The Comedy Circus Show is an Indian comedy show that aired on Sony Entertainment Television, where daily soap stars perform stand-up comedy. Paired with the “finest” stand-up comedy talent from India, these soap stars perform stand-up comedy along with their comedian partners on stage.
Overview
Comedy Circus 1
The show went live for 13 weeks in a gruelling battle for supremacy to decide which pair will be the best stand-up comic. The show was created by the Optimystix Entertainment, with the tag line of ‘Jodi Jamegi, Public Hassegi’, which was described to “guarantee hysterics” on Sony TV.[1]
Comedy Circus 2
Thr second season started airing on Sony TV on 26 April 2008.[2] Popular television actors and professional stand-up comedians were paired to perform on a highly competitive stage. Their weekly performances were scored by the judges and the live studio audience to determine eliminations.
Comedy Circus: Kaante Ki Takkar
After Comedy Circus 1 & 2, “Comedy Circus: Kaante Ki Takkar” was introduced as the third season, which had the ‘jodis’ of Comedy Circus 1 led by judge Archana Puran Singh, battling the jodis of Comedy Circus 2, led by judge Shekhar Suman. The teams of Archana Puran Singh were called as ‘The Purans’ while the teams of Shekhar Suman were called as ‘The Sumans’.[3]
Shruti Seth, who hosted the previous season, was replaced by Purbi Joshi.[4]
Comedy Circus: Chinchpokli To China
Another popular reality-based comedy TV Show from Sony Entertainment Television, which was the fourth season of the Comedy Circus franchise comes with the tagline “Comedy Circus: Chinchpokli to China – Jaha se koi bhi hanse bina jayena”. It is a comedy based show like the previous Comedy Circus seasons with a slight twist in the plot. This season featured comedians in pairs to perform skits and impress the judges and get scored by them. It was hosted by Purbi Joshi and Nandini Kapoor.[5]
Comedy Circus 20-20
This season was described as the season “with gags, jokes, laughter, hilarious acts, etc. adding the flavor of IPL (Indian Premier League) season”. The stand-up performances were based on the happenings in IPL how cricket affects our daily lives and everything related to the game. The show was hosted by Shruti Seth and the judges are Shekhar Suman and cricketer Ajay Jadeja.[6]
Dekh India Dekh
The sixth season of the popular stand-up comedy series of Comedy Circus which aired on SonyTV, premiered on 30 May 2009 and ended on 30 October 2009. Shekar Suman made his return as the judge alongside Archana Puran Singh. This new format saw Shweta Gulati as the host.[citation needed]
Comedy Circus: Teen (3) Ka Tadka
The unique reality-based comedy format with celebrities performing with professional stand-up comedian partners on a highly competitive stage. This time season offers the show with a new twist with not Jodis but Trios. The Tadka will be a unique hurdle that will be put before every Jodi in the form of a third contestant who will be a celebrity. The show was aired on 24 October 2009[7] and hosted by Mouni Roy who was later replaced by Roshni Chopra.
