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Movie poster for DEAW #7 Stand Up Comedy Show (2008)

DEAW #7 Stand Up Comedy Show

2008
3h 40m
Thai
Director: Udom Taephanich
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Overview

After a five-year break, Udom Taephanich shares hysterical stories about neighbors, fortune tellers and approaching his forties.

Cast

Reviews

2 min read

The silence is the bit

Most stand-up specials run on a clock I already know. Warm-up about airplane peanuts. Callbacks that escalate.

The lean into the mic and "You ever notice how...?" as if they're sharing a secret, not working a paying room. The 2008 special DEAW #7 Stand Up Comedy Show does not run on that clock. It feels like eavesdropping.

Udom Taephanich is the only performer. He occupies the stage. The camera stays close enough that the night feels intimate rather than loud.

No laugh track. No cutaways to a howling crowd. Udom, a stool, and the weight of his stories.

I waited for punchlines to snap into place. The joke was often the silence between them. This belongs to the DEAW series, a Thai tradition of solo performance.

Calling it solo still does not prepare you for how much this resembles a confession.

A dimly lit stage, a lone stool under a spotlight, the audience barely visible in the shadows

Buzz & Rumors

Public reports

Someone sold fake Deaw 7 tickets on Pantip. The real ones sat on the floor.

1 March 2008, Manager Online ran the bust. A woman had posted AL seats for 24 February, 19:00, 2,500 baht a pair, on Pantipmarket. Buyers transferred. The thread vanished. Police said she had been selling ghost goods for a year, notebooks, cameras, phones, and this show. About a hundred victims, more than 300,000 baht. One officer had already been conned into a coaster set. latestnetflix.com's view is that the tickets were for the comeback that had people sleeping in line.

DMC, writing in November 2007, sold the return as a four-year vacuum. Last laugh was Deaw 6, Tood Muke, 2003, 43 nights, a record. Then he went quiet in Chiang Mai, made art, did Loveaholic and Bus Lane, and a play, Chai Klang, mostly to prove he was still alive. Deaw 7, it said, was what you get when that silence ends. Converse as partner. Scala Cinema, Siam Square, 1 February to 2 March 2008. Weeknights at 19:00, weekends at 14:00 and 19:00, Mondays dark. DMC listed 38 performances. Wikipedia later tallied 41, 39 in Thailand and two in Sydney, plus a 7.5 in Chiang Mai that July. Floor tickets were 500 baht, carpet and a pillow. Top was 2,500. Thai Ticket Major from 1 December 2007. The English Wikipedia title card is One Stand Up Comedy 7, a 7-Eleven pun in Thai, Ran Seven Deaw.,

Netflix cut the shop gag and kept the hour.

The English synopsis skips the convenience-store joke. After a five-year break, it says, Udom Taephanich talks neighbors, fortune tellers, and turning forty. TV-MA, Thai audio, English and Thai subs, 3 hours 40 minutes. The ThaiStandupComedy channel still hosts a four-and-a-half-hour dump it calls his best work. Aging, hair, insomnia, seers, feng shui, death lists, ART, and a rap-lae bit that mocks tedious sermons. The PAL DVD on eThaiCD runs 272 minutes. The streamer is shorter. His brother Santi shot Candid Filming One Stand Up Comedy 7 and put it in Lido, four shows a day, a 90-minute making-of of the same month.,,,,

Khaosod English got the dump date from Netflix. 15 January 2021, all twelve existing Deaw tapes, English subs. Deaw 7 is the long one in that pile, the Scala floor-pillow month that a Pantip seller tried to fake, now sitting in the US catalog as of 14 January 2026. Pordee Panich produced. Udom wrote, directed, and stood there alone.,,

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