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Zakir Khan (born 20 August 1987) is an Indian comedian and actor. In 2012, he rose to popularity by winning Comedy Central's India's Best Stand Up Comedian competition. Khan has also been a part of a news comedy show, On Air with AIB.[2][3] He has also released two hour length standup specials: Haq Se Single (2017) and Kaksha Gyarvi (2018) on Amazon Prime Video.

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Zakir Khan
Zakir Khan
Born	20 August 1987 (1987-08-20) (age 35) Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Education	St. Paul Higher Secondary School, Indore
Occupation	Writer comedian actor presenter YouTuber Sitarist
Years active	2009 –present
Known for	Haq Se Single, Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare, Kaksha Gyarvi
YouTube information
Channel	Zakir Khan
Genre	Comedy
Subscribers	7.15 million[1]
Total views	613.46 million[1]
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: 23 August 2022

Early life

Khan was born and raised in Indore, Madhya Pradesh to a rajasthani muslim family.^{[citation needed]} He spent a large portion of his adult life in Delhi.[3] He comes from a humble background and credits his father with being supportive of his talent.[4][5]

Career

Khan has a diploma in Sitar and is a college dropout.[6] He has stated that had he not been a standup comedian, he would instead be working as a music teacher. He became a known face in India's stand-up comedy circuit in 2012 when he won the title of 'India's Best Stand Up', a comedy competition organized by Comedy Central.[7][8] Besides performing at many stand-up comedy shows, he has also ghostwritten and produced radio shows. His comedy style was applauded in NDTV Prime's The Rising Stars of Comedy television show. Khan is known for his punchline "Sakht Launda", which refers to a guy with immense self-control who doesn't easily fall for girls.[4] He also performed with Joke Singh at Gurgaon.[9]

He is an emerging Urdu Poet and comes from a family of artists. He has presented his poetry in events like Rekhta.[10] On his train journey to Delhi, he wrote first poem, "Mai Soonya Pe Sawar Hoon". He also wrote "Apne Aap Ke Bhi Piche Khara Hoon Main","Bus Ka Intezar Karte Huye".

In September 2017, Khan appeared as one of the three mentors along with Mallika Dua and Hussain Dalal for the fifth season of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, judged by actor Akshay Kumar. He has more than six million subscribers on YouTube and is known for works like his Amazon Prime special Haq Se Single.[11]

Khan wrote and played the protagonist in the Amazon Prime web series Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare.[12]

In 2015, Khan co-hosted and wrote On Air with AIB, a news comedy show, with Sorabh Pant and Gursimran Kamba from the Indian comedy group All India Bakchod. The show was broadcast on Star World, India. Khan co-hosted the 5th Annual Golden Kela Awards.[13]

He also appeared as one of the judges in Amazon Prime's Comicstaan Season 2 where he mentored the contestants in a genre of comedy known as anecdotal comedy.[14] He also went on to be one of the four judges in Season 3.

Khan has also featured in the recent Amazon Prime's One Mic Stand Season 1 alongside Bhuvan Bam[15]

He has also begun his show called Farzi Mushaira which is available on Amazon Prime.

Apart from comedy, he has also generated podcast series Ummeed on Gaana, where he shares the inspiration he got from incidents in his life, along with his other comedian friends.[16][17]

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2017	The Great Indian Laughter Challenge	Mentor	Season 5	[18]

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2016	Humorously Yours	self	cameo, MX player	[19]
2018	Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare	Ronny Pathak	Amazon Prime Video
2021	Dhindora (TV Series)	self	cameo, YouTube

Web

Year	Platform	Name	Notes	Ref.
2015	Hotstar	On Air with AIB	10 episodes	[20]
2016	YouTube	Journey of a Joke	S1-E1, A mini series on Son of Abish YouTube channel	[21]
2017	Amazon Prime Video	Haq se Single	Standup Comedy, written by himself
2018	Amazon Prime Video	Kaksha Gyarvi	Standup Comedy, written by himself
2019	Amazon Prime Video	Comicstaan	S2 Judge, Also performed a standup in Episode 2	[22]
2019	Amazon Prime Video	One Mic Stand	S1-E1, Guest Comedian with Bhuvan Bam	[23]

References

External links

• Zakir Khan at IMDb
• Zakir Khan's channel on YouTube

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