Stand-up comic, Writer, Producer, Founder at Chalta Hai Comedy – That’s Punit Pania for you! He is constantly making himself believe that comedy is the answer to a midlife crisis that is waiting to happen. Punit describes himself as a marketing professional by day, a struggling writer by night and a comedian on weekends. He gave up his 11-year long corporate career to join the stage of comedy as a full-time comedian.
Here are a few quick facts about Punit Pania:
- He is the single man behind ‘Chalta Hai Comedy’. Founded in 2015, it is one of the largest independent producers of stand-up events in various cities of India. Every month, over 20 shows are held under this banner with the biggest and wackiest artists of the country.
- Punit organises and hosts all shows of Chalta Hai Comedy across Mumbai, Pune, Surat and Baroda and has also performed in Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Vizag and Goa in different comedy formats.
- He has produced over 200 shows over including several sold out concept shows.
- Punit is a master of observational comedy and talks around suburban philosophy mostly.
- He is fluent in 5 languages – English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Sindhi.
- An MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, he had an 11-year long corporate stint before joining comedy.
- His YouTube channel has 7,527,799 video views and 69.1K subscribers.