Hari Kondabolu, Idli and His Mom's Peanut Chutney

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Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Standup comedian Hari Kondabolu is known for his smart, political humor. But when it comes to what the self proclaimed "killjoy who does comedy" craves, this dude has a serious sweet tooth. According to Hari, his childhood was a fever dream of cookies and candy bars: chocolate milk sprayed from his shower, cars rolled around on Oreos instead of tires and colorful gummy worms wriggled around his garden. I mean, not really. But I was a creative writing minor in college and I really wanted to write that sentence. Hari reveals his favorite Halloween candy and what he believes is the tastiest treat when flying the friendly skies.

But his last meal is far more savory, a southern Indian dish prepared by his mother. So host Rachel Belle calls upon Asha Gomez, an award winning Atlanta, Georgia chef and cookbook author, who talks about her unique style of cooking: south India meets the American south. Gomez doesn't want to be pigeonholed as an Indian cook. After 30 years living in the US, she is an American with a kid who loves mac & cheese and pizza.

Check out Hari's Netflix special, "Warn Your Relatives," his documentary "The Problem with Apu" or catch him on tour!

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.6	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:11.6	Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.
0:32.1	Today on the program, stand-up comedian, Hori Condoobolu.
0:36.5	One of the biggest criticisms I get in my act is,
0:38.5	how come everything has to be political with you?
0:40.4	How come everything has to have a political point?
0:41.9	I can't help it.
0:42.9	I'm a kill joy who does comedy.
0:44.5	Like this, this is how I'm hardwired, right?
0:47.4	I'm this annoying in real life, right?
0:50.5	Hurry has a Netflix comedy special called Warn Your Relatives.
0:54.3	He's told jokes on Conan and Jimmy Kim alive.
0:57.0	He has two comedy albums on the Kill Rockstars label.
1:00.6	And at the end of 2017, he released a documentary called The Problem with Apu,
1:06.3	arguing that having a white actor voiced the stereotypical Indian character Apu on The Simpsons
1:12.3	is problematic.
1:14.0	And Hurry has a serious sweet tooth.
1:17.2	As a kid, he and his brother subsisted on a steady diet of cookies and candy.
1:22.1	We went nuts.
1:23.1	Like, Halloween was great, but Halloween was not just...
1:26.0	A amateur hour for you guys. Oh, yeah, that was... We, like, trained all year for it, essentially., Halloween was not just... That's amateur hour for you guys.
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