Burma's top standup comic: 'We sacrifice our lives for jokes'
Zarganar spent years in solitary confinement for standup routines that mocked the authorities. Now Burma's best-known comedian is free " and still laughingAs the rehearsals for the Secret Policeman's Ball unfold on stage, Zarganar and I are sitting up in the gods of Radio City Music Hall, discussing the performance he will deliver later this evening " a speech in praise of Amnesty, and freedom of speech. "I'm very ex…