Sunday, December 04, 2005

Theres something on the telly beyond Ekta.

The Great Indian Laughter Challenge(Minus N.S.Sidhu),now Champions:-Star One,Friday 10:00 PM.
One of my favourite shows.The actual competition was great fun,now its kinda watered down.
One just cant stop laughing when Sunil Pal says in true Suniel Shetty Style " A-he Veerappan,MAdhurI ko choD de veerappan ",or better still "Prove karoon kya ?? Proove kar sakta hoon".Navin Prabhakar has almost started a parallel genre of bar dancer girl comedy with his "Paichaan Kaun,HaT Kutta" jokes.Besides that,Ehsaan Qureishis limericks ,Raju Shrivastav's ideas (I especially liked the Modified sholay,and laughing reporter gags),and the energy of Bhagwant Mann(Oh MyGoddddd!!!!!!mera beta mar gayaaaaaaa!!!),definitely make the show worth watching.Between Desperate Housewives,which airs at the same time,and TGILC,its a no-contest.Even some of the guys who didnt make it to the finals were amazing.among these Jimmmy Moses(the Chinese in India gag),Dharsi Beradia,and Deepak Raja.
All in all a rocking show.

Sarabhai v/s Sarabhai :-Star One,Monday 9:00 PM.
Maya Sarabhai (played by Ratna Pathak-Shah),the champagne drinking,quintessential socialite,is always at loggerheads with her daughter-in-law,Monisha,who as it turns out unluckily for Maya,is a quintessential penny-saving middle class girl.Ratna Pathak-Shah is just to good in this serial.Her dialogues,which almost always involve chiding her bahu with "its so typically middle class",are ably complemented by Monisha's,which almost always involve an exaggerated description of the middle class.Other members of the cast,like Sumeet Raghavan (who played Phaster Phene several years ago),and Satish Shah,do their job commendably.

The Kumars At Number 42:-Star World,Sunday 10:00 PM.
One Hillarious Show,never mind the BatliWalla,and the Kudkudiya cheap imitations.Sanjeev Kumar,and his grandmother are simply hillarious.Cant stop laughing when the grandma insults her less-than-pefect grandson.

KBC 2:- Star Plus ,FRI-SUN 9:00 PM.
I like this show simply because the way the Big B presents it,is unparalleled,aDwitIya.The junta pleasing questions notwithstanding, I do get some good trivia on India once in a while.

Sab Kuch Ho Sakta Hai:SAB TV ,WED-THURS 10:30 PM.
if you want to see spoofs done on Indian Personalities in the most hillarious manner,watch this show.Sajid Khan is ok,but the show stealer is Suresh Menon.Simply hillarious.
Another show that does spoofs is the Great Indian Comedy Show,modelled on the lines of Mad TV.But some of the gags here are really boring and do not evoke too much laughter.

Besides these,the usual stuff like Friends,Seinfeld(Kramer rocks),and the Drew Carrey Show.

All in all,enough to keep me occupied all weekend(I get to watch only repeats)!!

4 comments:

Salil said...

The Laughter Challenge show is good minus Siddhu AND Parizaad. Chuck the eye candy, she is an assault on the ears. Highly artificial and annoying!

Ganesh Hegde said...

salil and shiva:agreed,but nowadays,most channels like to sex up their programs a bit.and ,id prefer a pretty girl to be the *sutra*dhar than shaker suman,who ,frankly speaking,i am bored of.n.s. is out of the question.
shiva:history channel has some good stuff,western mostly,and youl be surprised,it sometimes shows stuff that you dont know too!!

Ganesh Hegde said...

@Priyanca : I am Ganesh Hegde the handsome hunk!!
I am the real Ganesh Hegde,what did you think??
btw,the dancer guy is only a unimpressive impersonator[;-)].I guess i must have got many more hits on my blog after that impostor managed to make it big with his G video[;-)]

Anamika Anyone said...

Laughter challenge is too good!I love Ehsaan Qureshi's limericks and they childlike way he sings them..