the in the i will the author, mom v joining us next that i keep calling him yasser. so i decided with the os of right up front before i haven't post fee on dennis miller plus $1.00. you've got a great no show. i don't know if you've seen it sort of the ghostbusters meets davinci code on the paramount network called evil plays one of 3 guys. 3 currently having bad dreams will talk to us if a bottle right after this on dennis miller plus one.

hey folks. welcome to dennis miller plus one. i'm back in the studio and l a after year and a quarter doing this out of my home and my andes. so bear with me. although still under the desk, in my andes, we are joined today by comedian an actor, asif mom g. and he's best known as an actor and comedian known for his roles. films like $1000000.00 arm doug that film sweet and the last air bender. course his time as a correspondent, she's been there for seems like 10 years the daily show and he currently appears on the paramount plus sho, evil which is streaming on said network us if mon v, how are you my friend?

nice to see you. nice to i don't think we've ever chatted before. brother. just last week we spent 2 hours in a local restaurant. i thought i wasn't making on you, but i didn't know that was you know. ok. ok. i get. i was like, why is this homeless guy bothering you? i can't ok. all right now now it'll click make sense. right? no, no, no, no pain taken by me. hey, listen, brother, i'm looking at your c v and the thing that immediately. 2 fascinates me as the trip tick just geographically in your life because i went to india right before the pad demick for my 1st time. i've never been more over run by stimuli. i couldn't believe it than to england. a little more state than to tampa. told me about the long, strange trip. first off. what did you get out of mother india?

well, soon after i got out of my mother, we, we last when i was a year old. so i was born and i often call myself as human to duckett, which is a, an indian baby wrapped in an english school boy wrapped in an american adult. so, you know, i have a internal identity crisis that is very unique. yeah, we left india and we moved to the north of england when i was a year old. so a mining town, an industrial mining town called bradford. it's in west yorkshire and no been but if i you have been know i'm from pittsburgh. so i know the, i know the rhythms of the steel mining town stuff like so show, imagine pittsburgh. but with like, 50 times more smog and dirt in the air and not a place that you know, you need to rush to. but that's where i grew up and my dad had

a little corner shop and yeah, and it was like a working class sort of, you know, middle class working class childhood. and then in the early eighty's, my dad got a bug in his bonnet to, to get bonuses. what we wore to basically be moved to america. he was going to america where he wanted to move to canada originally. and then you realize, well, canada is just as cold as england, so screw that. and so then he had a friend who will 1st he wanted to move to west palm beach. and this whole plan. i'm going to go in west palm beach. we're going to set up who's going to open a bike store in a mall. he never written a bike before in his life like he, i don't know what he was thinking and he was, i would go in at west palm beach kids and it's beautiful. there it's like sunshine all the time. it's the beach at the bureau. and then he had a buddy of his from college, from india who had moved to tampa, florida, and this guy said don't go to west palm beach,

come to tampa. jeff was the city of the future that everything's happening and this is the early eighty's. and and so we came to tampa, florida, and i went to high school in college and stuff and then decided to become an actor and moved to new york in the early ninety's. and i've been in new york ever since. so that's it. yeah, it was a strange trajectory. i'm fascinated by this because there's been the mining tom has been tampa bay. there's been new york. i assume there's now l a. is there anything in the hard drive and you, you know, they talk about this, this is of, in india and i did find the, the, the poverty buttress stuff. again, some of the beauty to be. so i thought the some energy happening here and i'm not prone to those observations. do you think there's anything in you that makes you long for india at all? you know, it's funny. i, i went there, i went back over the years when i was, you know, a child and then when i was older with my family and you know,

