Thursday, April 16, 2009

Comedy performance

I liked the performance a lot and I found it very entertaining. The comedian's whole performance was based on her family life and how she was the only daughter born in America and was confused on what religion she believed in. She said that her mother later explained to her daughters that her father was set on doing two things when first coming to America. First, he got the family an apartment and second, he took the family to McDonalds. VG said that her mother was surprised in why her father wanted to eat so many big macs when their family was supposed to be religiously vegetarian. VG's father did not let his wife know until they arrived in America that he tricked her and he did not really 'believe' in any God or gods. However later, VG says her mother uses the excuse that their culture does not allow believers to eat cow, and McDonalds uses bull. For the first six months her mother only ate french fries from McDonalds and then worked her way into being a big mac-aholic. VG said that every year her family would visit India and on the way they would stop at many different countries. One of the only statements that her father had to make sure he knew in different languages was "Where is McDonalds?". She goes on to explain that her father was always tricking her because she was his baby and also probably because she was the only daughter born in America. The first day VG attended kindergarten, she was woken up by her father who said that he was taking her to Toys r Us and buying her the Malibu Barbie. Instead, they went to kindergarten and at the end of the school day VG refused to go back but her father said 'Focus on Calculus'. She continues talking about her father as a very interesting, smart man. She says that the only thing the man believed in was education and he did have a lot of education. He was completely the opposite of her mother who was very superstitious and he believed that he had nine lives just like a cat and his family believed he did too because of his health history. However, her mother was very superstitious and she knew all of the 'good and bad days' of the Hindu calendar and made her schedule around that calendar. VG told a story that her mother believed in which was that her cousin had a baby with the head of a cat for the reason that when she was pregnant she kicked a cat. So when her husband was close to dying on the Indian New Year, the family wanted to wait until midnight. However her father made his last statement that he was not superstitous by passing before midnight came. I think that VG and her family came to peace at his passing and they knew he went to be in a better place.

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