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Hari has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Live at Gotham and was featured in the 2007 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. The Seattle Times has written that he is "a young man reaching for the hand-scalding torch of confrontational comics like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor." They also wrote that his performance at the 2006 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival "eviscerated Western hypocrisy with a verbal razor that had overtones of Lenny Bruce." Like his comedic heroes, he wants to speak... [MORE] As a child growing up in Queens, Hari Kondabolu was regularly told by his mother to sign his name "Hari K. Kondabolu" to avoid any confusion with other potential Hari Kondabolus. Looking back on this now, he has drawn two conclusions: 1) It was outrageously unlikely that he would ever meet another Hari Kondabolu, especially in the United States. 2) In the event that he did meet another Hari Kondabolu, his mother apparently lacked any sort of confidence that it would be her son who would be the better known of the two, thereby forcing the imposter to keep a middle initial. This instilling and reinforcement of inferiority provided the impetus necessary for Hari to take up the art of stand-up comedy and become the most famous Hari Kondabolu in the World...arguably.

Hari has performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Comedy Central's Live at Gotham and was featured in the 2007 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. The Seattle Times has written that he is "a young man reaching for the hand-scalding torch of confrontational comics like Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor." They also wrote that his performance at the 2006 Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival "eviscerated Western hypocrisy with a verbal razor that had overtones of Lenny Bruce." Like his comedic heroes, he wants to speak truth to power with challenging and personal material. Unlike them, he does not want to die of a morphine overdose or set himself on fire.

Additionally, Hari's short film MANOJ, which he wrote, co-produced and starred in, has been selected to play at the 2008 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, The Global ComedyFest in Vancouver and was a Finalist at the 2007-2008 Boston Motion Picture Awards.

Hari graduated with a B.A. in Comparative Politics from Bowdoin College in 2004. He went to Townsend Harris High School in Flushing, Queens and the school's mascot, "Hari the Hawk," was named after him during his senior year. He sometimes fears that he may have peaked at 17.

You can read his blog at www.harithecomic.blogspot.com [LESS]