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Movie poster for DEAW #6 Stand Up Comedy Show (2003)

DEAW #6 Stand Up Comedy Show

2003
2h 35m
Thai
Director: Udom Taephanich
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Overview

Udom Taephanich offers wry insights on politics, pop culture and mother-son relationship — plus a surprise announcement.

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2 min read

The tape is missing. The stage is not.

I had never heard of DEAW #6 before I went looking, and I still have not seen it. 2003, Thailand, a stand-up scene that was still arguing for itself. Udom Taephanich is the name on the night. The listing talks as if he were building the stage while he told the jokes.

I cannot test that against a performance. There is no set I can play, no bit to pause, no crowd clip that survived long enough to become a meme. What remains is the fact of a Thai comedian standing alone under lights and treating that as a normal job.

That gap is annoying. It is also what live comedy is. A laugh happens, then the air takes it. Udom's career did not vanish with the tape. Later DEAW shows landed on Netflix, smoother, easier to clip. Number 6 is the earlier, rougher slot, when a room was still deciding whether this counted as work.

A dimly lit stage with a single microphone stand, the audience blurred in the foreground

Buzz & Rumors

Public reports

Forty-three nights. Then five years of quiet.

Wikipedia's Deaw table hides halls on some rows, but the sixth show is clean on dates and volume. One Stand Up Comedy 6, subtitle Tood Muke, squid butt in Thai, the same name he later put on a book. 1 October to 12 November 2003. Forty-three performances, the densest run on the list. latestnetflix.com's view is that tMDB logs the recording at 2 hours 35 minutes, Thai original, Udom Taephanich as director and the only billed self.Netflix's English card still sells wry insights on politics, pop culture, and mother-son relationships, plus a surprise announcement it never names.,,

He was already a national name. The Nation's 1999 special issue had put him among 100 people of the century in performing arts. Deaw 5 had filled the Scala Cinema for 30 nights in October 2002. Then this grind, six weeks of almost nightly dates, produced by his company Pordee Panich. Sanook, walking the catalog in 2024, pulled the bit that still dates the tape. The 1900 premium hotline. Fortune-telling, games, prize draws on one number. Udom's version is sitting at home, bored, punching 1900, then waiting through a goddess named Ratchana who wants four for gypsy cards, five for crystal ball, seven, eight, nine, before you ever get a fortune. Anyone who lived through those ads knows the hold music. That is the gossip. A 2003 room laughing at a phone tree.,

Deaw 7 did not arrive until 1 February 2008. Four years and a change. Wikipedia lists 41 nights that time, 39 in Thailand and two in Sydney. Whatever he announced on the sixth tape, the calendar is the tell. Netflix Thailand dumped all twelve existing Deaw recordings with English subs on 15 January 2021. Khaosod English got the date from the company and called the punchlines an informal archive of 1990s Thailand. Deaw 6 is the 2003 disc in that dump. ThaiStandupComedy had already posted the full Tood Muke recording on YouTube in July 2015. Nearly three hours. Millions of views. The US catalog later filed the same file as DEAW #6 Stand Up Comedy Show, title 81344243, TV-MA, Thai audio, English and Thai subs. NewOnNetflix USA logged the American add for 14 January 2026.,,,,

Do not wait for the homepage to spoil the announcement. Twenty-three years later it is still using the tease as catalog copy, while the man who wrote, directed, and performed the night kept numbering Deaws through a 2024 special that drew a lese-majeste complaint. That later fight is not this tape. This tape is the 1900 bit, the 43-night grind, and a surprise Netflix still refuses to print.,

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