Vish The Comedian

Hey, I’m Vish.

A Sri-Lankan born comedian.

Performing Sets in and around Coventry.

I started delving into comedy at the early age of 9 and since then I have been developing my brand of experience/ observational, dark humour and slightly deadpan comedy. I have performed at various open mic nights, live comedy events and competitions at the University of Warwick where I graduated in 2021. Since then, I have gone out to sell out my first full set, “My Struggle” in July 2021 in Coventry which I then took to the BBC New Comedy Awards 2021 in Bristol; where I was shortlisted out of 1,100 comedians to perform for West Midlands region as a regional finalist. Afterwards, I was the comedy headliner at the Warwick Arts Centre where I performed my sold out second full set, “Luke” at the Vivacity Festival 2022. In addition to this, I also performed this show at the Shoot Festival 2022 in Coventry where it was met with high praise! Most recently, I sold out my third full set, “The Death of the Clown” at Fargo Village, Coventry in 2023. I then took this show to multiple festivals such as the Resonate Festival at Warwick University and the Camden Fringe in London where it received much critical praise!

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My Struggle

My Struggle is a stand-up show about the clashes I had as a young immigrant trying to navigate my self through the regular confusions and mess ups, when restarting my life, within modern day Britain. I got names mixed up, misunderstood phrases, dreaded report card days, wanted a new lunchbox, learnt about British swear words and many other embarrassing occurrences which all led up to the biggest struggle of all… my ethnicity!

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Luke

‘Luke’ where I will be trying to figure out if I am the most powerful race on Earth, whether my name is either Luke or Vishal… and most importantly, do I identify as British or Sri-Lankan or something bigger?

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The Death of The Clown

The Death of The Clown – Where I try to find out what makes my brain tick! I’ll be exploring how iffy hotels are, how hard it is explaining what a comedian is, the pressure to pump out a mini-Vish, my fear of doctors and police officers and finally trying to figure out my own mind.