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DMK Ecosystem Targets Stand-Up Comic Manoj Prabhakar After His Jokes On Udhayanidhi Stalin Go Viral, ‘Melting Point’ Saravanan Suffers Meltdown

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The Commune
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Stand-up comic Manoj Prabakar has found himself at the centre of an online backlash following clips from his recent political comedy set, with social media reactions spiralling beyond criticism of his material into sharp, often personal attacks invoking caste identities.

The controversy began after excerpts of Prabakar’s performance, which included jokes targeting political figures such as Udhayanidhi Stalin, circulated widely online. While some viewers praised his willingness to take on multiple political figures, a section of users said the jokes did not land and criticised the set as unfunny or forced.

In the clipping that is being shared on social media, Manoj Prabakar goes on to roast everyone in power, from Narendra Modi to MK Stalin to Udhayanidhi, and on the smug self‑image of Tamil Nadu itself. He tears into PM Modi’s 12 years in office, compares our gut to a stomach that has eaten only Gujarati food and is desperate even for “Italian Rahul,” and openly jokes about violence against minorities. He calls Tamil Nadu “UP–Bihar with more graduates,” nails our casual racism with the “vadakkan = N‑word” riff, and ridicules Periyar fanatics for stealing credit like Dhoni fanboys. Then he goes straight for the core of Dravidian power: DMK–AIADMK as the same corporate product, DMK as the “Aranmanai” dynasty franchise, and a state where you can become anything “except deputy chief minister” because that slot is reserved for the family.

That is the context in which the Udhayanidhi portion lands. Manoj explicitly says he likes DMK’s stated ideology on equality, but then rips into the entitlement of a son whose life was “settled” at tenth standard, whose “capacitor” career is built on constantly “taking charge,” whose GST jokes end with “SGST is going to his pocket,” and whose easiest constituency win is in a place that has voted DMK forever. It isn’t a Sanghi caricature; it’s an insider’s disappointment. He even underlines that he is from a DMK family, that his father is an “honest DMK supporter” who has supported “the entire DMK family tree,” and that he himself leans left, not right.

And yet, when this set hits X, the people baying for his blood are not BJP bhakts but the very Dravidianists he is broadly aligned with. The attack line is revealing: they don’t say, “your politics is wrong,” they say, “your audience is Mylapore maamis,” “this is a Nanganallur uncle rant,” “Tamil comics are Brahmin f***ers,” “privileged engineering graduates.” The villain they need is not “comic who bombed,” but “imagined Brahmin ecosystem” that supposedly owns him.

In other words, if Manoj is going after the ecosystem; the DMK ecosystem responds or rather bullies him by going after Brahmins too.

Anyway, setting that aside for a moment. Let us also take a look at the remarks made to bully Prabakar for attacking the DMK.

DMK’s official spokesperson, who is known by the moniker ‘Melting Point’ Saravanan too targeted him for roasting Udhayanidhi Stalin.

The set itself literally anticipates this: Manoj earlier complains that extreme left‑wing commenters keep calling Chennai comics “elite” and even branded him Brahmin despite him never mentioning his caste, and he jokes that if they want that tag so badly, they can go attack comics who have actually built their act around caste identity. He spells out that he is a left-winger himself, supposedly from a family of DMK supporters/Periyar admirers and still gets treated as suspect. The live‑show audience laughs; Dravidianist social media then proceeds to prove his point in real time.

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