Wokeness really is the death of comedy. As John Cleese, who knows a thing or two about comedy one might think, says, wokeists have “zero sense of humour”. Cleese has also warned that political correctness will lead to the death of comedy.
“If you start to say mustn’t criticize or offend them then humor is gone. With humor goes a sense of proportion. And then as far as I’m concerned you’re living in 1984.”
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1984 author George Orwell also wrote about comedy. “A thing is funny when… it upsets the established order.” You cannot really be funny if you’re pandering to the Establishment and trying not to upset those whose sole purpose in life is to find offense wherever they can.
People like TikTok users.
South Asian TikTok users are pushing back against harmful stereotypes, with one creator attributing their popularity to South Asian comedians.
So… South Asian comedians are offending South Asian TikTok nobodies? Does anyone really care?
It’s also worth bearing in mind that Lilly Singh’s schtick includes such comedic gems as noting that she is an “openly bisexual Canadian woman of Indian descent with her own late night show”. Yet, she is discovering that you can never be woke enough for the Woke Inquisition.
Singh faced backlash in 2019 for comparing turbans to towels on her late-night show. Russell Peters, who was the first comedian to have a Netflix stand-up special, is known for his imitations of Indian stereotypes, with his most famous bit being about his father’s penchant for corporal punishment, which ends with his signature catchphrase: “Somebody gonna get a hurt real bad.”
Jeez, nobody show them Asian-Australian comedian Mychonny.
Dhanani then shows a news article from his time working as tech support for his city in which he is described as a “Tech Guru.” The screenshot of the article even describes his workstation as “a table with a ‘Tech Guru’ sign in the adult section of the library.”
Sooooo… a tech worker is described by his employer as a “Tech Guru”?
Wow, he was practically bullwhipped and lynched. Did they put a noose around his neck and shout, “This is MAGA country!”, too?
The TikTok creator also calls out the popularity and use of “the voice,” referring to an exaggerated Indian accent, by stand-up comedians.
Dhanani explains that a cousin of his who is a professional stand-up comedian on TikTok uses “the voice” in “every single one of her videos.”
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You mean, like these Indian people?
What our permanently offended TikTok wokeists are missing out on is that humour like How to Talk Australians works because it cuts both ways. The joke is not only in hearing Australian slang in Indian accents, but that the “Other” (to use a favourite Woke phrase) is poking back at the dominant culture. As the series creators said:
We chose it because it resonated with us as a commentary on Australian culture. A look at cultural clash and interpretation. How nations see one another in a hightened realism. Realism is often funnier than fiction and fantasy. It allows Australians to look at themselves through a different set of glasses, and those glasses are a call-back centre in India.
So we use those glasses to look at Indians’ perceptions of Australians, and we use that as a platform to explore Australian culture, to identify elements of Australian culture that we like and we don’t like, that make us laugh and make us cry.
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This is just as true of “racist” comedies, from Blazing Saddles to Love Thy Neighbour. Classic Australian comedy They’re a Weird Mob was more about lampooning Australia than making fun of migrant Nino Cullotta struggling with “King’s-a-bloody Cross”.
More importantly, such comedies break the ice of racial tensions by making us all laugh, not at one another, but with one another.
No wonder the wokeists hate them.