New Delhi: ‘The Great Indian Kapil Show’, Kapil Sharma’s new comedy series starring Sunil Grover, Krushna Abhishek, Archana Puran Singh is eagerly anticipated to launch on Netflix. The comedy show's judge recently talked about how she has the "best job in the world" and is constantly "laughing her way to the bank." Additionally, Archana talked about how she used to get in trouble for "fake- laughing" at terrible jokes that were told on the show.
Archana Puran Singh on forced laughter
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.” The comedy show judge said in a recent media interaction.
“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.
When questioned if she still laughed at offensive jokes, Archana said, "It doesn't happen anymore!"
Archana Puran Singh on editors making her laugh at bad jokes
“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 will make people laugh), but it didn’t work that way, woh punch nahi utha, but main hi baith gayi . People started to think, ‘this woman is mad, she is laughing for nothing. The integrity of my laughter took the beating,” she explained.
Archana continued by saying that over the years, her laughter has become more and more like feedback, and she now only laughs when something truly makes her laugh. "I genuinely laugh at the good jokes,” she said.
She also opened up about her laughter on the “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 the past, 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 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.”
On March 30, ‘The Great Indian Kapil Show’ will premiere on Netflix.