{{short description|American stand-up comic (born 1987)}} alt=photo of smiling comedian |thumb|220x220px '''Adam Mamawala''' (born May 18, 1987) is an American stand-up comedian based out of New York City. Mamawala has appeared on Comedy Central, MTV, BET, and SiriusXM, and both of his albums, ''More Relatable'' (2022) and ''One of the Good Ones'' (2017) debuted at #1 on the iTunes Comedy Charts. Adam has been a freelance contributor to Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update and Someecards and co-hosts the basketball podcast HORSE. Mamawala played the lead character in a 6 episode indie romantic comedy series ''Under Cover Comic'' (2022), streaming on Amazon Prime, Roku, and Tubi.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-12 |title=Hillsborough Comic To Headline At Stress Factory, Tour With Dane Cook |url=https://patch.com/new-jersey/hillsborough/hillsborough-comic-headline-stress-factory-tour-dane-cook |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=Hillsborough, NJ Patch |language=en}}</ref>
== Biography == Mamawala was born in Aurora, Illinois, to an Indian father from Pune, India and a German-American mother from Whitewater, Wisconsin.<ref>Blank, Matt. [https://mixedasianmedia.com/rising-standup-star-adam-mamawala "Rising Stand-Up Star Adam Mamawala Dishes on His Indian Roots, Personal Idols, & Where Comedy Draws the Line"], Mixed Asian Media, August 19, 2022. Accessed July 10, 2024. "I was born in Aurora, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago most known in pop culture as being the setting of ''Wayne's World''. My dad is from India and my mom is from Wisconsin, but they moved to Illinois in 1985 after my dad's job brought him there. We also moved from Illinois to New Jersey in 1996 as a result of my dad's job, which is where I largely grew up. My dad worked in insurance, first for MetLife and then MassMutual."</ref> His father studied in Morocco before moving to the United States to pursue his MBA. His father worked in financial services for MetLife and MassMutual while his mother was a special education teachers' aide.<ref name="TCNJ">[http://www.tcnj.edu/~ambssdrs/bios/mamawala.shtml The College of New Jersey official web site wep page for Student Ambassador Adam Mamawala] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907154417/http://www.tcnj.edu/~ambssdrs/bios/mamawala.shtml|date=2008-09-07}}. Accessed March 14, 2008.</ref> He graduated from Hillsborough High School in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey in 2005 and graduated from The College of New Jersey in Ewing Township, New Jersey, with a degree in Communication Studies in 2009.<ref name="Chronicle">Thomas Bartlett, "Funny You Should Say That," ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', January 11, 2008, found at [http://chronicle.texterity.com/chronicle/20080111a-sample/?pg=8 Chronicle of Higher Education sample article]. Accessed March 14, 2008.</ref><ref name="Punchlines">James Queally, "Punchlines punch Mamawala's ticket to Atlantic City", ''The Signal'' (College of New Jersey newspaper), November 29, 2006, found at [http://media.www.signal-online.net/media/storage/paper771/news/2006/11/29/Entertainment/Punchlines.Punch.Mamawalas.Ticket.To.Atlantic.City-2510377.shtml Punchlines punch Mamawala's ticket to Atlantic City]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Accessed March 14, 2008.</ref>
Since 2024, he has toured the country as one of Dane Cook’s feature acts, performing at iconic venues such as The Fillmore in Detroit, The Met in Philadelphia and New York City’s Beacon Theatre.<ref>Videos on Youtube at [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYAnEsvYsr0 Adam Mamawala Stand-Up at Comix (January 07, 2009 show on Youtube)] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mszLULL_Qg Adam Mamawala at Comix 1/6]. Retrieved March 11, 2008.</ref><ref>"Event: Kel Mitchell to host Edison comedy show Wednesday to support local scholarship, by Helping Hands", see [http://www.nj.com/helpinghands/index.ssf/2008/06/vent_kel_mitchell_to_host_edis.html NJ.com website]. Retrieved September 30, 2008.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://stressfactory.com/event.cfm?id=175717 |title=Stress Factory Comedy Club :: Baker-Bone and Friends |access-date=2015-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133150/http://stressfactory.com/event.cfm?id=175717 |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet Adam Mamawala |url=https://canvasrebel.com/meet-adam-mamawala/ |access-date=2025-01-23 |website=canvasrebel.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
==See also== {{Portal|Comedy}}
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://amamawala.blogspot.com/ Personal blog]
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