Funny Guy of the Year

The controversial Mufti of Australia, Muslim cleric Sheikh Taj El-Din Hilaly and television personality Naomi Robson are among the big winners in this year’s Ralph Magazine Awards.

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Religious Intolerance and Extreme Censorship

1. The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) is concerned about the censorship of examples of religious tolerance and foreign beliefs and customs in The Economist.

The Internal Security Ministry torn off pages of an article from the Economist’s 23 December 2006 issue entitled “Born of Fire”, about Muslim in Afghanistan and Somalia believing in the existence of genies, or jinns. It also blackout a paragraph in the article “A child in Bethlehem”, which reported that Muslim women visit an ancient shrine to the Virgin Mary to pray for fertility. The Economist is published by the Economist Newspaper Limited in Britain.

Zeenat Aman

2 blast from the past music videos of Zeenat Aman, a favorite pin-up of Indian babyboomers. As in most Indian movies, she lip-syncs songs by playback singers.

Zeenat Aman in the movie Yaadon Ki Baraat (1973) lipsyncing ‘Chura Liya’ (You’ve Stolen My Heart):

Zeenat Aman in the movie Qurbani (1980) lipsyncing “Aap Jaisa Koi” (Someone Like You):

Little Mosque on the Prairie

Little Mosque on the Prairie is a new Canadian sitcom about Muslims in rural Canada. The series stars Sitara Hewitt, Zaib Shaikh, Carlo Rota and Manoj Sood.

Bachchan, Shah Rukh ‘feud’ on Comedy Central

If being ribbed about on late night comedy shows is one of the most telling indicators of popular acceptance of any foreign culture within the US, then Bollywood has just made an important debut.

The Jan 9 episode of the hugely popular The Colbert Report on Comedy Central featured a piece of gossip involving Amitach Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan. In the new segment called ‘We the Mediator’ which jests about celebrity feuds and takes sides, the show’s host Stephen Colbert deadpanned the gossip about the alleged feud between Bachchan and Khan over new year celebrations.

Apparently, according to the gossip, Bachchan stayed away from Khan’s new year do which was attended by among others Salman Khan, Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta. The very idea of a mainstream American comic going through a list of unpronounceable Indian names (by American standards), had inherent humour to it.

Watch the clip here:

Thanks to Bignewsnetwork and Anangbhai

Naked on the Floor

HollowMen from Comedy Central performing as a mime to the music “Torn”. Funny clip from the show.