'It's not good to end up in jail for satirizing politics.'
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Comedian Adarsh Mishra has said that there is no need to think while satirizing politics. Mishra said that since leaders do not make thoughtful speeches, comedians also do not need to think while satirizing politics.
In the session 'Satire on Yourself in Nepali Politics' of the fifth edition of Kantipur Conclave, Mishra said that he watched the speeches of leaders and found that the leaders spoke without thinking. 'I don't think political satire should be spoken after thinking because the leaders of our country do not speak after thinking.' I have watched many speeches, 15-20 minutes,' Mishra said, 'I laugh the most when our country's leaders speak. They say many things.'
Mishra said that this is how political satire is happening all over the world. He said that the impact of satire and the reaction it causes varies from country to country. Mishra said that there are situations where people have to go to jail for satirizing politics. He said that in India, there is a situation where people have to go to jail for satirizing political leaders and that is the situation in Nepal too.
Saying that he does not think jokes should be 'twisted or blended', Mishra said that comedy should be presented according to the spirit in which it is written.
Mishra also says that there is no language barrier in comedy. 'There is no language barrier in comedy,' he said, 'Someone slips and falls on a banana peel, the audience laughs. But the person who falls gets hurt, that's it.'
He also said that people are not in leisure these days. 'I like one-liners. People do not have enough patience to listen to the whole thing these days. People today cannot watch a 15-second reel, so who will pay attention to my joke that comes after one and a half minutes?', he said.
Mishra also said that there is no shortage of sources of comedy. 'I read the news every day, every news seems like a punchline to me. Yesterday I was reading - the country has run a trade deficit of 73.6 billion. This is a good joke. There is nothing to add to this, it is enough to read,' he said.
