A Singaporean stand-up comedian has been slammed by social media users for joking about the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.
Jocelyn Chia had joked that Malaysia is not able to visit Singapore because Malaysian “airplanes cannot fly”.
A video of Chia’s performance has gone viral on social media. She was performing at New York’s Comedy Cellar.
“My country, Singapore, after we gained independence from the British, we were a struggling little nation,” Chia started off saying.
In order to survive, we formed a union with a larger, more powerful country, Malaysia,” she continued.
“When my prime minister went on TV to announce that you guys had dumped us, he cried because he thought we were not going to survive without you.”
“But then, 40 years later, we became a first-world country. And you guys? Malaysia, what are you now? Still a developing country.”
Chia then joked about Malaysia attempting to rekindle ties with Singapore, and compared Malaysia to an ex-partner.
“Now Malaysia, you’re trying to come around like ‘hey Singapore, you’re looking good lah’,” she said.
“And we’re like ‘I know. But why haven’t you visited me in 40 years?’”
“And you’re like ‘I tried, but you know, my airplanes cannot fly’.” When the audience seemed to disapprove of the joke, Chia said “What, Malaysia Airlines going missing is not funny, huh?”
“Some jokes don’t land. This joke kills in Singapore,” she added.
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