Comedians Mark Bailey and Mike Miller discuss briefly the so-called Nightmare comedy show, and how we made a churasco sandwich out of a flash mob fiasco of people who don't pay or speak Japanese or English in a part of town where a guy was just murdered, how we had a 15 minute crash course in translating our sets into Brazilian Portuguese, and how Mark tried to salvage the mood with a recurring Miriam Makeba anti-apartheid song in Portuguese for a millennial crowd and why as comics we never give up on an audience, the coincidence of bad club management of talent and the rate of those dives going out of business.
Mark retells a Yiddish proverb about making excuses when asked for a favor, and the game theory behind making attendees pay for a room that you as a comic booked, stories of being heckled by a baby in Osaka, and Mark retells the classic Woody Allen joke that describes life. Talk Funny is a show about comedians in Japan from all over the world, working in comedy in Japan, writing comedy, working, doing stand up, and getting paid in comedy in Japan. Brought to you by Nagoyaradio.com, Nagoyacomedy.com and stand up comic Mark Bailey.