Working-class sitcoms like “Good Times” …Lewis Black’s rant humor might be more popular, especially if he directs his ire at the Bernie Madoffs of this world. Humor about outsourcing isn’t going to be that funny to people who’ve just lost their jobs. An Indian-American comedian’s joke about how cheap his parents are isn’t going to work so well –

Here’s a related article on WSJ today regarding depression era entertainment

M. Nam

I don’t think they’ll be drastic — unless we have conditions like the depression era.

It’ll be much worse…

if the economy really tanks, the comedian may not have an audience

Not so sure about that. People will always need to laugh – it’s an essential part of being human. A comedian will be all the more important to society.

M. Nam

I do think you’ll see some changes, but I don’t think they’ll be drastic — unless we have conditions like the depression era. Working-class sitcoms like “Good Times” and “Roseanne” might do better than, say, “Friends.” People probably won’t find Jeff Foxworthy’s redneck humor as funny, whereas Lewis Black’s rant humor might be more popular, especially if he directs his ire at the Bernie Madoffs of this world. Humor about outsourcing isn’t going to be that funny to people who’ve just lost their jobs. An Indian-American comedian’s joke about how cheap his parents are isn’t going to work so well — if people in the audience are also scrimping. But joking about his own cheapness probably would still work, because the audience won’t feel threatened. Of course, if the economy really tanks, the comedian may not have an audience and might find himself living in his parents’ basement again.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned Tamil names like Semporulalazhan, Mahambalakootan and Thirugnanasambandam?

Those are Tamil names? The ones I am familiar with are Stalin, Lenin, Nova. Once Nova, our driver was driving a Chevy. So to differentiate him from the other Nova, we called him Chevy Nova.

Whatever happened to good old fashioned Tamil names like Semporulalazhan

I am yet to find an Anpalagan with a sound mind. Malarvarnan, Which flower is black? Alagia Meenal was not so pretty. Singaram did not have any romance. Koteeswaran did not have any money in his pocket. Dhanasekharan had no habit of saving money. Ushapriyan Soorya never got up early. Kamalakannan had wild eyes. Nithyapriya was always a bitch. Mohanarangam was not very enticing.

NB: I had MahaBOOBuniz Suhra, Neelu Chutia(Oriya) in my class. They were living upto their names.

Enough with these outrageous lies already. India has a severe shortage of doctors as anyone who has a clue knows:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2921262.cms

“India faces an acute shortage of manpower in the healthcare sector……..for every 10,000 Indians, there is one doctor. In contrast, Australia has 249 doctors for every 10,000 people, Canada has 209, UK has 166 and US has 548″