Vidura: “To do stand-up in Sri Lanka, I had to send my script to a censorship board. I sent a drama written by ChatGPT just to get it approved”

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Vidura: “To do stand-up in Sri Lanka, I had to send my script to a censorship board. I sent a drama written by ChatGPT just to get it approved”

A joke he made about Portugal went viral on social media. Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa satirised the fact that we are still “relatively poor”, despite having colonised Sri Lanka, the country where the comedian was born. He is presenting a new show in Lisbon later this month and, on “Humor À Primeira Vista” with Gustavo Carvalho, he explains how he bypassed the censorship board when he returned to Sri Lanka to perform stand-up comedy.

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