MTV's LOGO's "Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack", NBC's "Last Comic Standing", FOX TV's "On The Lot" Steven Spielberg Reality Show, Reuters TV, PBS's "Asian America", AVS tv
Films
"Laughing Out Loud - A Comic Journey" by Shalini Kantayya on Steven Spielberg's "On The Lot" on Fox TV
Website
vidurkapur.com
Bio
Vidur was selected as a NY finalist for NBC’s Stand Up for Diversity and was part of the famous New York Comedy Festival in NYC where he was mentioned by FOX TV as "A comedian to remember’. He rocked the Feb ’08 National Association of Campus Activities convention and will be one of the top 3 acts on US college campuses for ’08 -’09
Vidur Kapur 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 "Laughing Out Loud – A Comic Journey" 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". Vidur was also featured in a Reuters TV special shown on 500 television satellites globally, called "Prominent South Asians in The Media" along with Mira Nair, the director of "The Namesake" and Naveen Andrews of ABC’s "Lost".
Influences
Chris Rock, John Lequizamo, Margaret Cho, Paul Mooney, Richard Pryor, His Grandmother, Dave Chapelle,
