Retrieved via the Wayback Machine. Originally posted by FatCat
How men can’t take their hands of their “golees”. How Bombay has changed so much, even Mulund is now a happening place. Why a credit card is like a note from your mother.
Some of the funniest gags from Kunal Roy Kapoor’s stand-up act at the David Sasoon gardens last night. Tragic then that I had heard all of them before.
Six months or so ago I sat through a Kunal Roy Kapoor gig at “Starters and More” and laughed my guts out. Last night I was happy to see him to take the stage again. Only to hear all of those jokes verbatim. Except for a couple of laughs, which I admit I could have forgotten, everything else was a rerun. And of the clearly new stuff some were direct lifts off Jerry Seinfeld’s eponymous TV show.
Kunal Roy Kapoor has a lot of talent and, pertinently for a comic, an engaging delivery style. But last night’s gig made me feel a little ripped off. Sure people were laughing. After all Seinfeld normally broadcasts at some 3 in the morning or so when all the three people in India watching TV are introspecting to FTV. That too the show is on Zee Cafe with a viewer base of several people, by which I mean 5.
Stand up comedy is a wonderful art form that is under-served in Bombay. But last night’s show, Boman Irani in the audience notwithstanding, was a severe let down and does not augur well for the art. I guess I will have to go back to my Comedy Channel Tivo rips for some good original laughs.
Sob.
Comments
Comment by Anurag on February 8, 2006 @ 10:37 am
Seinfeld is on Mon-Fri at 7:30 PM on Star World these days. I am surprised he could directly lift off stuff!
Comment by akshay on February 8, 2006 @ 10:56 am
You have - Comedy Channel Tivo rips ? I want,
I saw Art , a poorbox production which is an English Comedy - actually it was adapted from a West End play. May be I’ll review it today.
Comment by Bewra Kekra on February 8, 2006 @ 11:32 am
Actually, if you want to catch Seinfeld, it’s on at 7:30 pm on Star World.
Sarcasm’s nice, but when you get your facts messed up, people aren’t laughing the way you intended them to.
Comment by FatCat on February 9, 2006 @ 1:54 am
@akshay: Will give. Its all on a hard drive. Some 4 GB worth. Sometime after 15th Feb perhaps we can meet up.
@Bewra / Anurag: I stand corrected! But you get the drift of what I said I hope..
