We love Indian stand-up comedy on this side of the border, too. Whether it’s staying up all night watching specials by comedians and downloading every app possible, to do so. Or waiting for hours for their new videos to drop in, so I we can sit back and be entertained for an hour.
We’ve always taken the anti-Pakistan jokes with a pinch of salt.
Whether it is All India Bakchod and their jokes about Pakistani cricket, Kanan Gill and his two lines about Pakistani Army Generals working with his dad, or even Gursimran Khamba made fun of PIA air hostesses. It was all fine.
However, this dude just went too far with his joke. TOO. FAR.
Karan Talwar, member and founder of comedy group SchitzenGiggles, who also goes by the handle @BollywoodGandu on Twitter, took to the social media platform, last night, and left 29.8 million users of Twitter from the subcontinent, disgusted. The, now deleted tweet, made a joke about the APS attack and similar horrible incidents against innocent children in Pakistan.
This sad excuse for a joke wasn’t received well by anyone
(While his original tweet was deleted after some time)
Indian humour, everyone. I feel sick! https://t.co/mts0f9WoUS
— Saniya (@SaniyaHayat) June 14, 2017
Horrible horrible thing to say. Shameless.
— Saniya (@SaniyaHayat) June 14, 2017
for anyone wondering, this guy deleted the tweet making fun of dead children pic.twitter.com/ZLHbxiC4D4
— Saniya (@SaniyaHayat) June 14, 2017
And people called his sense of humor into question
How can you say that after cracking that 'joke'? Nobody jokes about people dying. That's just disgusting to a whole new level.
— Maulana Sarah (@SarahKaSaraah) June 15, 2017
@BollywoodGandu and his tweets got me like pic.twitter.com/mwO2GgL6gY
— Haye Allah (@AllahHaye) June 15, 2017
And they didn’t even have to be Pakistani to point it out
Cricket was also brought in
Sad that you need to reference the death of children with glee to overcome your sports inferiority complex. Classy AF
— Tehmoor Sadiq (@TehmoorSadiq) June 14, 2017
The first person to react to this was Osman Khalid Butt
Uncool, yaar.
— Osman Khalid Butt (@aClockworkObi) June 14, 2017
Which was literally all of us, as soon as we saw the tweet.
However, Karan seemed unfazed by this and went on to mock Osman, as well
Don't take it seriously yaar
— Bollywood Gandu (@BollywoodGandu) June 14, 2017
While this isn’t the first time Karan has made fun of Pakistan, the jokes he’s cracked in the past were actually funny
And not supposed jokes in such bad taste.
Morgan and Sarfaraz staring at the plane Pakistan will be taking home tomorrow. #ENGvPAK pic.twitter.com/PJDzUV839x
— Bollywood Gandu (@BollywoodGandu) June 14, 2017
Karan started off Bollywood Gandu by mocking Bollywood and the likes
And it’s completely okay for you to mock an industry. It’s completely okay for you to mock celebrities. And it’s completely okay for you to mock politicians. But the line is drawn when it comes to making jokes about someone being murdered. And we’re talking about kids here. Innocent children who didn’t want to have any part in this. Innocent children whose deaths you think is okay to mock. Well, Karan, it’s not okay.
Political correctness aside, there needs to be sensitivity about innocent children, at least.