Mentol Pecah

We talk about what you can learn from the contents of a person's fridge, the sense-memory of specific foods and beverages, as well as Anwar's deep-rooted affinity for a specific brand of soy sauce. This episode is dedicated to Allahyarham Datuk Lambak Mohamed.

Puteri Nuraaina Balqis (@ayyputeri) tells us the origin story of how she got really into puns, Muzakir over-explains why puns are lame but good at the same time, and both of them argue over kek pisang.

Our boy from Brunei (@zainalthebostaman) drops in for the first time on the podcast! In this riff-heavy episode, we talk about the different things a person's body can do, cannot do or cannot help from doing, our contrasting styles of giving feedback to fellow comedians, and how he discovered a new wall in his house.

Prakash Daniel (@prakashdanielcomedy) talks a bit about how he built up his emceeing skills, but the chat ends up mostly being about food and cooking somehow. Featuring comparisons between ayam kampung and ayam bandar, lockdown homecooking blunders, and a really great salad he had in Australia one time.

>> DON'T listen to this episode if you don't wanna hear a dude rant about religious practices a lot. << In this one, Muz digs deep into his history as a former edgy tahfiz teen and uses it to examine what he sees as problems in how people practice Ramadhan. His peeves include the weird over-focus on food during a month of fasting, fetishization of the Arabic language, and yes, Yusuf Taiyoob.

In this return to form, we discuss why it's been such a long time since the last episode, how Vietnam won its fight against Covid-19, the importance of knowing what your accent sounds like, Muz's hot streak on twitter, and the best time to do heroin! 

Mozek and Kavin (mostly Kavin) talk about his Netflix special coming February 2nd and Harith's Netflix special now streaming on Netflix! They also talk about getting sponsorship while being fat, the many gods of the Hindu pantheon, Zimbabwe's comedy scene, why all Indian comedians are Russell Peters, Kavin's experience with different dick pills, and other stuff!

Mozek and Lordson talk about what the deal is with the funnies, stand-up comedy as a form of expression, the first-time-is-great fluke, bombing on stage, going on stage for attention, pressure to be funny, how comics change how they use social media because of comedy, embodying funny, comedians being unstable people, doing stand-up because you can't afford therapy, needing to find a way to communicate comfortably, who to call in a zombie apocalypse, the meaning of friendship, comedy being a cheat-code in friendship, comedians' life-expectancy, seeking positive reactions to balance oneself out, feeling like people hate you for existing, feeling more funny than you are, sentences like sandwiches, being angry on social media, deadpan delivery, finding your own voice, an opener for Harith Iskandar, ordering incorrectly at a restaurant, inconsistent business hours, making things in the kitchen, tickle bars, getting stranded and buying eggs, the meaning of vintage, going to the GoogleMY Office, Apple products being

Mozek and Anwar talk about drinking water, identity crises, fun conversations, being angry, social media influencers, pant stains, writing jokes at resorts, the virtues of going to Langkawi, Spiderman's phone calls, why villains are so happy, evil laughs, Monty Python, kids peeing their pants, kids throwing scissors, fidget spinners, AI, getting your tweet quoted by celebs, and other stuff!

Mozek and Anwar talk about how this podcast is not about comedy, why Mozek hasn't been doing this podcast a lot, dealing with certain flavours of grief, solving problems with marriage, poetry, ApaKesah, figuring everything out, The Matrix, trajectory vs goals, failing better, communication through the comment section, Library: The Musical, smart comedy vs dumb comedy, the relationship between cute and stupid, old people trying to figure out Youtube being cute, being on the way, writer's strike, and other stuff!

Mozek and Anwar talk about Mozek's experience at Finland at the World's Most Funny Person 2016 competition, expressing love to drive-thru workers, processing emotions, making impossible promises, trying to freeze ice-cream, the desire to make things with people, the habit of sitting in parked cars doing nothing, cheerful pessimism, Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events, Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, hoping to get married twice, and other stuff!

