With all businesses latching on the work from home or remote option, stand-up comics have taken that route too. Comics and stand-up production house owners across the country have switched to the alternate way to reach their audiences in a pandemic.

They are turning to the internet and social media to cheer up audiences, because who doesn’t miss the humour and laughter that almost disappeared from our lives of late.

But don’t you worry, Humour Sapiens got some of the whackiest and coolest digital comedy shows with your favourite comedians happening this weekend.

Bachpan – Stand Up Comedy by Rajat Chauhan
June 20 | 9:30PM
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Gaurav Gupta Live – An Interactive comedy show
June 20 | 8PM
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Between The Lines – Azeem Banatwalla
June 20 | 8PM
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Tinzie: Knotty@9.30
June 20 | 9:30PM
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Locked In? Laugh Out!
June 20 | 7PM
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Gaurav Kapoor Live
June 21 | 8PM
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Ladies Night Out
June 21 | 7:45PM
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Laughter Se Sanitisation by Sunil Pal and Vip
June 21 | 6PM
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Comedy From Home – An online comedy show
June 21 | 7PM
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Millennial Married Life
June 21 | 8PM
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Tinzie: Parvinder Singh Live
June 21 | 8PM
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Baap Ko Mat Sikha – Standup Open Mic (Father’s Day Special)
June 21 | 7PM
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Grin Revolution: Wrong Answers Only w/ Khamba, Shreeja & Shaad
June 21 | 5PM
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The Funny Lineup – An online comedy show
June 20 | 9PM
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SORABH PANT

Ex-cofounder of East India Company, and ace comedian, Sorabh Pant has written 3 books. A mind that, aside from belonging to a writer, also belongs to a stand-up comedian who has been touted as one of the country s top ten in The Times of India.

The Wednesday Soul:

Sorabh Pant’s debut novel, The Wednesday Soul, was incepted when a few incidents threatened to unsettle his blossoming career as a TV personality. Though he was certain that the accidents happening with his life were caused by his ex-girlfriend’s black magic, but he considered digging a bit deep and write a book. However, on becoming a comedian, he decided to leave that task to Bengali and dead Russian authors. Thereafter, he decided to explore the idea of another book on the world of death from the perspective of a certifiable lunatic, a world of rockstar gods, late celebrities, gargantuan creatures and other substance abuse-related figments of his imagination. After five years and eighty-seven re-writes later, The Wednesday Soul was born.

Buy it here.

Under Delhi:

His second book, packed with hilarious flair and blatant voice, is about a girl name Tanya Bisht and her troubles with the issues of sexual assault and rape in Delhi. As wise politicians and holymen state that the girls who get raped are merely “asking for it”. Their skimpy clothes and fast food eating habits add to their sexual vibes. But, there is always the failsafe, call your would-be rapist “bhaiya” and he will be filled with brotherly remorse and will let you go. And that’s how any woman in Delhi can avoid being raped.

Buy it here.

Pawan – The Flying Accountant:

A superhero novel about an invincible humanoid who is suicidal. Set in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, in an alternate reality. Arjun Singh, an accountant by the day and a reluctant demigod-superhero by the night, but he’d rather care about GST than his superpowers. Soon to be murdered by goons, he couldn’t be happier but things do not go as per the plan. He survives! What’s worse? He’s forced to work for an alcohol baron’s unofficial army, assassinate terrorists and fall into life-or-death battles with a Chinese dragon.

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JAGDISH CHATURVEDI

The doctor inside Jagdish Chaturvedi made him write a few books on inventing medical devices and how should medicine be taught. His books – Inventing Medical Devices: A Perspective from India and Medical Theatre – Course Book: Teaching Medicine Using Theatre were published in 2015 & The Benefits of Failing Successfully: 10 Hidden Benefits of Making Mistakes and Failing was published in 2017. Herein, he shares his experiences, anecdotes, insights and failures while inventing medical devices in India. The idea is to give entrepreneurs (clinicians, engineers, designers, business professionals) a realistic expectation of the time, money, co-ordination and teamwork required to develop a medical device in India.

One year of Stand-up comedy: A Journey in India:

The stand-up comic inside him wrote this when a doctor-turned-innovator-turned-author, could not balance his schedule effectively to perform as an actor. He chose to transition from theatre to a comparatively less schedule-intensive art form – stand-up comedy. This book is about the first year of his journey in the world of stand-up and touches upon aspects of being a successful comedian, such as the process of writing jokes, delivering them, promoting a show, branding oneself, understanding the audience and even rescuing the show.

This book talks about the experiences of a budding stand-up comedian and carries a section that provides valuable advice from seasoned and experienced stand-up comedians.

For all those aspiring comics, this book is your answer to all unanswered questions. Grab it and accelerate your journey towards the stage and the spotlight.

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AZIZ ANSARI

This foreign comedian with Indian connect, he is also an actor, producer, director, and a writer! Aziz has donned the hats of all these roles perfectly. You must have seen him before on the Netflix original series “Master of None”.

Modern Romance:

To Aziz, the dawn of the technological generation and how it affects humans in regard to intimacy, has been extremely confusing, yet fascinating. In Modern Romance, he explores the modern form of courtships – from tinder to eggplant emoticons. He as well talks to experts and explores the oddities and complexities that are present in such relationships.

Buy it here.

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News on The Loose with Vir Das

Well, just like anyone else, he too had a humble start, when he became a writer for television. Things turned around for him in 2008 when he met Vir Das and they did a show together called News on The Loose for CNBC-TV18. It went so well, that Sorabh Pant became the opening act for Vir Das’s show, Walking on Broken Das. He remained the opening act for the next three and a half years.

Pant on Fire

People loved his acts so much (we do not blame them!), he also did his very first solo show in 2009 called Pant on Fire and he was certainly on Fire when he spoke on topics like the Royal Wedding and the ‘racist’ GPS system.

Pant with a Pen

While he continued his solo acts, he went on to a few more opening acts for Wayne Brady and then Rob Schneider when they toured India. If that was not enough, Pant also released his debut novel The Wednesday Soul in December 2011, followed by Under Delhi in 2014 and Pawan: The Flying Accountant in 2017

THE EAST INDIA COMEDY

The next turning point for this ‘manic’ comic came in 2012, when he founded The East India Comedy. Each member of this ‘band’ of comedians have made a name for themselves and are as crazy as the founder! Kunal Rao, Sapan Verma, Sahil Shah, Atul Khatri, Azeem Banatwalla and Angad Singh Ranyal – each one of them are unique and all of them have done solo shows; the number of shows are just too many, but as The East India Comedy, these guys churned out a record 130 shows across the country in 2013.

Coming back to Sorabh Pant, he has gone on to do a couple of specials on Amazon Prime, the most recent one being Make India Great Again, where he takes a dig at Indian politics. His style of comedy is ‘over-the-top’ but truthful and that is what attracts his audience. His take on the various communities combined with a lot of talk about ‘sex’ keeps the crowd hooked on to his performance.

MY DAD THINKS HE’S FUNNY

Humour Sapiens enjoyed the special on Amazon Prime on ‘My Dad thinks he’s Funny’ – the way he explains his state when his wife was in labour to the kind of advice that he got from elders to keeping a name for his son – it is a journey that we all go through, but it takes a ‘mentally unstable’ guy like Sorabh to team it up with topics like sperm count test and the likes and still get rib tickling laughter out of it.

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