Alexander Babu

Alexander Babu was born and brought up in a small village called Andavoorani in Ramanathapuram district, Tamil Nadu in a Catholic family.^[6][7] He studied engineering in College of engineering Guindy in Chennai, studied his master's degree in the United States and worked as a software engineer at Amazon in Seattle.^[8][9] He began his training as a Carnatic vocalist when he was in the United States.^[6]

Alexander Babu started his stand-up comedy career after leaving his corporate job as a software-engineer.^[3][10] During his early life in stand-up comedy he worked in the South India-focused comedy movement Evam Stand-Up Tamasha^[10] During July 2017, he began his musical stand-up act, Alex in Wonderland which combines music, storytelling and stand-up^[11] and earned him numerous accolades.^[12] He performed 115 shows of Alex in Wonderland worldwide after ending it in 2019 and it is now an Amazon Prime special^[13][11] He is popular in YouTube for his stand-up comedy performances; his videos have gained him millions of views and has more than 1 million subscribers as of April 2020.^{[citation needed]}