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Kunal Rao is one of the top most stand-up comics in India. Over the past ten years, he has performed in over 20 cities around the world as well as in India. Kunal has also performed at international comedy festivals like the Magners International Comedy Festival in Bangkok in 2017 and the Utrecht International Comedy Festival in the Netherlands in 2014. Apart from these, he has also performed in international comedy clubs in Edinburgh, Boston, Atlanta, Washington DC, Dubai, Paris, Barcelona and Tokyo.

In the past, he has been involved in a number of diverse projects ranging from being a key performer in the popular Ghanta Awards, which celebrates the worst of Bollywood, to performing on NDTV’s comedy focused show, 'The Bottom Line' and later 'EIC Outrage.'

Kunal believes he is opinionated and that reflects in his humor. Lately, his comic monologues lean more towards exploring the expansive world of human emotions and relationships.

Personal Life
Kunal worked as a Chartered Accountant before entering the world of comedy. After a hectic eight years, which took him to Dubai and London other than Mumbai for work, he decided to quit his job to pursue his passion for comedy.

Kunal has been in Mumbai his whole for most of his life, except for the four years he spent abroad. It was during this time abroad that he realized that he was meant for something greater wanted to do something creative and left everything to come back to his city. He happened to watch Sorabh Pant, his college friend, open for Vir Das at Sophia Bhabha Hall in 2009 and on the encouragement of a friend, decided to give stand-up a shot. Sorabh encouraged Kunal and went on to include him as his opening act for his first stand-up tour, Pant on Fire. It’s then that his journey began.

Career
Alongside stand-up comedy, Kunal was one of the key performers of the very popular Bollywood award show - The Ghanta Awards. He has co-founded the East India Comedy, a popular comedy collective and YouTube channel. He has also organized and performed in shows such as 'Tuesdays with Morons', the news comedy special 'Comedy News Network', and the popular ‘EIC Outrage’.

He is best known for his comedy specials ‘Holy Krao!’ and ‘It's Not Okay’. He also became a regular at Mumbai Comedy Store's ‘Best In Stand Up’ comedy weekends. Alongside all this, he can be seen in his Amazon Prime special show ‘Done’. It was released in October 2019 and focuses on his personal experiences as an awkward and introverted individual and how he deals with the ever-changing world.

Over the last two years, he has performed in over 150 shows across Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Delhi.