Comedy Circus Ke Superstars
This season premiered on 24 October 2009.[8] The first episode also starred Govinda who introduced new artists and was guest judge.[9]
Comedy Circus – Maha Sangram
This season involved contestants of three previous seasons. Archana represented season 1, Shekhar represented season 2 and Rohit Shetty represented season 3. Teams were scored by the opposite team representatives, with the audience watching the show to determine eliminations. The winners of this show were Swapnil Joshi and VIP.[10]
Comedy Circus 2018
This was a comeback for the comedy circus franchise. Aired initially on 15 September 2018, this season had new talent, new styles of comedy and new ways of scoring. The scoring would depend upon the laughter of the judges, like if they would experience ‘mand mand’ laughter, the team would get 2500 rupees, for every ‘HaHakar’ laughter team gets 5000 rupees and for every ‘phephada phad’ laughter they would get 10000 rupees.[11][12]
Season summary
| Year | Season | Host | Judges | Winners |
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| 2007 | Comedy Circus | Shruti Seth |
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| 2008 | Comedy Circus 2 | Shruti Seth and Shakeel Siddiqui | ||
| Kaante Ki Takkar | Purbi Joshi replaced Shruti Seth | |||
| 2009 | Comedy Circus – Chinchpokli To China | Purbi Joshi | ||
| Comedy Circus 20 – 20 | Shruti Seth |
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| Dekh India Dekh | Jennifer Winget replacing Shweta Gulati | |||
| Comedy Circus 3 Ka Tadka | Mouni Roy replaced by Roshni Chopra | |||
| 2010 | Comedy Circus Mahasangram [10] | Purbi Joshi | ||
| Comedy Circus Ke SuperStars |
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| Comedy Circus Ka Jadoo |
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| 2010–2011 | Jubilee Comedy Circus |
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| 2011 | Comedy Circus Ke Taansen |
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| Comedy Circus Ka Naya Daur |
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| 2011–2012 | Kahani Comedy Circus Ki | Shruti Seth |
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| 2012–2013 | Comedy Circus Ke Ajoobe |
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| 2013–2014 | Comedy Circus Ke Mahabali | Shruti Seth |
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Season ended before winners were announced.[15][16] |
| 2018 | Comedy Circus 2018 |
Joanna Robaczewska |
Production
This show was produced by Vipul D. Shah through his TV shows production company Optimistics. It was filmed in studios of Goregaon, Mumbai.
Comedy Circus Ke SuperStars – 2010 Contestants
- Kapil Sharma & Parvati Sehgal (winners)
- Krushna Abhishek & Sudesh Lehri (runner-up)
- Rajiv Thakur & Saloni Daini
- Paresh Ganatra & Bharti Singh
- Sunil Pal & Priya Marathe
Comedy Circus Mahasangram – 2010 Contestants
Team Purans:
- VIP & Swapnil Joshi
- Khyali Saharan & Karishma Tanna
Team Sumans:
- Krushna Abhishek & Sudesh Lehri
- Rajiv Nigam & Rajesh Kumar
Team Shettys:
Comedy Circus 3 (Teen) Ka Tadka – 2009 Contestants
- Sudesh Lehri, Krushna Abhishek, Melissa Pais (winners)
- Parul Chauhan, Bhagwant Mann, & Jennifer Winget
- Anup Soni, Shweta Tiwari, & Rehman Khan
- Sanjay Mishra, Bhairavi Raichura, & Raja Sagoo
- Harsh Chhaya, Tina Dutta, & Jimmy Moses[17]
- Sharad Kelkar, Bharti Singh, & Paresh Ganatra
- Jaswant Singh Rathore, Smita Singh, & Saloni Daini
- Rajiv Thakur, Rashmi Desai, & Saloni Daini
Dekh India Dekh – 2009 Contestants
- Rajesh Kumar as Akbar
- Rajiv Nigam as Birbal
- Ali Asgar as Havaldar Kadam
- VIP as Havaldar Kaale
- Krushna Abhishek as Baiju
- Sudesh Lehri as Bawra
- Gaurav Gera as Malti Manohar Mishra
- Swapnil Joshi as Jignesh Shah
- Tulika Patel as Bhavana Ben
Kosher
Comedy Circus 20-20 – 2009 Contestants
- Nigaar Khan and Raja Sagoo (winners)
- Roshni Chopra and Kuldeep Dubey
- Rakshanda Khan and Rehman Khan
