Singapore's top female comedian tells us why her job isn't all that funny

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The camera pans, and a statuesque woman looks up with expressive eyes.

“My name is Sharul Channa, and no, I’m not a Malay boy. I’m an Indian woman with a Malay boy’s name,” she introduces herself in her signature opener, holding the silence in an amiable manner before flashing a warm smile.

With that, Sharul breaks the ice in the studio. Her flamboyance has a distancing effect – yet she baits the audience with what she has to say next.

Tall and elegant, with sculpted features, Sharul appears too poised to be a stand-up comic on first impression.

Yet it is the same funny girl who gamely – and boldly took on an invitation to perform her first comedy act in a bar eight years ago.

Her first (spontaneous) line was about her proximity to the front-row audience: “Wow, this is the first time a white man has been so close to my vagina.”

The amused crowd chortled – a triumphant moment when the then-theatre actor realised comedy was her calling.

“Being able to script, produce and act out my own show makes me happy,” she tells Her World.

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