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Creating Karachi's Stand-up Comedy Culture - Saad Haroon - Comedian - #TPE 240

The Pakistan Experience

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Laugh Every 22nd, I'm Going to Tell a Story

I think in talking funny, Seinfeld says something like you need to laugh every 22nd. It does take a bit to break out of that format and say, okay, fine, I want to be a storytelling comedian now. We're like, I'm going to tell a story and do that. Then it also depends on your audience. And if you've been, you know, at the end of the day, people's attention spans have shrunk. You know, so we don't grow up in Pakistan and a culture of a theater going audience. So keeping their attention span for like an hour with a storytelling show over here would be very difficult.

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