The Moustache Brothers are not just a traditional a-nyeint pwe (vaudeville folk opera with dance, music, and jokes)…they are artists brave enough to speak out in a country where a joke against the government can get you jailed. Lu Paw, the English speaker of the three, provides some tongue-in-cheek humour about Burma and gave permission for this footage to be made public. Lu Paw’s brother, Par Par Lay was spoken about in the Hugh Grant film “About A Boy”. In 1996, he and cousin Lu Zaw were sentenced to seven years hard labour for telling jokes about Burma’s generals at an Independence Day celebration at Aung San Suu Kyi’s compound in Yangon.

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