In his recent video, Parent’s Expectations, Adesh talks about how parents do something because they have to and then expect us to be obligated for it. He mentions how giving him food, clothes and education is really appreciable, but wasn’t required.

Now his concern is that his parents expect that he reciprocates by getting them good clothes and taking them to nice places. But what they should understand is, it should then be applicable to all the things they did for him as a child – including waking him up at 6 am.

Adesh further adds that once he was punished for stealing 2 rupees by having to stay locked up in his room, without internet. Now he gets punished when parents don’t lock him up, they ask him to sit in front of him. Now that’s the real Punishment! Watch this video to know the kind of tactics he uses to keep his father from checking his phone.

He also reminds how the stories when we were kids were so cute, Dogs and Goats were friends in those.

Kutta aur Bakri baat kar rahe hain…

Bakri: Ek number ka kutta hai tu, apni shaadi mein bhi nahi bulaya.

Kutta: Yaar mai toh bulane wala tha, but meri wife kitni badi Bitch hai.

The funniest bit was when he aptly mentioned how parents these days are so arrogant that they join their names to name their kid. As in, what have you achieved in life after all, that you decided to screw that poor kid’s name and life together. God save him from getting bullied all his life.

There is more to it than just this. Check out the complete video here:

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How did you develop interest in comedy?

Raised in a family that enjoyed watching comedy serials and sitcoms, inclination towards comedy had to happen. Also, TV was not really an idiot box before K serials appeared and took over. We used to watch every comedy serial broadcasted back then; like, Flop Show, Shrimaan Shrimati, Dekh Bhai Dekh, Hum Paanch, Tu Tu Main Main, Hadd Kar Di, Family No. 1, Hum Sab Ek Hai, Zabaan Sambhal Ke, and the likes.  I still believe Gudgudee on Zee, Aflatoon on SabTV, and The Great Indian *Comedy* Show were the most underrated shows of our times. Enough nostalgia.

To top that all, my family is pretty much into liking live comedy in different forms. My father got me interested in comedy, and he was my companion in discovering comedy shows on TV. He used to take me to Kavi Sammelan (Poetry Recitals). I feel Kavi Sammelans laid the foundation of stand-up comedy culture in India, as it used to be a place where 12-15 poets gathered on stage to recite poems and anecdotes that were either funny or nationalistic. In fact, Kavi Sammelan is the proof that India was always interested in comedy, stand-up comedy just gave it a proper tag and made it a viable career option.

What do you consider was your first step into the comedy world?

I remember my first tryst with comedy. It was in the 4th standard when I became a news reporter for a fancy dress competition. My Mom had my dress sorted but had no idea what I will say on stage to complement my outfit. The only thing I knew was, it had to be something funny. It was the day of the competition, and I still had no material to present. But something clicked, and just half-an-hour before leaving for school I wrote random lines on things that I was aware of; a few jokes from Current Affairs section, Sports, Weather, and the likes. I recited those jokes to my mom and she laughed. I went on stage and won hearts. And luckily, the prize too. Looking back, I can say that, that was a really tight set.

Apparently, I pulled of a ‘Last Week Tonight’ before John Oliver made it a famous thing. Here’s the proof that I was way ahead in time.

How did you get into stand-up comedy?

As I grew up, I kept up with comedy through Shekhar Suman’s satire, pre-memes twitter era, and AIB podcasts. But I still never knew that I will do stand-up at some point in time.

It took two ‘Biswa’s (Biswapati Sarkar & Biswa Kalyan Rath) and regrets-to-taste to get me into stand-up comedy. In 2015, I was a big TVF fan and a bigger Biswapati Sarkar fan, I met him at the Permanent Roommates success party. We talked for a good 15-20 minutes about the craft of writing and many things profound.

This conversation inspired me to start a podcast channel in IIT Madras along with two other friends.  I was a writer-editor of the podcast and wanted the podcast to reach the masses. So in order to advertise the podcast, we started a facebook page where I used to put funny observations related to the institute, which people related-to, to a great extent and the page started to get good traction. I liked the validation and started observing things keenly, to look for pattern that would be relatable to everyone. Eventually, I started sharing content about not just the institute by also about life in general.

Meanwhile, my girlfriend and I attended a stand-up show in Canvas Laugh Club, which had then not-so-popular Biswa Kalyan Rath in the lineup. We were left impressed! I became so much interested in comedy that I started following everything that had comedy associated with it. I attempted mimicking Arnub and got a chance to roast the Director of IIT Madras. My impression of Arnub wasn’t really impressive, but the jokes worked! This gave me confidence that I can translate the written jokes into a performance as well.

