Have a laugh

After a season of  ’politically incorrect’ posts/comments, heated arguments and trolls on my poor blog, I leave you this weekend with some of my most favorite clips of Russell Peters. Russell Peters is a famous stand up comedian from Canada, but his popularity extends to several countries. He was born to Anglo Indian parents who were immigrants from India; Russell himself grew up in multicultural Toronto. His jokes make fun of almost all cultures and communities, especially of those in which he has grown up in and which he understands the most. Enjoy!

My name is Khan!

SRK’s detention at Newark airport in NJ, USA, has primarily generated two, but very different, reactions. The first one, as always, is that how the US in the past few years has become so much paranoid for it’s security and that how most Muslims entering the US, or even for that matter many brown people, are humiliated at the US immigration due to racial profiling. The second reaction, again an expected one, is that how we should not make a big deal out of this and that how each person is equal in the eyes of US immigration & therefore has to go through the same set of security measures; no matter even if that person is India’s biggest star Shah Rukh Khan. Both reactions, in my opinion, need to be qualified.

How Bruno Interviewed a Terrorist

Sacha Baron Cohen has always appeared in interviews or talk shows posing as one of his characters, but rarely as himself. In a rare talk show appearance as himself, on the popular Late Show with David Letterman, Sacha talked about what it took to get an interview with an actual terrorist.

Below is the clip of that ’interview’ from the movie. Last I hear is that the terrorist is suing Sacha for exploiting him for this interview!

Vassup! I’m Sacha Baron Cohen.

Sacha Baron Cohen is one person whose company, I suspect, most people wont enjoy much; especially when he is masquerading as Borat, an uncouth Kazakh or Bruno, an aggressive Austrian gay fashion designer. He manages to insult every group he could: gay and straight, black and white, Kazakhs and Americans, Jews and Christian evangelists, New-yorkers and Southerns, celebrities and middle America, stage parents and terrorists. But even after he insults us so much, I still believe we really need him. Not just because he is supremely talented- perhaps the best comedian of our times- but more because we do need somebody really courageous who pushes all limits and holds a mirror for us to see our not so beautiful face.