Hari Kondabolu on Searching For His Reflection in Comedy

“I stood out like a sore thumb. Not even a sore thumb, just a brown thumb. I didn’t need to be sore. It was just that, that’s a perfectly fine thumb, but it’s a different pigment.”

Hari Kondabolu is a comedian, writer, and podcaster based in Brooklyn, NY. He currently co-hosts the Netflix food competition show Snack vs. Chef with Megan Stalter. His 2018 Netflix special Warn Your Relatives was named one of the best of the year by Time, Paste Magazine, Cosmopolitan, E! Online, and Mashable. In 2017, his truTV documentary The Problem with Apu was released and created a global conversation about race and representation, and is now used in high school, college and grad school curriculums around the country. Hari has also released two comedy albums, Waiting for 2042 & Mainstream American Comic.

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