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Comicstaan season 3 reveals Indian reality TV at its best
FirstpostThere is a long history of the link between Indian comedy and reality TV in India. An ethos built by the The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, sustained by Comedy Circus and contemporised by the various regional spin offs like Hasya Jatra and Tamil Comicstaan. Raju Srivastav inverted Kabir’s doha on ego elimination when he once joked in a candid interview on the All India Bakchod podcast, “Aise vaani boliye ki jam ke jhagda hoye/ par usse na boliye jo aapse tagda hoye.” Speak such words that fights are provoked, but never say them to one mightier than you, it roughly translates. The comics were always self aware for a joke but in the new season you see Kenny confess, “Beyond a point we all kinda start sounding like each other.” Obviously, no other desi comedy show might have survived an insult comedy round. One remembers Kumar’s trollish glee when he told Kapil Sharma on his own show, “ Mujhe baar baar aake teri beizzati karni ha i" [I want to keep visiting the show to insult you>.
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