Once public taboo, jokes about sex, bribery and political persecution are helping build a thriving stand-up scene
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In a café in Bangalore, a comedian leads off with a joke about Kingfisher Airlines stewardesses, and gets mild titters from the audience.
“The men are smiling,” he teases.
The comic, Sanjay Manaktala, then tells a story about dressing up as a police officer to play out a sexy fantasy with an Indian girlfriend: “I told her ‘You’ve been a naughty girl.’ She said, ‘Oh my god! Here’s a hundred bucks.’”
This time, the crowd erupts into a roar, the bribery reference, a common problem within India’s police force, hitting its mark.
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