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Know Your Comic: Punya Arora

Humour Sapiens — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 11:01:50 +0000

Punya Arora– Punjabi by nature, South-Indian at heart, she is a professional photographer, a self-proclaimed Biriyani connoisseur and one of the finest comics in the scene today. While her early life wasn’t a bed of roses, one might marvel at how far she has come – laughing in the face of difficulties. This constant spreader of happiness was brought up by a brave Punjabi single mom who decided to nip her marriage in the bud when her husband expressed displeasure at their child not being a boy.

During middle school, her mother’s shop shut as ecommerce flourished; but financial difficulties never baffled the mother-daughter duo. They tightened their belts! While the teenage Punya got on to chocolate making, her mother became a property consultant. Know your comic, Punya Arora a little more:

She spent her childhood attending lots of classes like piano, art, pottery, chocolate making, candle making, to list a few – Jack of all trades, we must say!
Punya comes from a single parent background, with her mother being her the sole source of encouragement.
Before Punya held the mic and conquered the stage, she practiced photography for a good 7 years.
She loves to shoot underwater and photographs people, portraits, fashion, spaces, food.
Now that she is a stand-up comic, thanks to her Punjabi nature of talking endlessly, she has gained 27.8K Youtube subscribers and her one video fetched her over 1.7M views.
Punya’s favourite Indian comics are Sundeep Rao, Daniel Fernandes, Jeeveshu Ahluwalia and Aditi Mittal.
She continues being a visiting faculty at an institute in Ooty to teach photography and have been for the past 5 years.
Her favourite one-liner joke is, “A guy walks into a bar….ouch!”

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The IIM Comic: Shridhar Venkataramana

Humour Sapiens — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 03:39:17 +0000

Shridhar Venkataramana, an engineering graduate from NIT Surathkal, holding an MBA from IIM Bangalore, ventured into stand-up comedy in the year 2014. He has performed in over 100 shows across Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, and Vizag. Shridhar has also hosted for some renowned comics such as Praveen Kumar, Sundeep Rao, Kanan Gill, Amit Tandon, Vasu Primlani, Daniel Fernandes, to list a few.

He has been featured in some of the top newspapers namely Deccan Chronicle and a popular magazine, Yo! Vizag.

He talks about his journey as a small-town boy to a big city and all the weird situations he comes face to face with. With his clean comedy, this topper talks about other aspects of a topper’s life and tries to shun the stereotype of toppers being giant pricks.

Apart from being a comedian, Shridhar works as the Product Revenue Strategy Manager at Star Sports! He has a typical topper trait of loving whatever he does. He loves job and loves comedy and has no plans of quitting job for full time comedy anytime soon. In his free time, instead of indulging in non-productive activities like sleeping or watching TV, he does comedy shows. He wishes to be ‘the funniest CEO there will be’.

This Punny man is known for his Prime Time Jokes. It is a series of Stand-Up Comedy videos based on the Prime Time news events that happened around us. He started with the intent to share thought provoking, intellectually stimulating idea which are hilarious at the same time.

Some of Shridhar Venkataramana’s hilarious acts are:

Man vs. Wild, Amazon Fire & Article 370

He talks about the person who’s the poster boy for South Indian Education System – Shashi Tharoor, and the wonderful things he does with his mouth. He goes on to talk about PV Sindhu win, Modi ji’s appearance on Man vs Wild, and more. Every line is a pun redefined which sure takes time to set in, but once you understand, his intelligent puns leave you in awe. Check out his latest video.

Elections & World Cup

He talks about the interviews that happen pre and post elections, specifically highlighting the one where Modi ji mentioned clouds stop the radar from detecting signals. He is confident that Modi ji was hinting that one guy in Pakistan who stands at the border and acts as a human radar. Naturally, clouds can stop the radar from detecting signals here. Check out as he talks about not just elections, but cricket world cup and football too.

Politics, Padmavati & Other News

Herein, Sridhar talks about the brilliance of Aryabhatta on inventing the figure for total number of jokes Indians can take. He even talks about the work of legendary Rabindranath Tagore, that gets standing ovation even today (wink wink). Sridhar warns that his jokes do take time and of course education to sink in. He grills the political parties and leaves us in splits. Further goes on to talk about the movie Padmavati, and the protests around it. These Prime Time jokes are about things happening around us, how could he not talk about the great Ambani wedding. There’s more to it, check out the video.

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Chinmay Mhatre on School & Fat-shaming

Humour Sapiens — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 13:41:37 +0000

Chinmay Mhatre is a pro stand-up comedian from Mumbai who has been performing since 2015.

He has performed along with some of the greatest Indian comedians like Tanmay Bhat, Daniel Fernandes, Anuvab Pal, Aditi Mittal, Vipul Goyal, Biswa, Abish, Sorabh Pant, Vasu Primlani, Nitin Mirani, Sapan Verma, Angad Singh Ranyal, Abhishek Upmanyu, to list a few. He has performed at major venues like Comedy Store (Mumbai, Pune), Canvas Laugh Club (Mumbai), Euriska (Mumbai), Indian Comedy Club, and many more gigs.

Here’s his video School & Fat-Shaming, where he talks about Rejections, State Board School and Growing up fat. He talks about how one of his school-mates used poetry as a medium of fat-shaming, how he got accepted and rejected in a week, how he is still a fatso at heart.

Check out, relate, laugh!

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Thoughtful 5 from Daniel Fernandes

Humour Sapiens — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:30:18 +0000

Daniel Fernandes is an Indian stand-up comedian, based out of Mumbai. He is known for his dark and distinct comedy style. In his acts, he prefers talking about the social issues in India, comprising student suicides, death penalties and marital rape.

He is a regular face at comedy clubs, such as Canvas Laugh Club, The Comedy Store, Blue Frog and High Spirits. Daniel Fernandes has performed in collaboration with several Indian stand-up comedians, namely, Gursimran Khamba, Aditi Mittal, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Sundeep Rao, Radhika Vaz, Abish Mathew and Kanan Gill.

So here we share some jokes By Daniel Fernandes that will make you stop and rethink.

Cows on beef ban.

The condition of mitron on Nov 8, 2016.

Need we say more?

On point.

On violence and TV shows.

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