100 episodes
Ho Ho Hong Kong Mohammed Magdi & Vivek Mahbubani
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- Comedy
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4.9 • 28 Ratings
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Everything you need to know about Hong Kong. Each Monday local comedian Vivek Mahbubani and Egyptian comic Mohammed Magdi dive into something great about the city.
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#167 - Reviewing Our Reviewers: We Give Zero Stars
We wrap up our run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2024 and we sit down to debrief and reflect on the past couple of weeks. Annie and Mohammed's show "Too Haram To Handle" received 3 reviews and they are all wildly different from each other. We go through them one by one, including a review we never read before the episode recording.
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#166 - "The Best in Your Race" Featuring Some of Asia's Top Comics
As we enter the last week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, We seize the opportunity of having so many of Asia's top comics in one room, and we record what will most definitely go down in history as our biggest episode ever, featuring five guests! Daniel Fernades (IND), Dr. Jason Leong (MAL), Annie Louey (AUS), Qam Haziq (SIN), and Jacky Ng (SIN)
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#165 - How Comedians Get Ready for Major Festival Shows
Recorded in Melborune, Australia, comedians Vivek Mahbubani, Annie Louey, and Mohammed Magdi are all gearing up for their shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. They catch up on the podcast on how they have been preparing, their different ways of promoting the show, and why the "festival club" is a pit of diseases.
Catch Vivek's Cantonese shows in Australia and New Zealand: https://aunz.funnyvivek.com/
See Mohammed and Annie's show in Melbourne: https://t.ly/5bw6x
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Follow Vivek on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/funnyvivek/
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#164 - The Risky Business of the Hanging Bamboo Scaffolding
On this week's episode, Vivek is dealing with handymen invading his house and installing a hanging bamboo scaffolding platform through his living room's window on the xxth floor! The hanging bamboo scaffolding is a pretty common practice in Hong Kong, but there is something particularly dangerous about those hanging ones, not erected from the street level up.
Check out the SCMP infographic on bamboo scaffolding in HK: https://t.ly/MOtJO
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#163 - Visiting the Dentist in Hong Kong
This week, we have a classic Ho Ho Hong Kong episode. We discuss new ways emabssies use to rip you off. Both our hosts visit their respective dentists, and we chat about all things dentists in Hong Kong. Vivek has had some banking drama, and Mohammed had to call the SPCA to try to save a bird!
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#162 - No Shame In The O Game w/Sex Coach Sara Tang
Sara Tang is a certified sexologist and coach based in Hong Kong. She believes that sex is a skill and everyone can learn how to get better in bed. She is most passionate about helping people who had a limited sex education or culturally conservative upbringing feel more connected and confident with their sexuality.
Sara has a new course, called: "Own Your O" Masterclass: The Shame Free Guide to Self-Pleasure. We chat with Sara about her new course, the stigma surrounding the female orgasm and the truth behind common pleasure myths.
Check out "Own Your O" Masterclass here: https://t.ly/N__Dg
Follow Sara Tang on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hellosarasense/
Get tickets for Backstage Comedy shows here: https://linktr.ee/backstagecomedy
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Follow Vivek on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/funnyvivek/
Customer Reviews
Great show!
Love hearing about what’s going on in HK. Keep up the good work!
Disappointed tbh
I was looking forward to a fun and interesting podcast in English based in HK yet unfortunately found myself quite disappointed. I understand that as comedians they need to make jokes to make people laugh, but some of their statements are just plain ignorant. Not all people have lived lives where “420” clicks as something inappropriate automatically. I am over 30 years old, lived in over 10 countries and didn’t know about this terminology until I met my pothead (now) ex, 2 years ago. “Weed” was not something that immediately registered in my mind upon seeing 4/20, and I find it rude that they laugh about that being somehow ignorant and abnormal. It would’ve been funny if they had just mentioned that they were say “potheads” even if that were an overstatement, and then laughed about seeing 4/20 and how they thought it was hilarious.
Also the fact that one of the guys immediately thought of racist jokes, but only refrained from saying them out loud from “fear of being cancelled”, shows the lack of respect he has towards the people and the culture here (regardless of whatever ethnicity he’s from).
They're whole take on making fun of others (be it kids who have a desires to go to school for example) just feels very off putting and not a great influence overall. I think there are more benign ways of producing comedy.
I give them 2 stars for creating a podcast and hustling, but I find it hard to feel the desire to support them. Sorry.
Highly recommend!
I’ve been following Andy’s career and podcast since day one. Always good for a lot of laughs.