The Funny Indian Newsletter, Vol. 213
June 2024: Regulate
Welcome
Welcome to The Funny Indian Newsletter!
Back to our regularly scheduled programming. I cannot thank you enough for the sweet and supportive words about my eulogy. If you want to follow those personal updates (and my take on Happiness), please wander over to Gruntled. Now, on with The Funny Indian Newsletter…
Know anyone in Bangalore or Hong Kong? Through a good college friend, I booked a corporate event in Bangalore on August 6th. I’m available for other paid gigs anywhere in India around that time. I’m spending one night in Hong Kong on Friday, August 9. I know nobody there, so I’m open to performing or meeting any cool or semi-cool people.
Updates
See
Future:
07/12: SABA North America Foundation Benefit (Toronto, Ontario)
07/24: Cinnamon (Hollywood, CA)
08/06: Corporate Gig (Bangalore, Karnataka)
Past:
06/22: HAHA Comedy Club (N. Hollywood, CA)
My first post-Dad comedy club gig. What a thrill being on the same lineup as Jim Jefferies.
Laugh
Since this is a FUNNY Indian Newsletter, I present here the 5 funny things that I saw, heard, wrote, or remembered for the last month... otherwise known as FIVE - Funny Indian's V Events. And since I deprived you of this section due to the focus on my Dad, I’m giving you more for this one. Enjoy.
8. Amazing Maps: India’s Population Compared to Other Countries. Guess I’m Egyptian now?
7. Tell it to the judge. I don’t think the teenager needed a tase, but maybe they can charge him with 71 misdemeanors, since the game was between Cleveland and Cincinnati.
6. Peer Pressure. Hey, I made the lifetime progression from formula to whole milk to 2% milk to soy milk to almond milk to rice milk before landing on oat milk… for now.
5. Pier Pressure: Here’s an idea for all those billionaires. I had more than my fair share to say about that submersible so I appreciated this dig… Brother.
4. Jerry Seinfeld Does Kevin Hart a Favor | 2024 Mark Twain Prize
IMO, Seinfeld’s set was the best, bettering even Dave Chappelle’s and Chris Rock’s — at a mostly Black event. Giving Kevin Hart the Mark Twain Award is a bit like convicting Donald Trump in the NY case. They’re both kinda bullshit, but if you can get your peers to agree, then I s’pose it’s legit.
3. Anthony Jeselnik does it again. Happy Juneteenth?
2. Comedy Is All About Timing. There’s perfect pitch and perfect time. I can keep time pretty damn well, but this is pretty damn impressive.
1. I’d heard a couple of these jokes but not all and certainly not strung together like this. Despite (due to?) my father’s funeral, I found these particularly bollocks.
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Love,
- Rajiv