List of Indian comedians

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This is a list of notable Indian comedians, sorted by country or area of notability.

Australia

• Sandy Gandhi

Canada

• Russell Peters
• Sugar Sammy

India

• Amit Bhadana
• Amit Tandon
• Bhuvan Bam
• Ajey Nagar
• Vadivelu
• Vir Das
• Papa CJ
• Varun Grover (writer)
• Tanmay Bhat
• Gursimran Khamba
• Rohan Joshi
• Zakir Khan (comedian)
• Kenny Sebastian
• Biswa Kalyan Rath
• Kaneez Surka
• Atul Khatri
• Sorabh Pant
• Sapan Verma
• Appurv Gupta
• Sumukhi Suresh
• Mallika Dua
• Kanan Gill
• Kunal Kamra
• Sanjay Rajoura
• Nishant Tanwar
• Sunil Grover
• Vivek
• Santhanam
• Karthik Kumar
• Alexander
• Tulsi Chakraborty
• Saswata Chatterjee
• Jaswinder Bhalla
• Brahmanandam (Kanneganti Brahmanandam)
• Sumona Chakravarti
• Charle
• Binnu Dhillon
• Santosh Dutta
• Utpal Dutta
• Rabi Ghosh
• Rudranil Ghosh
• Shyam Rangeela
• Kapil Sharma
• Gurpreet Ghuggi
• Goundamani
• Janagaraj
• Satish Kaushik
• Kader Khan
• Rehman Khan
• Anup Kumar
• Kishore Kumar
• Johny Lever Janumala
• Mehmood
• Mir
• Keshto Mukherjee
• Rajendra Nath
• Sunil Pal
• Vasu Primlani
• Ahsaan Qureshi
• Chinmoy Roy
• Harisree Ashokan
• Santhanam
• Senthil
• Upasana Singh
• Sivakarthikeyan
• Jagathy Sreekumar
• V.I.P.

Bollywood

• Ali Asgar
• Asit Sen
• Asrani
• Rakesh Bedi
• Laxmikant Berde
• Jaspal Bhatti
• Kiku Sharda
• Kapil Sharma
• Bharti Singh
• Bhagwan Dada
• Vir Das
• Preeti Ganguly
• Govinda
• Bomman Irani
• Jagdeep
• I. S. Johar
• Shakti Kapoor
• Satish Kaushik
• Kader Khan
• Dada Kondke
• Akshay Kumar
• Kishore Kumar
• Sudesh Lehri
• Johny Lever Janumala
• Manorama
• Mehmood
• Keshto Mukherjee
• Mukri
• Rajendra Nath
• Paintal
• Navin Prabhakar
• Om Prakash
• Sumeet Raghavan
• Paresh Rawal
• Ashok Saraf
• Satish Shah
• Raju Srivastav
• Tiku Talsania
• Tun Tun
• Deven Verma
• Johnny Walker
• Rajpal Yadav
• Kapil Sharma
• Krishna Abhishek
• Ahsaan Qureshi
• Sunil Pal
• Bharti Singh
• Sunil Grover
• Anupam Kher
• Sunil Grover

Kollywood (Tamil cinema)

• Imman Annachi
• Chitti Babu
• M.S. Baskar
• Madhan Bob
• Chachu
• J.P. Chandrababu
• Goundamani
• Janakaraj
• Chinni Jayanth
• Ennatha Kannaiya
• Karunas
• Ganja Karuppu
• Kalaivanar NS Krishnan
• Jangiri Madhumitha
• Kalabhavan Mani
• Manivannan
• Manorama
• Mayilsamy
• Crazy Mohan
• Loose Mohan
• Venniradai Moorthy
• Nagesh (Ceiyur Krishna Gundu Rao)
• Omakuchi Narasimhan
• Rajendran
• RJ Balaji
• Suruli Rajan
• Vidyullekha Raman
• Cho Ramaswamy
• Kali N. Rathnam
• Kaali Venkat
• Karunakaran
• Santhanam
• Kovai Sarala
• M. Saroja
• Sathyan
• Sathish
• Idichapuli Selvaraj
• Senthil
• Sivakarthikeyan
• Soori
• Thengai Srinivasan
• K.A. Thangavelu
• Vadivelu
• Vaiyapuri
• Vivek
• Yogi Babu

