{"id":191,"date":"2004-08-12T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-12T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=191"},"modified":"2009-09-23T03:55:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T08:55:54","slug":"gods_own_comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/gods_own_comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s own comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Varghese made it to the semifinals on <i>Last Comic Standing<\/i> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/ekcupchai.typepad.com\">MD<\/a>). Varghese is a Texan Malayalee who started doing stand-up comedy in 2001. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vij.com\/archive\/paul_varghese_delivers_on_last_comic_standing.html\">More here<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nGrowing up was a struggle, Varghese had roving gangs of Malayalee doctors and aeronautical engineers brandishing slide rules in da hood. So, to stay off the streets, he kept it real at comedy clubs&#8230; My favorite desi stand-up is still the inimitable Russell Peters, a big, chubby Canadian upon whose dewy lashes perches the daemon of unapologetic cruelty. \n<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Varghese made it to the semifinals on Last Comic Standing (via MD). Varghese is a Texan Malayalee who started doing stand-up comedy in 2001. More here: Growing up was a struggle, Varghese had roving gangs of Malayalee doctors and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/12\/gods_own_comedy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}