Indian Humour sensibilites!

I grew up at a time when the party humour was mainly children(or even adults) being cajoled into telling " sardaar jokes"….these jokes which mainly talked about the weird connection between the community's thought process and the clock strinking twelve…

These jokes dried up during the Khalistan/ Punjab terrorism days but have reinvented themselves in the recent years in the new format of "Santa Banta" jokes which keep floating every now and then as forwarded emails.

Then there came the times when TV invaded our lives…the first visual experience of humour then was the Haasya kavi Sammelan telecast on Holi by Doordarshan…the haasay Kavi Sammelan indeed has been a traditional form of comedy entertainment in our society…now of course replaced by dozens of comedy stand up shows on dozens of channels…but things have changed…the old time sammelans talked about the common man, his sweet tiffs with his wives, rising prices etc etc…but today the stand up comedians have taken it a step further by taking it up personally….so we have an item girl joke and its about Rakhi Sawant and the nameless neta now has a name…Laloo Prasad …

Joking about topics like Bollywood, cricket and politicians is safe but if you venture into sensitive areas like religion, caste you may be stirring a hornet's nest…

So….

How do you think the Indian Humour sensibilities have changed over the years?

Does the present generation have a better sense of humour than the previous ones?

How do we compare with the other cultures/ countries as far as humour is considered?

Are we a hypocritical society – " we laugh and joke and make fun of the other religion/ caste/ community behind closed doors…but if the joke is on us and out in the open we are ready for riots?"

Originally posted by: TallyHo

I grew up at a time when the party humour was mainly children(or even adults) being cajoled into telling " sardaar jokes"….these jokes which mainly talked about the weird connection between the community's thought process and the clock strinking twelve…

These jokes dried up during the Khalistan/ Punjab terrorism days but have reinvented themselves in the recent years in the new format of "Santa Banta" jokes which keep floating every now and then as forwarded emails.

Then there came the times when TV invaded our lives…the first visual experience of humour then was the Haasya kavi Sammelan telecast on Holi by Doordarshan…the haasay Kavi Sammelan indeed has been a traditional form of comedy entertainment in our society…now of course replaced by dozens of comedy stand up shows on dozens of channels…but things have changed…the old time sammelans talked about the common man, his sweet tiffs with his wives, rising prices etc etc…but today the stand up comedians have taken it a step further by taking it up personally….so we have an item girl joke and its about Rakhi Sawant and the nameless neta now has a name…Laloo Prasad …

Joking about topics like Bollywood, cricket and politicians is safe but if you venture into sensitive areas like religion, caste you may be stirring a hornet's nest…

So….

How do you think the Indian Humour sensibilities have changed over the years? I cannot comment that much on the change in the generations..becuase I might not be that big all the generations 😊...as of now...the present humour is fine..its sad to say that...in our telugu films...the humour standard has degraded...i'm not degrading the telugu films..but in the name of humour the level of vulgar words, indencency increased and it does not give any happiness....I think..this is seen in other languages also...but at the same time..in each era there is something positve ...the humour of this generation is electric😛

Does the present generation have a better sense of humour than the previous ones?

Yes.The people in this generation display their sense of humour more😊

Are we a hypocritical society – " we laugh and joke and make fun of the other religion/ caste/ community behind closed doors…but if the joke is on us and out in the open we are ready for riots?"

Definetly.Our society is a hypocritical society.Punjab people are really different..they have good sense of humour...the most beautiful thing is making jokes on ownselves..this requires lot of courage and patience...

Originally posted by: TallyHo

but today the stand up comedians have taken it a step further by taking it up personally….so we have an item girl joke and its about Rakhi Sawant and the nameless neta now has a name…Laloo Prasad … [/quote]

Back then too 'Netas' were the prime target of jokes but it is only now that the 'Netas' have names. That is because we didn't have more serious characters as politicians then and also there is more liberty as in freedom of speech because of tons of channels now. Earlier doordarshan was one channel under govt. and anyone dared take a politician's name.

Originally posted by: #1EijazFan

Maya, to be frank, we all consider our religion to be superior to others because its OUR faith, its what we've been taught 😊 i respect all religions but I dont think for example Christianity is better than my religion because for me, it isnt 😊
so i dont think thats the issue, its just in general, we like to mock others but find it hard to bad mouth ourselves.

Originally posted by: Maya_M

No. I don't. I believe in my faith and respect other faiths too. If I consider mine superior then by default other faiths becomes inferior. So it is not the case for me. I was not taught like that either.

The second highlighted part of your post is what the poster intended to know. Are we hypocrites? and the answer is Yes.

Humor main be Hypocracy!!!?😃