Amish Patel
Speaker Slam® Alumni

Amish Patel

Comedian & Actor

About

Amish Patel

Aerospace engineer turned comedian and actor. Created sketch comedy show Fade to Brown with 700+ person sold-out shows. His show Melting Pot was greenlit by Kevin Hart's LOL Network.

On Stage

1 Speech at Speaker Slam®

Overcoming Adversity · 2017

Bullied for the Wrong Culture

May 30, 2017Revival Bar · Toronto

Speaking on the theme Overcoming Adversity at Speaker Slam® in Toronto on May 30, 2017, Amish Patel took the stage with a five minute story.

Transcript

guys how many people here grew up in poverty make the noise okay come your [ __ ] it's okay cool you guys looks like you live good life actually three on it thank you I did school disclosure I was never for myself but how are you safe okay do you think my mom was so Keith key pretend to be rapport associate we pretended would she pretend report we live in the worst neighborhood not going up it was a tragic neighborhood my best friend's mom was a stripper and his dad was one of five called me it was weird okay it was like it was so

poor I was the only ground bender so and didn't think it was a great that's great right it was a dress like we do people that survived like war-torn countries they came to rent it and they're like no [ __ ] white people in our neighborhood I was the only brown guy there and when I was going up your web max okay like I'd watch local school and you guys like hey go home where's weird since how Rd walking home from school few minutes we're all on the same team oh my young but you know now I have to not go home just like you

guys you know then I want I don't look do is run wait it's weird right but eventually got more specific you're like hey go back to back skin which is also weird submitters for media I'm not correct you know so I did what any kid was doing what any strong great young man we do I the next the next day I just walked the other way you know I mean I was like I have not onion Pro Clips right so the next 20 minutes like walking away and engine s like a week after week I got my first girlfriend I crazy I was in my

grade 3 it's weird I know you guys are like what they do the D was tragic luck so we did stuff through here I love the young anyway I love her we love each other ready and put eventually those people on that like route home that were like chasing me home like they were telling you to go home but they like chased me all the way home so now I was in a predicament like I got my girl and I love her but both wait like just no way to get home I'm like I'm so young I don't even know the other way I could

get lost right so I did what any great young man would do and I just walked home like the first way where people just said taggi but they didn't actually take me home like you know what that's that's the compliment and act like we connect I was very sad very lonely because I see my girls and uh and then one day she she saw me and say hey you walk home anymore I missed you what's going on you know and and you do okay well I got a psycho taco pie stick I just went back you know I mean like I went back that way

and the dude they chased me all the way home and I was so mad that night and the first time I going parents felt like dad like let's go [ __ ] your business is [ __ ] right you know your KDC eat your down recruit you go function up my deck I'll be dead if I can get into the [ __ ] right my daddy was like grown up you had to get a job and stuff like that name a great circle gamma goodnight and the dead probably a package let me go backpack today my dad was like and still enjoy and yet you

know like my guess my dad thought they were saying hey go back to Pakistan and then house we'd be like actually what we get and a new movie like when we go so sorry take your time day thank your time yeah so my parents are like figure it out like there is nearly you know you got any go deal with it right so I did what anyone in grade 3 would do I was like I got it I got to do it I gotta go down now so I went to school in my karate uniform just to show the mine you did this right and

you guys think I was loser right I was in grade 3 LT coolest in the class people that was amazing sorry my hunger classic got all day I walked home with my girls I saw these guys I gave me like a little pose it scared the [ __ ] up sub-zero ok they were only like here's Alderney it was only certain the point is guys sometimes you gotta overcome a little adversity but then to get a place in science to get the princess in this case the Titans are the adversities and the princess is the you become as a person because after that I was

a more confident person how strong her adult smarter and I was the karate champion of my neighborhood that's my time Oh

Transcript generated from the recording and lightly cleaned. Some names and wording may differ from the spoken speech.

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