From class comedian to stage comic: Prashant Sahane loves making people laugh

'Mimicking the teachers was fun and my friends would gather around me as my audience,' said Prashant. Photo: The Star/Yap Chee Hong

When Prashant Sahane was a 12-year-old schoolboy, he was the class joker. He loved to while away any free time telling jokes to his classmates to elicit laughter. Of course, this was done when the teacher was not in the classroom.

During those carefree days, he would fool around in class, mimic­king his teachers. His classmates who crowded around him would laugh their hearts out. Some of them would ask him to repeat his acts, time and again.