{"id":5295,"date":"2008-07-17T22:58:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T03:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=5295"},"modified":"2008-07-18T07:29:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T12:29:45","slug":"a_tale_of_two_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/a_tale_of_two_c\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Comedians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hari Kondabolu<\/a>, who is kind of a friend of the Mutiny’s, is going to be on Comedy Central Friday night at 10pm eastern (“Live at Gotham”). Here is a snippet that I think is from the show:<\/p>\n\n

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Pretty clever, no? (It helps if you are a child of the 80s…)<\/p>\n\n

Compare to Papa CJ<\/a>, who was eliminated tonight from the NBC show Last Comic Standing<\/em>, after a truly disastrous performance. I wouldn’t ruin your day with a link to that footage even if it were available, but here is Papa CJ doing somewhat similar material in London, albeit much more effectively:<\/p>\n\n

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In London he seems much more confident, though I have to admit I’m still not thrilled with his shtick. Is it just me, or is Papa CJ just not that funny?<\/p>\n\n

That said, one does have to give him credit. It’s one thing to be a brown comic with a funny name, but a familiar American accent and a shared set of cultural reference points with one’s audience (i.e., Hari Kondabolu and Back to the Future<\/em> above). Papa CJ, born and raised in Kolkata, has to work across a yawning cultural divide when he performs in the U.S. It makes comedy quite difficult (the “bollocks”\/ “bullocks” joke, only marginally funny in England, would be suicidal in Los Angeles).<\/p>\n\n

Ironically, due to the colonial legacy, England is probably a bit easier going for an Indian comedian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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