Brown Women Comedy: Laughing away the shame

Not your aunty’s idea of stand-up. Daizy Maan and Niv Prakasam are carving out space on Australia’s biggest comedy stages with Brown Women Comedy—one sharp, subversive set at a time. They join Suhayla Sharif to chat about the politics of palatability, turning silence into laughter, and what happens when you take your story and make it the punchline (on your own terms).

A lot of comics are facing a lot of trouble in India right now. It's only now that men are having to censor themselves, but women have been doing it for the longest time.

Niv Prakasam, Comedian

When you get South Asian women up on stage, talking about things that we don't normally talk about, then everyone feels a sense of relief.

Daizy Maan, Comedian

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