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Kunal Kamra is an Indian stand-up comedian. He hosts a web series on YouTube titled Shut Up Ya Kunal.

Kamra grew up in Mumbai, and joined Jai Hind College for a degree in commerce. He dropped out in his second year to start working as a production assistant in Prasoon Pandey’s ad film production house Corcoise Films, where he stayed for eleven years.

He started performing as a standup comedian in 2013, with a gig at the Canvas Laugh Club in Mumbai. A clip of one of his gigs, uploaded on YouTube in 2017, lead to him receiving death threats for his satirical take on Indian hyper-nationalism. He started his eponymously titled web-series Shut Up Ya Kunal in July 2017 along with Ramit Verma. The episodes typically feature a conversation with one or more invited guests, interposed with clips of news segments or debates, edited for humour.

One of his show was cancelled in Vadodara citing the protest by alumni of MS University. They called his content 'anti-national'.

Shut Up Ya Kunal
The episodes have sequentially featured interviews with the vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's youth-wing Madhukeshwar Desai, Indian National Congress national spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leaders Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid, Supreme Court of India lawyer Karuna Nundy and The Wire co-founder Siddharth Varadarajan, member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly Jignesh Mevani and ex-vice president of JNU Shehla Rashid, and senior NDTV India journalist Ravish Kumar.