This event is free and open to the Harvard community and guests. No tickets required; seating is on first available basis. This event is part of Harvard Worldwide Week.
Get a fresh new perspective on the world. Join us for a dose of international-themed humor with comedian Alingon Mitra and the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society, in our seventh annual International Comedy Night.
Alingon is a stand-up comedian and comedy writer living in New York. He has written for the Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Comedy Central and was also staffed on Adam Ruins Everything for TruTV. He has done stand-up on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, Late Night with Craig Ferguson, and Adam Devine's House Party. After becoming a semi-finalist on Last Comic Standing, Alingon won the coveted “Comic Comeback” award to appear in the season finale. He was selected to be a new face at Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2015. Alingon graduated from Harvard, where he was a writer for the illustrious Harvard Lampoon.
Founded in 2007, the Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society (“Harvard College SUCS”) has been entertaining audiences in Sanders Theatre, Queens Head Pub, the Science Center, Fong Auditorium, the Gotham Comedy Club, and one random Rotary Club ever since. During their time with the Society, members have been seen at Improv Boston, the Comedy Studio, the Laugh Factory, and Last Comic Standing, and alumni have gone on to appear on Late Night, America's Got Talent, Last Comic Standing, the Boston Comedy Festival, and many other festivals and showcases. They've also been called a "ragtag band of misfits" by Cosmopolitan Magazine.
Michelle Nicholasen
michelle_nicholasen@wcfia.harvard.edu