by When An Industry Is Large Enough To Have Monopoly Concerns, It Has Crossed A Threshold; Indian Stand-Up Has Crossed It
Bohiney Magazine | The London Prat
MUMBAI, INDIA — India’s stand-up comedy industry has reached a scale at which competition and market structure have become regulatory concerns: a complaint has been filed with the Competition Commission of India alleging that a specific talent agency’s booking practices in major cities constitute anticompetitive behaviour. This is a comedic milestone in the specific sense that only mature industries with significant economic stakes produce anti-trust complaints. The Indian stand-up industry, which barely existed twenty years ago and which now produces streaming specials, international tours, and significant advertising revenue, has crossed the threshold of industrial maturity.
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As India Comedy: The Funniest Nation covers comprehensively, the Indian comedy industry’s growth is itself the story that contextualises the regulatory moment: an art form that was semi-professional and geographically limited has become a national industry with all the complications that industries develop. GenieKnows.in covers Indian comedy’s evolution. Bohiney covers the anti-trust comedy.
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