Comedy Nights Live

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Comedy Nights Live
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Genre comedy
Written byDinesh Brigedier
Raj Verma, Haarsh Limbachiyaa, Kousten Sahu, Khalid Azmi
Directed byNikul Desai [1]
Starring See below
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes26 [2]
Production
Production locations Mumbai, Maharashta, India
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time65 minutes approx.
Production company Optimystix Entertainment
Original release
Network Colors TV
Release31 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]

Contents

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

Season 2

List of episodes

No.Telecast dateGuest(s)To promoteRef.
131 January 2016 Madhuri Dixit Nene [8]
27 February 2016 Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif, Abhishek Kapoor, Salman Khan Fitoor [9]
314 February 2016 Sonam Kapoor, Mandana Karimi Neerja
421 February 2016 Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Dharmendra Ghayal Once Again [10]
528 February 2016 Mouni Roy, Adaa Khan, Siddharth Nigam, Eisha Singh, Sana Amin Sheikh Naagin, Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat, Ishq Ka Rang Safed, Krishnadasi [11]
66 March 2016 Neha Kakkar, Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan, Farah Karimi Teraa Surroor [12]
713 March 2016 Tejaswi Prakash, Namish Taneja, Diljit Dosanjh, Lauren Gottlieb, Navneet Kaur Dhillon, Monica Gill Swaragini - Jodein Rishton Ke Sur , Ambarsariya [13]
820 March 2016 John Abraham, Thomas Sardorf, Navtej Singh Rehal, Ankit Tiwari, Baby Diya Chalwad Rocky Handsome
927 March 2016 Arjun Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan Ki & Ka [14]
103 April 2016 Toral Rasputra, Jigyasa Singh, Vidhi Pandya, Meera Deosthale Balika Vadhu, Thapki Pyar Ki, Udaan
1117 April 2016 Shraddha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff Baaghi [15]
1224 April 2016 Sonakshi Sinha, Honey Singh, Gurbani Judge, Parul Gulati (integration episode with Comedy Nights Bachao ) IIFA , Zorawar [16]
131 May 2016 Sunny Leone, Tanuj Virwani, Jasmine Sandlas One Night Stand [17]
148 May 2016 Tabu, Juhi Chawla [18]
1515 May 2016 Emraan Hashmi, Nargis Fakhri, Mohammad Azharuddin, Kunaal Roy Kapur Azhar [19]
1622 May 2016 Monali Thakur, Radhika Apte, Meet Bros, Sana Khan, Ram Gopal Varma, Lisa Ray, Shweta Pandit, Khushboo Grewal Phobia , Nalla Awards special [20]
1729 May 2016
1812 June 2016 Kajal Agrawal, Randeep Hooda Do Lafzon Ki Kahani
1919 June 2016 Preity Zinta [21]
2026 June 2016 Sukhwinder Singh, Faaiz Anwar Love Ke Funday [22]
213 July 2016 Salman Khan Sultan [23]
2210 July 2016 Salim, Suleman, Shaan, Saqib Saleem, Taapsee Pannu, Mona Singh
2317 July 2016 Mudassar Khan, Mukti Mohan, Mona Singh, Geeta Kapoor Special Appearance, Kavach...Kaali Shaktiyon Se
2424 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]
2514 August 2016Mitali Raj, Shikhar Dhawan (Integration episode with Comedy Nights Bachao )
2621 August 2016 Jacqueline Fernandez, Tiger Shroff, Remo D'Souza A Flying Jatt

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