Day: August 14, 2016

Comedian Priya Prasad (Photo: Courtesy of the Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest)

Being Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out

It’s still a man’s world in the standup comedy. There’s no joking about it. Then factor in being South Asian. What’s the immediate image that comes to mind? If you are in America, which we are, it might be a nerdy computer engineer who speaks English with a heavy accent. Yeah, no. Mix up the gender what image do you have now? You draw a blank, well you used to until Mindy Kaling arrived in American homes through television shows, “The Office” and then her own show “The Mindy Project.”

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The DoubleTree – Westminster (Photo: Courtesy of DoubleTree-Westminster / Hilton Worldwide)

Luxury All The Way At The DoubleTree – Westminster

The bellmen were at our Uber van door and they were already loading up our luggage onto a cart and guiding us to be checked into the DoubleTree – Westminster (30 John Islip Street, +44 20 7630 1000, , doubletree3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/doubletree-by-hilton-hotel-london-westminster-LONWMDI/index.html) in London before we knew what was happening.

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