Nikhil
Appearances
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
This is my resting state of enthusiasm. Oh, really? You know what? That could be blood sugar. I'm so enthusiastic. That could be blood sugar. You know, you should look into that. You should make sure you... Probably. It's also 1.30 in the night right now, and I feel zoinked but excited at the same time. I feel it's just very confusing. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Yeah, we call him Anus. And we don't know why. It's like one of those names. Yeah, that sounds like someone who would like my stuff.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Oh, that's my bad. No, his name is Anirudh. His name is Anirudh. But we call him Anus. And you don't know why? You don't know why? No, it's like something that entered the zeitgeist of this house without us knowing. Realizing it, it just sort of flowed in. And we call him Anus now.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
yeah yeah to be fair he's not like let the name stuck yet like when we when we say anus out loud he turns and then he gives this face of like oh i can't believe i'm allowing this to happen so when you come here if you christen him officially i think he'll be uh it'll stick from then on well i guess that's a good reason to fly all the way to india
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Absolutely. I mean, for starters, I'd love to do a full pilot with you, perhaps in your hotel room or my bedroom right here. We could shoot one of these episodes. That sounded weird the way I said it, but the episode would be completely fine and not strange at all.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Awesome. So I am a video creator and it sounds insane to say, but I'm also a talk show host. I can't believe I'm saying that to you. But yeah, I've done 40 episodes of a show called Menu Please, where I interviewed Netflix stars over a meal. So we went to different restaurants, talked about food and about their movie. And it was a lot of fun.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Me too. This has been a huge, huge honor and so nice to meet you guys, Sona and Matt as well. Thank you. Yeah. Awesome.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Hey, guys. So nice to be here. You've been in my ears for so long. For years. Years for years. Nice to see you guys.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
It was a Netflix India YouTube show. So the show was on Netflix's YouTube channel. But I like to say Netflix because it sounds cool. It was awesome. It was one of the coolest experiences.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Fair enough. I am talk show host. It's just surreal to say to you. But one cool thing is you and I have actually interviewed the same person. Who's that? It's Vir Das.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Yeah. It's like six degrees of separation except two. Yeah. It was super cool. I actually asked him what it was like to be on the show. He performed stand-up on your show way back. And yeah, he just said such great things about you. It was cool.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
I currently actually live in a four-bedroom house with three other guys. And it's a very unique situation. So I'm currently on the top floor. And we live in lowering degrees of relationship status. So I'm at the top. Yes. And I'm a single guy. Below me, not literally, is a guy who is in a situationship.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
you know one of those things next to him is a guy who's in a very nice long term relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend and below them is a guy who's currently engaged oh yeah it's quite unique actually
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
We do. It's very surprising. There's been no problems except for one guy. Okay. Tell me about this one guy. Is it you? Yeah. No. Oh, wait. They probably say that about me. But there's one guy. His name is Jeet. And all he does is he's a serial rascal. Is that a thing I can say? Serial rascal? He's just a rascal. Yeah. Wow. You really blew the doors off.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
There's one tall guy, so you'd have somebody to look in the eye with. There's one guy who's super responsible, doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, so I guess you can not do those things with him. And there's me at the top, just making videos, so I... I guess we could do that. I'm not very interesting, to be honest. And then there's the annoying guy who we can call an income poop together. Yes.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
So one of them, the tall guy, actually, I put all of them in. I spread this podcast like the plague. I've been listening to every episode. So anytime we're doing a long road trip, this is what I put on. My favorite is the John Krasinski episode. It makes me laugh out loud. So one of my roommates, Anus, his name is. Yeah, he's a big fan. He's asleep right now.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
But if he knew that I was talking to you right now, he'd lose it.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
After his stroke, I think he just like, I don't know, hug you. And he's a fun guy. He's like one of those extreme polar opposite personality guys where when he's in work mode, like he doesn't talk. He just walked through the room. And he's just like a white walker from Game of Thrones. And he's very focused.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
But when he's out and having fun, he's just the most fun guy making everybody, you know, just have a great time. So I think he turned into that mode after this said stroke.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Okay, so Bangalore used to be the garden capital of India. Then it became the Silicon Valley of India. And so they removed all the gardens. But throughout this, it's always been the pub capital of India. So we have an insane pub culture here. And I know all of you, Sona, Matt, I know you guys especially will have a great time over here. In fact... There's a pub called Toit over here. T-O-I-T.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
I'll do it with you just to make you feel. Wow. But the cool thing about toit is, so they brew their own beer. I'd love for you to review it considering you're an Irishman and you guys. I like the beer. Sure. Yeah. Oh, look at you. They also have restrooms. Uh-huh.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
They have restrooms. This is important. Yes. I think it's pronounced Toi, by the way. I think it's some French word.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
So in front of the restrooms, they have a portrait of you. And every time I go there and I get piss drunk and I have to go get piss. You have to. Because I'm drunk. Yes, you have to. Am I drunk right now? No. Sorry, it's 1.30 in the night. I take a selfie with that portrait every time. I have a collection. I have a folder actually on my phone. Let's see. Images.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
OK, so I live in Bangalore, India, which is in the south. Most people visit places north. I think you should come visit the south if you end up if your ban ends.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
you'll be pleased to know the portrait is in between both rooms so the doors are on either side if you can imagine that everybody can see this image when they go to pee
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
I'm currently between posting jobs, which means those shows are ended. So one of the shows was Menu Please. The other was Food Wars, another show where I reviewed fast food. And both of those are over because we've run out of both celebrities and fast food joints here in India. And I'm currently, I guess, in a state of figuring out what I want to work on.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
And I'm actually thinking of working on a talk show here in India. Oh. And the premise of which is I take a small crew, go to a sort of enter a stranger's home with their permission, set up over there and shoot every episode interviewing an ordinary person in their unique house, talking about their unique items and what makes them them. That's the idea right now. Oh, that's a cool idea.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Um, I am gonna clip that and listen to it every day of my life. Yeah.
Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend
Rascally Nincompoop
Yeah. Yeah. It's actually so hard for us Indians to get a visa to come there. So it's nice to hear when you guys have some difficulty coming here.