so there's something about the place that feels very familiar to me. but i also feel like an incredible foreigner there. i mean, i walk down the street and it's like, you know, i just have west and imperialist colonialist colors all over me because i grew up in the west and they can just thought you like that. you just the way you walk, you know, so i feel like there is something familial, about the place, especially mom, bye, which is where my mother's family was from, where we would go many times and my grand passion. i so this that kind of feeling that i have about it, but it is a weirdly foreign country to me. i went to india and i was lucky to work there on, on a movie $1000000.00 harm, which you had mentioned earlier. and i went there with john hammond, the whole crew, and the disney folks and all that. and you know, i, we were shooting in abra where the taj mahal is and i had never,

i had never visited and i was like a tory, i was there. i got to see the charge mom, you know, it's like, so i was there with all of like are american crew like just going to see the taj mahal like everyone else? so it is kind of a strange. it's like the place of my birth and where my extended family is, but i often feel like a complete stranger there were talking to us with munsey, and the paramount plus show is evil to bring it around to evil in a circuitous manner. i know your character on the show suffers from night tears and i must admit, i saw some things in india. i. e p like some dog millionaire where they talk about young kids who are deliberate. i don't know deliberately mean, but i did see children coming up to the car window and brandishing. yeah. the ultimate sab lives in exchange for money that would get that gave me a nightmare to some degree. yeah. well, it's very, it's, you know, i mean, look,

it is the it is, while poverty re, re, you know, it is, it is the thing. you see incredible poverty, like you said, you know, there is, there is a disparity of wealth in the country. you have people who are incredibly wealthy, you know, and incredibly rich, and then you have people who are a level of poverty that you often can imagine. and it is heartbreaking to see young children walking up, you know, and they're basically being hired by sort of what you will call st. mobster is, you know, we also got 1000000, you know, but the thing is like that. and they're being hired to gotten and pam handle, and often are named for that very purpose. so you feel more sorry for them. it's in that way. those are, those are things that are, are terrible, legacy of, of what poverty can, can, can do to a country and how a country go into the,

you know, the century of colonialism and all that like, it can end up in this place. way where they're dealing with this conversely, on the other side of the colonial c saw to end up in bradford and yes, the people in almost how green was my valley setting, where, what i think of your father having a shop there in many ways it must have been an absolutely wonderful place to be raised was, was it it was interesting. it was, it was, it was a lot of things like, like, like a lot of places you know, it was, it was where, well, for me it was where my child, it was writers where my formative sort of years were. so i dealt with and it was the 1970 is when i was growing up there in bradford. so you had a large pakistan in indian population that had come to bradford and, but then on because of that, you also had a lot of racism and you had a lot of the national front was very popular time and you had a lot of people. so,

you know, my, we struggled with, with different things around that. but like i had some of my grade formative experiences in that town. and you know, like all the memories of those, you know, all those the 1st crush you ever had. the 1st friends you ever made those, those school kids used to hang out with you now, and i'm going to start saying, and tom waits on the 2nd. hits, it's like it's that those are the memories that i have of bradford even though when i went back and it was funny, i went back as an adult to visit the place after having lived in america for almost 20 years. and i went back because i hadn't ever gone back and it's sort of felt like this distant memory of my childhood. you know, and i went back to my father's shop that he had on the corner of the street where he used to have his little bodega there. and now it's

a hollow butcher. and so i'm standing outside this place. i'd taken photographs because it was my, it was my dad's door, and the guy comes out with a giant meat cleaver and april, covered in blood. the butcher comes out with his and he looks at me and he says, why are you taking pictures of my shot? and he was really mad and i said i was no, no, no, i was like listen when i was a kid. this was my dad store. and he used to be called office news agency. and they painted over that store that that site. and he looks to me and he says you're up if with the name this is any brings me inside of all these guys. i shop and meet them. these like you know, this is the off the phone, the show up on the show. and he's like, well, a great me in the give me t like, you know, they and i said, yeah, i used to have my pet rabbit, actually died in the cellar downstairs. a business come down. lucy,

