The Great Indian Laughter Challenge
The Great Indian Laughter Challenge | |
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STAR Plus (season 5) | |
Release | 3 June 2005 30 December 2017 | –
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Laughter Knights |
The Great Indian Laughter Challenge is an Indian
The show's fifth season premiered on 30 September 2017 onThe show is based on a format where stand-up comedians perform and entertain judges and the studio audience with their comedy skills. The first three seasons of the show saw
Seasons
In the first season,
The first two seasons were followed by another show, The Great Indian Laughter Champions, which included top performers of the previous shows. Here also the judges were Sidhu and Shekar including some celebrity guests as well.
Recently the first woman to participate was Aarti Kandpal. The fourth season's finalists were Rasbihari Gaur, Bharti Singh, Suresh Albela, and a duo Sikander Sanam-Wali Sheikh (veteran stage comedians from Pakistan). The winner for the fourth season after a tough laughter war was Suresh Albela.
Season 5 had 3 mentors Zakir Khan, Hussain Dalal and Mallika Dua later replaced by Sajid Khan and Shreyas Talpade who along with Akshay Kumar, will select 12 finalists who will compete for the title.
Season I 2005
- Sunil Pal(Winner)
- Ahsaan Qureshi (First Runner-up)
- Raju Srivastava (Second Runner-up)
- Naveen Prabhakar
- Bhagwant Mann
- Parag Kansara
Season II 2006
- Rauf Lala (Winner)[7]
- Rajeev Nigam (Runner-up)
- Khayali
- Pratap Faujdar
- Irfan Malik and Ali Hassan (Pakistan)
- Amanullah (Guest Appearance)
- Dr. Tushar Shah
- Rajkumar Javkar
- Saransh Bhardwaj (guest appearance)[8]
- Gaurav K. Jha
Season III 2007
- Kapil Sharma(Winner)
- Chandan Prabhakar ( Second Runner-up)
- Sudesh Lehri ( Runner-up)
- Deepak Saini
- Rajeev Thakur
- Parvez Siddiqui (Pakistan)
Season IV 2008
- Suresh Albela (Winner )
- Sikandar Sanam (First Runner-up) (Pakistan)
- Bharti Singh (Second runner-up)
- Rasbihari Gaur (Third runner-up)
- Sunil Thakkar (Houston, TX)
- Wali Sheikh (Pakistan)
- Jaswant Singh
- Srikant Maski
- Ramdas Yeole
- Rehan Jamal (Pakistan)
- Sugandha Mishra
- Vinod Rathore
- Anirudh Madesia
Season V - 2017
- Abhishek Walia (Winner)
- Nitesh Shetty(Runner up)
- Vighnesh Pande
- Mohd Anas
- Parvindar Singh
- Vishwash Chauhan
- Shyam Rangeela
- Abhay Kumar
- Naman Jain
- Sumit Sourav
- Shikha Singh
- Vidushi Swaroop
- Ajay Singh Chauhan
- Gaurav Gupta
- Jayvijay Sachan
- Haider Rizvi (writer)
- Vankush Arora (Writer)
References
- ^ "Star One's The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Dwitiya clocks the highest ever ratings". 8 July 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ "The great Indian Laughter Challenge 3". 16 May 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge 4 airs every Friday & Saturday on Star One". Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ "Akshay Kumar to judge The Great Indian Laughter Challenge; releases the teaser". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ^ "Charge of the laugh brigade judging the show". The Telegraph. 21 November 2005. Archived from the original on 29 June 2006. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Javed Jaffrey’s spoof on budget desires Screen (magazine), Chaya Unnikrishnan. 3 March 2006.
- ^ "Rauf Lala wins Laughter Challenge". www.rediff.com.
- ^ "Sam & Saransh". www.telegraphindia.com.
External links
- The Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Hotstar
- The Great Indian Laughter Challenge at IMDb