"Sri-thanonchai" is Thailand's folklore about a chap who tricked everyone especially the authority to get what he wanted. The story is so famous as it represents the challenge of commoners to the rulers. Sri-thanonchai stories are in dark-comedy, parody, and sarcastic genres.
Prachatai blogged(in Thai) , (in English) the performance by Thee Lay Thee, a group of burmese comedians, at Chiang Mai University which I think is interesting. You can read the detail in the links.
Thee Lay Thee is like Sri-thanonchai in some sense. They represent a resentment of the Burmese commoners against the mil. govt.
No matter how effective it is, this kind of sentiment must go on.
Being Sri-thanonchai is the way.
P.s. Can anyone please add and describe Sri-thanonchai in Wikipedia?
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maybe you can ;)
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