Recent Burmese Jokes -- in Burmese --

Sketch of Burmese monks at hearing on religious freedom in DC -- copyright Kyi May Kaung

http://burmasitmone.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/to-say-young-sone-anyein-all-of-you-are-respected-heroes-of-burma/

One example: This is the time to donate Tho Thingan Robes.

-- You have it wrong, it's not "Tho Thingan" -- it's "Ma Tho Thingan." (Robes that last forever, don't go bad).

-- No, I meant Tho Thingan -- as we can't donate (the robes, because the monks all gone) the robes have gone bad (tho thwa te)

--- The comedians play "good cop, bad cop." One on far right says --

-- "I am afraid, I am afraid" and keeps walking out.

-- At beginning he says, "We agreed, didn't we? No sending metta (loving kindness.)"

-- In September, the monks walked around the city chanting the metta sutra and have been brutally repressed, with the arrests etc continuing.

-- We salute all these brave artists and the audience who supported them.

Sketch, notes and translation by Kyi May Kaung.