How to pronounce “usbek” in English

to lump them in together but um the history was always important to me and she was just incredibly generous. Like when I went to perform in Iraq andAfghanistan and Kuwait and Usbekiststan, I didn't know who else to call because there had been there was no other femalecomic who's even alive who who would do those high-profile USO shows. Phyllis Diller had already passed. So I had to call Joan and go, I'm going to perform