{"id":15369,"date":"2025-03-25T22:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mob-descends-on-a-comedy-club-after-a-comic-jokes-about-a-politician\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T22:53:04","slug":"mob-descends-on-a-comedy-club-after-a-comic-jokes-about-a-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mob-descends-on-a-comedy-club-after-a-comic-jokes-about-a-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob Descends on a Comedy Club After a Comic Jokes About a Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The joke was nothing too unusual for political comedy. But in India, where there is little room anymore to make fun of politicians without drawing court cases or mob violence, all hell quickly broke loose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just hours after video from a stand-up show in Mumbai was posted online Sunday, supporters of a state political leader barged into the popular club where it had been taped. The vigilantes intimidated the crowd, which had gathered for an unrelated event, and vandalized the place as the police watched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The state\u2019s chief minister called for legal action against the comic who performed the show, and the police filed charges, accusing him of defamation. The local municipality then sent government employees to batter the comedy club with hammers, a lighter version of what has become known as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/13\/world\/asia\/india-supreme-court-bulldozer-justice.html\" title=\"\">bulldozer justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The comic, Kunal Kamra, who is among the last comedians still taking on politicians in India, issued a statement on Monday emphasizing that he would not be intimidated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAttacking a venue for a comedian\u2019s words is as senseless as overturning a lorry carrying tomatoes because you didn\u2019t like the butter chicken you were served,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the effect \u2014 the deepening chill on speech in India \u2014 was clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, the club, Habitat, announced that it had shut down, depriving India of one of the few places still willing to host shows of an edgy political nature. The police and the vigilantes remain on the hunt for Mr. Kamra, who is believed to be in a southern state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Those vigilantes, followers of Eknath Shinde, the second-in-command in the western state of Maharashtra, were offended by one word that Mr. Kamra used in a song during his act: \u201cgaddar,\u201d or traitor, an apparent reference to Mr. Shinde\u2019s defection from his party in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The kerfuffle has dominated discussions in the Maharashtra state assembly as well as national news headlines. Leaders of Mr. Shinde\u2019s party, the Shiv Sena \u2014 which, ironically, was founded by a political cartoonist \u2014 have doubled down with their threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShiv Sena will give answer in Shiv Sena\u2019s language,\u201d the party spokesman, Raju Waghmare, told <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PTI_News\/status\/1903993364015652997\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a local news<\/a> outlet, referring to the party\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/12\/world\/asia\/12mumbai.html\" title=\"\">history of attacking<\/a> those it disagrees with. He said that the emotions of party workers could not be controlled if a leader was insulted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Punit Pania, a comic who had recently performed at Habitat, said it had become an important arts hub. Its closing will reverberate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhy would anyone take the chance if the mob can come in with the police just standing by and watching them?\u201d Mr. Pania said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said that many venues simply did not host comedy shows anymore, because \u201cbeing offended has become like a sport\u201d in India. The boundaries are clear: no jokes about politics, religion or sex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared on a recent podcast, \u201cI have a strong belief that criticism is the soul of democracy.\u201d But as <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/youtuber-arrested-for-derogatory-speech-against-tamil-nadu-cm-stalin\/articleshow\/86942657.cms\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">parties<\/a> across the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/india\/india-professor-political-cartoon-arrest-b2268704.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spectrum<\/a>, including in opposition-run states like West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, have jailed people over political comments, it has become evident that speech is free only if you fall in line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Comics often turn to joking about how hard it is to joke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In announcing the house rules at a recent stand-up show, the comic Varun Grover asked the audience not to use their phones to record jokes because it would \u201cmeddle with the natural order\u201d of how the business works these days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe write new content for three to four months, then it becomes a show, then we go on tour,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce the tour is almost over, we record it, tape it, put it on YouTube \u2014 and then go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Shinde provided ample comedic material when he left his party in 2022 and took dozens of lawmakers with him, locking them up in resort hotels in other states until their own government collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the lawmakers claimed they were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/23\/world\/asia\/india-resort-politics-maharashtra-election.html\" title=\"\">kidnapped, and even drugged<\/a>. When Mr. Shinde came to power in a new coalition with the help of Mr. Modi\u2019s party, his allies danced on tables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With repeated defections and breakups of parties in Maharashtra, \u201cgaddar\u201d became a routine label. The state\u2019s chief minister, Devendra Fadnavis, himself used the word to describe the political opposition in a statement condemning the comic\u2019s joke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In his song, Mr. Kamra did not mention Mr. Shinde by name, though he used identifying references.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The offense taken by Mr. Shinde\u2019s followers resurfaced online in an old joke by the poet Rahat Indori.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the 1970s, when India briefly plunged into dictatorship under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Mr. Indori said at a poetry event that \u201cthe government is a thief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was called into a police station and asked about his comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI said, \u2018Yes, I said the government is a thief,\u2019\u201d Mr. Indori recalled responding to the officer. \u201c\u2018But I didn\u2019t say which government \u2014 India\u2019s government, Pakistan\u2019s government, the U.S. government or the British government.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The officer smiled, Mr. Indori said, then replied: \u201cOK, so now you think we are fools, too? That we don\u2019t know which government is a thief?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Pragati K.B.<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/25\/world\/asia\/india-habitat-mumbai-comedy.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The joke was nothing too unusual for political comedy. 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