The next king of Scotland
Check out stand-up comic Danny Bhoy, the brown Craig Ferguson, who’s got a wicked physical humor bit involving a naked man and a hotel (thanks, khoofia):
Here he is making fun of befuddled Australian lawmakers. You won’t get all the refs unless you’re Aussie, but it’s good fun just the same:
Homeboy’s hilarious, expressive and not hard on the eyes. He’s probably fending off women with a flip of his expensive hair.
on Sunday, May 18th, 2008, 11:29 am in Humor, Video clips › 
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He is so cute. and funny.
Goodness he is adorable.
That quirky cutie is going places. How refreshing that he didn’t include the typical ethnic or boorish frat boy humor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgunWu3dWW0
Very cute at 2:05 when he talks about the french “we are flaky and a little bit gay” (eyebrow wiggle).
Lol.
Exactly Zen. A desi comic is immediately in my good books if they’re funny and avoid the easy stereotype laughs. The casual anti-English sentiment is definite no no though. (seriously, I don’t get how the Scots still hate us. I like haggis). The Aussie commons bit cracked me up, excellent. And he nailed the accent.
It’s weird, when I first discovered Arj Barker all his videos were from Aussie and Canadian shows too!
Yeah, thanks khoofia!
1. Sexy accent: check.
2. Quirky smile: check.
3. Ability to make a girl laugh: check.
Where do I send my shaadi.com profile to?
He needs to get out here in La-La land.
Did you mean Craig Ferguson?
The Scottish define themselves in opposition to the English. If they didn’t have that, they wouldn’t have an identity. Like how Canada is with America, except don’t ever say that to a Canadian or they go crazy.
Sexy Scottish brown boy.
What are you guys talking about? A bunch of his jokes are stereotypical. In this one he pokes at the Irish, French, German, Australian… The only ethnicity he doesn’t make fun of is South Asian, but he’s avoiding that all together. Get past his looks for a second guys.
Aye, that’s the Craig, lad.
watch this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5jzpnfUKEQ
Yer welcome lassie, och!
khoof looks out for all ye desperate pedagogistas -ducks for cover- :-)
bhoy seems to take special pains in going local and staying topical. most comedians* do their research and find the local myth or celebrity to run off a gag… but buddy is really good at this imo. he actually builds the joke off the locality.
*random fyi - a lot of established comedians buy their jokes**. this explains why both russell peters and sugar sammy ran the same joke that involved rearing their indian born brides.
**another random fyi - for those familiar with The Kids in the Hall sketch show - the name comes from the time when the jokesters were actually the kids who would wait around in the hall to sell jokes to the likes of Carson.
What a riot… I notice nearly all Scots think of themselves a race apart from merry ole Britain.
Reminds me of the Texas syndrome.
The Bhoy is going places.
Thanks for the clip, c.
My only problem with him now is that everyone else seems to love him too. Oh well.
He’s got a dvd out where he’s playing at the Sidney Opera House.
Couldnt find it on Amazon but you can prolly get a torrent.
And he’s got longer videos on his website
http://www.dannybhoy.com/dannybhoy/audio_video.php
Clearly, at this point, it would seem that I’m beginning to stalk him.
“Bret Lee is even bigger than Gandhi in India. Certainly better at getting the English out. Took a week off after I wrote that one”
Freaking hilarious..priceless.
He’s really funny. I LOL’ed heartily at all the clips, and esp at what bhanu points out.
His humor and material is totally mainstream, and he does accents well. Nobody’s looking at him and thinking, “But…. he’s Indian, right?”, the way they would with someone who couldn’t pass as well as he does and was doing his material. There’s a reason Hari Kondabolu and Russ Peters have different material than him - they can’t ignore their ethnicity as much as he can. So my take is different from khoofia’s.
And he even shows you why Canadians say ‘out’ the way they do - they’re only saying it the way their Scottish forebears did, and Scots even today do. Something for the phonetic historian in you.
He’s going places all right.
He does topical stuff and well researched. Especially Brian Burke part whom everyone standing for election was avoiding like plague.