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| Born | Nimesh Patel 1986 (age 38–39) Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education | New York University (B.S.) |
| Occupation | Stand-up comedian • television writer |
| Years active | 2009–present |
| Spouse | Amy Havel Patel (m. 2020) |
Nimesh Patel (born 1986) is an American comedian and television writer. In 2017, he became the first Indian American writer on Saturday Night Live for just one season. [1] [2]
Patel was born in 1986 in Parsippany–Troy Hills, New Jersey, into an immigrant Indian Gujarati Hindu family [3] and graduated from Parsippany Hills High School. [4] His parents immigrated to the United States from India in the 1970s. His father first came to Newark, New Jersey, as a 17 year old and worked as a cashier at a Macy's. He eventually opened a liquor store in a troubled neighborhood with heavy African-American organized crime and gang culture in nearby Irvington, often being robbed and also shot at. [5] [6]
Patel moved to New York City to attend New York University, initially as a pre-med student. He has lived in the city ever since. He graduated with a degree in finance in 2008. [7]
After graduating, Patel began working during the day and performing standup at The Stress Factory by night. [6]
In 2015, he was doing standup in Greenpoint, Brooklyn when he was discovered by Chris Rock. Patel then joined Rock's writing team for the 88th Academy Awards ceremony.
In 2016, he was a finalist in Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud Network Pitch Panel at Just for Laughs ComedyPRO. [8]
Patel also wrote material for Hasan Minhaj's 2017 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner appearance. [9] In 2017, he began working as a full-time writer for Saturday Night Live, mainly writing jokes for Weekend Update . In 2018, Patel was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for his work on SNL. [1] He worked for SNL for just one season. [10]
Patel has appeared on @midnight , Comedy Knockout and Late Night with Seth Meyers . He has also featured as a comedy and politics panelist at the Foreign Affairs Symposium at Johns Hopkins University. [11]
On November 30, 2018, roughly twenty-four minutes into a comedy set, Patel was interrupted and asked to leave by the organizers of cultureSHOCK: Reclaim, an event for Asian representation hosted by Columbia University's Asian American Alliance. [12] [13] [14] On October 7, 2020, Patel posted a video of his full Columbia set in response to an article he believed to be untruthful. [15]
Patel's main comedic influences are Chris Rock, Larry David and Patrice O’Neal. [16]
Patel is a non practicing Hindu.[ citation needed ]
Patel criticized the Partition of India on one of his shows, as part of his "Come see me on tour!" and criticized a British Indian woman in the audience defending British Colonialism and tyranny in India, eventually calling out the stolen Indian Kohinoor diamond by the British royal family and calling the woman a self-loather. [17]
He used to live in Hell's Kitchen, Midtown Manhattan, but now resides in Brooklyn. He is a regular comic at the Comedy Cellar, a comedy club in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan.[ citation needed ]
He married Amy Havel in 2020. [18]
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