#779 ANNA AKANA

O ikaw na mag umpisahan mo man.

Ikaw may gusto.

Ka di ba?

To kasi once a week lang kami maglabas ng video.

Oo monthly ang bayad niyan.

Sa youtube please.

Honestly, yeah, people don't think you're very funny the prettier you are, so i have had to navigate that by what i wear on stage, so all usually wear baggie hoodies.

But it's more appealing to norge.

Dapat network entertainm.

Wow.

I burn some the vocabularies.

Dictionaries.

Every nice face every nice vocabularies, dictionaries, every nice.

Ooh fuck yeah.

Even vietnamese.

Asaw, watch out.

Serves.

You, i hope she knows at least some swear words.

Yung.

Taga we could teacher.

Something teacher some to survive the philippines.

Yes please.

Duda cool bus.

Episode seven, seven, nine.

Exclusive.

On spotify.

Hmm fem pempem pepe fem pepe pen pen.

Birthday.

Pempe pempe pempe.

Why is that the sok?

Ko.

Accent i will.

Is that?

You're very simple because the singer of this song always speaks in english.

Oh, that's the end.

Nothing.

Special.

From.

Can.

Oo, no, it's not even words.

Let's have a chino our ah.

By the way, we have chino down.

Board slow on board because ah, he has been in the u s so many times and he will act as our ah translator.

And, you know, american translator?

Yes, and ah, can you please introduce our special guest for tonight for today's episode here at nakul police?

Chief, yes, we are honored to welcome one of the hottest.

Sixteen here in manila.

Thank you so much ah chino for that.

No, my mom is from manila actually, so we go every couple years.

So good for you because we hate it.

Here we should exchange players.

Of exchange places.

Are you aware of the are you aware of the political landscape here, of the how, how hard it is to live ah daily here in the philippines.

Now you did a lot of exploring like on your social media.

Yan, i mean, yeah, there's a lot of you guys have a lot of corruption, but we also have donald trump.

Know we have.

Yeah.

It's not a companion thousand donald trump here.

What province is your mom from here in the philippines?

Know, i don't know the province all have to ask her i'm staying in manila ah her her place for like four days prior to the show.

Okay, how is it to be disciplined by a filipino mom?

Buy your filipino.

Mom, i think the slipper like obviously the double slap like would help me brother in one spoof, you know, and then you have the bamboo shoot horn or you put your feet into your shoot.

Yeah, and then i used to have to eat soap.

Wow nung no yeah you eat soap because you know filipinos will bring balikbayan boxes and send it to to ah the philippines this your mom do that that you have one box that will send to the philippines every december no.

Because ah you know balikbayan box ah ah may ankle always ah send us the balikbayan box and he ah mixed um cadburry with the touchable eh.

So so is the chocolate with the soap together, so the chocolates.

Then stays.

Like.

So why did you eat the soap?

I said, yeah, i said bad words, but i don't know, my mom's togol of always sound.

That doesn't mean anything.

Yeah, can you repeat again?

We will try.

To batan tuyo sina mang.

Well, that's bet.

Yes idol your mom lied to you.

All.

Through out is my soul.

Don't know their her province because it's not in the philippines.

It's honie.

Only maganda you guys are up to teach me some swear words.

It's like puki ng ina mo.

A very hard one.

Is a.

Story, why start with?

With that.

With the basic.

Basic.

One ng were already in the middle part.

Ina mo cooking ng ina mo.

That is a a swear word that you really say when you really angry.

That's a like an end games where words.

That's.

A closer to an argument.

Your friendship over its ah dyina of your mom.

Your your mom's.

Your mom's vagina, and they sometimes they use it as a wife, and they use it as an adjective or ah sometimes like di ba pookey ng ilang traffic to right?

Uses what i don't understand why it's where would you just pointing?

But it should be hidden.

Wow yes you moms ba dyna should be.

Heated we all.

Will not be out there.

In the post and public.

When someone says your moms jana, it means that it is out in the open, so it's bad.

