Hari Kondabolu : (3)

" Both my parents are immigrants. I’ve seen different struggles they’ve had. There’s a reason you don’t see me using accents. I don’t do impressions of my folks. When I’m doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you’re laughing, I’m thinking, ‘When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?’ " - Hari Kondabolu

" After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart. " - Hari Kondabolu

" I’m not like most comedians. I don’t deal with just heckles – I’m also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I’m not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at. " - Hari Kondabolu