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Archana Puran Singh is excitedly looking forward for her upcoming comedy show with Kapil Sharma, Sunil Grover and others — The Great Indian Kapil Show — to drop on Netflix. The actor, who majorly sits on the judge’s chair on the comedy show recently opened up about how she has the “best job in the world” and that she’s “laughing her way to the bank” all the time. Archana also addressed how she used to face criticism for “fake- laughing” on bad jokes cracked on the show.
Archana, at a recent media interaction spoke about her job — to laugh. She said, “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 will 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 criticised 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 laugher is like a 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 added that earlier the editors working on the show would patch her laugh every time there was a poor joke, but that has now changed. 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 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.”
The Great Indian Kapil Show will drop on Netflix on Saturday, March 30.
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