Hari&nbsp;Kondabolu&nbsp;is a comedian, writer and podcaster based in Brooklyn. The&nbsp;NY Times&nbsp;called him “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today” and described his 2018 Netflix special&nbsp;Warn Your Relatives&nbsp;as “an incisively funny and formally adventurous hour that reveals a comic in command of his powers.” The special was named on many “Best of” lists, including for&nbsp;Time,&nbsp;Paste Magazine,&nbsp;Cosmopolitan, E!&nbsp;Online, and&nbsp;Mashable. He was also named one of 2018’s “Comics To Watch” by&nbsp;Variety.&nbsp;Hari&nbsp;currently hosts the new Netflix food competition series Snack vs Chef along with Megan Stalter.&nbsp;In 2017, his truTV documentary&nbsp;The Problem with Apu&nbsp;was released to critical acclaim and spurred a global conversation about race and representation.&nbsp;The Nation&nbsp;called it “a devastating critique of the ultimate comedic sacred cow: The Simpsons.” It is now used in high school, college and grad school curriculums around the US.&nbsp;Hari&nbsp;has also released two comedy albums,&nbsp;Waiting for 2042 &amp; Mainstream American Comic&nbsp;with legendary indie rock label Kill Rock Stars. Additionally, he has performed on such shows as&nbsp;Conan,&nbsp;Jimmy Kimmel Live, and&nbsp;The Late Show with David Letterman&nbsp;among many others. He is also a former writer &amp; correspondent on the much loved, Chris Rock produced FX show&nbsp;Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell.&nbsp;A regular on the public radio,&nbsp;Hari&nbsp;is a panelist on the NPR game show&nbsp;Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. As a podcaster, he co-hosted the popular&nbsp;Politically Reactive&nbsp;with dear friend W. Kamau Bell. Additionally, he also co-hosts what he politely describes as a “pop up podcast,”&nbsp;The Untitled&nbsp;Kondabolu&nbsp;Brothers Podcast&nbsp;with his younger brother Ashok (“Dap” from HBO’s&nbsp;Chillin’ Island&nbsp;and defunct rap group Das Racist.)&nbsp;Hari&nbsp;attended both Bowdoin College and Wesleyan University, graduating from the former institution with a B.A. in Comparative Politics. A former immigrant rights organizer in Seattle who worked under the leadership of now-Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal,&nbsp;Hari&nbsp;also earned a Masters in Human Rights from the London School of Economics in 2008. He was the “Artist In Residence” at NYU’s APA Institute for the 2014-2015 Academic Year and at Shangri La Museum in Honolulu in 2018.