Introducing Punjabi
Meet Punjabi, the Indian puppet.Â
Punjabi works for Punch & Brodie, a Seattle-based company that provides ‘quality puppetry to corporate environments’ (apparently for all those times when regular corporate puppets can’t cut it).
Unlike his colleagues, Punjabi wasn’t born with a name, just an ethnicity. But as he explains in this interview, he doesn’t really mind, it’s all part of the job:
Interviewer: Wonderful. Did you bring your sitar? Could you play something for us tonight?
Punjabi: Oh no no, I don’t play. People think that because I am from India, I must play the sitar. They all ask me for lessons. I said to myself, What the heck? Wherever they put their fingers, it sounds like Ravi Shankar to them. I bought a car giving sitar lessons.
Punjabi has a wry sense of humor, he does. And I think he knows Indians are all the same, which is why he doesn’t mind the lack of personal identity. Punjabi also doesn’t mind having somebody stick their hand all the way up his ass, so, I can’t really say much more about him…Â
In regard to Punch & Brodie, however, I think someone should punch them in the butt and introduce them to a real Punjabi:
on Thursday, September 21st, 2006, 12:25 am in Animals, Dummies, Macaca › 
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yo, is this site sponsored by Goodness Gracious Me or what? if so, that is hyperrad, i just got the complete series on eBay region unlocked!
oy, sir-slash-madam, it is from Goodness Gracious Me and is one-of-three Skipinder clips available on YouTube (many other GGM clips available also but my favorite is Shakespeare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ5yEpv6EU4 )
sir-slash-madam, your mom, brah. more manish!
Shouldn’t this puppet be called Lionel, as in Richie?
hmm, he does kind of look like a horse…
(a.chat, no offense, just trying to be gender-neutral–nowadays, a guy-girl like me can never tell ;)
He does look like Lionel Richie. But I’m hoping that his name is part of his schtick. The whole point is that white people don’t see him. He’s a mathematician, but he teaches meditation and sitar and cooking - things he doesn’t know how to do, but things they expect him to do. So the name is at least consistent with all of that.
BTW, Good to “see” you King Emma ;)
Like The Guru.
Punjabi and Ruth should get together, since they’re the only ones with eyelids.
Ennis…
This will all end with crying
S. Jandu
http://www.morgellonsresearchfoundation.com
Ennis is correct .