City develops liking for stand-up comedy
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, February 25
Though, Jalandhar will take up some more time to become a smart city-in terms of technology-the residents have already made it no less than a smart city. Similar to the social gatherings in mega cities where people visit clubs and halls to spend time in watching live art shows, citizens also seem to be indulging themselves in adapting to such culture.
A widely known stand-up comedian Jaspreet Singh was in the town to tickle the funny bone of the residents. The response that the act evoked in the audience was a clear indication of the niche the audience was developing for such performances.
The promoters of the show said, “Comedy Manch, which is widely favoured in different parts of the country, is coming up with such different shows in various cities and it was its first experiment in Jalandhar. Seemingly, the response was commendable. They further added that this was the first ticket-based stand-up comedy show, where no official guests were invited and it involved an interaction only between comedian and audience. People, especially the youth today, prefer more of observational and youthful comedies, which could easily connect with them and luckily the show was successful in doing so.”
“Being a small town city, the culture of watching live art forms and club shows is not very popular in Jalandhar but would build up slowly. And looking at the enthusiasm in the audience, not much time would take for it to flourish in the city,” said the comedian for the night, Jaspreet Singh who had been doing shows for more than two years.
Talking about the content of the comedy, he said, sometimes it had been observed that in small cities, people had not come out of television comedy, therefore they had to limit themselves to the same censored content but people were surprisingly upbeat and supportive of the content during the show and connected with it.
Also, stand-up comedy is not new to the city as it has had such shows in the past as well but, stand-up comedy in English is relatively new. However, it is now drawing fans in Punjab and young comedians also hope to form an expanding audience base in smaller cities, where people are eager for edgy and worldly humour.
A group of youngsters, as well as elderly, said the way these comedians were staging the real life situations such as childhood, college and corporate culture was spectacula
