| Baratunde Rafiq Thurston | |
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Baratunde Rafiq Thurston |
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| Born | September 11, 1977 Washington, D.C., USA |
| Occupation | Comedian, author |
| Website | |
| http://www.baratunde.com | |
Baratunde Rafiq Thurston (born September 11, 1977 in Washington, D.C.) is an American comedian based in Boston and New York City. He is a graduate of Sidwell Friends School and a cum laude graduate of Harvard University.
Thurston is the author of three self-published books:
As part of Laughing Liberally, Thurston emceed the YearlyKos convention in 2006[1] and also appeared in 2007.[2]
Thurston has contributed to the Huffington Post[3] and the Weekly Dig.[4] More recently Thurston has become a semi-regular panelist on the podcast this Week in Tech with Leo Laporte.
Thurston began hosting the Popular Science's Future Of television show on the Science Channel in August 2009.[5]
Thurston is currently the Web Editor at The Onion.
He is writing his fourth book, due in early 2011, entitled How to Be Black, to be published by HarperCollins.