Kenny Sebastian


Kenneth Mathew Sebastian, better known as Kenny Sebastian, is an Indian stand-up comedian, musician and filmmaker. He first rose to prominence through a YouTube channel that broadcasts clips of his stand-up shows, devotional song covers, in addition to original skits, garnering 152 million views since 2008. He has toured the United States, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Australia. In 2017, he produced an hour-long comedy special for Amazon Prime. He performs primarily in English, switching to Hindi for comic effect.

Early life and education

Kenny Sebastian was born on 31 December 1990 to Catholic parents from Pala, Kerala, and was brought up in Bangalore. His father was in the Navy, hence Sebastian migrated throughout his childhood. He speaks English, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam. Sebastian holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath.

Career

Kenny made songs from tweets, popularly known as #KennySing4Me. This gained him his initial popularity. He also created an improvised sketch show for Comedy Central known as The Living Room. He co-wrote and acted in the web series called Star Boyz. He did a cameo in the web series Humorously Yours, in Better Life Foundation by Naveen Richard and in Pushpavalli by Sumukhi Suresh. He also has an original series Die Trying, an improvised show The Improvisers: Something From Nothing along with Abish Mathew, Kanan Gill and Kaneez Surka and a sketch comedy show Sketchy Behaviour co-written and co-starring Kanan Gill on Amazon Prime Video.He also started his mini series named "Getting there" which has 3 episodes.
He is a judge for Comicstaan, a comedy hunt reality show on Amazon Prime Video. He brings out videos from his standup routines and the occasional Chai Time With Kenny on his YouTube channel.
He has his own production house named SuperHuman Studioz.

Filmography