pulling them up in clubs.

00:26:37.520 But then I realized Trix is actually African. 0.72

00:26:40.320 So if he does that joke about his people,

00:26:43.140 it's going to sound authentically him.

00:26:45.620 And he acknowledged that I did it and he does it.

00:26:48.680 And I'm not even calling him a joke for it,

00:26:50.900 but it's just a premise that he delivers.

00:26:53.220 And you grow.

00:26:54.500 If I have a joke that you have a joke that's similar with,

00:26:56.960 like, dude, I'll just make a new joke.

00:26:59.000 Yeah.

00:26:59.840 Of 100.

00:27:00.680 That's how I see it.

00:27:01.520 I have them coming out of my pocket everywhere.

00:27:03.380 Yeah.

00:27:04.300 Changing gears real quickly.

00:27:05.980 Comedians, your top four, no top five.

00:27:08.900 Let's go top five. 0.82

00:27:09.740 Oh my gosh.

00:27:10.680 Any genre, top five.

00:27:12.940 Your top five, hit me, Jess.

00:27:14.540 Oh my God.

00:27:15.440 Oh, this is top, top five.

00:27:17.300 Okay, top five, no particular order.

00:27:19.480 Yeah, let's not do it.

00:27:20.300 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:27:22.240 All the time, I was going to, I would say Chappelle pre-Netflix.

00:27:27.160 I loved his, like, bro, I still think, for what it's worth in Killing Them Softly or

00:27:33.680 Goaded, that Patrice O'Neal, RIP, rest in peace. 0.63

00:27:39.020 Bro, honestly, this is like, I would say this is like, to keep it, like, to big up our

00:27:44.180 local talent as well, Sterling, bro.

00:27:46.480 he's been someone who's like definitely and not even like not even like like in terms of comedic

00:27:52.520 talent but just as a person who's like giving me opportunities he's always been good to me

00:27:56.580 scott for sterling scott yeah yeah sterling i'll put up there um bill burr oh nice and uh as of

00:28:05.480 recently i would say shane gillis okay yeah she's got a nice special yeah i have the same like really

00:28:12.280 like really patrice yes chappelle yes one that you didn't speak of uh is earthquake listen

00:28:21.080 earthquake specials like the the first one that came onto netflix yes oh like you know as comedians

00:28:28.040 you watch somebody else doing comedy and you don't laugh because you're you're a scientist

00:28:32.680 you're just checking it out yes and we do things we won't laugh but we'll go oh that's funny yes

00:28:37.800 oh that's a good joke that's a great joke yeah but when i watch earthquake when i tell you my face

00:28:43.160 was wet crying like when he's describing the doctor's office with his with the back open

00:28:50.120 his hospital gown and just like colonoscopy experience i cried so hard but yeah like

00:28:58.040 and then local love like you guys we've come up with you guys like sterling was one of the first

00:29:02.600 that i met as well yeah and it's not even just his comedy like you said it's his hustle and his grind

00:29:08.840 the man has heart yes do you know what i'm saying and a lot of people are doing this for so long

00:29:13.640 and they lose that they do they do but he has that right there you know and it's like you touched

00:29:19.320 such a good point yeah uh people will see comedians and they'll be like they're at a club and they'll

00:29:24.040 watch us how we translate to comedians yeah and people don't understand we've been around comedy

00:29:28.600 so long so so much that i believe our laugh gland is beaten up so i'll just be like hilarious

00:29:37.720 yeah oh that was dope hilarious and people like you liked it no i loved it yeah but we've laughed

00:29:42.520 so much we don't laugh anymore yeah you're looking at like the structure of the structure of the joke

00:29:48.200 it's i i wanted you guys to answer the question when i said top five your top five in any genre

00:29:53.560 to say i can't do it like i don't know it's very difficult it's very difficult question because i

00:29:59.320 can't do it yeah uh my five are definitely rest in peace of course bernie mack i loved everything

00:30:06.200 he did yeah this is not supposed to be five yeah bernie mack uh showed me that he got into the game

00:30:15.320 late and i got into game a little older yeah and i realized that he moved to prominence i actually

00:30:20.440 went to a writing school at humber because i was coming out with these russell tours for two years

00:30:25.960 thousands of people and i felt that i couldn't talk to white people but here i am

00:30:34.200 but i went to humber to write for um and the professor said to me wait you you perform in

00:30:39.720 front of big crowds and he used bernie mac as an example when bernie mac came out no one ever

00:30:44.520 understood what he was saying yeah yeah people learn to understand your dialect when you're

00:30:51.560 funny right and that was the biggest thing i took out of the course so brandy maxwell

