Audiences can be touchy too. Family jokes almost always fetch laughs. Yet comedienne Neeti Palta faced criticism about "denigrating" the family when she cracked a joke about corporal punishment; and comic Amit Tandon was called a sexist when he joked about his wife. In 2017, a Sikh lawyer petitioned the Supreme Court seeking a ban on jokes about the community. (The court refused, saying it could not "lay down moral guidelines" for citizens.)