Deepak Sethi

Deepak Sethi is a Canadian-American screenwriter,^[1] comedian,^[2] film director, and voice actor.^[3] Sethi has written episodes of Family Guy, Brickleberry, and Close Enough.^[4]

Deepak Sethi
Born	Toronto, Canada
Education	University of Western Ontario
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, film director, comedian, voice actor
Years active	2010-present

Life and career

Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Sethi was an ethnic food salesman for his family's food company.^[1] While working in the food industry and doing his MBA,^[3] Sethi was discovered through his comedy blog^[1] which attracted over 2.2 million followers.^[2] Actress Alyssa Milano, a reader of Sethi's blog, passed Sethi's writing to writer Ricky Blitt who helped Sethi get a job on Family Guy.^[1]

Sethi was heckled by an audience member at a stand-up comedy show in Las Vegas, the crowd member insinuating that Sethi was a terrorist.^[5] Sethi was nominated for an Annie Award for his writing in 2021.^[6]

In 2021, Sethi wrote and directed the short film Coffee Shop Names^[7] which was nominated for a Tribeca X award at the Tribeca Film Festival^[8] and was acquired by HBO Max^[9] in September 2021.