Hari Karthikeya Kondabolu was born on October 21,1982 and is an American stand-up comedian and writer.
23 Facts About Hari Kondabolu
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Hari Kondabolu's comedy covers subjects such as race, inequity, and Indian stereotypes.
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Hari Kondabolu was a writer for Totally Biased with W Kamau Bell and the creator of the 2017 documentary film The Problem with Apu.
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Hari Kondabolu's mother was previously a physician in India, and both parents became the heads of New York area medical labs.
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Ravi Hari Kondabolu had immigrated to the United States in 1978.
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Hari Kondabolu attended public schools in Queens: PS 69 in Jackson Heights, PS 115 in Floral Park, MS 172 in Floral Park, and Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, where he graduated in 2000.
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Hari Kondabolu is the older brother of Ashok Hari Kondabolu, who is a former member of the group Das Racist.
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Hari Kondabolu continued performing standup when he attended Bowdoin College; he called his years at Bowdoin "incredibly formative" and continues to spend part of every year in Maine.
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Later, Kondabolu filmed "Hari Kondabolu: Warn Your Relatives" in Seattle.
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Hari Kondabolu has since made numerous television appearances as a stand-up comic.
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Hari Kondabolu has made several appearances on Comedy Central, including a 2008 episode of Live at Gotham, three episodes of John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show in 2010 and 2012, and most prominently, his own episode of Comedy Central Presents which aired on February 11,2011.
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Hari Kondabolu has appeared a number of times on British television, including on Russell Howard's Good News in 2011 and 8 out of 10 Cats in 2012.
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Hari Kondabolu has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was a featured comedian for the US State Department-sponsored "Make Chai Not War" comedy showcase in India in 2012.
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Since 2017, Hari Kondabolu has served as a panelist on the NPR comedy news quiz Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
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Hari Kondabolu has spoken about the challenges of dealing with white fragility when addressing race in his comedy.
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Hari Kondabolu has addressed a variety of other social subjects, such as the LGBT community.
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Hari Kondabolu is a co-host of the podcast Politically Re-Active with Bell, which debuted in June 2016.
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Hari Kondabolu debuted as a rotating host on The Bugle alongside Andy Zaltzman in the fall of 2016 after the departure of John Oliver.
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Hari Kondabolu wrote and starred in Zia Mohajerjasbi's 2007 short film Manoj, which has played in comedy and film festivals around the world, including the Just for Laughs Festivals in Montreal and Chicago, and which mocks comedians who broadly exploit their ethnic backgrounds for their material.
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In Manoj, Hari Kondabolu portrays both Manoj, a fictional Indian immigrant comic who plays to white audiences by repeating their stereotypes of South Asians, and an Indian-American who is critical of Manoj's approach.
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Hari Kondabolu portrayed "Crossword Businessman" in the 2009 film All About Steve, a movie he mocks in Mainstream American Comic.
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Hari Kondabolu played a supporting role in the 2016 film Five Nights in Maine, although none of his scenes were included in the final 75-minute cut of the film.
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Hari Kondabolu is the lead, creator, and executive director of The Problem with Apu, a documentary about the character Apu from The Simpsons that premiered in November 2017 on TruTV.