Desi Comedy Fest- Santa Clara Convention Center, Aug 12

Desi Comedy Fest is the largest annual South Asian comedy festival in America. Our vision is to showcase the funniest South Asian comedians and create a unique live comedy experience for the South Asian diaspora. Now in its 4th year, the 2017 edition presents 40 comedians of Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan descent. We also have comedians from various minority groups and the LGBTQ community. The comedians are raw, hilarious and some of the best in the business. The comedians this year come from all over USA, Canada, South Africa and India, and have been on Comedy Central, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, Stephen Colbert, Montreal Just for Laughs, have won competitions and performed on every habitable continent.

Day Three of the festival will be held on August 12th at the Santa Clara Convention Center. The Santa Clara Convention center serves as one of the largest theaters in Silicon Valley, with 262,000 square feet of space, built in 1986.

Lineup for August 12th, Saturday

Abhay Nadkarni (Desi Comedy Fest)
Armando Anto (Last Comic Standing)
Azhar Usman (CNN)
Fizaa Dosani (CBS)
Karmen Naidoo (Comedy Central)
Richard Sarvate (SF Punchline)
Saad Haroon (Conan)
Samson Koletkar (NPR)
Sumukh Torgalkar (MAD Magazine)

*Lineups are subject to change
Please be at the venue early.
Tickets are $40 online / $50 at the door.