Renu has been performing stand-up comedy for nearly ten years at clubs and festivals across Australia including the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Sydney Fringe Festival, and the Sydney Comedy Festival. He was also the Show Manager at a Sydney CBD comedy room in 2014 and 2015 before being fired.

Renu likes to tell stories. For a long time, audiences assumed that he was experimenting in a new kind of post-modern narrative comedy, which daringly involved no humour. It is still unclear what he is trying to achieve. Nonetheless, as a former journo, Renu believes that there are a lot of parallels between journalism and the art of stand-up comedy.  Whether on stage or on the page, Renu’s goal is to give his audience a fresh way of thinking about themselves and the world at large.  That’s a tall order, but Renu is working on it, one laborious story at a time.

Best known for his untimely musings on the Sydney Opera House, Renu believes in comedy which is uplifting rather than mired in entrenched stereotypes and patterns of thought. As such, he has consistently taken a strong stance against the use of ethnic comic archetypes, although in 2017 he unaccountably appeared on a poster promoting a night of Indian comedy at the Sydney Fringe Festival. This poster promised hilarity of the “vinda-lol” variety.  Renu denies any involvement in this production and has declined to confirm or deny rumours that this comedic aberration may return for the Sydney Comedy Festival later this year.

In December 2017, Renu celebrated his 200th gig at an iconic inner-city comedy room, a landmark occasion which was witnessed by an appreciative crowd of approximately three people. They left shortly before Renu came onstage. Nonetheless, Renu feels that this milestone gig earned its place in the annals of comedy history and augurs well for his future comedy career.

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