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Heard the one about the Pakistani standup? Finding the funny in ethnicity by Brian Logan

Sami Shah jokes about being a Karachi-based funnyman in his entertaining act. But often playing on your cultural heritage can be a lazy way to get a quick laughThere's an old Stewart Lee routine aping bad American standup. "My mom is from [ethnicity X] and my dad is from [ethnicity Y], so when I see a [foodstuff from either of those cultures], I don't know whether to eat it, or shove it up my ass!" But the kind of st…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13AM on May 13, 2015

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