Manan Desai
VADODARA: A stand-up comedian from Gujarat showed a national television channel why fun and funny are totally different. Manan Desai, who performs shows under the name ‘The Comedy Factory’ and has been entertaining the audiences for over a decade, won a trademark case which he had filed in Bombay high court against the channel and the producer of a show who was using a similar name for their upcoming comedy show.
Thirty-three-year-old Desai had first sent a legal notice to the channel in June after he learnt that they were to launch a show ‘The Comedy Factory’.
“I contacted the show’s producers and informed them about the similarity between mine and their comedy show’s name. I requested them to change the name of their show. But the channel kept promoting their show with the same name on social media,” Desai, a resident of Vadodara, said.