Kunal Kamra

In 2020, after an incident on IndiGo airlines where he confronted the Indian news anchor Arnab Goswami, he was banned by five Indian Airlines.

On 1 March 2017, he released a comedy video titled "Patriotism and the Government" on YouTube mocking demonetization, government and the attitude of Indians towards the army. He received several death threats for uploading the video. In 2018, he shared that he was asked by his landlady to vacate the premise due to "political issues".

In 2017, Kunal launched a YouTube podcast titled Shut Up Ya Kunal along with his friend Ramit Verma. The show features Kamra engaged in an informal discussion with politicians and activists from both ends of the spectrum. The videos are interspersed with news clips of the guests contradicting their own statements to comic effect. Ramit Verma of the satirical Facebook page PeeingHuman is the show's creative director and editor. The first episode aired on July 20, 2017 and featured Madhukeshwar Desai, vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing. The episode featuring the JNU Students Kanhaiya Kumar and Umar Khalid reached around a million views within hours of release.

He started performing as a standup comedian in 2013, with a gig at the Canvas Laugh Club in Mumbai. A clip of one of his gigs, uploaded on YouTube in 2017, lead to him receiving death threats for his satirical take on Indian hyper-nationalism. He started his eponymous titled web-series Shut Up Ya Kunal in July 2017 along with Ramit Verma. The episodes typically feature a conversation with one or more invited guests, interposed with clips of news segments or debates, edited for humour.

Kunal Kamra was born on 3 October 1988, in Mahim, Mumbai, India. Kamra grew up in Mumbai, and joined Jai Hind College for a degree in commerce. He dropped in second year to start working as a production assistant in Prasoon Pandey’s ad film production house Corcoise Films, where he stayed for eleven years.