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Shirish Kunder’s one-liners are still going strong on Twitter

The last time you heard of Shirish Kunder’s humour was when it got him slapped by Shah Rukh Khan. And it turned out to be a good thing because it led to Khan’s rapprochement with Kunder’s wife Farah. Kunder’s one-liners are still going strong on Twitter, though. On the Tehelka sexual assault, Kunder tweeted: ‘Robert De Niro’s statement to Goa Police: “You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me”.’ It was an attempt to play on the fact that the junior journalist who was assaulted had been chaperoning De Niro at a Tehelka event when she was assaulted by Editor Tarun Tejpal. Kunder also had a few tweets about the Chess Championship: ‘It’s very racist of chess to always let white play first. Alternately, black must be allowed to play first’; ‘Chess is probably the only sport where the commentators get more tired than the players’.

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