I used to like Gutthi in 'Comedy Nights with Kapil', but never felt he was so much the backbone of the show until he left the show. It's sad he has, and Comedy Nights is no more what it used to be. It gets boring very often now, while earlier I used to find quite a few bits very funny, and I used to forgive the few boring bits, like those by the buaa.
But the show itself has been fundamentally amazing. Totally desi. And appeals to my sense of humor.
It seems stand up comedy in India has reached a point where it can now explode ahead in a big way... Thanks to The Great Indian Laughter Challenge a few years back, for giving Indian humor and the Indian humorous a platform to take off.
But where have we lost our Haasya Kavis? The best ones have aged. And the younger good ones are not so keen (Kumar Vishwas for example). And they've been outdone by modern media in terms of focused delivery of comic content. And nobody cares much for poetry these days, especially that delivered as such. Besides, I believe poetry is not a requirement for humor. It's more an element of linguistic adornment, more relevant to songs these days. But then, it seems Haasya Kavis were more poets than comedians. So, although it's not right to compare them with the current breed of standup comedians, their business and popularity, whatever little it was before, has been affected by the latter.
Coming back to what I started with, I hope Gutthi comes back...
