.Desi Comedy Festival in San Jose

Jan 23, 2024

Anhay Nadkarni in San Jose — GROW A BEARD: Anhay Nadkarni is one of several comedians who will be at the Desi Comedy Festival (Photo Credit: YouTube)

Desi Comedy Fest, the largest South Asian comedy festival in America, comes to town this Thursday with a star-studded lineup. This year’s comics represent a diverse range of experiences and comedic styles: Abhay Nadkarni shares tales of moving from South India to South Central LA, Dhaya Lakshminarayanan performs her prize-winning political humor, Samson Koletkar explores his Indian-Jewish identity with nuance and charm. Together, they take on some of the most urgent questions that immigrants and people of color face in the US today, and they do so while making audiences cry tears of laughter. (AM)

Desi Comedy Festival

Thurs, 8pm, $25+

The Improv, San Jose

Desi Comedy Fest Trailer

Addie Mahmassani https://www.addiemahmassani.com/

Addie Mahmassani is a poet based in Santa Cruz. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and is currently an MFA student in creative writing at San Jose State University. There, she is a Teaching Associate as well as the lead poetry editor of Reed Magazine, California's oldest literary journal. She also surfs, sings and loves a part-sheepdog named Lou.