come look at and we went down as a man, you know, as a storage room now. but it was like this amazing experience of like of these guys who suddenly realized like, oh, i was the guy they, they must have spent years wondering who this office was. that was originally the store was named after. so yeah, it was a, i went back years later, i went to my old school and all that it was very cathartic for me to do that. actually, it's probably an allegory for modern life folks that we all come at each other nowadays brandishing clever is. but sometimes all it takes is hello my rabbit, died in your basement, to human eyes, the accessor. and move on to the next level. yeah, totally. yeah, it really did. we became like, fast friends in like, you know, a man and a half. yeah. well listen, it's fascinating. his life stories fascinating. i want to get to the career next. dial it down one notch and we're going to talk about moving to new york from table, which might be the most awkward straddle he's had to make for graphically and also

the pyramid plus paramount plus show evil, which is currently streaming on the network. convivial bloke after man v, right back up to this one. dennis miller plus one. ah, ah, cannot they are to say good in law leticia though or under work? can you been there to say that to people? oh we have to reduce the consumption. this is why the sofa, the concern an issue that was not taken up pretty seriously. so or but it's a very serious issue. so we cannot address the climate change issue. unless the people around the word realize that we cannot continue overconsumption as we are doing now the

the, the, the, the the hey folks, welcome back to dennis miller plus one. and i've got around 5 clocks are on me, and i just tried to when i'm done, i'm just trying to give you the behind the scenes look at the show. we've been joined by comedian actor asked if mondrey and the simon $1000000.00 arm. the last there, bender, and of course is time long time with john over at the daily show currently appears on the paramount plus show evil which streams on the network give me the room, give me the blueprint done. evil, my friends. tell them. tell the viewers what we have over here. evil is a show about 3 characters who are investigating who was sent out by the catholic

church to investigate paranormal activities. paranormal incident, things that could be demonic possession. could be ghost could be. demons could be, you know, whatever it is that things you can explain. and so it's myself culture harbors. and my culture are the 3, the 3 investigators who go out. mike. mike's character david, is a priest in training, who's about to become a priest. and he, he basically hires me, i'm a captain in bench here who is a technician, the technical with kind of a macgyver sort of character sort of can kind of fix and do anything and figure. and my job is really to figure out a things if you think it's a goes, but it might just be your air conditioning unit, you know, and so like that kind of stuff. and, and katya hers plays a psychologist who is trying to investigate these things from the standpoint of

mental illness and stuff like that. so we both approach it from, we all 3 of us approach it from 3 different vantage points. and we, you know, set off into the world to investigate these things and it gets pretty hairy at times and pretty scary sometimes. and sometimes the great thing about the show is that it also tackles issues of the day, you know, and the things that we're dealing with and what evil looks like in our modern world . and we are our antagonist on the show. our a nemesis is a guy named nealon towns and played by the mazing michael emerson. and he might be possessed. he might be the devil, or he might just be a crazy man who thinks he's the devil and we don't know and, and, and the twists and turns of it are kind of interesting and, and we, it really goes in places where you don't expect it to go, it's not just a scare of the week and it actually takes them deep turns. and,

and robert of michelle came created the show, who did the good wife and the good fight all great, great and over. and they really smart and they write really great characters and stories, and the ghostbusters meets davinci code by way of young in therapy or something like that. it's a little bit of x files thrown. you know, it's sort of all of that. now i know your character has nightmares and you know, there's a discernible syndrome called nightmares, where people don't have a nightmare. they stay in what they think is a rems. yeah. and act out is strictly what happens if you watch the 1st season, katya? her character has these nightmares and she's visited by this demon named george. and this season, my character has night terrors and is visited by a,

a succubus named abbey, who basically sort of attacks me when i'm sleeping and brings up all of my worst fears and nightmares. and now i personally have never had a nightmare. so i didn't know what a nightmare really was, and when we were filming it, we were shooting the scene and this, you know, actresses in the costume like demon thing. and she's on top of me in this bed and kind of, you know, attacking me. and i was riding around and moving stuff, and we were doing the scene a shot. and then about a month later, robert and michelle king called me up and they said, listen, we got to re shoot that. see? and i said, oh my god, you know what, why? and they said, because they were cool. you've never had a night, tara, because when you have a night terror, you can't move like you throw in your arms. and so we have to go back and we shoot it with the proper and it was really fast. and because i did more research and night terrors and, and it is really quite terrifying. i love,

