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Where Can Singaporeans Relax? At the Comedy Club
In a city-state that's wary of talk about race and religion, a burgeoning stand-up scene offers a welcome respite.
Orion Perez hails from the Philippines, but you wouldn't know it from his stand-up routine at the Comedy Masala club in Singapore.
Perez, an IT consultant in the city-state who moonlights as a comedian, has been called the "Master of Accents" and can skillfully present as Malaysian, Chinese, Singaporean, and other nationalities—so much so that audience members from those countries are unable to guess his real background.