00:30:55.800 sorry for the long-winded um i have oliver sammons because of course jamaican and i was growing up in

00:31:02.760 a christian world so everybody yells prior prior prior which is prior i never saw prior to like

00:31:08.280 later because i was a church house yeah you couldn't bring prior yeah yeah uh i loved i

00:31:14.040 loved oliver and i'm gonna say it because you can't say his name anymore but bill cosby yeah

00:31:19.160 i love positive yeah prayer before this drink but i love me some cosby cosby was my guy and the way

00:31:27.640 you do your face cosby is the only comedian that me and my father got to take him rest his soul

00:31:34.840 in peace we sat there uh guy got his cosby tickets and i was like see that this is what i want to do

00:31:40.360 so that moment is like tattooed to my brain and he sat on a chair for an hour and a half

00:31:46.280 i think it's time to go back where are you going he made two hours feel like 15 days yeah um cosby's

00:31:52.840 in my list red fox is in my list rest in peace as well yeah i'm gonna throw i'm gonna throw jim

00:31:58.840 carry on my list really because his physical comedy through in living color was all my boys

00:32:04.920 grew up with right i get you guys watching it but while it was happening per episode i was in

00:32:09.960 high school right yeah and i was like this guy is not canadian yeah all the comedians that came out

00:32:14.840 of there were crazy but in living color was a piece for me and of course the list doesn't stop

00:32:19.240 there there's so many like chapelle chapelle yeah yeah he just keeps taking it to another level and

00:32:25.560 doesn't right yeah here's one joke where uh he asked for stove stove top stuffing yeah yeah

00:32:31.720 classically he has a jar with subjects and i kicked her in the pee yeah and how he got to 0.53

00:32:37.880 create it and drive us through it comedy is such a big form of us um i couldn't know what we would

00:32:43.080 do or be without comedy i i touched on your favorites uh i'm gonna touch on you guys what's

00:32:50.040 your year look like for you where can we find you what are we looking forward to in the future for

00:32:55.080 for you, Kristen.

00:32:56.320 So this year's really exciting.

00:32:58.560 You made it sound exciting, like you're excited.

00:33:00.320 So exciting.

00:33:02.100 This year I wrote as one of my goals

00:33:05.040 that I wanted to host my own TV show.

00:33:07.460 And so I did that in January.

00:33:09.800 We recorded for CHCH called Comedy in Five.

00:33:13.380 Jesse was on it as well.

00:33:15.220 And so it's 10 episodes where I host all 10

00:33:17.500 and intro comics doing their best five.

00:33:20.900 That's gonna be released April 20th of this year.

00:33:24.200 So check it out, THDH.

00:33:26.220 Chris has got her comedy show.

00:33:27.920 Yes.

00:33:28.400 And what about you?

00:33:29.920 I'm excited for that as well.

00:33:31.580 So you can check that out.

00:33:32.760 It was my first TV taping, which I'm excited for.

00:33:35.940 You're a lot of rookie firsts.

00:33:37.520 Yeah.

00:33:38.200 And then going to be on that.

00:33:40.960 And then also doing, it's not my first time doing a Canada-wide tour,

00:33:45.160 but I'm going to be doing an independent tour alongside my boy Abdullah.

00:33:48.880 We're going to be doing co-headlining together.

00:33:50.740 So I'm looking forward to that.

00:33:52.220 And you can follow me at Punjabi Tembe.

00:33:54.200 that's as follows tell your follow at crystal the comedian crystal the comedian and my friends i got

00:34:00.980 a lot happening a lot going on everyone knows jay's got a lot going on but i'm happy to be

00:34:06.300 performing with these two on a show called can you make a laugh that's going to be happening on

00:34:11.240 the 28th of march at the rabbit gaming house in mississauga yeah so you can get your tickets

00:34:17.500 to ticketgateway.com and you'll be able to see these two along with uh i believe seven more

00:34:23.040 comedians just giving laughs and we keep laughs cheap 20 bucks but uh rama gaming house we are

00:34:28.840 coming on march 28th with a bag of laughs with a lot of comedians you guys got to keep it locked

00:34:33.880 here on tplmedia.ca check us out the show is hot it's got yours truly mr jay martin the renaissance

00:34:42.240 man my first guest of comedy jesse sing christopher we'll be back next time thank you so much for

00:34:47.940 Tune it in. Keep it locked right here.

00:34:50.260 Thank you.

True Patriot Love - March 23, 2026

Renaissance Man： Jay Martin Talks Comedy with Crystal Ferrier & Jesse Singh

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