We caught up with Ahmed Shariff, one of Bangalore’s earliest English speaking standup comedians.
Read the full conversation below.
@_standupcentral Hello. June 7th 2011, I gave my first standup comedy performance. I needed a diversion from my engineering sales job
— Ahmed Shariff (@ResurgetC) February 18, 2016
@_standupcentral Open mic at Kyra theater, Indiranagar. It went okay at that time. But looking back, it was such a bad set!
— Ahmed Shariff (@ResurgetC) February 18, 2016
@_standupcentral George Carlin, Bill Maher & Jim Carrey. At that time, I didn’t know of any local acts I could look up to.
— Ahmed Shariff (@ResurgetC) February 18, 2016
@_standupcentral I cater to mostly English crowd. But I put in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil when required
— Ahmed Shariff (@ResurgetC) February 18, 2016
@_standupcentral Tragedies. And I keep my material mostly clean, no overdoing A-rated words
— Ahmed Shariff (@ResurgetC) February 18, 2016
@_standupcentral You dont pick the career. The career picks you. If you are good enough, you’ll make it in the business.
— Ahmed Shariff (@ResurgetC) February 18, 2016
@_standupcentral Some time in mid of March. Still waiting for dates.
— Ahmed Shariff (@ResurgetC) February 18, 2016
@ResurgetC it’s been an absolute pleasure talking to u Ahmed.Thank u for ur time & views.
May the funny be with u always#StandUpComedy101— Standup Central (@_standupcentral) February 18, 2016
