Kenny Sebastian
Kenny Sebastian was born on 31 December 1990 to Catholic parents from Pala, Kerala, and was brought up in Bangalore. His father was in the Navy, hence Sebastian migrated throughout his childhood. He speaks English, Hindi, Kannada and Malayalam. Sebastian went to Kendriya Vidyalaya for his education. He holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath.
Career
Kenny made songs from tweets, popularly known as #KennySing4Me. This gained him his initial popularity. He also created an improvised sketch show for Comedy Central known as The Living Room. He co-wrote and acted in the web series called Star Boyz. He did a cameo in the web series Humorously Yours, in Better Life Foundation by Naveen Richard and in Pushpavalli by Sumukhi Suresh. He also has an original series Die Trying, an improvised show The Improvisers: Something From Nothing along with Abish Mathew, Kanan Gill and Kaneez Surka and a sketch comedy show Sketchy Behaviour co-written and co-starring Kanan Gill on Amazon Prime Video.He also started his mini series named “Getting there” which has 3 episodes and two stand-up specials each on Amazon Prime and Netflix.
He is a judge for Comicstaan, a comedy hunt reality show on Amazon Prime Video. He brings out videos from his standup routines and the occasional Chai Time With Kenny on his YouTube channel.
His podcast titled Simple Ken, which has featured various guests, has also gained popularity on audio streaming services and on YouTube. However, Kenny has stated time and again on the podcast that he would like the ‘SimpleKen’ community to remain small, as it was meant to be a personal, niche venture, and not mainstream.
He has his own production house named SuperHuman Studioz and has also edited a Bollywood film “Station” at the age of 21. He also did subtitling work for about a month, before he quit abruptly.
Filmography
Year | Name | Platform | Notes |
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2014 | Journey to the Center of My Brain | Himself | |
2015 | Insides Out | Himself | |
2016 | Star Boyz | Actor | |
A Door through a Window | Himself | ||
Breezer Vivid | Alongside Abish Mathew | ||
2017—2018 | Son Of Abish | Season 2 with Radhika Apte | |
Season 4 with Yami Gautam | |||
2017–Present | Chai Time with Kenny | Himself | |
2017 | Don’t Make That Face by Naveen Richard | ||
Don’t Be That Guy | Himself | ||
2018 | Die Trying | Kenny | |
The Improvisers: Something From Nothing | |||
Himself- Judge | |||
2019 | Sketchy Behaviour | Alongside Kanan Gill | |
Comicstaan season 2 | Himself- Judge | ||
2020 | The Most Interesting Person in the Room | Himself |
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