Standup comedy is no longer a Western idea, thanks to the emergence of comedians on a wider scale in India. In recent years, standup comedy has become extremely popular among Indian youngsters. A new generation of comedians has formed as a result of the rise in popularity of YouTube. The ability of these standup comedians to connect with their audience through their distinct content is the key to their success. In India’s comedic circles, the emergence of social media and online pop culture has ushered in a sea of change.
Here is a list of the top 10 stand up comedians Indian
1)Kenny Sebastian
Kenneth Mathew Sebastian, better known by his stage name Kenny Sebastian, is an Indian stand up comedian indian, singer, and filmmaker born on 31 December 1990. He originally gained notoriety through a YouTube channel that has accumulated 152 million views since 2008 and features video from his standup gigs, devotional music covers, and original sketches. Kenny Sebastian is a comedian, musician, and filmmaker who has performed stand up comedy worldwide and published many comedy specials.
Kenny created songs from tweets, which he dubbed #KennySing4Me. This was the source of his initial fame. Kenny recently started working as a judge on Amazon Prime Video’s Comicstaan, a comedy hunt reality program.
His Simple Ken podcast, which has included various guests, has snowballed on audio streaming sites and YouTube. He also has his own production company, SuperHuman Studioz. He has edited a Bollywood film called “Station” at the age of 21.
2)Vir Das
As his name suggests, Vir is a risk-taker for issues that many comedians would be wary about. When Vir Das started smashing records in the scene, it wasn’t even a thing in India. This person not only taught India what it means to have a “funny bone,” and he also educated urban Indians that the finest type of humor to fall in love with was laughing at yourself.
It was all oldies and the young until Vir made it big in the comedy industry. The young were limited to laughing at the quips of that one man in the group who delivered the greatest gags. The youth went hysterically bananas when Vir ushered in the raw, fresh, and edgy type of humor that comedy required.
With his Netflix special Abroad Understanding, he made his worldwide debut in 2017. And now, Das has appeared in nearly 100 stand up comedy gigs, 18 films, eight television episodes, and six comedy specials.
3)Aditi Mittal
Aditi Mittal was one of India’s first female stand up comics. She is a prolific writer and comic, having published pieces for Grazia Magazine, DNA, FirstPost.com, and the Financial Times. In 2012, The Times of India named her one of India’s top ten comedians.
CNN-IBN named her one of the Top 30 Witty, Intellectual, and Extremely Entertaining Indian Women to Follow on Twitter. She now has her own Netflix special, titled “Things They Wouldn’t Let Me Say.” Mittal was included in the American documentary Stand-Up Planet, which portrays a stand up comic’s mission to uncover some of the finest comedy worldwide, alongside American and South African comics.
Aditi started performing in the 2000s and became a part of the Comedy Store’s first all-Indian stand up event in 2009. Mittal has also appeared in films such as “Phenking News” and “Jay Hind” as a supporting actress.
4)Zakir Khan
Zakir Khan is a standup comedian, writer, poet, television host, and actor from India. Zakir Khan was born and reared in the Madhya Pradesh city of Indore. He lived in Delhi for most of his adult life. In 2012, Zakir Khan won Comedy Central’s “India’s Best Standup Comedian” competition. After collaborating with AIB’s news program, On Air with AIB, he grew in popularity. Zakir’s unique selling point is his witty banter, which he uses to distract himself from the fact that he has never wooed a female. His YouTube channel has 1.3 million members, and he has his program on Amazon Prime called “Haq Se Single.” He is a well-known standup comedian.
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5)Biswa Kalyan Rath
Biswa Kalyan Rath is a YouTuber, writer, and stand up comedian Indian. He is from the state of Odisha. Biswa, an IIT graduate, became renowned after hosting a YouTube show called “Pretentious Movie Reviews.” Biswa stepped to the stage after leaving his corporate job at Oracle and frequently speaks on IIT and work-life challenges.
He’s done several solo programs, including ‘Biswa In Your Face’ and ‘Biswa Mast Aadmi,’ and hosting and appearing on some AIB shows. He worked in graphic design, advertising, and software after graduating in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur in 2012. He met Kanan Gill during an open mic session in Bangalore in 2013 at this period. He left his job to become a full-time stand up comedian Indian.
6)Anubhav Singh Bassi
Anubhav Singh Bassi’s life has been a roller coaster, from being a lawyer and UPSC candidate to starting a food company with friends and ultimately ending up on stage as a stand up comedian Indian. In reality, his comedy is continuously centered on his professional decisions. His debut YouTube video, titled “Cheating,” went popular, and he never looked back. He has been instant popularity among audiences, with people continually looking forward to more from this gifted man, thanks to his easy method of narration and topics based on ordinary life.
Bassi is a 30-year-old man whose career as a stand up comedian began during an open mic in 2017. Bassi has a little Internet presence, with only four YouTube videos and a few Instagram monologues. But his YouTube videos, on the other hand, have had over 100 million views, and he has over 2 million subscribers as well as 800,000 Instagram followers.
7)Abhishek Upmanyu
Abhishek Upmanyu is a well-known leading comedian in India. Abhishek had been born in New Delhi on 19 May 1990. His studies at St. Xavier’s High School, Chandigarh, followed by his B.E. in Chemical Engineering at Punjab University. After his degree, he began working in several private businesses till he ultimately abandoned his position in stand up comedy.
And shortly, as an author, he joined ‘On Air with AIB’ in 2015 and began managing the Twitter Profile “Gareeb Guy” to make him more popular. He got great fame with the comedy ‘Thoda Saaf Bol’ and ‘Sabjiwala Jealous.’ He has extended his influence to national and international venues as well.
8)Abish Mathew
Abish Mathew is a YouTuber and a stand up comedian. Abish was born in the state of Kerala. He attended Fr. Agnel School in New Delhi. He went on to Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi, to study history.
He is well known for his work with All India Bakchod, as the presenter of Comicstaan, and as the author and host of Son of Abish and Journey Of A Joke. Before moving to standup comedy, he worked as a radio DJ at Red FM in Delhi. In Comedians On Board, he is dubbed GM (Grandmaster) Abish Mathew due to his strong playing style and audacious King sacrifices. In 2017, he appeared in the film Meri Pyaari Bindu in a supporting role.
9)Kanan Gill
Kanan grew up in Dehradun and Delhi after being born in Bareilly. He is a standup comedian, actor, and YouTuber from India. He was the winner of the Bangalore Punch Line Competition. He is most known for anchoring the YouTube series Pretentious Movie Reviews. He and fellow standup comedian Biswa Kalyan Rath discuss campy Bollywood flicks. He co-hosted the YouTube FanFest India and was one of the primary figures behind the YouTube Comedy Hunt and made his big-screen debut opposite Sonakshi Sinha in the film Noor.
10)Radhika Vaz
Radhika Vaz, an Indian comedian and writer, was born in 1973. Vaz, born in Mumbai and worked as an advertising executive in Chennai, holds a master’s degree in advertising from Syracuse University in New York. She is a columnist for The Times of India and educated at Groundlings School in Los Angeles and Improvolution in New York. Radhika Vaz enrolled in an improvisational theatre class, which she claims aided her in her early days as a performer and writer. In September of 2014, she performed in New York and Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kochi, Gurgaon, and Delhi in India.