It's your home is where you came from.

The o g home.

What's the first day usually do when you visit manila?

Aside from old jeepneys or not a good jeepney, what you call the low motorized carts, so we.

But a more filipino that starbucks.

Ulet yung speakers.

You have a planner?

Anna here in the cool pulse, we usually ask the hard heating ko eh.

Hard hitting questions so.

So let's ah start with our slum book questions.

Have you encountered a slum book ah before ah and all your life?

Like sa yearbook.

Who is your crush?

That, who is your crush?

No, no, we don't have that in our yearbook.

That is the slumbook, yes?

So so.

Hopefully not from your teacher.

That's first slum book question ana.

Who is your first kiss?

Out of all of you?

Guys do not answer parents please.

My first kiss was a boy named michael as moraleda in middle school, and he was shorter than me.

Well well first ah ana of philippine all filipinos are actually half spanish, you know?

Automatic.

Automatic?

Tapos i guess i love.

First day guys, guys, esmeralda.

Staying for.

Because we have a thing about, you know, guys would look, they can be turned into a key chain.

Yes.

He is also a spanish.

Okay, what is okay?

Questions were too old for the slumbook questions, but ah, how are you?

Oh yeah you are you envase l a she.

Oh, i'm really lucky.

Can we get the instagram post update so you know it's been a time, but it's it's been okay.

So, um, it's gonna be really rough, but i think together we'll be able to to put that to to come together as a community.

Are your house near p d d s house.

Pagdating if your house is near daddy's house, that's what he.

Said, i think i think dies in jail.

Because there's a lot of baby oil in that house, so it's like, ah, flammable, ayan.

That's.

The no.

But what do you feel when people are saying that their house survived the fire because god loves them more or god protected them, eh?

And then cause that's a very philippine.

Team, that's a very filipino team.

You'll tell me other people got here, you know, god.

Loves you more.

Okay.

Very limited vocabulary.

That's the hashtag too soon.

I think there's either you're funny or you're not, you know, i think if you're funny enough, no joke is too soon.

So you point do you?

And to add g b sometimes her like your videos online or very serious sometimes you know, so for you to like transition into like dark stand up with that like a conscious effort on your part.

Yeah, i think you know, my sister committed suicide when i was seventeen and i saw margaret chow do stand up to two years after that, and it was the first time that i really actually laughed after my sister died.

It was really.

But i was like, if i can make that, if i can make people safe enough to laugh about something like this, then i think it can have a really lasting impact because comedies, what saved me?

Do you guys do a lot of dark comedy or any of you darker comedians?

Yeah.

We are.

Ah no ng calling nga.

No side from no?

No nung but yeah but doing be as filipinos very dominant catholic ako ah country we do a lot of really ah me personally i do a lot of religious beats.

Ah hipocrisy that you see also ah social media these things.

They kinda appreciate it and laugh with you also.

Very.

A lot of political staff.

In my case just did bits.

A lot of political stuff because it's something that everyone talks about and it really gets to you also, how ah, the politics and the government work.

And if you want to you, if you are, if you want your show to sold out.

B, b, m b, b, m so.

We have our own donald trump here.

Yeah, so just to protect the show, we shout the name of the president, so they will not sensor.

Where to stop at two because and you say it a third time, he shows up like little juice, so just talk to.

Yes, have you been studying the philippine politics in preparation for your show on feb.

I've not had not been studying anything, it was just it was just the holiday, sir, i've just been eating.

Like all all filipinos.

Ah, you're still finishing the food from their.

Free will have the filipino spaghetti in the.

River's aren't you?

O married now.

No.

Think you know, i don't.

So she's never the butt of the joke.

So i'm not super worried that people people won't take it well.

But good thing here is ah slowly.

Slowly opening its doors to.

Like learning a little bit of stand up everyday, so you know, they're getting more and more open to the idea of dark comedy.

So is the whole, so i'm going to be ah, like dark humor, and i think it's not going to be there some bits that people might find dark, but if it's something about your you, the life of your sister, was she gone through, so this will be a story or a our that would be filled with.

