Nimesh Patel. Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Hailed as “Saturday Night Live’s most-intriguing new hire” by Vanity Fair in 2017, Nimesh Patel, the show’s first Indian-American writer, had written for Chris Rock’s Oscars hosting gig, Hasan Minhaj’s gig hosting both the Congressional and White House Correspondents’ Dinners, a talk show hosted by Awkwafina, and created a pilot for MTV2. Since 2012, he had co-hosted Broken Comedy, a weekly Monday night show at Matchless, a since-shuttered bar in Greenpoint, with SNL’s Michael Che and Mike Denny. But mostly he’s known for a highly controversial performance that got him kicked out of Columbia University last year, after which he wrote in a New York Times op-ed that “how people process and react has been broken [because] the small group controls the bullhorn.” This week he releasedHead Nimesh in Charge, his first album — a live recording of a performance in … [Read more...] about Nimesh Patel Wants to Be on the Wrong Side of the Joke