Comicstaan Champ
Co-won Comicstaan S2 with Aakash Gupta in 2019. Left Pune with a printing engineering degree and no backup plan. It worked out.
EST. 2019AB BOL, KYA POOCHNA HAI?
haan bhai, kaise ho sab log?
Comicstaan champ. Creator of India's Got Latent. Chess degenerate on the side.
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Co-won Comicstaan S2 with Aakash Gupta in 2019. Left Pune with a printing engineering degree and no backup plan. It worked out.
EST. 2019Made India watch chess for fun. Anand, Kasparov, Kramnik, Carlsen — all pulled onto the stream. Won the $10,000 Botez Bullet in 2021, then SuperPogChamps in December 2025. Peak rapid: 1942.
GG BHAILaunched 14 June 2024 from The Habitat, Mumbai. 12 episodes, 6 bonus. You rate yourself, then the judges decide. The anti-talent show that ate the internet.
S1 • 202410 Feb 2025: a guest judge's remark triggered nationwide outrage and FIRs. Two days later every episode came down. He apologised and cooperated. On 14 Aug 2026 the Supreme Court quashed the FIRs.
FIRS QUASHED AUG '26Toured it first — India, Europe, Australia, then Madison Square Garden in February 2026. The special dropped 7 March 2026 and became the most-viewed stand-up special on YouTube.
MSG '26Back 20 June 2026 — simulcast on Netflix and YouTube, a first. Ep1 hit 45 million views in four days. Ten drops in by mid-September: six episodes, three members-only bonuses, one Netflix exclusive. Alia, Karan Aujla, Badshah, Orry, then Rakhi Sawant and Ashneer Grover on the Ep6 panel. Varun Dhawan just came to watch.
S2 • NETFLIXTHE SPECIAL
The most-viewed stand-up special on YouTube. Watch it before he self-rates it 10/10 again.
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