The comedian’s life beyond comedy

In his 30s, stand-up comedian Jeeveshu Ahluwalia decided to risk it all and gave up his well-paying job to make people laugh.   : Jeeveshu Ahluwalia

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00:00How many people have sat on emergency exit?

00:03How many people have sat there to save lives?

00:07But I love how the aoruses will come and ask the most absurd question. Are you okay in case if we crash?

00:20And that really upset my mother.

00:30When you lose a father, the elder kid, be it a boy or a girl, suddenly becomes or dons that role.

00:38I realized that very early on.

01:00I think that day just came true.

01:07You have no idea. I used to dress up every day.

01:25My mother was always very concerned as to how would I shape up with my life.

01:27There was a family day when I was a director and I got a mother.

01:31So I had this three, like a full cabin for a director's seat and three sides with glass.

01:36I made my mother sit on my seat.

01:38My mother sat there for like 20 minutes and everybody was looking, who is she?

01:42And obviously everybody knew that it was her mother.

01:45And then she said,

01:48This is after what? 19 years of career.

01:55I just sort of discovered I was funny.

01:58And I tried and I did not give up and I kept moving.

02:02My defense mechanism was humor.

02:20I think till about three years ago, she always wanted me to get back to her job.

02:24I think she is okay now.