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How comedian Kareem Rahma’s SubwayTakes became YouTube’s Emmy-nominated interview sensation
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (328+ words) New Delhi: Kareem Rahma’s SubwayTakes has been nominated in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy, Drama or Variety Series category at the Emmy Awards. Rahma launched the YouTube series in 2023 with a simple format: talking to people on New York City’s…...
Who laughs the most at a dad joke? Science has an answer
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (273+ words) Bengaluru: A psychology professor and a graduate student wanted to know what makes a dad joke tick. They analysed over 32,000 posts made on the subreddit r/dadjokes and found that the best ones have puns and involve family members. So…...
Stand-up comics versus Bollywood. What a post-mortem looked like
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (1287+ words) New Delhi: When comedian Varun Thakur described watching Aditya Dhar’s blockbuster Dhurandhar as a “citizenship test,” Delhi’s Bipin Chandra Pal Auditorium burst into laughter and hoots on the night of 13 June. But according to Thakur, the person under the most…...
No one should violate dignity of others: Fadnavis on row over comeday show
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (182+ words) ThePrint No one should violate dignity of others: Fadnavis on row over comeday show Mumbai, Jun 12 (PTI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said stand-up comedians should be mindful that their freedom of expression does not violate another person’s…...
Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld reunite on new show celebrating 250 years of America
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (316+ words) New Delhi: The iconic comedy duo Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David are reuniting in David’s new sketch comedy series Life, Larry and The Pursuit of Unhappiness. The show, which calls itself an “almost history” of America, features David in the…...
Slapstick comedy is back. Bollywood is laughing out loud again
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1065+ words) But the art of chaos, it turns out, never really left. With Rajkumar Hirani returning to broad comedy with Pritam Pedro, a series about two mismatched cops stumbling through bizarre investigations, Bollywood appears to be rediscovering slapstick comedy—a genre…...
Shekhar Suman goes Stephen Colbert way as Saurabh Dwivedi 'reinvents' himself after Lallantop
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (950+ words) What do Shekhar Suman, Saurabh Dwivedi and Stephen Colbert have in common? Nothing but that their first names begin with the letter ‘S’. Suman and Dwivedi have some other similarities. Suman is an actor. He played a journalist in the…...
Humour, sex, and attention—The Zohra Sehgal philosophy
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (795+ words) New Delhi: Zohra Sehgal, widely known for her grandmotherly characters in the Indian film industry, was far more than the affectionate “dadi” audiences remember her as. Sehgal, while not always happy with her physical appearance, took pride, instead, in her…...
Humour in speeches declining amid fear of misinterpretation: Fadnavis
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (320+ words) Mumbai, Feb 27 (PTI) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday lamented the decline of humour in speeches, stating that the “absolute joy” of witty speeches is fading as people now exercise “utmost precaution” to avoid being misinterpreted. Speaking at…...
Bipolar disorder, substance abuse & a pretty good brain—what Stephen Fry revealed at JLF 2026
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (647+ words) Jaipur: Apple founder Steve Jobs once told his friend, writer and comedian Stephen Fry, that he was “weird”. Fry once tried convincing Jobs that “laptop machines” was an anagram of “Apple Macintosh”. This, however, was neither the first nor the…...