thankfully have never had one, but you really can't move because you are in that paralysis. and this thing is happening to you and you think it's real. but the great thing about shell is that you don't know if it's real could be an i could be really happening. and for those of you out there watching night terrors not to be confused with waking up with the freezer naked, with a ladle, eating hug, and dust, all trade, the lash. that's kind of an ambient side effect. so, i've had that l am, i do. are talking to us in mind, you know, i'm thinking about i was teasing in the 1st segment a little, but i remember when i 1st settled down to new york brother, i'm from pittsburgh, which might as well be bred or not tampa bay. you put another step in there, listed, americanized you, little pittsburgh tough, but also has the american,

obviously, the american imprimatur. well, when i 1st got to new york brother that 1st week i literally walked or can i, can i do this? this is so different. what about you hit the ground there, told me about that. oh, so i got to new york in the early ninety's and from tampa and actually been i was in tampa and then i spent a year in orlando work in a. so i was really in a bubble of, you know, working to see i was doing the theme park thing right. just to make, to make, you know, my career started doing improv comedy at m g m studios in orlando, and then i land in new york and it's, you know, new york is the real deal. i'm just remember that feeling and still today i'll walk around new york sometimes. and remember if you have this, remember like streets or corners when i go all man, i remember like just you know, my, who, my dinner was a slice of pizza on this corner. right. here that was it, you know, and, and i used to live in like a one. literally, i was renting from these 3 south american grad students. they rented me this one

room in this building owned by this. i've got an eccentric wrenched woman who was actually german, but changed her accent to french during the 2nd world war to piss off her parents. anyway, it was a whole and i'm living there in this one bedroom apartment with a mirror on the wall and just a closet. and that was my life. and i was just, it was, it was just hustle and struggle and get up 5 o'clock in the morning. stand in line outside after equity on 46th street, just to get an audition for pippin playing like it. you know, at like the poughkeepsie rep or something and you just stand there for 8 hours try to get this one or you know, that was, that was life. and it was, it was in some ways the good old days because you had nothing to lose at that time . you just all in, you know, and it was like, you just crawl of

a dead body to get what you want that i was i was lean and hungry. i live in new york. yeah. same thing. i'd got to catch a rising star like 70 to get in line to get that ticket. then you'd be 17 in line at dawn. and then they come in and they say the agencies pulled 3 tickets. the kids were headed off at 60 go back to union square, i'd like it, but i like you us. if i thought i would go i will i'm id. have to kill me. i'm in. no. yeah, no, i used to and i and i started, i've done stand up often on throughout the years and i started doing a little bit of stand up when i 1st got to the just to get seen and try to get agents to like pay attention to me and stuff, and i remember the you know, i get a slot like it to them. and i show up and i was, you know, and i get there would be like 3 got you, you know, this is 3 guys drunk just,

you know, and i would try out my job that i had written the day before and just try me. and it was, it was, it was hard go on in some ways, but also just like kind of great. yeah. just like i said, you just have nothing to lose and you would just all and i agree with your brother everything with my pain, its not much by travails. you know, i mean you think about that? i used to always sell myself brother. you could have picked the wrong lottery number and nom and been over a jungle with the gun for god's sake shut up. you got to heck, yeah, quit. why about this? get out there and get it. tell me about the one man show though. everybody needs something along the way where you grab the ring for a moment and you go ok. i can get this now. you with an o b line, one man play about a cafe, right? yes. so i wrote this, i started, you know, i was, it was like, it was the early ninety's and i was basically couldn't get seen for anything that

