The funny and popular Indian comedy group AIB have been called out by fellow comedians Aayushi Jagad and Sumedh Natu for the lack of female representation in their sketches.
Jagad and Natu make a strong argument that despite AIB’s public image of being feminist, its comedy sketches have effectively turned women into, well, table-lamps. Replace the fleeting appearances of the women – in the videos not meant for an audience of women – with table-lamps, and it will make no difference to the narrative.
AIB acknowledged the view in this video with this tweet.
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