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Dad's Wine Sales Accent Routine
from The Pilot! · #15
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3 minTim describes in detail how his father mimics the accent/ethnicity of whichever customer he's selling wine to, especially an Indian shop owner named Vishy, comparing it to a hacky comedian's bit that somehow works on customers.
- 5:45Tim's father is a wine salesman who mimics the accent of whoever he's selling to.
- 6:01The routine: his dad does a broken Irish accent as his baseline, then shifts into an Indian accent when talking to a customer named Vishny.
- 6:28Tim demonstrates how his father starts laughing for no reason in the middle of the sale, like a demented Santa Claus.
- 7:03The customers have no idea what's happening but they love it and think it's great.
- 7:30Tim compares his father's routine to a bad comic doing a hacky impression in a Chinese restaurant, yet somehow the audience breaks up.
- 8:01His father keeps repeating "You want that shot in the head?" as part of the sales pitch.
- 8:24Tim hopes his father doesn't actually use accent mimicry as a deliberate sales strategy and that it's just natural empathy.
- 8:40The whole thing is apparently driven by his father's gregarious personality rather than any conscious technique.
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