Nepe

I think that is a pretty serious topic on the subject of humor.

The intellectual maturity to absorb such humor and the audience that we have back home. Not only in Nepal, even India lacks that audience in masses. While India has progressed from just crude humors, funny caricatures, a guy-being-a-lady humor into some notable standups like Shekhar Suman etc, the mass still tilts towards absurd humorism than the intellect one. Well, I guess you can make that point about US also (aka American pie, Euro Trip etc). But the point is, is Nepal ready for such a mundane yet “intellectual” stand up humor.

MaHa’s name comes to mind and other political satirists of our era. They sure had a good following back in those days when they did stage comedies and the level of humor was way above what even they are practicing right now. A good humor/Comic doesn’t have to be a highly intellectual one. Case in point, Narad Khatiwada of Nepal, Paresh Rawal of India, Sarah Silverman of US who are immense talent and deliver the simplest form of comedy, yet poignant in many ways. But, there has to be a variety and we certainly need the Colberts and Stewarts type of comedy. Question is do we have the audience for it? Mind you, they need a constant pool of audience to survive.

Hope I didn’t digress too much.

DWI