{"id":55229,"date":"2023-05-18T01:28:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T16:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/17\/china-fines-comedy-firm-168m-over-standups-stray-dog-joke"},"modified":"2023-05-18T01:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T16:28:39","slug":"china-fines-comedy-firm-1-68m-over-standups-stray-dog-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55229","title":{"rendered":"China fines comedy firm \u00a31.68m over standup\u2019s stray dog joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian apologises after some critics said gag about dogs chasing a squirrel drew parallels with country\u2019s army<\/p>\n<p>One of China\u2019s leading comedy show companies has been fined \u00a31.68m after a joke by one of its comedians at a standup show in Beijing about stray dogs went viral over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In his routine, Li Haoshi, known by the stage name House, told of watching two stray dogs he had adopted chase a squirrel. The phrase that came to mind, he said, was: \u201cFight well, win the battle\u201d \u2013 a punchline based on an eight-character slogan that is associated with China\u2019s People\u2019s Liberation Army.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/17\/china-fines-comedy-firm-168m-over-standups-stray-dog-joke\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian apologises after some critics said gag about dogs chasing a squirrel drew parallels with country\u2019s armyOne of China\u2019s leading comedy show companies has been fined \u00a31.68m after a joke by one of its comedians at a standup show in Beijing about s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1802,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-comedy","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55230,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55229\/revisions\/55230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}