- Vinod Kambli and Rajbeer Kaur
Chinchpokli to China – 2009 Contestants
- Krushna Abhishek & Sudesh Lehri
- Shweta Tiwari & Ashutosh Kaushik
- Kuldeep Dubey & Roshni Chopra
- Ahsaan Qureshi & Payal Rohatgi
- Sucheta Trivedi & Paresh Ganatra
- VIP & Shweta Gulati
- Ali Asgar & Kuldeep Dubey
- Swapnil Joshi & Sharad Kelkar
- Kavita Kaushik & Rajiv Nigam
- Kuldeep Dubey & Rajiv Nigam
- Shailesh Lodha & Neha Marda
- Mona Singh & Rehman Khan
- Khyali Saharan & Nigaar Khan
- Rehman Khan & Sucheta Trivedi
- Kuldeep Dubey & Sucheta Trivedi
- Sidharth sagar & Nandini Kapoor
- Sunil Sawra
Kaante Ki Takkar – 2008 Contestants
Team Purans:
- Urvashi Dholakia & Shakeel Siddiqui
- VIP & Swapnil Joshi
- Khyali Saharan & Karishma Tanna
Team Sumans:
- Krushna Abhishek & Sudesh Lehri
- Rajiv Nigam & Rajesh Kumar
- Kamya Panjabi & Rajiv Thakur
Comedy Circus 2 – 2008 Contestants
- Juhi Parmar & Vijay Ishwarlal Pawar (VIP) – Winner
- Kamya Panjabi & Rajiv Thakur – 1st Runners-up
- Krushna Abhishek & Sudesh Lehri – 2nd Runners-up
- Apara Mehta & Shailesh Lodha
- Shayantani Ghosh & Kuldeep Dubey
- Sucheta Khanna & Salim Afridi
- Akashdeep Sehgal & Pervez Siddiqui
- Rajesh Kumar & Rajeev Nigam
- Chitrashi Rawat & Rehman Khan
Comedy Circus 1 – 2007 Contestants
- Kashif A Khan & Ali Asgar– Winners
- Swapnil Joshi & V.I.P.– Runner-up
- Khyali Saharan & Karishma Tanna– Voted Out
- Urvashi Dholakia & Shakeel Siddiqui – Voted Out
- Kiran Karmakar & Sunil Sanwra – Voted Out
- Pratap Faujdar & Ketaki Dave replaced by Manini De – Voted Out[18]
- Varun Badola & Deepak Dutta – Voted Out
References
- ^ “Sony innovates ‘Comedy Circus’“. Indiantelevision.com. 26 June 2007. Archived from the original on 11 March 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ “Sony to launch second season of Comedy Circus from 26 April”. Indiantelevision.com. 23 April 2008.
- ^ Team, Tellychakkar (4 September 2008). “Kaante Ki Takkar is more aggressive”. Tellychakkar.com. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ Team, Tellychakkar (19 December 2008). “Shruti Seth V/S Purbi Joshi”. Tellychakkar.com. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ “Hindi TV Serials Comedy Circus – Chinchpokli To China”. Nettv4u.com. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ TNN (1 April 2009). “IPL gags on Comedy Circus 20-20”. The Times of India. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ “Comedy Circus returns with ‘Teen Ka Tadka’“. The Times of India. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ “Teen Ka Tadka on Comedy Circus”. Real Bollywood. 21 October 2009. Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ “Comedy Circus returns with ‘Teen Ka Tadka’“. The Times of India. 22 October 2009. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011.
- ^ a b “Comedy Circus Mahasangram begins”. The Times of India. 6 February 2010.
- ^ “New season of Comedy Circus promises to be fun, watch teaser”. The Times of India. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
- ^ “Sohail Khan and Archana Puran Singh to return with Comedy Circus on September 15”. The Indian Express. 23 August 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ “Bollywood ‘mimicry special episode’ on Sony TV’s Comedy Circus Ke Mahabali”. Tellychakkar.com. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
- ^ “Comedy Circus Ke Mahabali – Episode 28 – Kangana Ranaut, Queen Of The Bollywood Special”. Retrieved 4 April 2023 – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ “Comedy Circus set dismantled”. The Times of India. 12 March 2014. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ “Will Comedy Circus Ke Mahabali return with a new season?”. Bollywood Life. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2026.
- ^ “Now, Johny Lever’s brother shows off his funny side”. Rediff.com. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ “Manini De stands up to fill in for Ketaki Dave in Comedy Circus”. 18 July 2007. Retrieved 21 January 2019.