Vidur Kapur was selected as a New York finalist by NBC's "Stand Up for
Diversity" initiative and performed as part of the famous New York Comedy
Festival where he was described as "A comedian to remember". After an
phenomenally successful showcase at the NACA National convention, Vidur's
act is being demanded by colleges all over the US and he is likely to be one
of the top 3 acts booked on US college campuses for '08 -'09.
Vidur was selected as one of the top four Asian comics in North America to perform at the world famous "Just for Laughs" Comedy Festival in Montreal in July
2006. Vidur and his stand up comedy are the subject of a short film
called ³Laughing Out Loud A Comic Journey² by director Shalini
Kantayya which was shown on Steven Spielberg's "On The Lot" on FOX
television. This film was voted as the favorite film by Michael Bay,
Director of Transformers and by the other contestants on the show.
He has co-starred with Margaret Cho and NBC's Last Comic Standing
Finalist Michele Balan in MTV LOGO's "Outlaugh Festival on
Wisecrack".
ThisMay, Vidur was featured in a Reuters Television
piece around the world on " Prominent South
Asians in the Media" where they are interviewing Vidur and showing
clips of his stand up comedy act, along with internationally known
celebrities such as Mira Nair, Director of "Monsoon Wedding" and
"The Namesake", Naveen Andrews of ABC's "LOST" and "ER" and "Bend it
Like Beckham's star Parminder Nagra and Suketu Mehta, the Pulitzer
Prize Finalist author.
Vidur has been seen in international media
and television including, NBC, CBC in Canada, NPR, TV Asia, New
Delhi TV, MTV Desi and PBS's Asian America. He has toured
internationally including Canada, India, the UK, Ireland, South
Africa and the United Arab Emirates. Vidur was one of the original
"Gurus of Comedy" in
a show produced in 2003 along with Russell Peters and was nominated
in the category of "Favourite South Asian Comedian" for the South
Asian Media Awards, 2005. Vidur has also been one of the comedians
selected to be included in a documentary on leading comedians in
America called " Making Funny", which is being filmed at New Yorkıs
Gotham Comedy Club on July 11th.
Vidur Kapur's stand-up comedy is based on the social commentary of a
one-man culture clash. A South Asian raised in a conservative upper
middle class family in New Delhi, an overachiever with a degree from
The London School of Economics and Ph.D. coursework from the
University of Chicago, a misfit in a family focused on arranged
marriages and social status, a chic urban trend-crazy gay fashion
victim in West Hollywood and Manhattan, a corporate executive from
blue chip international firms, an immigrant to the US and a person
horrified at being mistaken for a terrorist in a post 9/11 America.
