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New York Comedy Festival Presents American Born Desi Comics abdcs
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Comedy
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PAST EVENT
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Carolines on Broadway,New York, NY, United States
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Nov 12, 2017Sun , 07:30 PM GMT (-05:00)
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Alingon Mitra
- Comedy
- Alingon Mitra is a stand up comedian known for his tight jokes, original thoughts, and affable presence. Making his television debut on NBC's Last Comic Standing, Alingon finished first in the public vote 5 weeks in a row to win the comic comeback contest and perform on the finale. He has since been invited to do stand up on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Adam Devine's House Party on Comedy Central. In addition, he wrote for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Adam Ruins Everything. Alingon went on to be named one of the "New Faces of Comedy" at Montreal's Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. He also won both the Boston Comedy Festival and the "Funniest Comic in New England" contest in the same year. Alingon was a writer for the humor magazine The Harvard Lampoon and can now be found on Twitter, on Facebook, or in bed.
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Akaash Singh
- Comedy
- He earned his first television appearance in 2011. He was one of a small handful of comedians selected to be a panelist on MTV's "New Year's Bash 2011", making light of the celebrity news we all take too seriously.Then he piloted for a series with MTV Desi has been approved for a full season, and is set to begin in 2012. In 2013, He was chosen as a cast member on MTV2's "Wild N Out". In 2014, it was HBO's "The Leftovers", as well as MTV2's Guy Code. And more recently, he has just finished filming for the second season of MTV2's "Joking Off".
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Tushar Singh
- Comedy
- Tushar Singh was raised in Huntsville, Alabama with a strict Indian upbringing, a contradiction that set him up for years of awkwardness and an arsenal of stand-up comedy material. As a chubby kid and the only Indian in his grade in elementary school, Tushar recalls sticking out 'like a big brown thumb.' Still, he tried hard to fit in and eventually made friends with both rednecks and other 'Desis' in his community. Around his white peers he adopted a relaxed Southern personality, while at home he adhered to a traditional Indian family life and dealt with a strict intellectual father. He spoke Hindi with family, attended Indian conventions, and sat through his father's astrological readings on a weekly basis. It wasn't until Tushar went to college that he began to question some of the contradictions he'd been raised with. Aspects of Indian culture like the caste system, arranged marriage, sexism, and corruption didn't bode well with the progressive American ideology he'd come to embrace. These conflicts, as well as the death of his father, led Tushar to stand-up comedy, which he used to explore these issues on stage in a format he's always been comfortable with: making people laugh.
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KC Arora
- Comedy
- KC Arora is a New York-based comedian that should definitely be on your radar. His biting observational humor and sarcastic charm will have you doubled over with laughter at every show. When KC isn't performing across the U.S., you can find him hanging out in comedy clubs around New York City or Twitter (@KCGotIdeas).
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KC Arora
- Comedy
- KC Arora is a New York-based comedian that should definitely be on your radar. His biting observational humor and sarcastic charm will have you doubled over with laughter at every show. When KC isn't performing across the U.S., you can find him hanging out in comedy clubs around New York City .KC made his first national, non-court related TV appearance on Laughs on FOX in 2015, and has been on the rise ever since. After making almost a dozen appearances on Laughs on Fox, he was seen on SeeSo's New York's Funniest. TruTV's Late Night Snack and was a semi-finalist in NBC's Standup for Diversity. KC made it to the final four of Caroline's March Madness competition. KC was also part of the viral web series and advertisement campaign for Optimum's The UnMovers. Recently, his first full nationally televised comedy set for Gotham Comedy Live aired on AXS TV February 2017. His set on SeeSo's The Guest List aired on June 2017. He has been featured in several comedy festivals, including: Bridgetown Comedy Festival, Portland, OR, 2012 San Francisco Sketch Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2013 Hoboken Comedy Festival, Hoboken, NJ, 2013 Cape Fear Festival, Wilmington, NC, 2014 Scruffy City Festival, Knoxville, TN, 2014 Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2014 Hell Yes Fest, New Orleans, LA, 2014 Yonkers Comedy Festival, Yonkers, NY 2015 San Francisco Sketch Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2017 Skankfest Comedy Festival, Queens, NY, 2017 Harlem Arts Festival, Harlem, NY 2017
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