Twitter is one of the common ways to communicate and share our views. And a few times the views backfired. The standup comic Vir Das experienced the same.
One of his tweets backfired where the comedian asked people who don’t like jokes to not tell the comedians that their jokes are lame unless they have written jokes themselves.
If you liked a joke or didn’t…that’s valuable feedback.
But I’m pretty sure I speak for many comics when I say: If you’ve never written a joke, stood on a stage, or made a career out of this…spare us your long sanctimonious thesis on what comedy should or shouldn’t be about.— Vir Das (@thevirdas) June 2, 2020
This tweet backfired instantly and the comedian started to trend on Twitter. Netizens started to roast Vir Das and were quick to point out the irony. Netizens point out basic maths of criticism. It’s the audience who criticize and not the creator.
Vir Das : Modi is fαscist!
Audience : Ok.V : Haso saaIo! Ye punch tha.
A : Wtf? Ye comedy hai?V : First be a comedian then comment on me.
A : But you just commented on Modi without being a politician.V : That’s my choice! Behas mat mujhse nahi to seedhe maa par jaunga teri.
— THE SKIN DOCTOR 🇮🇳 (@theskindoctor13) June 2, 2020
Vir Das: *cracks a joke*
Audience: Booooo..
Vir Das: Joke nahi pasand aaye to apne ghar wapas jao bsdk..
Audience: Pahle paise wapas kar!
Vir Das: pic.twitter.com/TbWap5TF7H
— Keh Ke Peheno (@coolfunnytshirt) June 2, 2020
Who named him Vir Das and not Weird Ass 😫
— Anamika (@MiishNottyAna) June 2, 2020
Then by the same logic a comedian shouldn’t make fun of those thing which they haven’t ever done in their lives..Bsdk,kabhi apne logic khud pe bhi apply kar liya kar..
— 🇮🇳 Prabhat Yadav 🇮🇳 (@prabhatkumar76) June 2, 2020
I completely agree…. Pls spare us common folks with your high standards of comedy as we clearly don’t know what comedy is…..
Pls make a group of comedians and just keep the precious craft within the learned scholars….
Urs truly
Sea farer
Representing common folks— Sea farer (@World_neptuner) June 2, 2020
A “joke” is funny or not is decided by the audience, not by the “comedian”. Audience doesn’t need to fulfill any of the criteria you mentioned above to be a judge for a comic.
It’s you who should be humble enough to acknowledge the feedback and improvise instead of whining.
— THE SKIN DOCTOR 🇮🇳 (@theskindoctor13) June 2, 2020
