US citizen Chris Turner sits down with Jay Jurden to discuss drag queen slang, british swears, missing your big entrance, performing for tips, what makes a great freestyle rap suggestion. bum vs. butt, black diaspora wars, Central Cee’s marketing strategy, pineapple colonisation, why Hawaii is America’s Falkland Islands, Mississippi being the most American state, where Snoop Dogg is from, Native American place names, American hubris, why you need to touch grass, multitudinous churches, secular songs, how being Southern is exhausting, Freddy Adu, Robert Johnson, the Delta Blues, and much more…

Jay Jurden is a New York based comedian, writer and actor. Originally from Mississippi, Jay regularly performs comedy all over the country. He was recently a Staff Writer for Apple TV+'s Emmy-nominated show, The Problem With Jon Stewart. Jay has performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon three times and has also been seen on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Featuring, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and HBO’s High Maintenance. Jay was named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch in 2022. His album, Jay Jurden Y'all, debuted #1 on iTunes. Jay has written for numerous publications including: Vulture, Teen Vogue, McSweeney's, and The New Yorker. He has also written for Marvel's Voices: X-Men #1. He was listed on Vulture's Comedians You Should and Will Know in 2020 and was selected to be featured in Just for Laughs Festival's New Faces in 2019.

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