“I can do anything to make my followers laugh,” says Puneet Kumar aka Puneet Superstar, about the time he got three stitches on his forehead after he broke a matka (clay pot) on his head while making a video.
Meet the Delhi-based TikTok sensation, whose style of comedy is strange—absurd, perhaps? His videos are profane. They seem to revolt against the strictures of daily life. Like the matka he broke on his head, in other videos, he smears his face with toothpaste, with the soundtrack sometimes carrying 1990s indie pop, sometimes just his “eerie voice”. Unlike other content creators, he doesn’t intend any meaning in his videos, though his content is consistent in its absurdity. For instance, he makes videos wishing birthdays.