Your experience with your sister up until two point when?

The half of the show is about death and the other half of the show is is how i got started in comedy and i had a stalker that essentially ended my comedy career for a years because i was too afraid to go to shows.

So.

Do you feel like there's been a shift in it because of the cultural consciousness happening in the philippines?

Yeah, there's a shift, i think, ah, the audience members have a tough first tumak now.

And that's a good number.

Before it was ninety nine.

So, it was the other way around.

Yeah, but the the shift now is because of the social media.

The people watching stand up, especially during the pandemic.

It really help to raise awareness yan social media, the pandemic, the pandemic level.

Of filipinos into watching a lot of comedy to get them through the the you know tough times of you know the lockdown and ah help with their mental ah well being.

And that's why we always say.

But yeah, sige.

He's not in jail, but he is on medication and i do have a restraining order against him so he is not a lot of.

Defense.

Five thousand pesos you afraid of going out, how can you tell us, can you?

So i i was doing stand up when i was nineteen years old.

I would talk about suicide prevention advocacy in the aging community and so a lot of people who were mentally unwell would kind of lash on to my videos and think i was talking specifically to them or they would be a manic episode and watching on to me.

Ah but ah basically quit stand up in twenty eighteen because i was so worried about this guy i potentially hurting somebody else.

You guys, i was like, i think i'm ready to come back to stage and talk about it, so half of the show is about him, half the shows about my sister and then have a little tidbit about my dad going to volunteer for the ukrainian war.

Yan happened to my dad to, but i volunteered him, you know?

Pretty pretty cool.

Got twenty minutes out of it, so happily movie stock again, you know, gotta get the material somehow.

Do you do filipino material?

I do a little bit, my mom, i do my mom sack sand and the her her love for.

Including ariño.

Don't actually have.

Carlo a year gabrino.

The liver spread.

We have it.

We cannot ah, we cannot eat the meat.

That's not the same, no?

Have you tried so the food that your mother tries?

I'm jigen i'm vigin so i dont know the stop sheets.

Good luck visiting manila.

First place of ballot.

We love our.

Meet, when did you become vigan?

Ah, like in my twenties.

I share mom human.

Well, she's vietnamese.

Yes.

Nice place that is placed na banky this place here we be friend the monkey, then we teach the monkey to still food and then we eat.

And nanay becomes food.

We ah i i saw a clip of anthony jessel nick um discussing about offensive ah offensive kung offensive material ah, what was that?

Why did you pass me to?

Telling offensive humor, it for the sake of.

Being offensive, being offensive, that value for shock value not really doing it to make people laugh.

So, and if you just do it for being offensive, then you lose the art of.

Of comedy dahil pointless and to make people laugh anymore, it's to offend.

Have you?

You you perform.

Pucha ang traffic christmas season na pare.

Nga sumasakit ulit dahil sabihin.

Tsaka sa hybrid na car.

Wag na moment naman tuloy woman.

Okay lang.

But sumasakit ulo mo dahil sa traffic.

Sumasakit ang ulo ko dahil sabihin harapin.

Dahil december na meron na.

Oo nga eh.

Oo pare putsa yung usually na forty minutes na aabot ako ng mga dalawang oras.

Either lumipat ka ng bahay o bumili ka ng tight g liniment cool stick.

Ganito lang yan oh tingnan mo pasok mo sa ilong mo yung ano yung inhaler oh di ba?

Meron din ako niyan na kanina ko pa hawak.

Wag na wag na tama yan wag na bumili na lang kayo ng tychicus street iba ibang flavor lavender at ah cool mental tama ba alam mo yun?

Wala akong nakitang mainit ang ulo na ganito.

Ano to you ka lipus joke tips.

And lavender.

Masarap relax din talaga.

Yan i love in terms of dark comedians.

But i think he does a really good job of leaving in a serious message with very funny dark jokes but also love life.

Sheng wasn't.

There was a james doesn't like joy.

Ha no.

