Comedy is difficult genre and comedy in India can be a little more than tricky (you know why). Here's some comedians who have managed to trickle everyone's funny bones!
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Sorabh Pant
Sorabh Pant is one of India's successful comedians, having done over 250 shows in over 17 cities. Watch him on East India Comedy and you'll think no less!
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Biswa Kalyan Rath
He started a series of Youtube sketches called Pretentious Movie Reviews with fellow comedian Kanan Gill which garnered a lot of fans and pushed them into the limelight. Biswa has performed a lot of stand up comedy shows, you can check some of them out on youtube!
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Kannan Gill
Kanan Gill is an Indian stand-up comedian and YouTuber. He won the Punch Line Bangalore Competition. He is known for the YouTube series, Pretentious Movie Reviews where he reviews yesteryear Bollywood films along with fellow stand-up comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath.
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Vir Das
Vir Das has not only acted in movies (some really good ones, think Go Goa Gone) but has also done a lot of stand up comedy and improvs that have earned him a lot of hearts and admiration.
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Tanmay Bhat
Tanmay Bhat is an Indian stand-up comedian, script writer, producer and also the co-founder of comedy sketch group All India Bakchod. If you know AIB, you know he's pretty much the pulse of it.
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Kenny Sebastian
Born into a middle class family and raised across different cities in India helped 25 year old Kenneth Sebastian develop a keen sense of observation of culture, people and stereotypes, all of which have found its way into his comedy.
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Abish Mathew
Known for his work with All India Bakchod and Son Of Abish, Abish Mathew has chalked his name onto the list of upcoming, young, hilarious stand up comedians and you know what? He never has to look back.
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Aditi Mittal
Aditi Mittal is an Indian stand-up comedian, actress and writer. One of the first women to do stand-up comedy in India, Aditi has been rated amongst India’s top 10 stand-up comedians by The Times of India. Way to go girl!
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Gursimranjeet Khamba
Gursimran Khamba or just Khamba, is an Indian stand-up comedian and writer who co-founded of All India Bakchod which is a comedy group and also hosted India's first ever comedy podcast alongside Tanmay Bhat.
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Ashish Shakya
Ashish Shakya is another co-owner of All India Bakchod, he does stand-up comedy and also writes as a humor columnist in Hindustan Times.
Here's a video of him in the AIB roast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8bJy_vclk8