Hari Kondabolu- My English Relationship

Hari Kondabolu discusses a bad relationship he had with an English woman. Filmed at the now-defunct Comix Comedy Club on April 8th, 2010.

[@sansing29]

So the angry brother turned against him by the english girl is pakistan? Nice analogy

[@r0m333]

I have never seen anyone explain English oppression in Indian subcontinent like this way b4... cheers mate :v

[@kinky2002]

this English woman was trying to colonize me ...lol just awesome

[@somakchatterjee6429]

Petite bantu it's British nature

[@allolp]

@@somakchatterjee6429 War and expansion is human nature, it wasn't just the British that had an empire. What is uniquely British however is their level of ingenuity, they basically invented modern science and many of the most important inventions in the last 200 years at least are British. And they were also the pioneers when it came to freeing slaves and ending slave trade worldwide for strictly moral reasons. Not to mention the advancement in democratic system of rule. I'm not even British but clearly the Brits pretty much single-handedly pulled the entire rest of the world with them into the future. On the other hand open defecation is a big problem in India even in 2020, in the end poisoning their own water supply with crap and feacel waste flowing into fields contaminating the crops getting sick and dying. Alot of India doesn't even have a sewage system of any kind. And then you have the smart Indians that either all live in modern western style cities such as Mumbai and Bangalore, or they just leave India altogether to move to the West. Alot of times they actually bring the caste system with and abuse lower cast Indians... web.archive.org/web/20200721033210/www.pri.org/stories/2019-03-08/us-isn-t-safe-trauma-caste-bias

[@somakchatterjee6429]

@@allolp we have 100% toilets now

[@somakchatterjee6429]

@@allolp en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitation_of_the_Indus_Valley_Civilisation

[@karolinaa9478]

I find it a bit disturbing that people laugh when he says he was beaten :|

[@burgiscatman4010]

and then you scream and go poo poo?

[@tomitstube]

do you really think she was beating him or was it a metaphor of the english occupation of india? look up the "jallianwala bagh massacre".

[@ubiglhb2109]

***** I think she means initially, before it becomes apparent it's a joke about colonialism,

[@haris7089]

Well he is preforming a comedy routine... It was ment to be funny... The audience knows he wasn't actually being beaten.

[@aubreyrodriguez4563]

+Hari S But do they REALLY know? I mean, I still don't, not really... Maybe she actually was beating him and it just happened to be the perfect metaphor for a colonialism joke? When something is still a common problem that's not very talked about, it's really hard to tell for sure if someone is joking, and judging by the audience's mixed reaction I don't think everyone in the audience knew for sure either. Jokes aren't automatically funny just bc a comedian says it or bc the subject matter is controversial. I laughed at the joke, but still.

[@suledrake]

I LOVE this! Especially the part about Pakistan...they really are our brothers and sisters..

[@yugalsharan]

Only yours, not mine. Ola hoo Uber !!

[@darthlobster]

Dude, I was rolling on the floor and I'm a white American... I know my world history! This set was excellent. I know "it's not funny if you have to explain the joke," but here the joke is still funny, it's just DEPRESSING that he has to explain to SO MANY. Great guy who makes intelligent jokes, though! /swoon

[@kamrahmane]

The only bad thing about this is that it's only 2 minutes long. This deserves to be fleshed out into a full 10 minute routine. I think Hari hasn't quite got the confidence yet to try to carry the audience with him for a full 10 minutes. One day soon, hopefully.

[@ctmexperiment]

***** man that's some on point comedic analysis. nice radiohead pic.

[@beforever]

as an Englishman this had me in stitches.

[@MrAtaguas]

This is how they should teach history in schools involving explicit details to spice things up a bit and educate the kids

[@azukizukisan]

I love this joke so much. I link it to friends again and again.

[@privacyIsKing]

how is this a joke again?

[@Gravedigger6927]

this is a very smart joke i love the way he basically bases his relaionship on british withdrwal from india

[@utopia2112]

I will never not LOVE that punchline. SO GOOD.

[@chupscola9198]

I always comeback to this particular joke when I want some laughs. It’s genius.

[@TCt83067695]

Shots fired

[@yugalsharan]

Brilliant, Hari. Keep going.

