Pakistani Sense of Humour

[muqawwee123]

Re: Pakistani Sense of Humour

@Jolie

Does it have something to do with Urdu as a subject losing it’s popularity? I blame the loud, bratty and insolent Morning Show hosts and people like Amir Liaqat for dumbing down the people. We are currently going through a phase where anything that’s not loud, is not funny. Somehow people in Pakistani media think you have to act stupid and hold gimmicky props to be considered funny. Plus, I don’t understand why comedy cannot be simple and short, a comedy play doesn’t really need to have 700 episodes - no wonder most of the called funny serial and sitcoms have lost it’s charm because they have well passed their expiration date. They seem never ending.

Loss of humour is certainly a sign of social decay. I am not sure but I get this feeling Pakistanis are losing their sense of humour, the sense of humour is being replaced by victim complex. They are becoming a nation of whiners, an uptight and rigid entity.

Definitely, people are losing grip on language and that lead to inability of writing / saying things in witty way. During the suppressed and heavy censored era of Zia, we were able to produce good TV shows like Fifty Fifty, Aangan TeRha, etc and in literature people like Mushtaq Yusufi and Shafiq u Rehman were active, but now we are living in era of free media, but our humor has downgraded to cheap stuff like Qudusi Saheb ki bewah.

Loss of humor is also attributed to news channels creating havoc on incidents like a blast due fault in electricity transformer. They are promoting sad stuff with dedication and that had resulted in common men not able to understand or enjoy the humor.