Asif Ali & Saagar Shaikh on Deli Boys Season 2, Losing Millionaire & Saagar Becoming a Teacher

0:00 Our next guest star as brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil

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0:34 Season two of Delhi Boys premieres May 28th on Hulu.

0:37 Please welcome Asaf, Ali, and Sardo Shake.

1:02 What's up?

1:03 Thanks for having me on your show.

1:05 Thank you.

1:05 You know, we have We're glad to have you back.

1:08 I had you on my show.

1:09 You put me on your show.

1:10 I don't get that courtesy extended to me very often.

1:13 Yeah.

1:14 We really like you.

1:15 Thank you.

1:15 And I like you guys, too.

1:16 From the moment I met you, I feel like we hit it off like instantly when we met.

1:20 And the last time I saw you, do you remember what the last time was?

1:23 Yeah.

1:23 Don't.

1:23 You're going to remind us.

1:25 You know,

1:25 you guys were contestants on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, which I host.

1:29 And um and you were doing, as I recall, very well.

1:33 You were kind of killing it for a while.

1:35 You were You made a a mistake though

1:37 that that contestants make from time to time.

1:39 You were hoarding your lifelines.

1:42 I think you were up to $125,000.

1:44 Yeah.

1:44 And we really thought like the plan was we're going to get to a place

1:47 and then we're going to rip with the lifelines and then become millionaires.

1:51 We really thought we were doing something.

1:53 You know, you save three out of your four lifelines.

1:56 Do you remember the question that you asked?

1:58 I haven't

1:58 I just remember the answer because I see a tellide

2:00 on the road all the time and it pisses me off.

2:03 The answer was Kia Telluride.

2:05 It was a complicated question.

2:06 It was mixed geography and automotive uh details.

2:10 But um uh your family know who was your lifeline for that?

2:13 It was Husam Hajj.

2:15 Oh man.

2:16 Yeah.

2:16 And do you think he would have known the answer to the question?

2:19 At the time, I was thinking, uh, no.

2:21 Uh, but now I'm like, why?

2:23 He knows so many things.

2:24 Why wouldn't he know the answer?

2:25 Uh, my dad was like, why didn't you call me?

2:29 Did you think your dad really knew the answer?

2:31 Cuz everybody claims they know the answer after they

2:33 told.

2:33 Yeah.

2:34 Yeah.

2:34 Yeah.

2:34 After they've been told the answer.

2:35 Is your family reaping the benefits of your success, your

2:39 We've been so busy working on the show.

2:41 I have a brother that looks just like me

2:43 and he's a pharmacist and so he will constantly send me

2:47 videos and photos of fans who are shocked uh because

2:51 they think that it's me picking up a second job.

2:54 He looks that much like you.

2:56 Yeah.

2:56 They're, you know, they leave meeting him and I tell them never to correct.

2:59 I never tell anyone if people think you're me, never correct me.

3:03 I want people to think that I'm working.

3:05 They look so much alike.

3:07 It is crazy.

3:09 Really, it's crazy.

3:09 The only difference is his brother has a bigger gap in his goatee thing.

3:13 Does he use it for evil?

3:14 He uses it for evil.

3:16 He, you know, he'sing um Yeah.

3:20 Yeah.

3:20 Yeah.

3:20 Yeah.

3:21 He's out there.

3:22 Technically, those dates are your dates.

3:25 He's a legitimate catfish.

3:29 Yeah.

3:29 Yeah.

3:29 I feel like it's really shocking for them because they'll go in and be like,

3:31 I just need to get my prescription filled.

3:33 And then they look up and they go,

3:35 "Why is a guy from Delhi Boys working at this pharmacy?" And he goes,

3:40 "Hey man, Hollywood's hard." He I told him

3:44 I told him to SAY THAT HOLLYWOOD'S HARD.

3:48 You know, I think when you're dating, being a pharmacist is a good gig to have

3:52 because you can see what diseases/ilments you're potential.

3:56 Yeah.

3:56 He gets to check the file before.

3:58 Yeah.

3:58 Ser, you are now teaching as well, right?

4:01 Yeah, that's right.

4:01 That's Where do you teach?

4:03 At the uh University of Texas in San Antonio.

4:05 How did that come to pass?

4:06 I uh we were uh promoting the show at South

4:09 by Southwest last year and I ran into this kid who

4:12 had a fancy camera and I told him to take

4:14 a picture of us in front of our uh truck, our activation.

4:18 Uh I was never going to ask him for the photo.

4:20 I just wanted him to have it, you know.

4:21 Yeah.

4:22 And he said he works for the Pisano.

4:24 And I was like, "That's our UTSA, you know,

4:27 um like newspaper." He's like, "Yeah, I go to UTSA.

4:30 I'm a film major there.

4:32 I was like, UTSA has a film department.

4:34 That didn't exist when I went to school there.

4:36 He's like, yeah, you know, I'm uh I'm really excited to be there.

4:38 It's new.

4:39 It's two years old.

