Free Lessons in Love: Comedian Rajiv Satyal Releases Video ‘NO MAN’S LAND’ on YouTube

LOS ANGELES - Aug. 13, 2015 - PRLog -- Rajiv Satyal has finally met his match. The Indian-American comedian who built a career of telling self-deprecating jokes about being single will have to start finding humor in married life, after recently marrying the woman of his dreams.

To celebrate his new relationship, the former Procter & Gamble marketing executive has released his solo show No Man’s Land on YouTube, at no charge. The show, which was performed to sold-out audiences in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Cincinnati in 2013, features Satyal sharing true stories of bad experiences with approximately 100 women, by his own estimate.

“No Man's Land was really about defining manhood in modern society,” Satyal said. “I wanted to confront myself on the question of why I was still single in my mid-30s, which I suspected had to do with my own lack of manhood. Interestingly, by going through the process of writing it and performing it, I became a man. Standing on stage and owning up to my mistakes was very powerful.” http://youtu.be/STOkKcOx9tc


The theatre website StageHappenings.com called No Man's Land “witty and insightful. However, Satyal stopped performing the show in 2014, after falling in love with Harsha Mistry, a pharmacist he met on a dating website. The couple became engaged on stage at The Funny Bone comedy club in Newport, Kentucky, where Satyal was opening for former Saturday Night Live star Kevin Nealon. The proposal, including Nealon's toast, can be seen at https://youtu.be/TEno_-u6pkI.

Satyal and Mistry were married in Austin, Texas, in July, 2015. Several of Satyal’s friends from the comedy world were in attendance, including actor Ed Weeks from The Mindy Project and superstar comedian Russell Peters, who performed a comedy set, and even took over the DJ's turntables to play music. Satyal joked during his wedding speech, “I finally got him to open for me.”

Meanwhile, Satyal’s latest one-man show, I Am... is a humorous look at identity and is a play on his successful viral videos, I AM OHIOAN and I AM INDIAN, the latter of which was shared by Bollywood stars Abhishek Bachchan and Preity Zinta, and was played immediately before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke in Shanghai last May.

Satyal also co-created Make Chai, Not War, which the U.S. State Department promoted in India in 2012, as a goodwill gesture. But of all the shows Satyal has written and performed, “No Man’s Land” is his most personal and perhaps the most universally relevant.

“I’m doing this as a gift to the millions of single men out there, who are in the same predicament I was,” he said.

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