Aditya Gundeti - I Enjoy Doing Personal Stories and Observational Humour (Comedian)

Having a unique point of view on a very relatable topic is what challenges me. Of course making all of this funny is the biggest challenge but that’s where the fun is!

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1. How and when did you choose comedy as a career?

I did stand-up for the first time in my office around 3.5 years back. It went well so I tried my hand at some open mics and some of them didn’t go as expected and some went amazingly well. Overall I was just happy to express myself and tell my personal stories which I had never told before. People also laughed and I had a great time so that’s when I slowly started to feel that I’ll enjoy doing this for a long long time!


2. What type of content do you enjoy producing the most and is the most challenging?

I enjoy doing personal stories and observational humour. I aim to crate such content across platforms like longform content on YouTube and short form content on Instagram. Having a unique point of view on a very relatable topic is what challenges me. Of course making all of this funny is the biggest challenge but that’s where the fun is!


3. Do you prefer digital as a medium or do you enjoy doing live gigs more and why?

I enjoy both to be honest. Both have their own challenges and advantages as well. Digital shows are fun but only if they’re completely into the show and not doing something else simultaneously. It is very easy to be distracted when you’re at home. 

In a live setup, people aren’t really that distracted to its easier to grab and maintain their attention. But yeah, live gigs over digital ones anyday as the overall impact of a live show is greater on an audience and also there’s a lot more things that you can do on stage.


4. People, who are interested in taking up stand-up comedy as a profession, do they need a funny bone or they can develop one?

Basically one needs to enjoy humour while consuming and creating it. Obviously the tools of joke writing and performing can be developed. Even I’m still learning and it’s great to always keep learning. I don’t think I’ll ever stop studying about what makes people crack up and the many ways of doing that.


5. How stable is being a stand-up comedian as a profession in India? And what is the future of this profession?

So currently I’m not a full time comedian. I balance my IT job with comedy and it’s going well. I’m not sure about stability but if your work is liked by people and you’re consistent in putting out content, you won’t be out of work. The future looks great especially with a lot of OTT companies trying to get Stand-up on their platforms.


6. What impact do you want to make in this world? 

Hahaha I don’t want to make any impact on this world. I just want to make people laugh and try to become a stress buster of sorts. I want people to come out, watch my show, go home and sleep nicely with a smile on their face. That’s it!


7. Which is your favourite book and why?

I recently read Trevor Noah’s ‘Born a crime’ and it was an amazing read. It has some hilarious and insightful stories. Apart from that, I love all Haruki Murakami books. It’s great to just visualise whatever he writes and the best thing about his stories is that anything can happen at anytime in the story. The stories suddenly have a lot of fantasy stuff and just unrelated random things which are engaging. I aim to do something like that with my content as well.

- Aditya Gundeti 

Instagram @adityacomedy 

- Interviewed by - Nishad Kinhikar