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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicStand up comedy

Topic: Stand up comedy

‘I don’t fear this mob,’ Kunal Kamra refuses to apologise for stand-up act on Eknath Shinde

PTI -
The comic further criticised the vandalism of the Habitat Comedy Club in Khar as well as a hotel in whose premises the club is located, calling it 'senseless'.

Actor-comedian Vir Das bags Emmy Award for Best Comedy for his Netflix special

ANI -
Awarded for his special, 'Vir Das: Landing', Das shares this award with ‘Derry Girls - Season 3’ produced by Hat Trick Productions.

UPSC struggle is now the stuff of Indian pop culture—stand-up, TVF series, Bollywood, memes

+TFP Nootan Sharma -
Doctors and engineers have been replaced by IPS, IAS officers. Their journey and struggles have taken over the screen, be it through memes or movies.

Vir Das: Landing speaks out unapologetically against India’s ‘cancel culture’

Nidhima Taneja -
The Netflix stand-up special is a follow-up to the Two Indias’ monologue, which drew maximum eyeballs and massive trolling.

‘Lovechild of theatre, comedy’—improv is where India’s young adults come out to play

+TFP Yashika Singla -
Indians discovered improv during Covid, after foreign troupes started experimenting on Zoom. Today, improv has become a means to achieve wellness.

82% Sikh youth pray frequently, highly religious compared to others, shows CSDS-Lokniti survey

Nikhil Rampal -
More than 80% Sikh respondents also support a ban on the making of comedy movies on religious leaders, as well as stand-up comedy on religion.

Thank god for Netflix and Vir Das. India’s craving comedy and satire, but TVs are a no-go

Shailaja Bajpai -
Clearly, producers and channels know something we don’t — that Indians don’t watch TV to be amused or elevated.

Noida has a new sector. It’s called humour

Tina Das -
Move to Noida and your dating scene is dead. Not many to swipe right.

After Neville Shah’s ‘quota’ clip, Indian comedians called out for past casteist, sexist jokes

Unnati Sharma -
Old tweets and videos of several popular comedians have surfaced on social media where they made sexist, casteist and Islamophobic jokes.

2 co-accused in comedian Munawar Faruqui case granted bail

PTI -
The Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court gave relief to Sadaqat Khan and Nalim Yadav, who were involved in organising a comedy show during which Faruqui allegedly insulted Hindu deities.
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