Sami Shah reckons comedy isn't about punching up or punching down, it's about being funny

Sami Shah is an award-winning stand-up comedian, presenter and author. We listen to some of his brilliant jokes, including one about being cat-fished into coming to Australia. Sami and Aditya chat about being told to be grateful for living in Australia, feeling more at home in the USA, Sami’s sixty-minute debut performance, why he thinks Melbourne has the worst comedy audiences and much more. Warning: This episode contains strong language.

Comedy comes from shock and surprise. Comedy and horror are closely overlapped; in horror you scream, in comedy you laugh… The thing that sticks in my brain is when someone says something shocking and horrifying, and you go, I can’t believe that they framed it that way, but that is so funny.

Sami Shah

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Comedy Karma is created by Aditya Gautam

Additional Editing by Tarun Tyagi

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