[@mydogiscrazy13]

This is so clever!! Nice one, Hari!

[@julianparsons3027]

It's very hard to plunder on foot... priceless...

[@Lifeisagift1990]

Love it!

[@cookiemonsterzzz666]

On that note, Happy Independence Day!

[@drummerKti]

I love it

[@11FBA11]

awesome.

[@Davett53]

My mind wandered off for a bit thinking about my own dating nightmares when I was a younger man. Desperate to find a mate, one sometimes makes foolish compromises. I was willing to date a woman who seriously believed she had been abducted by aliens, when she was a teenager. She was obsessed with it and tried to convince me, for the 4 months we dated, that it had to have happened, because her memory of it was so clear and specific. She tried to educate me on the history of others, who shared her same experience. She loaned me many volumes of one particular person's writings on the topic and wanted me to read them cover to cover. I read only a fraction on the topic,...this was before the Internet and computers,....so,...I didn't have any reliable resources to turn to, other than gossip, and sketchy tabloids. I gave up,...it was too far out of my wheelhouse. I wanted to believe she wasn't just a nut. But I could see this was going to be apart of our lives together, every day into the future. Would she ever abandon her obsessions? Could we find a mutual topic to explore? I'm glad we broke up.

[@HjayBee30]

HAHA At least they left. Love this

[@BackToSquare1]

Brilliant

[@sycodental]

wow...man you are a smart comic.....:)

[@CielosLuz]

wowwwwww!!!!!! The colonize joke!!!!!Awesome and priceless!!!!!

[@cookieWedding]

Love the brother thing.\

[@rahulkhandelwal9323]

This wasn't love..... she was trying to colonise me.... Lol

[@cocolahtay]

Africans get it too! LOL

[@hanros98]

well thank god for that!

[@daniyellowjello]

As you probably know, this joke was a metaphor for the Indian/Pakistani and British relationship. People laughed because these "beatings" represented how India was pillaged and colonized by Britain. It has nothing to do with domestic violence.

[@tjohannam]

hahahaha. too good!

[@JaimeEskobar]

Plunder on foot xD

[@anthonydelacruz2562]

Brilliant Joke!

[@citizenOfNowhere777]

Yes, brilliant. As he started saying what she left, I was wondering how he would include the rail way system and he just did it ..brilliangly.

[@PraiseRap]

It's hard to plunder on foot lol

[@andigomez1993]

What does he mean by plunder on foot? Like... Hard for them to oppress them by walking? Like... It was rail road system just for them?

[@bsm102993]

plunder, as in to rob of resources through force. India is a very large country, and, therefore, would be hard to plunder by foot.

[@andigomez1993]

I see! Thanks you for explaining.

[@Dillinger86]

yeah it's called British Imperialism, just what the US does today and has done for the past 60 years.

[@citizenOfNowhere777]

Andi, he meant carrying the plunder.

[@daniyellowjello]

ohhhh I get who the brother is now. history fail on my part. brother is pakistan

[@XxCupcakeCarnivorexX]

It sucks how he is telling these really great jokes and nobody in the audience seems to get them xD

[@desperadoexodus]

Erm, Former empire you mean? Wake up son, its 2012 :P

[@JRInTroy]

Lol

[@Dillinger86]

haha English Imperialism

[@LughLamhfhada1]

@jrodoctorwho36 dont be a troll

[@tomitstube]

this guy is good, finally some clever political stand up, i even laughed when he mocked liberals for saying they would go to canada if bush got elected/re-elected. good stuff.

[@Davett53]

There is an ironic commonality to how all males can find themselves in this situation when a woman they are interested in, starts to move in. That lady was intent on trying to "fix" him, as many like minded American women, tend to try to do with their new boyfriends. Sometimes it works out well. depending on how malleable the male is and how much he sees the benefits he is enjoying. ( obviously being beaten is his comedic twist on the usual scenario)

[@Stonytude]

erm, the formerly colonised people and their descendants do have a voice, you know :P

[@somakchatterjee6429]

Enakshi Nandi so what?

[@jrodoctorwho36]

Why did people laugh when he said "and that's when the beatings started"? How is domestic abuse, or any abuse, ever funny in any situation?