saw rang de basanti yesterday…..it had what i think must be amongst the top 10 one liners in bollywood history(am not a bollyphile but i think i am a bolliterati)…….the bit by amir khan about one foot being in the past and one being in the future and pissing on the present…..chortled out of my seat at that.

i feel sorry for the guy and even sorrier for the desis who enjoy his brand of (non?)humor…….doesnt every brownie brought up in the us of a know that their parents’ accent is different??how much can u try to beat any humor out of it…….russell peters’ accents and impersonations are funny(for the most part) because of the context they are used in…same for dat phan…..trying to sell non-funny situations as funny by stamping an ‘accent positive’ seal is….well,lame.

Actually, there are loads of comedians who do exactly that. I saw a fella the other day who started with “I’m black, right…man there are a lot of white folk here tonight.”

I’ve got nothing against drawing on your own experience, but ‘ethnic’ comics need to break out of the same routine. Ricky Gervais interviewed Larry David on the BBC the other day and was remarking how he went to an LA comedy night and every single comic that night was from a minority group. He said they all did the same thing, they talked about their Korean/Indian/black upbringing, and then said “I mean, what the fuck?”

As for the line you quote manish, that is truly inexcusable.