- Hello, everyone and welcome back to my channel.
If you have been watching my channel for a while,
you'll notice that I'm not actually in my home right now.
I'm up in Edinburgh, Scotland.
This is an Airbnb.
I'm doing my show every night here
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for all of August
so if you're here, please come.
This is the world's largest arts festival.
There's like 3,000 something shows,
so you have to work really hard to get your show noticed.
What people do a lot is flyering.
I flyer for my own show.
This sheet of paper here, this is my flyer.
I give it to them, tell them to come to my show.
Try to convince strangers to buy a ticket.
I find it pretty fun.
I sit out on the street and I just hand it out to people.
I thought it would make a good YouTube video
showing you guys a glimpse into the life
as an Edinburgh Fringe performer.
And here's how that went.
Hello, if you love aircon or Asian people,
you'll love the show.
- We love both but we're full up.
- You're full up, I'm here all month.
- We'll take it anyway. - I'm here all month.
aircon is what they call AC or air conditioning
in the UK, they have just weird names for shit there.
What do you call it in America?
- [Camera Man] AC.
- AC, air conditioning, aircon is what they say in the UK.
How about you guys?
aircon or Asian people, I'm sure it's both those things.
Yay, it starts in an hour and a half.
Come by, that's me on the flyer.
It's a good flyering day today.
It's sunny, people are in a good mood.
Yesterday was rainy people just hated me yesterday.
So let's try a different line now.
I have a line that is, if you love Lady Boys of Bangkok
you'll like the show, and I say that to dirty looking men.
If you love Lady Boys of Bangkok, you'll love my show.
Yay, see what I mean?
- [Camera Man] Dude, honestly I think having
a camera on you helps with flyer-ing.
People are like, who's this important guy?
- Yeah, I should hire ya all the time.
If you love aircon or Asian people
you'll love my show.
Yo, support a fellow Asian brother.
come see my show, I'll let you bring your bags.
Here's a flier, I'll put it in your bag for you.
Where you from, man?
- China.
- China, yes!
(speaking in foreign language)
It's good to see Asians in, you know, over in Scotland.
How many Asians are there, like three?
I flyered these people on the first day
and I do YouTube stuff as well.
Yes, how is the show going?
- Going well, going well, amazing!
Mara, come to the show!
- For you?
- Yeah, shit flyerers but.
How are you guys, love aircon or Asian people?
It starts in an hour and a half.
I'm from Malaysia, I talk about
living in the UK as an immigrant
from an outsiders prospective.
Are you British? - No.
- No, where are you from? - The United States.
- Oh, I lived in Chicago for a while.
Went to Northwestern, so I lived there.
Fun for the whole family, I curse a little bit
but nothing they haven't heard.
They've seen worse on TikTok and Fortnite.
What's your name?
Fahmid, hello, hey guys, this is Fahmid.
He is a subscriber to my YouTube Channel.
Nice to meet you, Fahmid.
What are you flyering for today?
- I'm just flyering for an Indian Restaurant.
- It's an Indian Restaurant, you know child labor
is illegal in the UK?
- So my mom is saying, oh, you should do this
'cause I'm really bad at speaking to people.
- Asian parents, man, they just make you work, right?
They want to instill the value of hard work in ya
or they beat you up.
That's the two things they make you do.
I love Fahmid's smile, he's so happy over there.
Child labor has never looked so adorable.
You guys love aircon or Asian people, you'll love my show.
- We love both of those. - I can't say no.
- Yes, you can't say no to that!
Don't be racist, take a flyer!
- We're not racist!
- No, I'm not saying you are.
That's a new one, don't be racist take a flyer.
Let's see how we do now.
Don't be racist, take a flyer!
Yay, one for one!
Don't be racist, take a flyer!
Two for two, this is a great line.
I think it alienates everybody
but I'm giving out a lot of flyers.
Jane, Nigel, nice to meet you,
hopefully I see you at the show.
- Nigel, very English name.
- Yeah, I'm from Malaysia, we used to be a British colony.
It's awful, I wish I was called Kevin.
All the Asians in California are called Kevin.
Kevin Nguyen, all of them.
I'll let you bring your bicycle in.
- Ah, cheers.
- Don't be racist, take a flyer!
Aww, that didn't work that time.
They were probably racist.
Support a fellow Asian sister.
We can talk about bubble tea!
Hello, don't be racist, take a flyer!
- I'm not a racist!
I'm not a racist!
- Come to the show too, that will make you extra not racist.
White guilt sells tickets.
If you love aircon or Asian people you will love my show!
No, you like aircon, I hate Asians too, don't worry.
There's too many of us, right?
I wish they'd dropped a third bomb in Japan.
I just flyered them based on using their white guilt.
- I'm a half Asian.
- Half Asian?
- Yeah, my mom's from Singapore.
- What's the other half?
- Welsh.
- Welsh?
- Yeah, half white, half Malay.
- Which half do you prefer?
