The Most Famous

COMEDIANS from India

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This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Comedians. The pantheon dataset contains 98 Comedians, 1 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 11th most number of Comedians behind Senegal, and Ireland.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Comedians of all time. This list of famous Indian Comedians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Jaspal Bhatti (1955 - 2012)

With an HPI of 31.11, Jaspal Bhatti is the most famous Indian Comedian.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Jaspal Singh Bhatti (3 March 1955 – 25 October 2012) was an Indian television personality known for his satirical take on the problems of the common man. He was most well known for his television series Flop Show, Full Tension and mini capsules Ulta Pulta which ran on Doordarshan, India's public service broadcaster, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was commonly known as the "King of Comedy" and also the "King of Satire". He carried out various anti-corruption crusades in Chandigarh. His frontal attack on issues like red-tapism, nepotism, and corruption was both comic and awakening for the masses. In 2013, he was (posthumously) honoured with the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Indian comedians born between 1955 and 1955. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Indian comedians include Jaspal Bhatti.

Deceased Indian Comedians

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