No.

You're.

Thankful to joke because they actually got a lot of filipinos interested to stand up and stand up, so.

Have you work was sitting was in manila a few years ago.

She is very clean in a where she doesn't like the over the top offensive or or dark ah humor.

Know he was called clear, and he also did.

Comedy round asia like malaysia or singapore have you tried those stages?

Of manila is gonna be the first time i'm doing a show in asia, and then i go to singapore after that is why the only time i've done it there, so i'm really that he really excited.

What?

Oh well, you know, a lot of my audiences filipino and people, people i didn't do a ton of filipino content early on in my career and i had a couple of sketches and people never realized i was filipino like, and so i i don't know.

I felt like i was really excited to bring it to the philippines to be able to have my family see me perform for the first time.

Talk to a case that is catholic and that does i only the philippines has like lower rates of suicide anywhere else because i feel like we're so family driven in so intertwined, so some of it may not resonate as much, but i'm excited.

Ah, who are fans and they say they stop self harming because of some of my comedy or they've lost someone in their lives to suicide and seeing this was really cathartic in that way.

I think comedy king get really.

Is it is it important for you, for your material or your bits to have ah a message.

Our.

I mean, what do you guys will do you do?

Will.

It would be nice to have a meaning, ah, if it has a deeper meaning.

Because woman just shows his ass on stage as a punchline.

To.

Scaring the frontrow audience.

It's in a way by accident, there is a a message that is being ah.

It's not the original and tent, but it's a accident that happens.

It's in the punchline actually teach someone something.

My my main message ah is just do drugs once a week.

Hit the day to drug.

It's a very good message.

Me, i think it's an instruction.

More for.

Instruction, all your educating the masses really?

Have you seen a filipino comedian like, uh, here in the philippines?

No, i mean other than like social media all see clips but i don't speak to goal so it's also hard when people do the multi blend and i know there's some stuff that's lost in translation when you don't speak the language.

I have a question about your youtube because that's where i actually know you from a lot more.

So how do you balance that out?

Yeah, my role is ah, you never make fun of someone else, so as long as you're making fun of of someone else and you're keeping yourself as the blood of the joke when you're talking about marginalized communities or darker topics, then it's it's it's easier for people to get on board because we're looking to be offended like i do think we live in a world where.

Cash everyone is kind of addicted to outrage and being offended and being angry and like feels good to be angry online.

Oo, were you always the funniest girl in the classroom?

No, i don't think i'm very funny personally, i think i'm only funny professionally.

We're all class clowns, right?

Ah giving trauma.

Diyos ko, the harasser, i'm just the harasser of the.

Part of the part.

Your voice.

Is it hard to be pretty and doing comedy?

Honestly, yeah, people don't think you're very funny the prettier you are, so i have had to navigate that by what i wear on stage, so all usually were baggie hoodies.

Blackmore, it's more appealing to norge.

Archie we, we suffer the same thing, but the thing with us is we are ugly, so they expect us to be funny.

So the other way.

Around the other way around?

Are you open to ah doing rounds of open mike sa hitting the open spots local open mikes here in manila.

I don't really.

So usually if i go to like the comedy store or laugh factory or ice house here in los angeles, i will a bomb very often because.

Yeah, i really like mike beer, big lie also but ah his style translate with me so um, so i can't, i can't i.

Ah, it's getting uncomfortable.

Logs.

So but the.

Ang caters to that kind of.

Style because our comedy see this very young still like it only the top during the pandemic and even before that it was already that old.

Know especially the club said.

The club settings like if you do a longer bit of material and you people have to wait for the punchline, sometimes it tends to not work.

So there are two types of audiences, like the ones that are used to stand up already, that you can do the long form they wait for the punchline.

Then it's okay to do long format.

Sa joke ah, this is this.

And people are just having dinner there.

Yeah, we will do, um, what we called this, ah.

Coffee shop said restaurant.

Gerilla.

Guerilla style open mike like they didn't know their stand up.

But then eventually it grow.