- Malay, I like the Malay side, like the food.
- Oh, he's just saying that because you are filming it.
He can't say you prefer the white half on camera.
That is suicide, you know?
Half Singaporean, nice to meet you brother.
- Nice to meet you.
- We don't get along, you know that, right?
Come to the show, man, seriously.
It's been going well so far.
People like it.
Especially Asians like 20% more.
Sorry, but you can come too.
Because I just have all the Asian culture talk, you know.
I have a big closing bit about rice, if you like that.
- It's like arsenic in it?
- Artist snick in it?
- Arsenic.
- Arsenic in it, there's arsenic in rice?
- Apparently, I didn't know.
- There is, that's why you wash it thoroughly.
- Yeah, you wash it thoroughly.
You don't eat Uncle Ben's--
- But it's so quick and easy.
- There's a problem in this society these days.
They just want it quick and easy.
Some people just don't have
the balls to handle flyering, man.
You've got to be hardcore, you know?
I use to work at a call center for three years.
The amount of rejection I got from there,
it prepares you for everything, you know?
Especially, love.
- [Camera Man] Corny ass.
- Don't be racist, take a flyer, yes!
That's right, that's my last flyer.
We are out of flyers, we got to go get more flyers now.
Sometimes people hate flyers so much they will just cross
the street to avoid talking to me.
I would love to see one of them get hit by a truck.
That would be so funny.
Why'd you get into an accident?
I didn't want to take a piece of paper from a guy.
More flyers.
Hello, do you love the rain but hate,
why'd I say that, sorry.
I was gonna say, if you love the rain
but hate Asian people come to my show.
It's a KKK rally, £9.
What's your name?
- Sylva.
- Sylva, nice to meet you, Sylva.
Who are you flyering for?
- I am flyering for Kai Samra.
- How's that, how's that going?
How do, how do you find flyering, you like it?
- I really like it.
- Great, right, it's the best thing
you can do on minimum wage.
At least she's getting paid, I'm not.
Do you think you are a good flyer-er?
- I'd say so.
- Okay, plug the show to me.
- Okay, so this is Kai.
Kai's parents, he does comedy.
Kai's parents were in an arranged marriage
and then they split up.
Well his dad left and his mum moved to the UK.
His role model and then his brother got involved
with the wrong people and just left
like what am I suppose to do?
And he just kind of talks about politics,
growing up in Britain when you're not from Britain.
It's really funny, would recommend.
- Give that a six out of 10.
- Oh.
- Yeah, room for improvement.
- What do I need to improve on?
- Well, it just sounded very depressing, the first chunk.
You know, he's not from here,
his dad left him, comedy gold there.
- No, he just takes a piss at himself.
What's better than taking a piss at yourself?
- You know how I plug my show?
- How?
- If you love aircon or Asian people,
my show has both of those things.
See, short, punchy, ridiculous.
- But why would I go and see that?
- What, why?
Why don't you want to see it?
It was good, people like, people laugh.
- I like your energy, that's what would make me come
and see the show, it's your energy, when you flyer.
- It doesn't matter what you say, right?
- Yeah.
- Lie, lie about him.
- Yeah, he's so good.
So good, I'm not, but that's not a lie though.
- Have you seen the show?
- No, I'm going tonight.
- Are you in University?
- No, I'm still at school.
- Still at school, how old are you?
- I am 17.
- This is child labor again.
- I know.
- Feels just like Asia now, they're not paying you much.
Oh, you are working in a sweat shop.
- Yeah, I know, if you need a flyer-er hit me up
and I'm sure I'll sell you better.
- She hasn't seen my show either
so what are you going to lie?
How are you going to lie?
Lie to the camera for me.
- Can I see a flyer?
- Yeah, are you going to tell people I'm white?
Is that the lie you are going to tell?
- So this is Nigel, Nigel Ng.
He's from Asia, he's really funny.
You're going to be grasped by his energy
and performance, he's just always on the go,
the whole time, always in character.
I would 100% recommend going to see his show.
- That's pretty good.
Hey, you improved from the first one.
- I know, the only thing I'd say
is your flyers are a bit flimsy.
- What, fuck you, man.
- These are rock solid.
- What do you mean, flimsy?
- Yours are just a bit more papery,
mine's more cardy.
- I'm getting very insecure now.
You never want to be called flimsy by a woman, you know?
- Yeah.
- Oh, God, you're 17, let's not talk, let's not go there.
Nice meeting you Sylva, pathological liar and flyerer.
And we'll see you soon.
- It's lovely to meet you and I will come and see your show.
- So I hope you guys found that interesting.
If you'd like to see my show and can't come
over to the UK, let me know where you live.
In my mailing list below put in your city so maybe I can
you know, be like BLACKPINK and show up in your area.
Have you ever done any sorta flyering like this before?
Have you talked to strangers in the street like this?
Let me know in the comments below.
What do you think?
Does it look scary?
Does it look fun?
And I'll see you in my next video.