Twitter defends PM against Jimmy Fallon’s insensitive joke | The Express Tribune

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s little tussle with his headphones during the setup for an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin amused comedian Jimmy Fallon so much that he parodied the Pakistani prime minister’s antics on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Also added documentary video of Arai.

However, his “insensitive” and “bad taste” in humor did not go down well with social media users back in Pakistan and he criticized his inability to mock a political leader during the election of US President Donald Trump. cried for the rest. Twitteratis also highlighted how a 70-year-old Pakistani man struggling with technology got their attention but not the 33 million people affected by the devastating floods in the country.

The clip above is from Sharif’s meeting with Putin at the 22nd summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization last week, where after a few seconds of awkward fumbling with the equipment, the Pakistani prime minister called in a technical team to turn on his translation device. Help to fix. The latter waited patiently. However, seconds after fixing it, the earphone fell down and an embarrassed Sharif tried to catch it in his lap.

Fallon picked up on the viral video on his show and quipped, “That guy’s the leader of 220 million people.”

One outraged tweep mocked the comedian’s silence on the climate disaster and wrote, “Hey Jimmy Fallon, have you talked about the devastating floods that devastated Pakistan?” A nation of 220 million people” is devastated by climate change because of your country’s greed. And wasteful spending.

Another found it “tone-deaf” with maddened laughter. He tweeted, “It’s disgusting that Jimmy Fallon chose to make fun of the 220 million people of Pakistan that was supposedly created after a US-instigated regime change, while suffering from devastating floods. And completely ignore the suffering caused by climate change.Tone deaf?

Of course, the conversation can’t go on without highlighting how Fallon’s behavior stems from his “white supremacy.” Even locals who are not fans of Sharif’s leadership came to his defense.

“I can’t believe we have to tweet in support of Shehbaz Sharif to condemn Jimmy Fallon’s white supremacy. I am not a fan of Mr. Shehbaz and his political career but as we live in the 21st century and Jimmy Darling, you should stop looking down on your former colonies,” read one tweet.

Another said how terrible the timing of the prank was. “It is unusually harsh and in bad taste, for Jimmy Fallon to mock the Prime Minister of a country that is suffering from the worst natural disaster in its history. A comedian is about his time and the joke falls horribly flat. Use your big platform to improve.

Heavy on the sarcasm, one social media user called Fallon “brave,” mocking the second prime minister he lived to see Trump rule. “Jimmy Fallon is so brave to make fun of Shehbaz Sharif for someone whose president was literally Trump,” read the tweet.

Another user pointed out how “human” it is to be clumsy with a wire. “It could happen to anyone, it’s just a human thing, you can only expect a robot to be perfect. Jimmy Fallon really needs better content writers.

For some, the joke drew a clear line between insult and humor.

“It is ironic that Trump has the audacity to troll Shehbaz Sharif as his President-elect. All talk shows have technicians fix the guests’ mics. This is technical work. She kindly asked for help and there was nothing shameful about that clip, Jimmy,” read one tweet, while another said he was “unfollowing everyone” on his timeline who thought “Shehbaz Sharif’s public shaming on the Jimmy Fallon show is ridiculous.”

Concluding on a lighter note, the only thing that mattered to this user was what Fallon joked about. “Listen, I don’t care about Shahbaz Sharif or nationalism, but if any man is going to make fun of my country, it won’t be Jimmy Fallon.”