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Hari Kanth
@harihkanth.com
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Comedy writer — working towards the dream of writing my own sitcom, one joke at a time 🥳

Sketchburn 5 on Dec 4th: https://www.sketchburn.com
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Sketchburn is back on December 4th at the all-new Free Association theatre in Southwark 🥳
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Poster for Sketchburn 5: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. December 4th, 7-8pm, at The Free Association in Southwark. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a very tranquil photo of some woods in the winter.
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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When your husband’s been kidnapped but you hate phone calls ☎️
October 17, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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London friends! My scratch night for sketch comedy films is back next week on September 17th 🥳
www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/sketc...
Poster for Sketchburn 4: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. 7-8pm, Sept 17th, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a very peaceful photo of some woods in the Autumn!
September 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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POV: You really want to boast about being a spy 🕵🏾
August 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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When you get a job writing AI summaries… 🤖
August 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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What if Kinder Surprises actually had surprises?? ✨

Feat. Jono Selvadurai, Bruce Tang and Lottie Field! And co-written with @filmboyslim.bsky.social 🙌🏾
July 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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In case you were wondering
A screenshot from Google Translate. The English “sodium hydroxypropylsulfonate” is translated as “hydroxypropylsulfonate de sodium” in French
June 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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London friends! Sketchburn is back on Tuesday, 17th June, with more sketch goodness from this lot 🥳
www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/sketc...
Poster for Sketchburn: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. 7-8pm, June 17th, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a very peaceful photo of a forest!
June 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Watching New Girl all the way through for the first time, and this is possibly the most tragic thing that’s ever happened in a sitcom
A still from the original opening titles. Jess (Zooey Deschanel) is in the centre, framed by a large, oval picture frame hanging from the ceiling. Either side of her, Nick (Jake Johnson) and Winston (Lamorne Morris) are holding green cardboard cutouts of the words “New” and “Girl” respectively. Below her, Schmidt (Max Greenfield) is holding a smaller cutout of the word “Jess” in a ribbon-like shape. A still from the later opening titles. It features generic photos of the cast, collaged together in a haphazard, visually unappealing way. The words “New Girl” — blue with a yellow outline — appear over the top at a 45° angle, in a style reminiscent of word art from the 90s and early 2000s.
June 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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London friends: Sketchburn is back on Monday, 31st March! Will we fit everything into the one hour we’ve got the room for? Only one way to find out 🥳

(Or I could just tell you afterwards)

www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/sketc...
Poster for Sketchburn: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. 7-8pm, March 31st, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a stylised image of a partly cloudy blue sky.
March 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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This Tuesday! The line-up has been written down, the readings have been rehearsed and the rough cuts have been edited. Should be a fun night… 🥳
A poster for Sketchburn: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. 21st January, 7-8pm. It features a partial 5 x 5 grid of photos, people and text — on a background of a photo negative of the sky.
January 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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New Substack post! This one is about collaborating with other writers and finding your people 🥳

harihkanth.substack.com/p/finding-yo...
A screenshot from a Substack article, which is dark text on a white background. The text reads: The advantages are obvious: it’s easier to come up with ideas if you can bounce off other people; it’s easier to tell if your jokes are funny if someone else is laughing at them; it’s easier to find comfort if you’ve been staring at the same block of text for three hours and have completely lost faith in your ability to use words corfumply. But not all collaboration is made equal, and it took me a lot of trial and error to figure out the combinations of people that seem to work well together. So if you’re currently building your own comedy scenius, here are the three things I think you need:
December 5, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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I usually retweet the previous update for context, but this screenshot will have to do…
A screenshot of a tweet. It is mostly white text on a dark background. The text reads: Running writing totals after August: - Submissions: 34 (+4 new) - Rejections: 22 (+1 new) - Tentative forward progress: 3 (+0) #100rejections🎉
December 3, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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Today I learned how to say Super Mario World: Mario and Yoshi in twelve different languages
A close-up of a glossy, black cardboard box. The white, printed text says: Super Mario World™: Mario & Yoshi Super Mario World™ Mario et Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario e Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario y Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario i Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario a Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario és Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario si Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario и Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario un Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario ja Yoshi Super Mario World™: Mario ir Yoshi
November 18, 2024 at 8:55 AM