Hari Kondabolu’s Son’s Name

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

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Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox talks to comedian Hari Kondabolu! From his time as a writer/performer on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell to his 2017 documentary The Problem with Apu to his 2018 Netflix special Warn Your Relatives, Kondabolu has been one of the foremost political comedians. His work brings to mind the question of what comedy actually can do to foster social progress. Now Kondabolu is back with a new YouTube special, Vacation Baby, which seems him heading in a more personal direction, talking about the birth of his son while keeping his socio-political bent. You can stream Vacation Baby on YouTube. Pre-order Jesse's book, Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374604714/comedybook Follow Hari on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Jesse David Fox on Twitter and Instagram. THIS INTERVIEW WAS RECORDED BEFORE THE WGA AND SAG-AFTRA STRIKES. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Good One, a podcast about jokes.
0:13.5	I am your host Jesse David Fox.
0:16.2	This week's guest is Harry Cundo Bolo, whose new special vacation baby is currently out
0:20.8	on YouTube.
0:21.8	I think about Harry a lot when I find myself thinking about comedy's potential impact.
0:26.8	In my upcoming book, Comedy Book, How Comedy Concert Culture in the Magic that makes
0:30.9	it work, which is out November 7, pre-order now, there's a chapter, chapter five, about
0:37.4	political comedy and really more so about the question of what does comedy do, what can
0:44.3	comedy do, what can comedians do, can it change anything, should be expected to.
0:50.8	And it's a question, Harry has been wrestling with his entire career and debating even
0:55.6	longer than that.
0:56.6	More recently, however, Harry has started spending less time mulling that question and in
1:04.7	that area and he spent much more time trying to be more personal on stage.
1:10.0	A decision, as you'll hear, directly related to the aforementioned vacation baby.
1:14.6	We will start with a joke about naming said baby.
1:17.9	So here is Harry Cundo Bolo.
1:24.8	Being a name was, of course, difficult, right?
1:27.2	I wanted a strong Indian name that could be potentially pronounced in this country.
1:33.4	So I asked my mom for suggestions and she's like, hmm, have you thought about Vishvanathan?
1:42.3	No, that did not make the short list.
1:51.4	Hmm, okay, how about Cheturgan?
1:54.2	Vikramaditya?
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