So it helps with it now help, especially in the theater set up.

Just to one hundred percent of their attention.

So if you whisper and just tell a story for two minutes, still just be listening and waiting.

How do you test your material if you don't do some open miks?

I usually will do like in l a they have theaters that are devoted to workshop sessions, so you do the full hour, but everyone comes knowing its a work in progress.

Leader, like there's a ticket that you need to that they need to pay to watch.

Yes, but people like kind of really i personally as an audience member, i love watching stand ups workout a said, so all go to someone show like every week and just watch o what's changed.

But i think in l a.

But with open mikes actually people now they actually understand that open mind space where comedians actually work out their jokes and we usually tell them the please don't complain because i only paid like three dollars to get in.

Each committee you're paying, so don't expect everything to be funny and that you should get everyone laughing.

You can joke about anything like.

Really can talk about anything and everything get an open mike, so we try our best like be jibby whatever we host open mikes trial best to really slay the ground work for the people watching and tell them that sometimes your jokes are going to be cleaned and wholesome and other times.

Really dirty, you know, so just one right, so please don't be easily offended.

Yer, do you have you experience getting bashed online for the jokes that you have done?

Death threats.

That's right fully.

Shit, i offended one religion.

I love to benta dyan to the.

Crystal.

Jane now is going to get bashed and damage.

Control it men.

Okay ah, just bleep it out.

Okay.

Like you getting.

Passion believable.

Go ahead, you cannot bleep the best.

Well ah ana.

Have you gotten?

Dash i mean.

I've received people who tell me to go kill myself or that, you know, i caused my sister to die or whatever horrible thing you can think of online, but all the end of the day.

And i'm like, if this person is sitting in the comfort of the room and writing some shitty comment, what does that mean?

Joke lang.

Sleep i had i had that episode episode two like hearing voices, so i had to quit meth.

Ryan retz is not a therapy.

Doing death, that's what.

Have you been doing this?

Because you should.

Stop with all of you?

Metro manila that's a good title for a show.

Tapos how i bell how i met your mother.

Your mother.

And the met of ryan rems is vegetarian.

Grabe.

Safe for vigan.

Vigan viands yes.

Have you guys ever done a joke that has gotten you and actual trouble?

Well, not only directly, but some of them lost t v shows they used to be on t v show and someone made a joke about that religion and that religion ay ah owns.

Who's your opener, by the way?

Have you decided on?

Open.

Bounce?

Yeah.

Yeah, we know those people yan.

Joke, and we did an even tell that joke ah college of ours ah had told ah anti religious joke and we got saved because of it because we are.

Friend told a joke.

Are they?

Um, we just sour grape.

Fighting file any the philippines?

Applies and after your just a freelancer ah contractual on a contract braces.

We don't have the same.

Labor law.

Labor laws, and especially with the actors and writers guild and all of these things that protect the well now there is, but in their case the one that owns the network that we.

Didn't have.

Religious.

The religious group, so.

So yeah, how about you?

Hmm, not really.

I have had people say hey disney does watch your stuff, so make sure you're being o k like not super offensive.

Really nice.

Actually because he got your start on disney, right?

Yeah, like shake it up and stuff and like i m t v and m t v doctor.

Yeah, and mickey the smith.

Totoo nakikita.

He use a talking mouse.

Is not well.

Or absolutely get me job.

Okay, thank you.

Philippines, are you prepared to be one of the like in a love team?

Have in love teams.

That means will be partnered with the male actor and then you guys will be doing romance movies, comedy, romance.

And at the end of the ah, the movie you will dance in the beach.

Have you said i have you seen a filipino movie ang comedy movie?

I've not sino love team, but it sounds cute.

Yeah, so we're very famous when it comes to making rom coms romantic comedy movies.

They usually match your names and form a single name, like.

This is way before brad brad jolina.

Our, you know, branded jed, right?

We had a guy and pip, which is in the black and white year, so the romantic movies has been there.

Look like one of the celebrity.

Of the calendar.

Don't show the calendar.

