Indian Standup Comedians have featured themselves in dinnertime television slots, drawing wide audience, as it is a consolation after a long weary and humdrum life. Some of the contemporary Indian stand-up comedians are Krishna Abhishek, Mir Afsar Ali, Kapil Sharma, Joy John Antony, Vipul Goyal, Raju Srivastava, Rehman Khan, Bharti Singh, Siddharth Sagar and many more.
Krishna Abhishek
Krishna Abhishek is an Indian stand-up comedian who earned appreciation for his work in films like "Bol Bachchan" and "Its Entertainment". Krishna Abhishek is also a dancer and has participated in numerous dance reality shows, including, Nach Baliye (Season 3) (2007) and Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (Season 4) (2010).
Mir Afsar Ali
Mir is an Indian radio jockey and also a stand up comedian. He earned fame as an anchor and news reader from West Bengal and has been aprreciated from "Mirakkel", a laughter show on Zee Bangla and Hi Kolkata on Radio Mirchi.
Joy John Antony
Joy John Antony is a mimicry artist and Stand up comedian. He made his debut through "Kursuthi Kuruppu", a show from Kochi"s City Channel and gained popularity though adventurous show Tenali raman and Vaalkannady..
Ali Asgar
Ali Asgar is a stand-up comedian who appeared as Kamal Agarwal in Star Plus TV show Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki. He also appeared in F.I.R. as Inspector Raj Aryan that was aired in SAB TV. He is commonly known for his role in Colors TV show Comedy Nights with Kapil as Dadi.
Tanmay Bhat
Tanmay Bhat is an Indian stand-up comedian, and also the co-founder of comedy sketch group "All India Bakchod".
Papa CJ
Papa CJ is a stand-up comedian who won the `Asia`s Best Stand-up Comedian` award by Top 10 Magazine in Kuala Lumpur. He has toured sell-out shows across five continents and in October 2011 he taped a Showtime USA Stand-up Comedy Special with Russell Peters in Amsterdam.
Saloni Daini
Saloni Daini is a young stand-up comedian. She has faced the camera from the age of three, acting in Marathi serials and Marathi and Hindi films, and has released a music album for Disney. She also mimics the film stars and politicians. She was seen in the advertisements of Shah Rukh Khan`s Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain. In 2010, Saloni Daini appeared on Comedy Circus Mahasangram. She also featured in video series called Main 13 Hoon.
Vir Das
Vir Saran Das is an Indian actor and stand up comedian who appeared in a number of comic shows and the Bollywood movies.
Paresh Ganatra
Paresh Ganatra is an Indian television, stage and film actor and also a stand up comedian. He is best known for his role as Praveen Thakkar in the super-hit Star Plus comedy series Baa Bahoo Aur Baby (2005-2010).He is also known for his comic role in the 2005 hit, No Entry and Rowdy Rathore, as well as his work in Comedy Nights with Kapil, and as participant in reality stand-up comedy series, Comedy Circus 3 Ka Tadka (2009).
Gurpreet Ghuggi
Gurpreet ghuggi is an Indian stand-up comedian, who also works as actor in TV soap operas, Bollywood and Punjabi cinema. He is the known face in many Punjabi serials and Bollywood Cinema.
Kanan Gill
Kanan Gill is an Indian stand-up comedian who won the Punch Line Bangalore Competition. He is known for the You Tube series.
Sunil Grover
Sunil Grover is an Indian actor and stand-up comedian. He was born into a Punjabi Hindu family. He did his schooling from Arya Vidya Mandir, Mandi Dabwali and from Guru Nanak College. He has done his masters in theatre from Punjabi University, Chandigarh. Later Sunil Grover hosts a number of comic shows and Hindi cinema. He was part of the stand up comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil Sharma and became immensely popular playing the fictional character Guthi. He later returned to play the role of father-in-law to the show"s lead Kapil Sharma. Sunil Grover and Manish Paul started a comedy show on Star Plus, titled "Mad in India".
Appurv Gupta
Appurv Gupta is a well known stand-up comedian and a satirist who chose to be a stand-up comedian rather than working in corporate offices. He has done around 250 shows since then, including corporate performances for Amny National and International Firms. His most applauded act is Appurview - Laugh with an Engineer which describes life from the point-of-view of an engineer.
Biswa Kalyan Rath
Biswa Kalyan Rath is an Indian stand-up comedian. He is known for the YouTube series, Pretentious Movie Reviews where he reviews yesteryear Bollywood films along with fellow stand-up comedian Kanan Gill.
Karan Wahi
Karan Wahi, an Indian former cricketer started his television career as an actor and stand up comedian with the 2004 television show Remix on Star One, for which he won Indian Telly Award for GR8 Best Male Newcomer. In addition to acting, Karan Wahi participates in stage shows and has hosted several award shows including Red Carpet events. He established himself as a TV show host. In 2013, Karan Wahi received a nomination for the Best Anchor in Nach Baliye 5 at the Indian Television Academy Awards.
Gursimran Khamba
Gursimran Khamba is an Indian stand-up comedian and writer. He is the co-founder of All India Bakchod which is a comedy group and also hosted India`s first ever comedy pod cast alongside Tanmay Bhat.
