Comedy Nights Live

Comedy Nights Live
Genre	comedy
Written by	Dinesh Brigedier Raj Verma, Haarsh Limbachiyaa, Kousten Sahu, Khalid Azmi
Directed by	Nikul Desai [1]
Starring	See below
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26 [2]
Production
Production locations	Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	65 minutes approx.
Production company	Optimystix Entertainment
Original release
Network	Colors TV
Release	31 January (2016-01-31) – 21 August 2016 (2016-08-21)
Related
Comedy Nights with Kapil Comedy Nights Bachao

Comedy Nights Live is an Indian Hindi-language stand-up comedy - humour television series, which premiered on 31 January 2016, and was broadcast on Colors TV. The series aired on Sunday nights. The series replaced Colors TV's show Comedy Nights with Kapil . ^{[3] [4]}

Krushna Abhishek hosted this show. Siddharth Sagar, Sudesh Lehri, Bharti Singh, Rashami Desai are some of the comedians of the show. Madhuri Dixit was the first celebrity to appear on the show. ^[5]

Cast

Season 1

• Krushna Abhishek as Pappu Singh/Pappi Singh/ Tulsi/various characters
• Bharti Singh as Chintu Sharma
• Sudesh Lehri as Banwari Lal (Pappu's dad)/various characters
• Siddharth Sagar as Mangala Mufatlal/various characters
• Gaurav Dubey as foreigner
• Raju Srivastav as various characters
• Shakeel Siddiqui as various characters
• Firoz Ahmed as Permanent guest ^[6]
• Upasana Singh as Pinki Bua ^[7]
• Usha Nadkarni as Dadi
• Surbhi Jyoti as Actress
• Adaa Khan as Itee
• Puja Banerjee

Season 2

• Krushna Abhishek as Pappu Singh
• Bharti Singh as Chintu Sharma
• Sudesh Lehri as Banwari Lal (Pappu's dad)
• Kratika Sengar as Itee
• Divyanka Tripathi as Actress

List of episodes

No.	Telecast date	Guest(s)	To promote	Ref.
1	31 January 2016	Madhuri Dixit Nene		[8]
2	7 February 2016	Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif, Abhishek Kapoor, Salman Khan	Fitoor	[9]
3	14 February 2016	Sonam Kapoor, Mandana Karimi	Neerja
4	21 February 2016	Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Dharmendra	Ghayal Once Again	[10]
5	28 February 2016	Mouni Roy, Adaa Khan, Siddharth Nigam, Eisha Singh, Sana Amin Sheikh	Naagin, Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat, Ishq Ka Rang Safed, Krishnadasi	[11]
6	6 March 2016	Neha Kakkar, Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan, Farah Karimi	Teraa Surroor	[12]
7	13 March 2016	Tejaswi Prakash, Namish Taneja, Diljit Dosanjh, Lauren Gottlieb, Navneet Kaur Dhillon, Monica Gill	Swaragini - Jodein Rishton Ke Sur, Ambarsariya	[13]
8	20 March 2016	John Abraham, Thomas Sardorf, Navtej Singh Rehal, Ankit Tiwari, Baby Diya Chalwad	Rocky Handsome
9	27 March 2016	Arjun Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan	Ki & Ka	[14]
10	3 April 2016	Toral Rasputra, Jigyasa Singh, Vidhi Pandya, Meera Deosthale	Balika Vadhu, Thapki Pyar Ki, Udaan
11	17 April 2016	Shraddha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff	Baaghi	[15]
12	24 April 2016	Sonakshi Sinha, Honey Singh, Gurbani Judge, Parul Gulati (integration episode with Comedy Nights Bachao )	IIFA , Zorawar	[16]
13	1 May 2016	Sunny Leone, Tanuj Virwani, Jasmine Sandlas	One Night Stand	[17]
14	8 May 2016	Tabu, Juhi Chawla		[18]
15	15 May 2016	Emraan Hashmi, Nargis Fakhri, Mohammad Azharuddin, Kunaal Roy Kapur	Azhar	[19]
16	22 May 2016	Monali Thakur, Radhika Apte, Meet Bros, Sana Khan, Ram Gopal Varma, Lisa Ray, Shweta Pandit, Khushboo Grewal	Phobia , Nalla Awards special	[20]
17	29 May 2016
18	12 June 2016	Kajal Agrawal, Randeep Hooda	Do Lafzon Ki Kahani
19	19 June 2016	Preity Zinta		[21]
20	26 June 2016	Sukhwinder Singh, Faaiz Anwar	Love Ke Funday	[22]
21	3 July 2016	Salman Khan	Sultan	[23]
22	10 July 2016	Salim, Suleman, Shaan, Saqib Saleem, Taapsee Pannu, Mona Singh
23	17 July 2016	Mudassar Khan, Mukti Mohan, Mona Singh, Geeta Kapoor	Special Appearance, Kavach...Kaali Shaktiyon Se
24	24 July 2016	Neha Dhupia, Mona Singh, Gaurav Gera, Neha Pabbi, Sikander Kher, Anil Kapoor	part 1: Special appearance, 24 season 2 part 2: Competition Krushna Abhishek Mangala(Sudesh Lehri) and Chintu (Bharti Singh) vs Chutki (Gaurav Gera), Neha Dhupia and Mona Singh	[24]
25	14 August 2016	Mithali Raj, Shikhar Dhawan (Integration episode with Comedy Nights Bachao )
26	21 August 2016	Jacqueline Fernandez, Tiger Shroff, Remo D'Souza	A Flying Jatt

