Race or not to Race

It's been comedy every night this week. Two shows in the boonies of the Bay Area, a comedy panel, and then a show in the heart of the City.

The boonies is relative, because in the Bay Area even the distant suburbs are racially mixed and heavily populated.

In the boonies, I opened with race and got off to a great start and then carried through with clean comedy from there. In the city, race is not what people want to hear much about in comedy. At least not from Indian comics. The city audience is younger, hipper, and drunk. They want sex and more sex comedy. Drugs are good. Intelligent politics is good too.

I must say the show that sticks the most this week is the show in the city. I thought the young, great looking, dressed to the nines audience was going to be too stoned to pay attention. But they were attentive, looking to laugh, and not fazed by my edgy jokes. The edgy jokes that I don't even dare in the suburbs!