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Too Soon

Ehsan Ahmad

YouTube · 2026 · 29 min

A fast club half-hour targeting diversity talk and racial taboos.

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Released , on YouTube.

Ehsan Ahmad approaches ethnic profiling and corporate diversity initiatives with the relaxed posture of a comic who knows how to keep uncomfortable topics light. Instead of relying on grievance or shock value, he builds around fast misdirection, using airline emergency protocols and turban stereotypes to set up punchlines that subvert audience expectations before anyone has time to get defensive.

The set moves at a brisk club clip.

Released on YouTube in January 2026 by 800 Pound Gorilla Media, the half-hour arrived while Ahmad was working as an early regular at the Comedy Mothership in Austin after five years of club work at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Between co-hosting The Solid Show podcast alongside Deric Poston and serving as a touring opener for Tony Hinchcliffe and Joe Rogan, he had honed a style engineered for rooms that demand high joke density.

The back half tackles modern cultural sensitivities head-on, shifting from skepticism over adult ADHD diagnoses to how Hollywood handles race in historical film casting.

Notable bits & set list

7 bits

  1. Encountering an Indian Jew

    Joking about combining racial stereotypes around frugality and bargaining over idioms

  2. South Asians in Canada

    Observing that South Asians are Canada's equivalent of Mexicans, working construction in turbans without hard hats, and imagining Indian street gangs

  3. Receding hairline and an Israeli barber

    Comparing his receding hairline to the Gaza Strip and joking that his Israeli barber claimed the hairline was promised to him

  4. Being monitored by the FBI

    Assuming he has been on a government watch list for years and hoping his assigned FBI agent appreciates his growth as an artist

  5. The assassination attempt on Donald Trump

    Describing the anxiety in his Muslim family group chat until finding out the shooter was a white incel

  6. Corporate diversity initiatives and DEI

    Criticizing diversity programs run by liberal white women, establishing a racial power hierarchy that places dogs above minorities on flights, and referencing a fire chief interview

  7. High school production of The Sound of Music in Cupertino

    Growing up in a heavily Asian town where an Indian kid and a Japanese kid played Nazis, leading into commentary on race-swapping characters in films

How it plays

Tone
Irreverent, unfiltered, provocative, and boundary-pushing
On stage
Brutally honest, self-aware, confident, and unapologetic with sharp writing and fearless misdirection
Pace
Quick wit and dynamic storytelling
About
Race and ethnic stereotypes, South Asians in Canada vs. America, Government surveillance, The Trump assassination attempt, DEI and corporate diversity initiatives, Race-swapping and representation in media

Backstory

Produced and distributed by 800 Pound Gorilla / Gorilla Comedy+

Details

Released
Runtime
29 min
Where
YouTube
Director
Josh Cabaza
Topics

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