Desi Comedy Night

Join us for a vibrant and hilarious evening at the Desi Comedy Night presented in partnership with Comedy Bonfyre. Sureni Weerasekera, Abby Govindan, Tarunika Anand, and Swetha Ramesh will bring spice and laughter to the stage and will leave you wanting more.

Enjoy dinner before or after the show as part of our Comedy & Cocktails promotion, and see more shows for less with an All Access Pass. Our goal is to bring people together for great live comedy and to reflect the diversity of our wonderful Silver Spring on stage.

Friday, March 28, 2025 at 7pm

Silver Spring Black Box Threatre, 8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Lineup

Sureni Weerasekera is a Sri Lankan-born, San Diego-raised, & New York-based stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. She is known for her lighthearted, conversational banter to her ruthless, dark jabs. She has performed at San Francisco Sketchfest, Desi Comedy Festival, Oakland Comedy Festival, San Francisco Pride Festival and recently headlined New York Comedy Festival. Sureni is a paid regular at San Francisco Punchline Comedy Club, Cobb’s Comedy Club, Sacramento Punchline Comedy Club, Alameda Comedy Club, and more. She recently opened for Hari Kondabolu, Irene Tu, Lucas Zelnick, and Ashley Gavin. She has worked with Amazon Prime, META, and HBO. Sureni was recently featured on Don’t Tell Comedy. She just completed the 2023-2024 Hot & Funny Tour alongside Sydney Stigerts, a DIY national tour geared towards queer audiences. She’s a regular in with college circuit with KP Comedy. In 2024, she was selected for Netflix’s “Introducing…” Series for the Netflix is a Joke Festival.

Abby Govindan is a 26-year-old stand-up comedian and writer based in New York City. Abby got her start in comedy at the age of 20, making her comedic debut at Caroline’s on Broadway in New York City in December of 2017. Within a year of pursuing comedy, she had a meteoric rise after she went viral on the internet for her sharp wit and comedic ingenuity. Since starting comedy, Abby has performed at venues all over the world and, in 2019, even toured as a headliner for several colleges across the nation while being a college student herself. Since blowing up on Twitter and Instagram, she’s opened for coveted comedians such as Russell Peters, Daniel Sloss, and Hasan Minhaj. She has also traveled the world and regularly sells out shows across the country as a headliner. Now, as she works on cementing a name for herself outside of internet virality, Abby is sharing her critically acclaimed, heartwarming one-hour solo show, “How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents,” across the country.

Tarunika Anand is your friendly neighborhood they/them who recently broke up with their therapist and decided to make it everyone else’s problem by doing stand-up. You can catch this dyke with a mic all over the DMV, including at the DC Improv, the Comedy Loft, and A League of Her Own!

Swetha Ramesh began performing comedy in 2023 to stop stress-baking weekly pans of shortbread. A graduate of Grassroots Comedy’s stand-up incubator program, they now deliver tongue-in-cheek punchlines at some of the city’s best known stages, including Union Stage, DC Comedy Loft, and As You Are. Swetha’s comedy takes you through their journey from frat bro, to horse girl, to bonafide, local queer about town – complete with witty one-liners. While their views are their own, their Netflix login is definitely borrowed (sorry).

Comedy Bonfyre is a D.C. based comedy and storytelling production, produced by Ambi Narula and Lyka Miranda. Comedy Bonfyre shows bring the heat, laughter and good vibes just like a real bonfire.

This show is part of SPRUNG!, a four-day, eight show comedy festival presented by Improbable Comedy.

March 26: MOTHER of All Comedy Shows

March 27: Funnier Than Fiction with Story District)

March 28: The Originals: All Native Comedy Night

March 28: Desi Comedy Night

March 28: Law & Order Comedy

March 29: DC Science Comedy

March 29: Comedy as a Second Language

March 29: Joke Sistas

Tickets and more information are at www.improbablecomedy.com/sprung

Thank you to the founding sponsors of SPRUNG! 2025: Behavior United, Open Rivers, Carlton Creative, CMIT Solutions, Nothing Bundt Cakes, and Zen Business, as well as our Comedy & Cocktail Partners: Urban Winery, All Set

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SPRUNG! is Silver Spring’s comedy festival presented by Improbable Comedy. Now in its third year, we present seven shows over four nights of comedy at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre on March 26 – 29, 2025. With signature shows, new performances, and partner productions, SPRUNG! will bring over a thousand people together for laughs in this great Silver Spring community. Enjoy dinner before or after the show as part of our Comedy & Cocktails promotion, and see more shows for less with an All Access Pass.

About Improbable Comedy:
Founded in 2012 by social-worker-turned-comedy-producer Kim Levone, Improbable Comedy has hosted more than 150 shows in local venues around the DMV. The goal has been to transform the industry by giving the mic to hilarious comedians who have been underrepresented on stage. Since our first show at Vicino’s restaurant, we have brought big laughs to theatres, bars, swanky clubs, and people’s homes. We now have regular shows at Busboys & Poets and the Arts Barn as well as partnerships with the Montgomery Parks Department and at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre.

Please Note: Due to the nature of live performance, we sometimes have to make a last minute change in the lineup of performers. We appreciate your understanding and patience. It is always our aim to present a great show for our audience.

**Important: Please note the venue’s covid policies.**

Refund Policy: Refunds up to 30 days before event
Eventbrite’s fee is nonrefundable.