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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 29/06/2026

Hello! It’s been a while, but Sketchburn is back on July 8th at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden: sketchburn.com 🥳

Poster for Sketchburn 6: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. July 8th, 7-8pm, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a very tranquil photo of a sunset over a beach…

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 24/11/2025

Sketchburn is back on December 4th at the all-new Free Association theatre in Southwark 🥳 www.sketchburn.com

Poster for Sketchburn 5: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. December 4th, 7-8pm, at The Free Association in Southwark. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a very tranquil photo of some woods in the winter.

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 17/10/2025

When your husband’s been kidnapped but you hate phone calls ☎️

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 17/10/2025

When your husband’s been kidnapped but you hate phone calls ☎️

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 16/10/2025

Sorry I’m late! I would’ve got here earlier, but there were some young kids waiting at the pedestrian crossing and I felt morally obligated to set a good example by actually waiting for the green man

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 10/09/2025

London friends! My scratch night for sketch comedy films is back next week on September 17th 🥳 www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/sketc...

Poster for Sketchburn 4: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. 7-8pm, Sept 17th, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a very peaceful photo of some woods in the Autumn!

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 15/08/2025

POV: You really want to boast about being a spy 🕵🏾

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 15/08/2025

POV: You really want to boast about being a spy 🕵🏾

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 04/08/2025

When you get a job writing AI summaries… 🤖

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 18/07/2025

What if Kinder Surprises actually had surprises?? ✨ Feat. Jono Selvadurai, Bruce Tang and Lottie Field! And co-written with @filmboyslim.bsky.social 🙌🏾

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James Stewart @filmboyslim.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A sketch I co-wrote with @harihkanth.com, with the perfect name for someone like me who rarely shares actual finished things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqWU...

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What if your Kinder Surprises actually had surprises? | Comedy

YouTube video by Smash Cut To:

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 29/06/2025

Me about to join a WhatsApp group with more than ~25 people even though every other similar group I’ve joined has inevitably descended into chaos: I’m feeling good about this one

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 19/06/2025

“i hate this bad article so much, i’m going to share it with all my followers” ok but you could share something good instead and let the bad article wither and die, clickless and alone

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 19/06/2025

David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...

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The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen

Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 12/06/2025

I always find it funny how shampoo bottles are like “ingredients / ingrédients” and “water / aqua / eau” but then give up by sodium hydroxypropylsulfonate

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 09/06/2025

London friends! Sketchburn is back on Tuesday, 17th June, with more sketch goodness from this lot 🥳 www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/sketc...

Poster for Sketchburn: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. 7-8pm, June 17th, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a very peaceful photo of a forest!

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 09/06/2025

Watching New Girl all the way through for the first time, and this is possibly the most tragic thing that’s ever happened in a sitcom

A still from the original opening titles. Jess (Zooey Deschanel) is in the centre, framed by a large, oval picture frame hanging from the ceiling. Either side of her, Nick (Jake Johnson) and Winston (Lamorne Morris) are holding green cardboard cutouts of the words “New” and “Girl” respectively. Below her, Schmidt (Max Greenfield) is holding a smaller cutout of the word “Jess” in a ribbon-like shape.

A still from the later opening titles. It features generic photos of the cast, collaged together in a haphazard, visually unappealing way. The words “New Girl” — blue with a yellow outline — appear over the top at a 45° angle, in a style reminiscent of word art from the 90s and early 2000s.

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 07/06/2025

It’s been a hectic couple of months, but I’ve finally got a free Saturday night to treat myself (reply to all those messages that have been piling up for weeks)

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 04/06/2025

Just got a new debit card, which means it’s time to write a signature I barely use on a surface that is hostile to all pens for an authentication method that is basically redundant (but still stress out about it)

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Rob Gilroy @robgilroy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A great essay on a great show!

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 03/04/2025

Running writing totals after March: – Submissions: 9 (+4 new) – Rejections: 6 (+2 new) – Tentative forward progress: 1 (+1 new) 😅 #100rejections🎉

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 24/03/2025

London friends: Sketchburn is back on Monday, 31st March! Will we fit everything into the one hour we’ve got the room for? Only one way to find out 🥳 (Or I could just tell you afterwards) www.etceteratheatrecamden.com/events/sketc...

Poster for Sketchburn: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. Staged readings, rough cuts and finished sketches. 7-8pm, March 31st, at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden. The poster is a grid of text, headshots and film stills. The background is a stylised image of a partly cloudy blue sky.

