Well-known of his sarcastic stand-up comedy shows against politics, for him, featuring the current politics is the most interesting subject, especially today, Indian’s culture is all about people’s reactions towards Politics. Check out more about Kunal Kamra on his Bio below!
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Kunal Kamra Biography
Full Name: Kunal Kamra
Date of Birth: 02nd Oct 1988
Zodiac sign: Libra
Place of Birth: Mahim, Mumbai, India
Residency: Mumbai, India
Nationality: Indian
Education: Jai Hind College
Wife: Update Soon
Degree: Commerce
Parents: Unknown
Marital status: Single
Religion: Hinduism
kunal kamra Early Life
Kunal Kamra was born in 2nd Oct 1988 to a Hindu family in Mahim, Mumbai India. He was born and brought up in Mumbai.
He belongs to a business family, as his father owns a pharmacy. There is not additional information about his family.
kunal kamra Education
After completing his school, he joined Jai Hind college to pursue a degree in Commerce. However, in his second year, he dropped out from the college and start working.
kunal kamra Career
First, he joined an advertising job, after leaving his college. He worked as a production assistant in Prasoon Pandey’s ad film production house Corcoise Films for eleven years.
Stand-up Comedy
In 2013, he started his first step in the Comedy world. He performed a gig in the Canvas Laugh Club in Mumbai.
From 2017, he started his show “Shut Up ya Kunal” alongside with his friend Ramit Verma. He released a video in 2018 about “Patriotism and the government”. In which he mocked the government. As a result, he received a lot of death threats.
Besides his show, he performs live.
His incident on board of IndiGo flight
0n 28th January 2020 he was banned from traveling on several airlines due to his video with Arnab Goswami during an indigo flight. He posted the video on Twitter, and the video shows that Kunal asked Arnab questions on some of the national concern issues, and the suicide of Rohith Vemula, in which Arnab never answered.
Although Arnab did not complaint while being in the flight, the following day, Indigo banned Kunal from traveling for the coming 6 months. The minister of aviation Hardeep Singh Puri tweeted that other airlines must follow Indigo and Air India and ban Kunal Kamra from traveling as well. Alongside Indigo and Air India, SpiceJet, and GoAir did the same. AirAsia and Vistara stated that they are waiting for an official/written statement issued by the government before taking any actions. The public reactions were against the act of Indigo. Two of the passengers protested and showed support to Kunal Kamra while being on board of one of the IndiGo flights. The Pilot who was during the flight in which Kunal took the video, did not agree on the company’s action either. Kamra has issued a legal notice again the travel ban action and demanded a compensation of ₹25 lakh.
kunal kamra Interesting fact
• After 3 years of dropping out of college, Kunal informed his family about it. It was the best time to do so, especially after earning 35,000 ₹
• His favourite targets are PM Narendra Modi, Arnab Goswami, and the General right-wing mentality.
• After his show “Shut Up Ya Kunal”, Kunal has become a controversial figure.
• In His show “Shut Up Ya Kunal” public guests are featured, such as Madhukeshwar Desai, the spokesperson of BJP, Jignesh Mevani, Gujarat’s MLA, and Dalit activist, and Shehla Rashid the former JNU student leader.
• He is suffering from Dyslexia which makes it hard for him to read long messages.
• In January 2019, his landowner asked him to vacate his place at the Shivaji Park area, due to his political controversy.
• His favourite Comedians are Anuvab Pal, and karunesh Talwar.
• His idols are Douglas Stanhope, Louis CK, and Bill Burr.
• He is usually spotted smoking and drinking.
• One of his noticeable work was based on a popular game show “Kaun Banega Crorepati”, in which he performed as Bhakt Launda on the hot seat, opposite the show host The Real Amitji.
• This video was called “Kaun Banega Trollpati”, and it was a collaboration with the YouTube Chanel “East India Comedy”.
• During a catch-up visit to his friend Karunesh Talwar in 2013, in the Blue Frog event, he was asked to perform a gig at the stage in order to save the main act which was sinking.
• He worked as an intern with MTV for around a year.
• His favourite hobby is biking
• His height is 1.7 m
• His popular punch line in social media is “Siachen mein hamaare jawaan lad rahe hain”.
• The first episode of his show “Shut Up Kunal” was aired on 20th Jul 2017 and has reached around millions of views within hours of release.
• In 2017, he had to delete his Twitter account over a controversial post that was objectionable to a particular religion.
