YouTube Vs. Gandhi In Death Match

A New York-based clown-turned-stand-up-comedian-slash-yoga-mime posted a video of himself on YouTube impersonating Gandhi doing a pole dance. Stop laughing. India doesn't think it's funny, and the government has threatened to take action against YouTube if the video isn't removed. The comedian is The video has also spurred over 580 comments, most of which are arguing the finer points of Gandhi's charmed life, whether he was a pedophile, or biased toward Hindus - you know, same stuff, different part of the Internet. But Prasad, on his blog, says it's not really him in the video wearing a thong diaper and gold stripper-tassels: I am not playing Mahatma Gandhi, I am playing a CHARACTER who is playing Gandhiji. I am playing a fool who thinks it would be a good idea to dress up like Gandhi and do this dance. In reality, I'm making fun of myself. It doesn't matter if it's Prasad in the video or just a guy that looks like Prasad looking like Gandhi, according to Indian officials. The video itself is an "assault on the dignity of the father of the nation," and they are demanding a profound apology from the Indian TV channels that aired the video. In Gandhi's hometown, university students disrupted a train with a Gandhi-style sit-in protest. But the prize for loaded pro-Gandhi journalistic sentence formation (and, by default, anti-Prasad) goes to Gandhi 2 trailer, which the Khaleej Times has confused with Prasad's video. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: