This Hour Has 22 Minutes\u0027 Shaun Majumder star brings standup show to Massey Theatre.
, I wrote this sketch it had to do with Donald Trump and all the stuff being talked about him being a white supremacist. So, I wrote this sketch called Beige Power and it unleashed the trolls online,” said Majumder over the phone from his Los Angeles home recently. “Then I thought I have to use this in my show and then I started developing this idea around The Hate Tour.”Article content
“They had gone zero cases … for four months straight and then the day I arrived Newfoundland gets one new COVID case and it’s my neighbour Kevin. He had come back from Alberta where he was working. He was fine,” said Majumder, who owns a home in Burlington, population about 350. From the makers of Lost, From is a psychological drama about a town that doesn’t let people leave. Majumder, now a U.S. citizen, plays Father Khatri, the town priest, and the popular go-to guy for advice.Article content
“It’s always happened. People have off people for years especially with comedy. But I don’t think it’s OK that the person who off those people has to have their entire lives shut down and their entire career stopped,” said Majumder, adding: “Standup comedy … still needs to be a place where people are able to say what they are thinking and understand it is through the filter of standup comedy.
There were some things I was really interested in as a writer and as a creator of pushing the envelope and trying to do those things. What is the purpose of comedy? Especially a political satire show, a social satire show. There was a lot of resistance and worry.