You have to hand it to the duo. Barkat Ali and Uzmi are two comedians who not many give enough credit for introducing the kind of comedy that is unabashed and in-your-face without being irreverent. The pair does a programme titled The Most Respectable Show (which in itself is brilliant fun-poking at themselves) in which the two appear as co-hosts with a girl who is there ostensibly as the saner element. The format is such that every week two celebrities turn up as guests and the girl asks them relevant questions, while Barkat and Uzmi twist her queries into something outlandish, constantly making fun of the girl and occasionally misinterpreting (deliberately) the guests’ answers in a way that it cracks up the guests. The English language that Barkat A tries to prove his mastery over is the main attraction of TMRS. He doesn’t give two hoots about what he’s saying and carries on with his pigeon English fluently, sometimes making the guests completely flummoxed.

One example of their talent was witnessed when they recently interviewed cricketer Shoaib Malik and his wife tennis star Sania Mirza. Now you could say that Shoaib M is from Pakistan so he totally got the duo’s jibes. However, it seemed it was the otherwise stern-faced Sania M who enjoyed being on the show more and kept smiling and giggling intermittently throughout.

She didn’t even mind some of the cutting remarks that Barkat A and Uzmi made. Good going dudes! Keep’em smiling!