Creating Our Own Lives
Creating Our Own Lives
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[S2] Hari Kondabolu: Comedy Is Therapeutic but Not Therapy
16 minutes Posted Jun 8, 2017 at 4:30 am.
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[S2] Hari Kondabolu: Comedy Is Therapeutic but Not Therapy

“My mom has a very dark sense of humor. I think that’s how I learned how to recycle pain.”

Hari Kondabolu is not your average stand-up comedian. He has a Masters in Human Rights and worked as an immigrants rights organizer — all of which you hear in his writing. His jokes simultaneously bring about discomfort and a nod of the head, without sounding preachy. He uses comedy as a coping mechanism for addressing complex issues of race, identity, and ethnicity post 9/11.

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