Calendar and ah, underwear.

Ayan.

Oh my god yes kim chiu is gorgeous.

Yeah, she's one of the teen stars that started in the philippines of version of the big brother big brother.

Search, kim chiu calendar twenty twenty.

No not.

To that james stop bye.

But when we, when i was all like, oh my god, she she kinda looks like kim chiu so you will be getting a lot of that from filipinos because when when filipinos actually see someone, they try their best to match the face with someone else.

I hope you guest also ah on their noontime show it's showtime.

Will you be doing a lot of those vlogging ngs like promoting it on tv shows or.

I think yeah, randy is gonna brendy scheduling some some interviews and stuff like that, so i'll be backing around manila for for three, four days, just one promo and then heating up starbucks chocobo.

So when you do the t v shows, please don't forget the one curse word that we we talk.

Please don't so.

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Annah.

So again and invite your ah fans ah in the philippines for your ah upcoming show.

Share what?

Please invite your face on your show manila show.

Manila all be performing on february sixteen the samsung theater come on down say hi to me.

Sige puki ng.

Inamo cookie.

Ng ina mo.

Oo, we will watch a show.

Definitely will be there.

Will be there ah, not to support.

And if you have time, drop by the comedy shows here and.

Also we can visit you can come visit the studio in century park hotel manila.

The comedy scene and full here in the philippines.

Yeah, are you guys performing between the health and the sixteen?

We're having a show valentine shows on ah.

Fifteenth on the fifteenth will be in tagaytay.

Fifteen.

They will be doing a speedy.

Dating.

Heating here, and.

He all male?

Gay all male.

Days, so we don't know how they cannot.

We hope to see you soon here in manila.

Can't wait to be it.

Ah, thank you so much for having to you guys so much fun.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Ayan na.

Ko naisip ni anna nagsisimula ka magsabi ng mga pangalan isip nya and credits na siya ano?

Sa fulfills episode suggestion from our cool police librarian.

Ang recommendation natin nga episode one o six ang title nyan langitngit ng lamesa yan yung isa sa mga classic na m m k natin tsaka nandiyan yung kwento ni sir jevy ng classic rin yung palmolive story mo yung sa natae oo sa job interview yan pakinggan niyo yung episode one o six.

From court na yun na pamura po sir ryan rems.

Marlo santiago alam kong paborito mo rin ang uti mo.

Wow bagong father lang po from london.

Francis, happy birthday ha.

Yan from shane custodio kupals pamura naman ang pinakamaganda kong officemate na si dan pazon daan.

Pason.

So from jake randolf concepcion pamura po with canadian nonong accent ako at ang aking pinakamamahal na asawang si alyanna conception.

Anong pangalan nya?

Jake and alyana concepcion.

Jake and alyana concepcion concepcion fuck you ah.

Kanina talo dyan ba yon?

From mark soriano pamura naman po ng malutong kay ilocano ryan rems ang tropa kong si susuot at j m bernal.

Mark soriano aming kayo puro kayo bartok nuno bartok kayo isubo yung tibo tuyo.

Ang kalma naman.

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Ayun pamura si ivan vitaliano kay pikachu man tang ina.

Bigat yo mo.

Man po dahil gabi ay bibigyan.

Ten fourteen no forty annie louie ay hindi ba to si gladys guevarra?

Pero promote na rin natin may show si gladys guevarra pero dito.

Po.

Sa feb fourteen meron po tayong speed dating event dito sa culls na gaganapin di ba?

Sana manood si anna acana dito sa international.

Louie and si moe magdy.

Yan sali ka ba?

Di ba mas gusto ko panoorin yung international shows.

Ano ka ba ha?

Lalaki sabi nyo puro lalaki.

Bakit ayaw mo ba sa lalaki?

Wag ka ng maselan akala.

Magaling mapagpala ako sayo.

Ipakita mo yung pera ng tatay mo.

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Mo yung isang vault lang dalhin mo rito.

Ang ina mo kung hindi mo pa ako piliin.

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