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William Stone @itswilliamstone.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm a big fan of the Irish goodbye. Which goes without saying

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 07/03/2025

New Substack post! This one is about The Good Place and how it made me rethink what a sitcom could be… harihkanth.substack.com/p/redefining...

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Redefining sitcoms with The Good Place

Or: holy motherforking shirtballs.

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 04/03/2025

Keep a film title the same by listing all of the words in their original order. I’ll start: “La La Land”

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 03/03/2025

Running writing totals after February: – Submissions: 5 (+1 new) – Rejections: 4 (+1 new) – Tentative forward progress: 0 #100rejections🎉

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 02/03/2025

Set myself a challenge to watch all of this year’s Best Picture nominees before the Oscars. Here is my definitive ranking based on all the ones I’ve seen: 1. Wicked (I completely failed at this challenge.)

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 27/02/2025

Sorry I’m a bit tired today, had a late night (seeing the dentist next week so had to temporarily incorporate flossing into my bedtime routine)

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 14/02/2025

It would’ve been so much harder to write poems for Valentine’s Day if the first guy had realised that violets are actually purple

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Some common writing advice is to open with a hook and to kill your darlings, but Peter Pan teaches us that you can also be successful by opening with your Darlings and killing your Hook.

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 06/02/2025

Whoever said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result was clearly referring to eating a hot apple pie from McDonald’s and feeling confident that you definitely weren’t going to make a mess of it this time

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 01/02/2025

Running writing totals after January: – Submissions: 4 (+4 new) – Rejections: 3 (+3 new) 😅 – Tentative forward progress: 0 #100rejections🎉

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 29/01/2025

App idea: Uber, but instead of drivers and riders it’s people who want to write books but never do and people who buy books but never read them

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 27/01/2025

Beginning to think that ABBA’s views around money (“must be funny”, “always sunny”) might have been a little skewed by the rhyme scheme

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 26/01/2025

It’s easy to accuse the Jurassic Park/World films for cashing in, but as The Land Before Time showed us, it’s actually physically impossible to make a dinosaur franchise with fewer than ten films

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 23/01/2025

Excited to ride on the newly-rebranded “Mildmay Line” for the first time! The train is twelve minutes late, but the signage sure is a nice shade of blue

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 20/01/2025

This Tuesday! The line-up has been written down, the readings have been rehearsed and the rough cuts have been edited. Should be a fun night… 🥳

A poster for Sketchburn: a scratch night for sketch comedy films. 21st January, 7-8pm.

It features a partial 5 x 5 grid of photos, people and text — on a background of a photo negative of the sky.

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 16/01/2025

I can’t believe I have to store all these years using four digits instead of two

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 15/01/2025

‘Love’ has way too broad a definition — it shouldn’t be the same word for my wife and my friends and those Crunchie Bits things you get in Cadbury Heroes

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 14/01/2025

It’s amazing how any sophistication you feel from going to an art museum immediately dissipates as soon as you buy a little postcard from the shop

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 13/01/2025

Just got an automated message saying my local A&E was full, which is useful as I now know to postpone all the accidents and emergencies I had lined up

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 09/01/2025

Sorry in advance, but will have to keep plugging this. Tue, 21st Jan at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden 🥳

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 08/01/2025

I know the wildfires in Southern California are awful, but it’s *very* hard to read any reference to the “Santa Ana winds” without immediately thinking of:

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Santa Ana Winds - feat. Eric Michael Roy - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"

YouTube video by racheldoesstuff

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 08/01/2025

Now that we’ve seen what happens to people when they accrue obscene amounts of wealth and power, I have to say: the Bond films really got it right

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 05/01/2025

New thing for London friends: I’m starting a scratch night for sketch comedy films called Sketchburn! 🧵

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SKETCHBURN: a scratch night for sketch comedy films - Buy tickets

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 04/01/2025

Started watching The Traitors for the first time this year — not an expert, but if I was a Faithful I would perhaps try banishing fewer Faithfuls

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 03/01/2025

Love: Mythic Quest, Schmigadoon!, Severance, Silo, Ted Lasso (S1), The Afterparty (S1), The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

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Hari Kanth @harihkanth.com · 03/01/2025

Final writing totals for 2024: – Submissions: 40 – Rejections: 24 – Tentative forward progress: 4 #100rejections🎉

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