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Karan Arul \u201917 and Ali Hashim \u201918 are standing up for comedy. The University students are the cofounders and copresidents of UR Standup Comedy, officially certified by the Students\u2019 Association last fall and already counting 40 members.<\/p>\n
The club has been holding Saturday workshops in Wilson Commons, where members analyze each other\u2019s routines or watch standup videos. They also hold weekly open mic nights at Brue, a coffee shop on Genesee Street, and at Rocky\u2019s Lounge in Wilson Commons. And, they\u2019ve started to produce a YouTube comedy sketch show called Game of Zones, <\/em>a Game of Thrones<\/em> parody.<\/p>\n
The students\u2019 standup routines deal with a myriad of subjects, depending on the venue. At Meliora Weekend, where club members performed last October, the targets were campus parking, construction, and dining hall food. Off campus, the targets are often political figures.<\/p>\nKelvin Adulley ’17 and Shamroz Farooq ’17 enjoy the show at Rocky’s Lounge. (University photo \/ Joy Bian \/17)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Arul and Hashim didn\u2019t know each other in the summer of 2015, when they learned that each had separately proposed a comedy club to the Students\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said, \u2018Why would you want two clubs? Combine your efforts and make one,\u2019 Arul says.<\/p>\n
A biochemistry and English double major from New Hartford, New York, Arul counts Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and Trevor Noah as among his comedic idols.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re comedians, but they\u2019re also newscasters who can communicate,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\nMembers of UR Stand-up Comedy include (left to right) Arun Nambiar ’17, Matthew Golub ’17, Shamroz Farooq ’17, Karan Arul ’17, Hannah Gallagher ’19, and Rahul Upadhya ’17. (University photo \/ Joy Bian ’17)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Coming from a family of doctors, Arul envisions a career as a practicing physician as well. But he\u2019s inspired by medical journalists like Sanjay Gupta and Atul Gawande, surgeons who are also media personalities.<\/p>\n
Hashim, an optical engineering major from Bethesda, Maryland, hopes to go to medical school and then into the optics industry, perhaps starting his own company. But he\u2019ll always keep an eye out for ways to make people laugh.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope to continue doing standup in my free time,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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