within a minority. oh, yeah. you re bengali, you know? we ll make a joke about you guys. yeah, all you do is eat fish, right? oh, you re bengali, right? you know? you lot are all short, right? you d have to ask a pakistani oran indian, like, yo, why are you guys picking on these bengalis, man? but you definitely feel it. you definitely feel it. of course, no one wants to be just the butt of the joke. # you don t love me no more.# one person who has broken down lots of stereotypes in his career is mumzy stranger, one of the best known british bangladeshi music artists. i don t know if you re aware, like, how proud we are to see one of our own up there. # ishq da rog bura # tainu lag jaave na.# it s a strange feeling because, for me, i ve always felt like i m not going to be here, you know, it s like. what do you mean by that? because i m a british born bangladeshi, you know, when i started music, it wasn t like.
representation as much as it is about baking cakes. even i, even on this platform, i forget sometimes that i m actually quite good at what i do, and that s because we were raised to always be very humble. we were always raised to stay quiet, know your place, to be grateful. i remember my gran always saying, be grateful, you re in their country, be grateful. and to be honest, you know what, nan? i am grateful, but i can also be great. you know, i can also be great. i m excited today, looking forward to speaking to my peers. ey oh. what up, my gushti? it s your boy, smash bengali. excuse me? hello, everybody listening? i would just like to say, today. hey, guys! hey.hey, guys. higher pitched: hey, guys. lower pitched: hey, guys. because of the pandemic, we couldn t all meet in person, and getting four comedians to join a zoom call at the same time is easier said than done. yo, iksy, can you hear me, bro? oh, yeah. yeah.
i want to live my whole life doing what i want to do, what other people say is regardless. that s one thing about being british, isn t it, not about being bangladeshi, you don t really care about what other people think. the restaurant industry will change. it won t be all ruby murray s curry houses, you know, pint of beers and everything. and you can see, for example, with customers asking for more inherently bengali dishes. we sell fish. do you guys get certain woke customers asking for staff curry, which is like the stuff that s not on the menu. yeah. yeah, we get that, too. back when i was in school, when i left school, we made the curries to the food industry, adapted to them. yeah, to their tongues and. the masalas and. and now we. they re adapting to our food. yeah! do you get my point? 100%. and i think that is a masterful touch. they love it. we, as a community, forget the power we have. our dads came to this country, and they didn t even
with, ali official. let s go! my man, my man. watch his stuff! thank you, bro, i really appreciate it. bro, you know, cos of you, i started doing tiktok. bro, that makes me so happy to hear, honestly. honestly, man. aight, my bro. you take care of yourself. shout out to bbc and everyone. hey, you, man. you, man. moments like that make me feel like, ok, ali, maybe you re doing something right. maybe you re doing something right. bengali parents operate differently, their.proudness isn t always shown verbally, you know? it might be like, ok, you know, have an extra piece of chicken. exaggerated accent: who s my favourite child? they re all useless! i m jokesing. no, no, no, i.i love both of my children equally, yes. what do you mean i have three children? what? oh, yes. yes, the middle one. i realised that no matter how old i get, all my mum wants to know is, have i ate? and she s the only person that s going to do that.
layers that i do represent and i understand the importance of that now. if you and me were talking five years ago, i would have said, let s talk about baking. now it s far more important for me to talk about representation as much as it is about baking cakes. even i, even on this platform, i forget sometimes that i m actually quite good at what i do, and that s because we were raised to always be very humble. we were always raised to stay quiet, know your place, to be grateful. i remember my gran always saying, be grateful, you re in their country, be grateful. and to be honest, you know what, nan? i am grateful, but i can also be great. you know, i can also be great. i m excited today, looking forward to speaking to my peers. ey oh. what up, my gushti? it s your boy, smash bengali. excuse me? hello, everybody listening? i would just like to say, today. hey, guys! hey.hey, guys. higher pitched: hey, guys. lower pitched: hey, guys.