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TDP supporters disrupt Bengaluru comedy show, force comedian Sarat Uday to apologise for two-year-old jokes | Telugu News

TDP supporters disrupt Bengaluru comedy show, force comedian Sarat Uday to apologise for two-year-old jokes | Telugu News

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4 min readHyderabadApr 27, 2026 03:41 PM IST A stand-up comedy show by Hyderabad-based comedian Sarat Uday was cut short at a club in Koramangala on Saturday evening after a group of men claiming to be Telugu Desam Party supporters walked onto the stage, abused him, and demanded he chant party slogans in front of a paying audience. Sarat was performing a solo show at Ministry of Comedy when the disruption began within minutes of him taking the stage. Around 7 pm, a man from the audience walked up, and told the stand-up comedian, “I’m your fan, you do comedy very well. But in one show, you insulted our leader.” Before Sarat could respond, two more individuals joined the first man on stage. Within a short while, a group of five to six others had gathered near the stage as well, turning what began as a confrontation into something far more hostile. The objections stemmed from a video titled “Andhra Politics” Sarat Uday uploaded to YouTube in December 2024. It covered politicians from across the …

TDP supporters disrupt stand-up comedian Sarat Uday’s Bengaluru show over 2-year-old joke; CCTV footage leaked

TDP supporters disrupt stand-up comedian Sarat Uday’s Bengaluru show over 2-year-old joke; CCTV footage leaked

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Days after the arrest of two stand-up comedians arrested by the Andhra Pradesh police for their jokes on actor and Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan, supporters of the ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) disrupted stand-up comedian Sarat Uday Boddeda’s show in Bengaluru on Saturday and demanded an apology over a 2-year-old joke on Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his son, Minister Nara Lokesh. (Also Read: Who is stand-up comedian Anudeep Katikala? Detained by AP police for jokes on Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan and family) Sarat Uday’s Bengaluru show was disrupted over 2-year-old jokes on the TDP. TDP supporters disrupt stand-up comedy show Hyderabad-based stand-up comic Sarat was performing a solo show at Ministry of Comedy in Kormangala, Bengaluru, on Saturday, April 25. CCTV footage of what happened is now being widely circulated online. In the video, a man in the front row is seen walking onto the stage and interrupting the show. Soon, a few other men join him. At one point in the video, they reveal there are 10 of them. The timestamp on …

Andhra Police travels 1,000 km to detain the comedian for his ‘Tollywood Roast’ on Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan

Andhra Police travels 1,000 km to detain the comedian for his ‘Tollywood Roast’ on Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan

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3 min readHyderabadUpdated: Apr 15, 2026 05:39 PM IST The stand-up comedian who made jokes about Pawan Kalyan’s divorces, used a derogatory term while talking about Ram Charan, and brought Niharika Konidela’s failed marriage into a comedy set has been detained. Andhra Pradesh Police picked up Anudeep Katikala, three days after an FIR was filed against him at the Kakinada I Town police station on a complaint by Jana Sena Party functionary Bade Venkata Krishna. Who is Anudeep Katikala? Anudeep Katikala is a Hyderabad-based comedian, also the founder of the Silly South Comedy Club, a collective of Telugu stand-up comedians, and has been performing regularly across Hyderabad and Bengaluru. He also produced a special called The Tollywood Roast Show, with his own brief about it reading: “We’re going all out on Tollywood and we promise to spare none.” What did he say about Konidela family? The video that triggered all of this was framed, at least by Anudeep, as a conversation about feminism and the stigma around divorce. He started with Ram Charan. Using a …

Who is stand-up comedian Anudeep Katikala? Detained by AP police for jokes on Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan and family

Who is stand-up comedian Anudeep Katikala? Detained by AP police for jokes on Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan and family

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Jokes by stand-up comedian Anudeep Katikala during a recent set have landed him in legal trouble after backlash on social media. Despite posting an apology video, Kakinada police picked up the comedian in Prayagraj and detained him after a worker from Pawan Kalyan’s Jana Sena Party (JSP) filed an FIR. In his set, Anudeep had also cracked jokes on Niharika Konidela, Ram Charan, and other Tollywood celebrities. Anudeep Katikala received flak for cracking jokes on Pawan Kalyan and his family members. Anudeep Katikala detained by AP police The Wire reported that Anudeep was detained by the AP police around 7 PM on April 14. An FIR was registered against him at the Kakinada I Town police station at 1.15 PM on April 11. A written complaint was filed by 51-year-old Bade Venkata Krishna, who stated in the complaint that he served as a JSP worker since 2014 and was the Joint Secretary of the East Godavari District JSP since 2022. The complaint alleges that Anudeep targeted Pawan and his family members, damaging their reputation with …