Tollywood (Telugu cinema)

• Ali (Basha Ali)
• AVS (Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam)
• Giri Babu (Yerra Seshagiri Rao)
• Raghu Babu (Yerra Raghu Babu)
• Rajababu (Punyamurthula Appalaraju)
• Krishna Bhagavan
• Tanikella Bharani
• Brahmanandam (Kanneganti Brahmanandam)
• Chalam
• Chandramohan
• Kallu Chidambaram
• Girija
• Khayyum (Khayyum Ali; brother of Ali)
• Vennela Kishore
• Krishnudu (Alluri Krishnam Raju)
• Sri Lakshmi
• Allu Rama Lingaiah
• Venu Madhav
• Babu Mohan
• Nagesh (Ceiyur Krishna Gundu Rao)
• M.S. Narayana (Mailavarapu Surya Narayana)
• Naresh
• Allari Naresh (Edara Naresh)
• Padmanabham
• Rama Prabha
• Nutan Prasad (Tadinada Varaprasad)
• Rajendra Prasad (Gadde Rajendra Prasad)
• Chitti Babu Punyamurthula
• Thagubothu Ramesh
• Gundu Hanumantha Rao
• Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao
• Kota Srinivasa Rao
• Mallikarjuna Rao
• Rao Gopal Rao
• Jaya Prakash Reddy
• Relangi (Relangi Venkata Ramayya)
• Suthi Veerabhadra Rao
• Ramana Reddy (Thikkavarapu Venkata Ramana Reddy)
• Srinivasa Reddy
• Saptagiri
• Kovai Sarala
• Ironleg Sastri (Gunupudi Viswanath Shastri)
• Srihari (Raghumudri Srihari)
• L.B. Sriram (Lanka Bhadradri Sri Ram)
• Dharmavarapu Subrahmanyam
• Sudhakar (Betha Sudhakar)
• Sunil (Indukuri Sunil Varma)
• Suryakantham
• Suthivelu (Kurumaddali Lakshmi Narasimha Rao)
• Fish Venkat

Sandalwood (Kannada cinema)

• Narasimharaju
• Musuri Krishnamurthy
• Dheerendra Gopal
• Bhanu Bandopadhyay
• Balakrishna
• Dinesh
• Dwarakish
• Tennis Krishna
• M. S. Umesh
• Lokesh
• Kashinath
• Mukhyamantri Chandru
• Honnavalli Krishna
• Mysore Lokesh
• Umashree
• Janardhan
• Vaishali Kasaravalli
• Sadhu Kokila
• Rekha Das
• Doddanna
• Jaggesh
• Kunigal Nagabhushan
• Girija Lokesh
• Vaijanath Biradar
• Karibasavaiah
• Rangayana Raghu
• M. N. Lakshmi Devi
• Dingri Nagaraj
• Bullet Prakash
• Mandya Ramesh
• Komal Kumar
• Ravishankar Gowda
• Chikkanna
• Sharan
• Srujan Lokesh
• Mithra

United Kingdom

• Danny Bhoy
• Sanjeev Bhaskar
• Paul Chowdhry
• Kulvinder Ghir
• Papa CJ
• Romesh Ranganathan
• Meera Syal
• Nina Wadia
• Nish Kumar
• Ahir Shah

United States

• Aziz Ansari
• Mindy Kaling
• Hari Kondabolu
• Aparna Nancherla
• Rajiv Satyal
• Hasan Minhaj
• Nimesh Patel

Pakistan

• Umer Shareef
• Sikandar Sanam
• Shakeel Siddiqui
• Rauf Lala
• Moin Akhter
• Liaquat Soldier
• Ismail Tara
• Naseem Vicky
• Amanullah
• Sohail Ahmed
• Sakhawat Naz
• Babu Baral
• Nasir Chinyoti
• Tariq Teddy
• Khalid Abbas Dar
• Albela (actor)
• Abid Kashmiri
• Murtaza Hassan
• Alamzeb Mujahid
• Abid Khan

Related pages

• List of comedians

References