After passing from the IITM, I went to an open mic with 10 odd jokes that were written while collecting material for the facebook page, and to my surprise, people laughed and enjoyed. That was it! I haven’t looked back ever since. Now, this human being needs more and more validation from people every week by saying things that mostly make no sense at all.

What are the challenges you’ve faced in your journey?

I was not getting enough open mics to perform initially but everything changed as I started a room for open mic. Now, I make sure there are enough spots for new open mic-ers at my venue as I can relate to their pain.

Your key achievements?

A few achievements which deserve a mention are: (a) Successfully Roasting the Director of IIT Madras, (b) Got laughs in my very first open mic, boosted my confidence, (c) My joke made it to Reddit front page.

Any bombing moment?

Bars and naïve comedy audience are what I sometimes find difficult to perform to. Once in a bar, the crowd was so dead in my set that I got off the stage in 2.5 minutes from a 7-minute slot. My words before getting off stage were, “Okay then”, which apparently was the biggest laugh of the evening.

That night I considered leaving comedy, but I went to another open mic the next day and the jokes worked Confidence regained!

Any experiences with annoying audience members?

None, yet! Thankfully.

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AN IITIAN TURNED COMEDIAN

Born in 1990 in Bhubaneswar, Biswa completed his early education from Odisha and later went to be an IITian at IIT-Kharagpur. A stand-up comedian was born when he decided to quit his job at Oracle and take the unconventional route.

This stand-up comic and the YouTuber knows how to tickle a funny bone while oozing extreme confidence on stage and in his videos. Not just this, he is one of the funniest people on twitter.

Well, true!

Khud ke description main 'sarcastic' likhne waale log sarcastic nahi, wannabe hote hain.

— Biswa Kalyan Rath (@kalyanrath) September 5, 2017

Must be difficult!

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life also didn't choose me.

— Biswa Kalyan Rath (@kalyanrath) January 19, 2017

PRETENTIOUS MOVIE REVIEWS

Biswa and Kanan Gill, with their slapstick punches on Bollywood movies in the ‘Pretentious Movie Reviews’ rose to fame as Youtubers. It was post that, that Biswa built a large loyal fan following. If you haven’t yet checked those snarky movie reviews, here’s this video to make you laugh like a maniac!

THE LINK BETWEEN ENGLISH & REPRODUCTION

Biswa Kalyan Rath takes it on his shoulders, the responsibility to enlighten us on how English helps the youth these days to reproduce! Also, India is not just the land of colours, it’s as well a land of funny stereotypes, most of which are inherited and others customised by the cool ones.

THE BIGGEST TROLL IS HIM BEING AN ODIA

The self-proclaimed fattest guy in Odisha, Biswa’s doesn’t mind cracking puns about him and Odisha – his birth land and an outlandish state on the map of India.  Many Odias must have mimicked his, “Jibana ta dukho, Sansara ta mohmaya” for the Odia feel!

THE INCEPTION OF NAILCUTTER

Have you ever, in your idle time wondered the story behind the inception of nailcutter? Or are you aware about the fan and blanket disease? We are sure not! Biswa, however, with his honest observations quenches our inquisition about these lifeless yet immensely useful objects. Check out!

A DIG ON CENSORED MATERIALS

Because no one knows what the star in F*CK stands for?! Well, Biswa made it clear that the exclusive star is redundant in his impeccable stand-up, so much for the censored materials that all your awkward moments will seem a waterdown. Here’s his open dig on the dirty jokes.

LAAKHON MEIN EK

While Biswa started off as of the Pretentious Movie Reviews duo, he has inexplicably turned his open mic nights into a cameo in a Netflix movie into an Amazon stand-up special. And now we have ‘Lakhon mein ek.’

Created by Biswa Kalyan Rath, this web series is a story of a kid sent away by his parents to prepare for IIT entrance exams. A dark yet relatable and enjoyable story about the IIT dream, and the life of Akash and many like him. Let ‘Mast Aadmi’ Biswa take you on a fun tour in this series.

Just when you thought it ended, he became one of the judges and mentors in ‘Comicstaan’, a special comic hunt on Amazon Prime.

So, let’s put our jaws together for Biswa Kalyan Rath and fingers crossed hoping more stand-up comics emerge from Odisha.

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