MUMBAI: Archana Puran Singh is eagerly anticipating the Netflix release of The Great Indian Kapil Show, her new comedy series starring Kapil Sharma, Sunil Grover, and others. Mostly seen sitting in the judge's chair on the comedy show, the actor recently said about how she has the "best job in the world" and is constantly "laughing her way to the bank." Archana also talked about the backlash she had to endure for "fake-laughing" at poorly received jokes on the show.
In a recent interview, Archana laughed at her work. She says, “I didn’t know one day I’d become more famous for my laughter. As an actor, I always thought it would be my performances would be known but see where destiny takes you.”
“It is the best job in the world, I am laughing all the way to the bank. I am having the best time, can you imagine, to watch one episode, one show, people crave to catch the event, to watch the live Kapil Sharma show, and I am there watching it like a guest, every time, so it’s a great opportunity,” she added
Archana was asked why she laughs at bad jokes also, to which she responded by saying, “It doesn’t happen anymore!”
“Now you’ll see, in the last three years, since we are doing the show, and especially now when we are on Netflix… Earlier people used to say that I laughed at bad jokes as well, I was not happy with it. What used to happen then is that if a particular joke didn’t have the punch, they (the makers) thought that if we use Archana’s laughter then woh punch utth jaayega (it’ll make people laugh), but it didn’t work that way, woh punch nahi utha, but main hi baith gayi (it didn’t become funnier, and I was criticized instead). People started to think, ‘this woman is mad, she is laughing for nothing. The integrity of my laughter took the beating,” she explained.
Archana then said how through the years her laughter is like feedback and she only laughs if she really felt it was funny. She said, “I genuinely laugh at the good jokes!”
She then opened up about how she’d laugh loudly on a “halka joke” (not too funny a joke), she said, “someone even asked me how I’m laughing at it. But it was the edit… you guys are aware how one can do anything on edit. They were very creative; they would place my laughter everywhere.”
She continued by saying that, in earlier times, whenever there was a bad joke, the show's editors would make her laugh, but that has since stopped. She said, “Anyway, now I am happy to say that now there are very few instances when the jokes don’t have the punch where I need to ‘false- laugh’, that’s number 1, number 2 is that Kapil now tells ‘you should have said that, this joke didn’t launch,’ he says it on the stage itself and we even telecast it. So, we are the first to laugh at ourselves and that’s why the world laughs with us.”
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Credit- The Indian Express
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