4:40 And I told him uh I was like, if if you want, I'll come to a panel at UTSA.

4:45 And um and he asked his professors and they emailed me.

4:48 There was like seven professors uh like emailing me at once.

4:51 Uh they set up the panel.

4:53 I did a Q&A.

4:54 He was the moderator, the kid was.

4:56 And at the end of it, I joked.

4:57 I was like, "If you guys want me to come back next semester to teach,

4:59 let me know." And and they did.

5:02 And

5:03 Wow.

5:03 And now,

5:05 yeah, it's great.

5:05 You know, it's a Well, they must be It's a nice little bit I'm doing.

5:10 Yeah.

5:10 Yeah.

5:10 Right.

5:10 Yeah.

5:11 Do you work hard on it and trying to I actually really do.

5:14 Yeah.

5:14 It's It's way harder than I thought it was going to be.

5:17 And um um some of the kids are amazing.

5:21 Uh some of them really piss me off.

5:24 Oh, they do.

5:25 you know, those are the ones that I really care about.

5:27 Oh, interesting.

5:28 I really want them to do well, you know,

5:30 cuz like this industry is really hard and uh who

5:34 gets to have like a working actor as their professor?

5:38 Nobody.

5:37 During class 5, I asked I was like,

5:39 "Who here has seen Deli Boys?" And I heard like a woo.

5:44 And I was like, "Wait a second.

5:46 Raise your hand if you haven't seen Deli Boys." And I have 25

5:49 students and I swear there was about 20 of them that raised their hand.

5:52 And I was like, "You know what, guys?

5:54 The rest of the class we're not doing anything.

5:56 I found my laptop.

5:57 I took it out.

5:58 I logged into Hulu for the first time on my laptop.

6:02 I didn't remember my password.

6:04 So, I had to try a couple of times.

6:05 I had to, you know, forgot my password.

6:07 And then I finally got it on and I I cast it

6:10 on the screen and I made them watch the pilot right in front of me.

6:13 And then did they on their own go and watch the rest of the show?

6:17 I made it an assignment.

6:19 Come on.

6:20 Cuz I can do that.

6:22 Oh, sure.

6:24 You know, if you could take on more students,

6:26 you get up to the number one show in the world.

6:28 You're right.

6:29 You're right.

6:30 I I I made it an assignment.

6:31 I'm doing a a Delhi Boys quiz at the end of the semester.

6:34 Very good.

6:35 Extra credit.

6:36 You know,

6:36 you uh Now, is the show is the show picking up where last season left off.

6:41 It is.

6:41 Yes.

6:42 Yes.

6:42 And it's even crazier.

6:44 Um you know, we have all these amazing guest stars and we

6:47 Yeah.

6:47 Who's the Who are the guest stars besides Well,

6:49 obviously you got a real big one.

6:50 Our number one guest star is right here.

6:54 Yeah.

6:53 Thank you.

6:54 Big death.

6:57 Uh, we got Tan France back.

6:59 We got uh Andrew Ran.

7:01 We got Lily Singh.

7:03 And we got Kuml Niani.

7:05 Um, Fred Armson of course.

7:07 Oh man, the best Robin.

7:10 Yeah, Robin.

7:11 Um, it's stacked.

7:13 It's fun.

7:14 Is everybody fitting in?

7:15 Everybody's behaving themselves.

7:17 They did good.

7:17 They did good.

7:18 You're getting along with Fred and Kumale.

7:21 Love Fred.

7:22 Love Fred.

7:22 Love Cam.

7:23 Um, unless it's ping pong.

7:25 Unless it's ping pong.

7:26 Me and Camille got a little bit of a ping pong beef going on.

7:29 Oh, dear.

7:29 Uh, yeah.

7:30 And you know what?

7:30 Camil,

7:31 I challenge you, man.

7:32 Who's better at ping pong?

7:33 You or Camil?

7:35 Not even close.

7:36 It's me.

7:37 I mean, it's pretty close.

7:38 Uh, it's pretty close.

7:39 I'm not going to lie.

7:40 He's good.

7:40 He's good.

7:41 He's good.

7:42 And is Fred Armson invited to play ping pong?

7:45 He can watch.

7:46 Oh, yeah.

7:48 All right.

7:48 Well, it's great to see you guys.

7:49 Guys, I'm glad everything is I mean, you got another season.

7:52 You're teaching.

7:54 Your brother sells drugs.

7:55 It's incredible.

7:56 Um, and we're really hoping we're really hoping to uh to get a season 3.

7:59 And Jimmy, I really wanted you to say something

8:01 that Anne Hathaway said on TV the other day.

8:04 Uh, she said inshallah.

8:05 And I want you to say that you know we get a season 3.

8:09 Inshallah.

8:10 Come on.

8:11 Inshalah.

8:15 And um and I'll see you again soon.

8:17 And season two of Delhi Boys premieres May 28th on Hulu.

8:22 We'll be back with Duran Duran and Nyall Rogers.