By Nathaniel Tan,
(thoughts on Sarawak a little later perhaps – for now, well done to all those who gave it their all!)
I seldom tire of Malaysian comedy. I watched the first Indicine Live some time ago, and it was love at first sight.
Indicine Live 3 was pretty much up to par. As always, some skits/jokes were a little more miss than hit, but on the whole, there was absolutely no shortage of laughs, entertainment and that painful truth behind the things we find most funny.
I have noticed more and more that it’s really difficult to get tickets to comedies as show times approach. Walk-in tickets appear to be a thing of the past (this piece comes a little late because shows were sold out all the way to the end anyway). While bad news for commitment-phobes like me, I think it reflects pretty well on this subset of the industry as a whole. I do wish they’d have longer runs and bigger spaces though (the actors however, did not seem to share my enthusiasm for the idea :)
Some of my favourite skits involved:
- There being so many by-elections that a PAS guy and a Puteri Umno from faraway states had time to fall in love
- Mat & Minah Rempit to the tunes of We Will Rock You
- Ghosts being barred from leaving hell on hungry ghost festival because of clashes with Ramadan
- Normal Muslims being subjected to being house guests of rabid Christians
- A human water cannon
- One helluva sexy mak nenek (these Indicent girls I tell you)
One of the funniest skits used one of the least original devices – literal translations from BM to English and vice versa :) It’s really amazing how far you can stretch this without it *really* getting old.
The talent of a lot of the actors was a joy to watch, and on the whole the humour was sharp and well thought out, you could feel multiple minds at work adding and adding layer after layer to the jokes. The view of Malaysian realities was exaggerated enough to be great fun, but not so much as to be separate from things we can really see every day.
I think I’ll leave it at that for now, until the next Indicine Live!
Indicine Live 3 was pretty much up to par. As always, some skits/jokes were a little more miss than hit, but on the whole, there was absolutely no shortage of laughs, entertainment and that painful truth behind the things we find most funny.
I have noticed more and more that it’s really difficult to get tickets to comedies as show times approach. Walk-in tickets appear to be a thing of the past (this piece comes a little late because shows were sold out all the way to the end anyway). While bad news for commitment-phobes like me, I think it reflects pretty well on this subset of the industry as a whole. I do wish they’d have longer runs and bigger spaces though (the actors however, did not seem to share my enthusiasm for the idea :)
Some of my favourite skits involved:
- There being so many by-elections that a PAS guy and a Puteri Umno from faraway states had time to fall in love
- Mat & Minah Rempit to the tunes of We Will Rock You
- Ghosts being barred from leaving hell on hungry ghost festival because of clashes with Ramadan
- Normal Muslims being subjected to being house guests of rabid Christians
- A human water cannon
- One helluva sexy mak nenek (these Indicent girls I tell you)
One of the funniest skits used one of the least original devices – literal translations from BM to English and vice versa :) It’s really amazing how far you can stretch this without it *really* getting old.
The talent of a lot of the actors was a joy to watch, and on the whole the humour was sharp and well thought out, you could feel multiple minds at work adding and adding layer after layer to the jokes. The view of Malaysian realities was exaggerated enough to be great fun, but not so much as to be separate from things we can really see every day.
I think I’ll leave it at that for now, until the next Indicine Live!
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