Need a night of laughs? A dose of dark, edgy humor? How about free relationship advice? Gauri B provides all of the above.
A native of India, she took the European comedy scene by storm during the years she lived in Berlin, charming audiences with her quick-witted interaction and leaving them convulsing in laughter. Earlier this year, she relocated to New York, launched a U.S. tour, and was featured at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in Australia. Along the way, she has amassed 100 million social media views and 700,000 followers.
Now, she’ll be performing for the first time in California. Gauri B will make her debut here on Friday, Nov. 7, in Los Angeles with her “Love, Money, Shame” tour. Then she’ll swing up to the Bay Area for shows in San Francisco on Saturday, Nov. 8. On Sunday, Nov. 9, she’ll be in Silicon Valley at the 3Below Theaters in San Jose.
Comedy wasn’t her original plan. While heading for a career in architecture, she stumbled into the stand-up world at a women’s conference in Europe. “Ironically the workshop was conducted by a straight white man who was teaching women how to feel empowered,” she said in a Missing Perspective interview with Simran Pasricha, a podcaster and writer.
“There was an exercise where we had to just speak impromptu on, like, random words that he gave us. I talked about my biggest fear — tall people. The whole room just sort of like burst into laughter and I was enjoying it so much that I started acting it out and I did this whole bit. That was my first five-minute stand-up bit; I did not even realize that I was doing stand-up.”
These days, politics, parents, and societal ills all are fair game for the 29-year-old comedian. Pasricha writes, “As Gauri B continues to rise in the comedy world, she embodies the future of brown women in comedy — unapologetic, daring, and fiercely authentic.”
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