Considering crawling the Internet has become a large part of our lockdown life, chances are you're familiar with Abish Mathew's Instagram live, Viva. On a good day, he is hitting it out of the park with his wisecracks, and on an admittedly bad day, he is playing dumb charades with his social media followers. Either way, his followers are in for a joyride. Besides Viva, Mathew has also developed the at-home edition of his popular chat show, Son of Abish. In conversation with mid-day, the comedian-host discusses adapting to the new normal as he juggles two shows.

Edited excerpts from the interview.