Need a night of laughs? A dose of dark, edgy humor? How about free relationship advice?
Gauri B provides all of the above. A native of India, she took the European comedy scene by storm during the years she lived in Berlin, charming audiences with her quick-witted interaction and leaving them convulsing in laughter. Earlier this year, she relocated to New York, launched a U.S. tour and was featured at the Melbourne Comedy Festival in Australia.
Along the way, she has amassed 100 million social media views and 700,000 followers.
Now she’ll be performing for the first time in California. She will make her debut here on Friday, Nov. 7, in Los Angeles with her “Love, Money, Shame” tour, then swing up to the Bay Area for Saturday, Nov. 8. shows in San Francisco. On Sunday, Nov. 9, she’ll be in Silicon Valley, at the 3Below Theaters in San Jose..
Comedy wasn’t her original plan. While heading for a career in architecture, she stumbled into the stand-up world at a women’s conference in Europe. “Ironically the workshop was conducted by a straight white man who was teaching women how to feel empowered,” she said in a Missing Perspective interview with Simran Pasricha, a podcaster-writer.
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“There was an exercise where we had to just speak impromptu on like random words that he gave us. I talked about my biggest fear – tall people. The whole room just sort of like burst into laughter and I was enjoying it so much that I started like acting it out and I did this whole bit. That was my first five-minute stand-up bit — I did not even realize that I was doing stand-up.”
These days, politics, parents, societal ills — all are fair game for the 29-year-old comedian.
Pasricha writes: “As Gauri B continues to rise in the comedy world, she embodies the future of brown women in comedy — unapologetic, daring, and fiercely authentic.”
Details: Saturday’s shows will be at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday at the Potrero Stage, 1695 18th St., San Francisco. Tickets, $25-$42, at https://tickets.gauri-b.com The Sunday show starts at 7:30 p.m. at 3Below Theaters, 288 S. Second St., San Jose, with free validated parking in the Second Street garage above 3Below. Tickets, $30-$50, available at https://3belowtheaters.com/.
