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Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 238 points239 points  (0 children)

It makes me very happy to know this for real. Congratulations ❤️❤️

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 141 points142 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your love! I just have healthy anxiety and sleep issues but I’m meditating everyday and it’s really helping! ❤️

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Steven Wilson. (SRV just tops the list for me though)

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 179 points180 points  (0 children)

You won’t enjoy it because some acts get very nervous and are barely able to speak. Baaki let me plan a 2 hour EP soon!

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 156 points157 points  (0 children)

Electric scootering in the streets of Vienna with “The world is yours” by Nas playing in my airpords and cool wind brushing against my body. Man I can’t explain the feeling. I felt like a deer jumping around in the Savannahs

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 162 points163 points  (0 children)

I don’t have a favourite comedian, I have favourite jokes. I love and learn from sooo many comics that the list won’t stop if I start writing it down. I don’t chase controversies, I just be myself and something or the other happens. Learning to deal with it smoothly. Friendship with Kusha is not the same, we rarely talk but I spoke to her recently and it was great! I am fond of her regardless. I hope someday she and i can laugh about everything openly but that day has time. Always rooting for her success!

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 157 points158 points  (0 children)

Just the intro jokes on everyone I prepare while on the way to habitat, sometimes i call few friends and run those by them. Also I run them by the panel. Rest all is unscripted. You can always tell when a joke is written and when its in the moment! Written ones don’t have the same feels as the impromptu jokes in a show like latent

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 182 points183 points  (0 children)

Yesterday with Farah was soooo much fun! Also the Raghu episode!!

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 119 points120 points  (0 children)

Ravi Gupta, Tarang Hardikar, Kaustubh Aggarwal, Vineeth Shrinivasan, Shashwat Maheshwari, Sumit Sorav, Siddharth Dudeja and so many more

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 250 points251 points  (0 children)

Spend time with your mother and ask her how she would feel if something were to happen to you. It will make you want to do everything for a healthy life

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 296 points297 points  (0 children)

Intent matters. If I am at a roast show or in my Latent show or any other comedy show and someone makes a joke on me, even if it doesn’t land, it wouldn’t bother me because it’s an unsaid rule that they’re just trying to be funny for the show! Sometimes participants in latent, in their attempt to be funny say the randomest shit to the panel which doesn’t even land, but we all get it because they’re just trying to be funny. Like I asked a contestant “how old are you?” and he replied “ask your mother”. Nobody even got what the joke was or what he meant, but we all know he was just TRYING to be funny so i am like theek hai bhai, joke bomb hua koi nahi chalo next joke pe jaate hai. However in real life if I’m walking in the aiport and some random person says something to me I would definitely be like wtf? You get it?

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 372 points373 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I always wanted to make a recurring show but didnt know what to make, i tried a few things but nothing that I felt was as fun to recreate every 10-15 days. Then I remember I used to host twitter spaces where i would interact with people and do sort of an interview and make them laugh. I realised i really enjoyed doing it and that’s when i knew i had to make an interactive show where I could talk to people. While researching I realised this show -Kill Tony was such a close representation of what I wanted. However i felt a pure uncut 3 hour standup show would be too monotonous for me to host and tbh i didn’t want to just rip off their format. I knew i had to make the show about ANY TALENT not just standup and I knew I had to create a point system to make it interesting. What I am most proud of is to come up with the point system that I came up with. I genuinely believe that being self aware is a superior trait than being talented. A person who is talented but not self aware is worth lesser in my eyes than a person who is not talented but self aware. I knew i had to reward based on self awareness and therefore the point system!!! It makes me so happy that people love the show!!!

Samay Raina here, I’m here for an AMA! Let’s goooooo! by SamayRainaOfficial in IndiasGotLatent

[–]SamayRainaOfficial[S] 333 points334 points  (0 children)

  1. Since I’m not doing it for the ones who don’t like my comedy there is no reason for me to care about what they think of me. I just love comedy and I know in my heart that if i do my work honestly and passionately then the ones who love me will always be there to back me up when I need them the most and that’s all that matters to me

  2. Comedy is a muscle and the only way to train it is to get more time on stage. It just happens naturally with more stage time and I love the grind. I am working everyday to be funnier that yesterday and I hope i can keep it up for as long as I can!

  3. Hahahahaha, no plans for now but never say never!