“I have questions and am a curious person so it leads down these paths to use comedy to find an answer.”
Responder: Krish Mohan, writer and performer
Name of Show: Politely Angry: An Hour of Socially Conscious Comedy
1. Why should anybody see your show?
The show is not traditional Stand Up. It has a message and works off a thesis statement and will make you laugh and think at the same time. It offers a different perspective about current American and Global issues.
2. Why Atlanta?
There’s a great history in Atlanta and it’s a city that has a lot going on and a lot to offer.
3. What inspired you to create this?
I wanted to address our obsession with war and backwards economic and philosophical ideologies that go against the way nature works. I have questions and am a curious person so it leads down these paths to use comedy to find an answer.
4. What’s your process for creating and rehearsing something like this?
Tour. Tour a lot! Keep performing, writing and changing the show with each crowd.
5. What have you learned from working on your show so far?
There’s a lot work out and I’m working out what content needs to be in the show and what’s the fluff. The fluff is nice, but it’s not lending itself to the message.
6. Tyler Perry, Jane Fonda, Killer Mike and Donald Glover roll up at your show. There is one ticket left. Who gets it?
Killer Mike.
7. Atlanta’s foodie scene is really on point these days. What does your show taste like? (Bonus points if you can name-check an ATL restaurant.)
The truth. So I guess authentic Indian or Mexican food cooked by Indian or Mexican people.
(Editor’s note: Buford Highway it is! Right this way, Krish!)
8. Fringes are the place to really push the boundaries so we gotta ask: would you want your parents in the front row or would you tell them, “Maybe skip this one, guys…”?
I’d be cool if my mum came to the show. She’s getting more laid back in her 50s. My dad not so much. I know she’d be mad about the cursing in the show.
9. Will your show save mankind?
It will try. But it’s up to mankind whether they want to be saved or not.
10. Oh boy! After your first show a genie pops out of a bottle and offers you a choice – world peace or your show enjoying a ten-year run on Broadway. What shall it be?
World Peace. I can retire into the mountains with world peace.
11. Describe your show in three words.
Honest, Perceptive, Funny.
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