Watch: Comedian Sunil Pal's mind-boggling homophobic rant about Indian stand-up comedy

Tanmay Bhat’s Snapchat video mocking Sachin Tendulkar and Lata Mangeshkar seems to have opened up the floodgates. We've seen denizens of Bollywood speak about respect, political parties threatening violence and court cases, the funny side of a popular news anchor and CBFC chief Pahlaj Nihalani demanding Bhat be arrested. 

And now we're seeing the ugly side of a popular comedian who went on a preposterous homophobic rant about modern stand-up comedy.  Sunil Pal, best known as the 2005 winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge went on an epic rant about the current stand-up comedy scene in India on a news channel.He states that modern stand-up comedy consists of speaking about vulgar things in front of the audience, mocking girls and guys in, and half the crowd consists of ‘gays and lesbians’, who enjoy the comedy because they want to ‘dirty the world and society’.

Sunil Pal explaining Indian Standup Comedy Scene. pic.twitter.com/Oejz6qTimu

— Dattaprasad Godbole (@Godboledygook) May 31, 2016

Here's how Twitter reacted to the video:

I am offended by grown men in bloody baseball hats when indoors. Dude this is like wearing sunglasses in the dark. https://t.co/X7bmqiU9fu

— radhika vaz (@radvaz) May 31, 2016

Wow. No one will outrage on this I guess. https://t.co/rhfQvsWB10

— Karan Talwar (@BollywoodGandu) May 31, 2016

This is why I don't do any audience interaction. https://t.co/4W9VZGxxUi

— Angad Singh Ranyal (@PiratedSardar) May 31, 2016

And THIS won't cause us outrage. Actually you know what, Sunil Pal, you don't matter to society. https://t.co/P9ao2npe30

— Rohan Vyavaharkar (@vyavaharkar) May 31, 2016

To think that we would venerate this lot in our liberal fever dream. At least this broke us out of our naivete. https://t.co/99NZRGLBdl

— Utsav Chakraborty (@Shockraborty) May 31, 2016

When did this guy escape the zoo? #sunilpal https://t.co/UmqgKBR0RZ

— Pritish Nandy (@PritishNandy) May 31, 2016

Ok. I am done with Twitter for the day. https://t.co/KsP4rLzJ62

— Suketu Talekar (@suketutalekar) May 31, 2016

This is what we are showing on national TV. Homophobia. And that's not shameful at all? https://t.co/NCXyB8lRBT

— Neha Ramneek Kapoor (@PWNeha) May 31, 2016

Besides the AWFUL jibe at our LGBTQ friends I found it hilarious that he reduced crowdwork to "lakdi ko chedte hain" https://t.co/fvGhs7ilUc

— Daniel Fernandes (@absolutelydanny) May 31, 2016

Holy Mother of God... https://t.co/v0NepGmqFw

— Kushan Mitra (@kushanmitra) May 31, 2016

no outrage over insulting LGBTQ communities AND comedians both? https://t.co/mUURp5InUP

— Nish De Gea (@RootKanal) May 31, 2016

Sunil Pal used to be funny man#WhatHappened
"adhe se jyada gay/lesbian baithe hai.. unko toh samaj ganda karna hai" https://t.co/DmA9z95Rxs

— Anuj Deshpande (@anujdeshpandey) May 31, 2016

Excellent research done by Sunil Pal on Indian comedy scene, gays and lesbians, how people work, among other things. https://t.co/PswX7eI3xG

— Adhiraj Singh (@UudBilawManus) May 31, 2016

My God. Sunil Pal is just a disgusting asshole. Just wait till what he says at the end. https://t.co/AyiK5bUl3i

— Sahil Shah (@SahilBulla) May 31, 2016

Sunil pal proves how dirty from inside are these supposedly 'clean comics'

— Gabbbar (@GabbbarSingh) May 31, 2016