Tuesday Night Live Comedy presents 4th Annual Desi Comedy Fest

Tuesday Night Live Comedy presents the 4th Annual Desi Comedy Fest, the largest South Asian comedy festival in America, with featured comedians Abhay Nadkarni, Arish Singh, JR De Guzman, Karinda Dobbins, Pallavi Gunalan, Richard Sarvate, Sammy Obeid, and Zahid Dewji.

Join us every Tuesday for an unforgettable belly-splitting evening of comedy! Each week we showcase 5-7 different comedians at the top of their game. Tuesday Night Live Comedy features fresh talent on the rise, alongside veteran comics from around the world. Our theatre-style stage combined with an intimate comedy club atmosphere provides a truly unique and memorable experience. Laughter is the best medicine and we guarantee you will be laughing and smiling all week! Come see what the fun is all about!

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Desi Comedy Fest is the largest South Asian comedy festival in America with a mission to showcase the funniest South Asian comedians and create a unique live experience for the South Asian diaspora. Now in its 4th year, the 2017 edition presents 40 comedians from diverse backgrounds - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran, Fiji; Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jewish, Agnostic, Atheist; Male, Female, Straight, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual. The comedians bring to stage their unapologetic and unabashed experiences, observations and opinions.

MEET THE COMEDIANS

Abhay Nadkarni

Abhay moved from South-India to South Central Los Angeles for grad school. "But Why?" would be an obvious reaction. Maybe he had a death wish or maybe he wanted to see if Training Day was legit or maybe USC was the only school willing to give him an education. Dodging bullets en-route to grad school armed him with plenty of stories and stand up was his only catharsis for combating culture shock. His act is an eclectic mix of his experience as an immigrant in the US.

Creator/Producer/Performer - Desi Comedy Fest
SF Sketchfest Comedy Festival

Arish Singh

Arish Singh is a Chicago-based comedian who has opened for national acts like Tim Heidecker (Tim & Eric), Hasan Minhaj (The Daily Show) and W. Kamau Bell (Totally Biased). Singh has been featured in the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, the Chicago Comedy Exposition, and the Crom Comedy Festival. In Chicago, Singh co-produces SolidHilarity, a comedy show that raises money for activists and labor unions, is a producer for Woke-Up Stand-Up, and is a contributing writer for the progressibe talk show Good Evening with Pat Whalen.

Bridgetown Comedy Festival 2017
Chicago's Comedians You Should Know

JR De Guzman

Born in the Philippines and raised in California, JR De Guzman began performing comedy while working as a music teacher, which he quickly learned just meant teaching Taylor Swift songs to teenagers. He has entertained all over the world, having performed for Stand-Up Tokyo and ROR Comedy in Japan, the Jokers Ball in Indonesia, the Badaboom Comedy Series in Amsterdam, the Edmonton Comedy Festival, and countless other international shows. Combining music and comedy, JR serenades the audience into laughter with songs, jokes, and stories of traveling the world, life after college, and family. He has shared the stage with Tim Allen, Margaret Cho, Daniel Tosh, Jerrod Carmichael, Iliza Shlesinger, and more. Catch him on Coming to the Stage Season 2 on Hulu, Comedy Central's Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City, and MTV's Acting Out.

#1 Comedy Album on iTunes
Stand-Up NBC 2016 Winner

Karinda Dobbins

Motor City native Karinda Dobbins was born into a politically active family of skilled storytellers and sharp wits. Dobbins moved from Michigan to California’s Bay Area and responding to repeated dares from a girlfriend who challenged her to try making the crowd laugh at an open mic, Karinda finally took the stage at Woody’s Café. To date, she has appeared at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival; featured at Bay Area comedy clubs the Punch Line and Cobb’s; opened for Hari Kondabolu, Trevor Noah and toured with W. Kamau Bell. Karinda made her primetime national television debut on Coast-to-Coast Episode 1 on NickMom Night Out.

Opened for Trevor Noah
Nickleodeon

Pallavi Gunalan

Pallavi is an Indian American comedian from Los Angeles. She has performd all over USA & India, and also runs her own weekly mic/show - Mom Party at Next Stage Theater

Kill Tony Podcast
Canvas Laugh Club

Richard Sarvate

Richard Sarvate is a San Francisco based comedian with an alternative sense of humor. He is Indian, though his last name was butchered during an immigration debacle. He is a programmer by day and also a programmer by night. But he also finds time to talk about weird stuff on stages. His act consists of quirky observations, impressions, and surreal one-man sketches.

SF Sketchfest
Desi Comedy Fest

Sammy Obeid

Lebanese-Palestnian-Syrian-Italian American born in Oakland California Sammy Obeid is best known for setting a world record of performing stand up comedy 1,001 nights in a row. The nearly 3 year long streak, which ended with an appearance on TBS’s Conan, was chronicled by both The New York Times and Time Magazine. Recently a semifinalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing, Sammy was invited to be one of the first ever comedians to perform on the Van’s Warped Tour in 2015, following an extensive college tour, in which he was voted "Fastest Rising Star” of 2014 in Campus Activities Magazine.

Conan
Last Comic Standing

Zahid Dewji

Zahid Dewji is a stand-up comic of East African/Indian descent currently residing in Houston, Texas. Zahid actively features in clubs around Texas and is the current host of the popular monthly showcase BAD IDEA and producer of the weekly $2 Bill Show at The Secret Group. In addition, Zahid has been on Oddball Comedy Fest (Houston), Hell Yes! Fest, Come and Take It Comedy Festival, & Houston Whatever Fest and has shared the stage with great acts like Mark Normand, Myq Kaplan, Eric Andre, & Tom Segura.

Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival
Funniest in Houston 2016 Finalist