JULY 26 — Malay comedy has a pretty bad rap, even among most Malays. The jokes are either too slapstick or too tone-deaf, the laughter too forced, and the louder you shout the funnier the audience think you are. In local stand-up comedy, comics who do their sets in English tend to be more...
in 2018, and this reality show is important to understand the current landscape of Malay-language comedy.
For example just last year, champion trio Puteh’s sketches were a mix of ringing endorsement for Shariah moral policing, and banking of public sympathy over the recent death of one of its members’ infant child. One theme cropped up over and over again: on the Malays’ skewed perception of the minorities, and how perception supplants intent in worship.
But for me, the underlying message that was not implicitly mentioned was how religious obligations can turn one into an inconsiderate and selfish person — just look at the traffic chaos near mosques during Friday prayers in the past.’s sketches were not always laugh-out-loud funny, but they were most surely uncomfortable most of the time. And I think this was by design. Speaking about ethnic relations is never easy — but couching it with laughter helps.
Since a lot of the jokes are takes on racism, it inevitably required outbursts against the Chinese and Indian communities by antagonists, and sometimes the acts skirted too close to endorsing such vile behaviour, especially in one sketch that involved a racist refusing help from non-Malays.
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