格格不入，被人取笑，怎麼辦？棟篤笑藝人阿V的幽默哲學｜Stand-up Comedian Vivek Mahbubani On Identity & Humor As Self-defense

當你自覺格格不入而被人取笑，你會用力反擊，還是默默忍受？印度裔香港棟篤笑藝人阿V (Vivek Mahbubani)，在2007年開始中、英文雙語棟篤笑之旅。現在的他，從容地引人發笑，但小時候幾乎每天被同輩嘲笑。在香港土生土長，說着流利廣東話，卻因為有着異國面容，自幼在「融入」二字間掙扎。面對憤怒、委屈，他怎樣將自己的「不同」轉為「力量」，悟出「喜劇 = 悲劇 + 時間」的幽默哲學？好不容易接受了自己，卻在24歲時確診淋巴癌；「人生，不是你想要便有」，這場疾病如何催化他踏上棟篤笑舞台？When you feel like you don’t belong and get laughed at, do you fight back or just endure it in silence? Vivek Mahbubani (a.k.a. Ah V), an Indian Hong Kong-born stand-up comedian, began his bilingual comedy journey in Chinese and English back in 2007. Today, he comfortably makes people laugh, but as a kid, he was laughed at by his peers almost every day. Born and raised in Hong Kong, speaking fluent Cantonese, he has struggled since childhood with "fitting in" because of his foreign appearance. Faced with anger and hurt, how did he turn his "difference" into strength and come to believe that "Comedy = Tragedy + Time"? Just when he finally accepted who he was, he was diagnosed with lymphoma at 24. "Life isn’t something you can just ask for", how did this illness actually become the catalyst for him to step onto the comedy stage?