Deepak Sethi

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Deepak Sethi
Born
Toronto, Canada
Education University of Western Ontario
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, film director, comedian, voice actor
Years active2010-present

Deepak Sethi is a Canadian-American screenwriter, [1] comedian, [2] film director, and voice actor. [3] Sethi has written episodes of Family Guy , Brickleberry , and Close Enough . [4]

Life and career

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Sethi was an ethnic food salesman for his family's food company. [1] While working in the food industry and doing his MBA, [3] Sethi was discovered through his comedy blog [1] which attracted over 2.2 million followers. [2] Actress Alyssa Milano, a reader of Sethi's blog, passed Sethi's writing to writer Ricky Blitt who helped Sethi get a job on Family Guy. [1]

Sethi was heckled by an audience member at a stand-up comedy show in Las Vegas, the crowd member insinuating that Sethi was a terrorist. [5] Sethi was nominated for an Annie Award for his writing in 2021. [6]

In 2021, Sethi wrote and directed the short film Coffee Shop Names [7] which was nominated for a Tribeca X award at the Tribeca Film Festival [8] and was acquired by HBO Max [9] in September 2021.

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