Indians dont allow being made fun of their religion, politics: Comedy Rapper MC Sid

He has been a VJ before realizing that his passion lies
somewhere else and then came his introduction to rap comedy. Sidharth Sood or
popularly known by his stage name MC Sood, says that laughter has always been
the best medicine but “again, this is all subjective, what kind of a comedian
one wants to be.”

“I am not very political in terms of my comedy. I know
people like Kunal Kamra, who are excellent comedians, and their political
comedy point of view is hilarious. I don’t personally think Indians have it in
them to allow being made fun of their religion or their politics. So he’s
really on a sticky wicket. People are challenging the norms. AIB pushed this
with the roast also of Bollywood. There were religious sentiments with the
church that were hurt. I, personally, am not comfortable with it, so I stick to
non-political commentary usually,” he told Opoyi.

 Sid, who has
performed in the capacity of an Emcee and opened the shows at weddings for
celebrity artists like AKON, Mob Deep, Sukhbir, Mika, Honey Singh, Badshah,
and  Salim & Sulaiman, says that it’s
much easier to make the audience laugh nowadays.

“…because, with social media and the new platforms,
slapstick kind of comedy and memes and various other things available to us as
content creators are so much more than they were earlier, so it’s ridiculously
more straightforward. But yes, haters are always going to hate, and
over-sensitive people are always going to try and make issues out of
non-issues. I am a firm believer in free speech. Just go for it,” he said.

But thinking too much while performing comedy kills the
humour right?

“You’re absolutely right. Not going overboard kills a
performance. Hence I’m a firm believer in going overboard. And again, as long
as you are very clear on your own internal beliefs and what you feel is
something you are very confident of, have a lot of confidence about, it’s
perfectly alright to go overboard and to make it as funny as you want to.
Otherwise, people will not laugh, the joke’s just going to fall flat,” he said.

Being India’s first comedy rapper, he says
that it’s something closer to what Devang Patel used to do, as an Indian
reference.

“Rap is the acronym for rhythm and poetry, so my jokes are
also musical and pleasurable to listen to. And that’s precisely how it’s
different from somebody just standing and talking and telling jokes,” said Sood
adding that he is a huge fan of Jay Z and Eminem too.

Finally some pearl of wisdom for aspiring ones?

“You have to be superbly passionate and have to have a huge
heart to take a lot of criticism because no matter what you try, audience
saamne se bolti hai bakwaas hai. And you have to be able to overlook that and
keep on trying it until you break through the negativity,” he sums up,