Sudesh Lehri
Sudesh Lehri is an Indian stand-up comedian, film, and television actor. He participated in the 2007 comedy show The Great Indian Laughter Challenge III in 2007. He was a second runner up in the show after Kapil Sharma and Chandan Prabhakar. He then participated in Comedy Circus, as a contestant partnering with Krushna Abhishek. Together, they won three seasons and quickly garnered popularity as Krushna-Sudesh.
Jamie Lever
Jamie Janumala is an Indian stand-up comedian. She is the daughter of Indian comedian Johnny Lever.
Shailesh Lodha
Shailesh Lodha is an Indian actor, comedian and writer from Rajasthan. He first appeared in Comedy Circus as contestant. He appears in the sitcom Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah as real-life columnist Taarak Mehta.
Sanjay Manaktala
Sanjay Manaktala is an Indian stand-up comedian, based out of Bengaluru and performs at different places all over India. With a stand-up experience of more than 4 years, he has performed at over 90 Corporate events and 200 Solo shows throughout the country.
Aditi Mittal
Aditi Mittal is an Indian stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She is 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.
Riaad Moosa
Riaad Moosa is an Indian-born comedian, actor and doctor of Indian-Malay descent. She is famous in global comedy shows.
Jimmy Moses
Jimmy Moses is an Indian actor, playback singer and stand-up comedian. He is mimicry artist from Mumbai. He is younger brother of India`s ace comedian Johnny Lever. Jimmy has been doing comedy for more than two decades now, and has done about 4,000 shows in more than 30 countries.
Satyajit Padhye
Satyajit Padhye is an Indian ventriloquist, puppeteer and puppet maker, and third generation ventriloquist. He is also portrayed as the Indian stand-up comedian.
Anuvab Pal
Anuvab Pal is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He was listed by Times Of India as one of India`s top 5 comedians. He co-wrote the 2007 cult hit Indian comedy, Loins Of Punjab Presents, with Manish Acharya which The New York Times called A witty musical comedy.
Sunil Pal
Sunil Pal is a popular Indian comedian, actor and voice actor, and the 2005 winner of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on STAR One. Lately he has been seen acting in many Bollywood flicks doing minor comic roles. In 2010, he wrote and directed a comedy film, Bhavnao Ko Samjho, which featured a record 51 stand-up comedians.
Hemant Pandey
Hemant Pandey is an India film, theatre and television actor, most known for his role as Pandeyji in TV series, Office Office (2000). Originally Hemant Pandey is hailing from Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, got his first break in Delhi by an NGO called Janmadhyam and Allaripu which is especially for women. Hemant has worked in all fields of acting in theatre, television shows and movies also.
Sorabh Pant
Sorabh Pant is an Indian stand-up comedian and writer. Sorabh Pant is one of India`s successful comedians, having done over 250 shows in over 17 cities. He has been rated amongst India`s top 10 stand-up comedians by The Times of India. The Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan has dubbed him as "the funniest guy on stage".
Manish Paul
Manish Paul is an Indian television host, anchor and Bollywood actor who is a host of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. Starting as a radio jockey and VJ, he moved to acting on television daily soaps, before taking up stand-up comedy and hosting television reality series
Navin Prabhakar
Navin Prabhakar is an Indian stand-up comedian, singer, actor and a mimicry artist. He is most known for his Pehchan Kaun (Mumbai bar girl) act on The Great Indian Laughter Challenge (2005). Subsequently he also hosted a mimicry and stand-up show Hello Kaun?
Ahsaan Qureshi
Ahsaan Qureshi is an Indian stand-up comedian who is the 2005 runner-up of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, a stand-up comedy competition on Star One. Ahsaan Qureshi has been a stage performer for the last 20 years. Most of his jokes focus on political satire and social issues. He had put in his name for the reality show at the behest of his friends. Lately he has been seen in a Bollywood movie, Bombay to Goa (2007), Ek Paheli Leela (2015), and the Bhojpuri film Hanuman Bhakt Hawaldar (2007). He is a part of SAB TV comedy show Hum Aapke Ghar Mein Rehte Hain.
Sanjay Rajoura
Sanjay Rajoura is a popular stand up artist and actor. Sanjay worked in the software industry for more than 10 years and then one fine day just decided to quit. His comedy talks a lot of the life of a typical software engineer in India and life in India in general. Politics, religion, cast, gender politics, feminism are some of his favorite topics.
Rehman Khan
Rehman Khan is an Indian stand up comedian and a film actor. He participated in Comedy Circus 2 (2008), Comedy Circus Chincpokli to China, Comedy Circus 20 20 with Rakshanda Khan, Comedy ka Mahasangram with Karishma Tanna, Jubilee Comedy Circus with Saloni Daini, Comedy Ke Superstar with Usha Nadkarni, Comedy Circus Ki Kahani with Ragini Khanna, Comedy Circus 3 Ka Tadka (2009) with Anoop Soni, and Shweta Tiwari on Sony Television.
Kapil Sharma
Kapil Sharma is an Indian stand-up comedian, actor, TV host, currently is hosting the Indian comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil. Kapil Sharma has been nominated for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by Narendra Modi, which he has accepted. He made his debut in a Bollywood film Kiss Kiss Ko Payar Karu.