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| Occupation(s) | Actor, Writer, Comedian, Creator, Youtuber, and Host |
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Rahul Dua is an Indian stand-up comedian, actor, writer, YouTuber, and host. Dua gained recognition through his participation in the show Comicstaan. [1]
Dua was named one of India's top 16 comedians in Netflix's Comedy Premium League. Additionally, he emerged as the 1st Runner Up on Amazon Prime's show, Comicstaan Season 1. [1]
Dua has also served as cricket commentator during IPL 2021 on Hotstar Dosts, and as an actor in advertisements for CultFit, Zomato, Hyundai Grand i10, Nando's, and Wakefit Mattresses. [1]
Dua has served as the host for events such as the Comicstaan Season 3 Finale and SharkTank India Season 2. [2] [3] [4]
Raghu Ram is an Indian television producer and actor. He was a senior supervising producer at MTV India and an anchor/ director on MTV Roadies, MTV Dropout Pvt Ltd and MTV Splitsvilla. He was married to actress Sugandha Garg. He has a twin brother, Rajiv Lakshman who worked with him on MTV Roadies. The brothers launched their own content studio called Monozygotic Solutions Pvt. Ltd in 2014.
MTV Splitsvilla is an Indian television dating reality show that airs on MTV India. The show was formerly hosted by Nikhil Chinapa and Rannvijay Singha. In 2022, Arjun Bijlani replaced Rannvijay, hosting the 14th season alongside Sunny Leone.
Arunoday Banerjee, better known as Rahul Banerjee, is an Indian actor works in Bengali language films and television. He made his stage appearance at the age of three with his father's theatre troupe Bijoygarh Atmaprakash play entitled Raj Darshan. Since then, he has acted in almost 450 stage shows, with his father's troupe and with Theatron. He was married to co-actress Priyanka Sarkar. He was catapulted to stardom for his role opposite Priyanka Sarkar in Chirodini Tumi Je Amar, directed by Raj Chakraborty. The film was a massive box-office success. He has subsequently appeared in films including Love Circus, Shono Mon Boli Tomay and Poti Poromesshor. His television debut was in the series Tumi Asbe Bole. He has received a number of awards such as Anandalok Award for the Best Actor for his role in Chirodini Tumi Je Amar.
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Shark Tank is an American business reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on ABC. The show is the American franchise of the international format Dragons' Den, a Japanese TV series. It shows entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of five venture capitalists called "sharks" on the program, who decide whether to invest in their companies.
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Michael Yo Simmons is an American actor, stand-up comedian, and television host who co-hosted The Insider on CBS, and currently hosts Yo Show on Yahoo! TV. Yo also appears regularly on the comedy panel of Chelsea Lately, as a guest host for The Talk on CBS, and as pop culture commentator on Showbiz Tonight. Michael played football for the University of Arkansas, but his football career was cut short due to multiple concussions.
Tanmay Bhat is an Indian YouTuber, comedian, scriptwriter, Actor, performer and producer. He was the co-founder and former CEO of the creative agency All India Bakchod (AIB) along with Gursimranjet Singh Khamba. In 2018, he was a judge on Season 1 of Comicstaan, a stand-up comedy competition broadcast on Amazon Prime.
Sayani Gupta is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films. A graduate from the Film and Television Institute of India, she made her feature film debut in 2012 in Second Marriage Dot Com. She has since appeared in supporting roles in films such as Fan (2016), Jolly LLB 2 (2017) and Article 15 (2019). She essayed the role of a blind Pakistani-Bangladeshi lesbian activist named Khanum in Margarita with a Straw opposite Kalki Koechlin.
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Sumukhi Suresh is an actor, stand-up comedian, writer and director from India. She is popularly known for her humorous sketches which she writes and stars in for live performances as well as online platforms. In an online article, Hindustan Times referred to Sumukhi Suresh as "India's Tina Fey." She has been a part of stand-up comedy shows like Comicstaan, Go Straight Take Left, Comedy premier League and her solo special, Don't Tell Amma. But she is best known for her funny yet twisted web series, 'Pushpavalli'. The stand-up comedian and actor turned entrepreneur by launching a content platform called 'Motormouth' which is especially for writers who are passionate about pitching stories for movies, web shows and more. She launched this company since she there is no time to complain and expect other people to create better characters or develop out of the box ideas. In a chat with 'Telangana Today', she concluded that one should attend many zoom shows and live shows to know if they are actually funny.
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