Fifty Fifty
Feb 22, 2007 in Media, Journalism & Entertainment, Random Reflections
When I was a kid, my parents had a PAL system TV and VCR on which they watched tapes of movies and television programs from India and Pakistan. Among the few programs they watched that I actually thought were good was Fifty Fifty, an Urdu language sketch comedy show from the 1980’s. Fifty Fifty aired back when PTV was the only channel on TV in Pakistan and didn’t broadcast 24 hours a day. I recently stumbled across some clips of this show on YouTube, and I must say, Fifty Fifty was not only good, it was light years ahead of its time. This show was sketch comedy at its finest, back when no one in Pakistan had heard of Saturday Night Live and MADtv was still at least ten years away. If you speak Urdu/Hindi or Punjabi, check it out (there are more clips in the ‘Related’ frame to the right of the video). I guarantee you’ll laugh. And not in a “man, this show is so poorly done, it’s funny” kind of way.