Barbed humor is Richard Glazer Danay's device for critiquing the dominant culture's cavalier attitudes toward Indian stereotypes.
One sketch was designed to display all Indian stereotypes in one scene.
The film pokes fun at traditional Indian stereotypes, as well as at Bollywood (it features several Bollywood-style song-and-dance numbers).
They mock Indian stereotypes, and they embrace them.
Some have the broad faces, prominent cheekbones and straight dark hair of the Indian stereotype.
Some sketches reversed the roles to view the British from an Indian perspective, and others poked fun at Indian stereotypes.
He utilizes several Indian stereotypes, typically ones depicting Indians as mystical, such as the ability to use magic carpets and teleporting.
His humor often centers on social issues such as poverty, racism, and a rejection of Indian stereotypes seen in media.
Archambault bristles at an image that seems born of an Indian stereotype.
Lighttower occasionally plays on the Indian stereotype, talking in native pidgin and asking if he could go home to "the reservation."