Mozek and Anwar talk about Haikal's justification for why he does dark humour, their thoughts on 2016, disagreeing with ourselves, being able to do two jobs, Anwar moving from Penang to Selangor, faking confidence, learning how to speak in public, the Zone of Proximal Development, babies learning how to do things, learning from failure, being okay with not being the best, Tim Ferriss, and other stuff!

Mozek, Aiman Azri and Haikal Idris talk about Haikal's beef with Redza Minhat, why people get offended by jokes, the victims of puns, comedy as an ego trip, privilege as a trigger, why Redza Minhat got offended, emotions vs rational, delineating "too" offended, and other stuff!

Mozek, Aiman Azri, Luwita Hana, Harresh and Haikal Idris talk about abortions, holocaust jokes, what makes Haikal hard, Zootopia hentai, niple-less Aladin, kill-marry-fuck Disney characters, all the bitches out there, pronouncing Boboiboy, circumcising for the sake of Twitter, the thing about Kelantan, resurrecting Michael Jackson for a birthday performance, logic and rationality in religion, building Lemony Snicket characters, the JAIS snitching app, and other stuff!

Mozek and Anwar talk about Mozek's experience curating twt_malaysia, handling trolls, exploring the extent of human emotion, why recreating trauma is in entertainment, metacognition, tarbiah troll, #NotAllMalays, thinking about stuff, where to put puns, low-level cosplay, expectations for Malaysian media, why people are eloquent, how important shared-experiences are, paying to get into people's consciousness, and other stuff!

Mozek, Aiman Azri and Harresh talk about freestyle rap, having beef for dinner, elaborate forms of diary keeping, le racism, spelling rappers' names, Eminem songs, the link between poetry and comedy, Extremely Dumb Music, jacking-off to yourself, eating mamak food in Klang, fruitology, the difference between mangoes and mangosteens, pen-pineapple-apple-pen, being a floor manager, and other stuff!

Mozek and Anwar Hadi talk about orang senang vs orang susah, Mozek's cousins, filming dramas in strangers' houses, the source of Dexter's bloodlust, curating twt_malaysia, HaikalClassic's fair complexion, people getting offended, being funny on stage vs on twitter, the phrase "that's not funny!", the purpose of toes, selling shoes, twitter jokes, coming up with jokes on stage, how crowds influence shows, the recovery tag, moving away from a hashtag, the police getting way too many flyers, and other stuff!

Mozek, Aiman Azri and Kavin Jay talk about stand-up shows in malls, Chef Wan as a comedian, writing jokes on the stage, emotions in jokes, the strong-20, the Indian comedy scene, what a vagina looks like, correctly misplacing things, breaking the rules of comedy, radio DJs hosting comedy shows, doing research before hiring comedians, naming your children after Doraemon characters, how to use "omaigod" properly, "present" vs "present", barking cats and other stuff! Catch Malaysia's premier weekly stand-up comedy open mic show "One Mic Stand" every Tuesday, 9pm at PJ Live Arts! www.facebook.com/1MicStand Visit Kavin's Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/thekavinjay Barking cat video: https://youtu.be/aP3gzee1cps

Mozek, Aiman Azri and Brian Tan talk about gentle love-making, being a full-time comedian in Malaysia, the good thing about colonisation, logical inconsistencies in Inception, why wet dreams are impossible, teaching children not to die, barefeet shoes, the Coke wars, how to pronounce imgur, retiring old jokes, talking like an Italian, Mozek running away from Danny Devito, rhythm in comedy, and other stuff! Catch Malaysia's premier weekly stand-up comedy open mic show "One Mic Stand" every Tuesday, 9pm at PJ Live Arts! https://www.facebook.com/1MicStand/?fref=ts

Mozek and Anwar Hadi talk about peeing in a trough, wearing a tuxedo in Malaysia, an Obviously Harith Iskandar viewing party, dick jokes on national television, getting immediate feedback, Tarantino going to the cinema, Anwar being more of a writer than anything else, being comfortable with your work, comedians' personas, rappers' personas, and other stuff! Watch all episodes of Obviously Harith Iskandar at obviouslyharith.com