I saw this via Netflix Streaming, and the “Indian Comedy Hour” which is what it is titled features 5 comics : Vidur Kapur, Rajiv Kumar Satyal, Vijai Nathan, Mark Saldana and Dalia McPhee. I had not seen any of them before except for Nathan who’s show I’ve watched live. Kapur is the only immigrant, which means born in India, and Dalia is the only Irish American of the five. The remaining three are Indian Americans.
The five had very different material, although Nathan’s seemed familiar, since some of it was the same as the earlier live show I’d seen. Rajiv Satyal was very funny although I cannot quite recall his jokes. Saldana who is stocky made fun of his weight, among other things. Nathan mimicked her parents, and Dalia had a very short screen time (probably longer in the actual live show ?). Now Kapur was a total surprise, since he’s gay and very out-of-the-closet. He came on stage wearing a vest with a pink tie. He’s bald, has large protruding eyes, and a tendency to wiggle his eyebrows, which makes him seem a little eccentric but heightens the comedic appeal at the same time. Yeah imagine an eccentric looking, bony, gay desi guy wiggling his eyebrows !
I’d say Kapur was the funniest followed by Saldana, Satyal, Nathan and McPhee in that order. Although they all had jokes about sex and sexuality, Saldana was probably the raunchiest, and his material was only mildly R-rated when compared to someone like Russell Peters. Peters is probably the funniest desi comic I’ve seen, and I’ve seen him live. Margaret Cho, who is Chinese-American, and uses her Chinese background very effectively in her material, is very funny too, although she is way more R-rated than Peters even. Here’s some of Kapur’s work I found on Youtube :
