New, Safe, Successful Jokes: A Serious Study February 7, 2021, 8:39 PM IST
Indrajit Hazra is Editor Views, Economic Times. His attempt to comment on everything under the sun has made him a social menace in certain social media circles.
A professional comedian is a person who is paid money to make people laugh. And in most cultures, including our own, professional comedians are expected to make their audiences laugh without administering them nitrous oxide or marijuana, tickling them, or threatening them to laugh on pain of death or any other sub-fatal threat.
That is the way it has been in cinema, radio and YouTube, in stand-up, sit-down and lie-back. And that is the way it shall be unless you get the Joke Police in.
The young Indian stand-up who s in jail for a joke he didn t tell yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MUMBAI, India
For more than a month, Munawar Faruqui, a tousled-haired, 30-year-old comic, languished in jail for a joke he didn’t tell.
Faruqui was beginning to make his name in the crowded ranks of India’s up-and-coming stand-up comedians. More than half a million people subscribed to his YouTube channel, where his performances feature an edgy mix of social and political commentary, one-liners and takedowns of religious fundamentalism delivered in rapid-fire Hindi.
The trouble started on New Year’s Day, when Faruqui took the microphone at a cafe in the central city of Indore. Just as he was beginning his set, a man wearing a white shirt and unzipped vest walked onstage and began harassing the comedian, accusing him of insulting Hinduism.
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