References

1. "Krishna Abhishek on replacing Kapil Sharma as 'Comedy Nights' host". Mid Day. 7 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
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6. Uniyal, Parmita (29 May 2016). "Mika Singh out of Comedy Nights Live; Sohail Khan to replace him?". India Today. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
7. Tiwari, Vijaya (9 June 2016). "Exclusive: Upasna Singh aka Bua confirms quitting 'Comedy Nights Live'". The Times of India. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
8. "Madhuri Dixit the first guest on 'Comedy Nights LIVE'". Times of India. 29 January 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
9. "Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif come together on Comedy Nights Live". India Today. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
10. "When Sunny and Bobby Deol enact the 'Mere Paas Maa Hain' scene, guess what Dharmendra has to say". India Today . 18 February 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
11. Goswami, Parismita (22 February 2016). "Comedy Nights Live: Lead actors from 'Naagin,' 'Chakravartin Ashok Samrat' and others to make an appearance". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
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13. Goswami, Parismita (10 March 2016). "'Swaragini' actors Tejaswi aka Ragini and Namish aka Lakshya to appear on 'Comedy Nights Live'". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
14. "Arjun Kapoor along with Kareena promote Ki And Ka on Comedy Nights Live". Deccan Chronicle. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
15. IANS (16 April 2016). "Tiger Shroff does martial arts on 'Comedy Nights Live'". The Indian Express . Retrieved 19 April 2016.
16. Shrivastava, Vipra (20 April 2016). "Yo Yo Honey Singh's special rendition on Comedy Nights Bachao special". India Today . Retrieved 14 May 2016.
17. "Comedy Night Live, Promo: Sunny Leone makes the most tempting golgappas". Colors. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
18. "Tabu, Juhi Chawla's fun filled moments on Comedy Nights Live". The Indian Express . 5 May 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
19. "Nargis Fakhri, Emraan Hashmi on sets of 'Comedy Nights Live'". Mid Day. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
20. Chauhan, Soumyata (20 May 2016). "Comedy Nights Live Promo: Ram Gopal Varma and Radhika Apte come together for Nalla Awards night!". Bollywood Life. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
21. TNN (27 May 2016). "Preity Zinta's first appearance post marriage on TV". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
22. "Sukhwinder Singh promotes Love Ke Funday on Comedy Nights Live". The Hans India. 28 June 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
23. Sen, Sushmita (3 July 2016). "Salman Khan promotes 'Sultan' on Krushna Abhishek's 'Comedy Nights Live'". International Business Times, India Edition. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
24. "Neha Dhupia impersonates Big B on 'Comedy Nights Live'". Mid-Day. 17 July 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2016.

External links

• Official website