Samay Raina takes potshots at India's Got Latent row, accepts he is ‘bad at editing stuff out,' answers if his show will return. Watch
Comedian Samay Raina has definitely seen better days in his career, with everything that happened with his YouTube show India's Got Latent. Several court cases, threats, and rounds of bashing on the internet; Raina seems to be staging a comeback. He recently appeared on a promotional video with podcaster Raj Shamani for a brand that manufactures products around men's sexual health.
Shamani spoke to him about a possible return of India's Got Latent, his recent troubles and how he is bad at 'editing out stuff'. Samay kept on plugging the different products of the brand in every answer.
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The video opens with Raj welcoming Samay on his podcast and asking him, 'Through your journey, after seeing so many lows, what exactly did you learn from it?' Raina responds, 'Life has both highs and lows; I have realised that. You should always be bold regardless of what happens, but even boldness has a limit.' Just when it looks like Samay is giving a serious answer, he proceeds to advertise the company's condoms. Samay made a reference to the whole controversy regarding his dark humour and said, 'Once something gets released out in the world, it never comes back.'
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Raj doubles down on his question and asks him again, 'But what did you learn?' To which Samay again starts his story in a similar manner, again hinting at all that happened in the past while building up for another product. Shamani then asks whether India's Got Latent will be making a comeback and Samay responds, 'That only time will tell, and good things take time. It's time that is the strongest and the most important.' At this point of the answer, Raj looks defeated because he knows that Samay is in fact not talking about the show but about a product. Samay ends it by making fun of Raj and how, out of the two of them, Raj's life is currently going much better. Raj starts laughing and talks to people behind the camera to cut this segment out, and Samay says. 'That is exactly what I am unable to do: edit stuff out.'
Even though brands had started dropping influencers left and right after the India's Got Latent controversy, Samay seems to be fighting his way back. Apoorva Mukhija, a.k.a. The Rebel Kid, who also got roped into the whole Latent episode and received a lot of unwarranted flack, has started posting on social media again and even made appearances on podcasts to talk about everything that went down and what she and her family went through.
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