A woman and her boyfriend who were charged two days ago over the controversial stand-up routine at a comedy club in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur, last month are resorting to crowdfunding to raise the total RM40,000 bail for their release from custody.

When contacted, lawyer R Sivaraj confirmed that Siti Nuramira Abdullah, 26, and Alexander Navin Vijayachandran, 38, were forced to use this method as...