Chetan

The whole point of the acccent wasnt to ridicule it but to give the high expectation rants some context that it is coming from an immigrant parent. The delivery is not as funny if you have some parents with a very Americanized accent. It comes across as pandering.

If he adopted a neutral accent, the rant by Asif Mandvi who was in “character” would have been less funny.

If anything, i actually thought he toned it down a little.

Overall, i think ppl need to chill about being PC all the time.

I didn’t find the accent to be all that ugly honestly. The joke flowed naturally as part of the whole gag about ethnic communities being in some sort of prestige derby and about how Dr. Gupta being Indian means that he is now the benchmark against which all Indians must compare themselves. But the joke wasn’t the accent. The joke was the character he was playing who was scolding Sanjay Gupta for his “failure.”

That character was obviously based on a composite of Indian parents he has known, probably including his own. Most of them have accents. Personally, I have no background in acting or comedy. I don’t have any friend who are actors. But even I, when quoting a movie, will try to replicate the character’s accent as faithfully as I can. I don’t even do it consciously. If that character is British, I’ll fake-British. If it’s Daniel Day Lewis from “there will be blood”, I’ll do that. I don’t think of this as being insulting. I think of it as being faithful to the characters I’m trying to portray.

Anyhow, the explanation you give itself negates the–silly, untrue stereotype–you claim: your dad is happy with your not-neurosurgeon work, right?

That is how satire works yes? You are putting a mirror up to a stereotype to point out the contradiction inherent to it.

Vott, Ennis, hau you can?