This holiday season while the news is slow, I thought I’d share clips from a few comedians of the leftish persuasion. Up now, one of my personal favorites: Hari Kondabolu. Kondabolu is, according to his bio, “a Brooklyn-based, Queens-raised comic who the NY Times has called ‘one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today.’” The political part is not in doubt in basically any part of his bio:
A former immigrant rights organizer in Seattle, Hari also earned a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2008, writing a merit-earning dissertation entitled “Mexican Returnees as Internally Displaced People: An Argument for the Protection of Economic Migrants Under the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.” This is, by far, the least funny thing he’s ever written…including this bio.
Topics on which Hari Kondabolu has been funny include cocoa butter, white chocolate, and vegan soul food, as well as Matthew McConaughey and gay rights. But I have to admit, this is my favorite Kondabolu clip (admittedly I’m married to someone of South Indian descent so that may be more of a personal fluke). Check out a clip on 2042 and the white minority.