was very few roles. brown actors of that time don't have any sort of meaningful things to do. so i get a, you know, cab driver on law and order every now and then or a deli guy yelling to someone. and so then i thought i'm going to start writing characters because i was used to write and not just stand up stuff, but it's like character stuff. and so i would start writing these characters based on my family. and i started with my dad and i did a character based on my dad. i did another one based on my sister and my mom. and i started putting these together and i got into an acting class with a guy named when hand, who was one of the most you might have heard of him when he died, actually last year from coven. but he was one of the premier acting teachers in new york city for many, many years. stafford meisner and the whole thing. and he and is it alumni, was everyone for what goes in was it leg was amo and roll julie, i go on enough. i get into his class and he takes me like i go into his eyes and do

one of my pieces for him. and i say, what do you think? you know? and, and he says, okay, i think you can give you a shot and he gets me into his class, worked with me on the show. and over the next 5 years we kind of honed the show. and then he produced it as the american place theater. and that was my 1st sort of moment when i realized like, oh, the phone started ringing. you know that moment when you go ok, people know i exist now. and i just remember like the new york times wrote an article about me, the new york times give us an amazing review. and we won obese and all the stuff. and it's sort of put me on a place where i felt like ok, maybe i can do this, this might, this might work out, you know, and my parents might, i could actually say to my parents, look, i didn't waste my life, you know, i and it was crazy because we did a revival of the show in 2018 at the minette elaine. oh, there are great there and yeah and,

and it was an amazing thing to come back to these stories and these characters and tell the story of an immigrant family and in america and the world had changed. and the relationship to immigrants that had changed them. and in a weird way, what used to be a comedy was much more darker and deeper in 2018 in 20 and 998. it was a light sort of light hearted comedy of me getting dressed up as a young girl and do and drag. and now it was like, whoa it's, it was dark and it was good. it was, and i, and i felt like it was nice to and when came to see it. well, listen, i just as revisiting bradford was mad something and given you some sort of insight, revisiting that must i had a similar i don't know. i'm not saying cauterized because it's not a painful experience but to go back and put it all together in one. understand it comprehensively. yeah. and you understand gift?

yeah, it was funny because a friend of mine came to see it an actress and she said you matured over the last 20 years as a performer and is an artist. and so the material, even though it's the same material, resonates on a whole different level as you bring the whole maturity to it that you didn't have when you, when you're reading more care, all many more arrows in your quiver as you get older. as far as layering the emotions. listen brother, i enjoyed talking to you. it's awesome. monday. the show is evil. it's on paramount, plus can't tell you. i've enjoyed my half hour here with them. nice to meet your brother and i hope to talk to you. all right, see soon. all right, awesome. man b, dennisville are plus one. aloha. oh the the me

the whatever the movie your body literally can brainstorm. it's like your brain become kind of a muscle with movement. you're not just breaking your biceps. you try are literally

strengthening the connections. you're in fact, in certain areas you're actually growing stimulating the growth of brand new brain . so when i see black america, i think of myself, when i was growing up, like america spoke to me. when why destroyer did not you said black lives matter is a movement, we are importing from america. no, nothing is in we. i lived in a world where lived lives mattered. i was not white. i like ms. newman and i wasn't new from black america. i learned how to speak back to white. i bridges, people are more of them now. the police were out more with statistics. i'm scared that my children are going to go up in the country. that

thing says no racism, but they're more likely to end up in the criminal justice system. then there are other fellow friends in daycare. i think i'm speaking to you now from the buying. so the lena river in the town of coggan in north brian west fall. yeah, you could see the river behind me flowing like a torrent right now. it's devastating floating in germany and belgium would at least 19th dead as entire houses on the way. and once in a generation deluge over a 1000, people are still missing. it looks as if a bomb has hit like world war wreck, the streets. i'm new to the stores of south africa thieves and not the night a violent riot. we spoke to a woman who amid the calles through her child from abiding, filled into a crowd of bystanders.