''The Comedy Circus Show '' is an Indian comedy show that aired on Sony Entertainment Television.

Overview

Comedy Circus 1: Hindi TV Show where daily soap stars perform stand-up comedy. Paired with the "finest" stand up talent from India and Pakistan. These soap stars perform stand-up comedy along with their comedian partners on stage. Show went live for 13 weeks in a grueling battle for supremacy to decide which pair will be the best stand-up comic. The show was created by the Optimystix Entertainment, this Mega Laugh Riot with the tag line of 'Jodi Jamegi, Public Hassegi' guarantees hysterics on Sony TV. Comedy Circus 2: Comedy TV Show that started its second season at Sony TV on 26 April 2008. The popular television actors and professional stand-up comedians were paired to perform on a highly competitive stage. Jodis (Pair or teams of two) were scored by the judges and the live studio audience to determine eliminations. Kaante Ki Takkar: After Comedy Circus 1 & 2, Kaante Ki Takkar was the new comedy TV show which had the jodis of Comedy Circus 1 led by Archana Puran Singh versus the jodis of Comedy Circus 2, led by Shekhar Suman. The team of Archana Puran Singh were called as The Purans while the team of Shekhar Suman were called as The Sumans. Shruti Seth was replaced by Purbi Joshi. Chinchpokli To China: Another popular reality-based comedy TV Show from Sony Entertainment Television. This is the fourth season of 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 all the Comedy Circus seasons with a slight twist in the plot. Comedy Circus featured comedians in pairs to perform skits and impress the judges and get scored by them. Hosted by Purbi Joshi. Comedy Circus 20-20: Comes 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 will be hosted by Shruti Seth and the judges are Shekhar Suman and cricketer Ajay Jadeja. Dekh India Dekh: Sixth season of the popular stand-up comedy series of Comedy Circus. It was aired on SonyTV and premiered on 30 May 2009. Ended on 30 October 2009. Shekar Suman who was seen hosting Dekh India Dekh will now be back as judge partnering Archana Puran Singh. This new format will see a new host in Shweta Gulati. 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. Three is not a crowd but a spicy (tadka). Show was aired on 24 October 2009. Hosted by Mouni Roy, later by Roshni Chopra. Comedy Circus Ke Superstars premiered on 24 October 2009. The first episode also contained Govinda who introduced new artists and was guest judge. Comedy Circus – Maha Sangram involved contestants of three previous seasons. Archana represented season 1, Shekhar represented season 2 and Rohit 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 . A new season of the show has started on 15 September 2018. Comedy Circus 2018 This was a comeback for the comedy circus franchise. Aired 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.

Season summary

Production

This show was produced by Vipul D. Shah through his TV shows production company ''Optimistics.'' It was filmed in studios of

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& Natasha Sharma *

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& Sudesh Lehri (runner-up) * Rajeev Thakur &

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* Paresh Ganatra & Bharti Singh * Sunil Pal & Priya Marathe

Comedy Circus Mahasangram – 2010 Contestants

Team Purans: # VIP & Swapnil Joshi # Khayali &

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Team Sumans: #

& Sudesh Lehri # Rajiv Nigam & Rajesh Kumar Team Shettys: # Paresh Ganatra, Bharti Singh &

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#Rajiv Thakur,

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Comedy Circus 3 (Teen) Ka Tadka – 2009 Contestants

* Sudesh Lehri,

, Melissa Pais (winners) * Parul Chauhan,

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, Shweta Tiwari, & Rehman Khan * Sanjay Mishra, Bhairavi Raichura, & Raja Sagoo *

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, Tina Dutta, & Jimmy Moses *

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* 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 *

as Baiju * Sudesh Lehri as Bawra * Gaurav Gera as Malti Manohar Mishra * Swapnil Joshi as Jignesh Shah * Tulika as Bhavana Ben Kosher

Comedy Circus 2020 – 2009 Contestants

* Nigaar Khan and Raja Sagoo (winners) * Roshni Chopra and Kuldeep Dubey *

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Chinchpokli to China – 2009 Contestants

& Sudesh Lehri * Shweta Tiwari & Ashutosh Kaushik * Kuldeep Dubey & Roshni Chopra * Ahsaan Qureshi & Payal Rohatgi *

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& 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 *

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& Rehman Khan * Khayali & Nigaar Khan * Rehman Khan & Sucheta Trivedi * Kuldeep Dubey & Sucheta Trivedi * Sidharth sagar & Nandini kapoor

Kaante Ki Takkar – 2008 Contestants

Team Purans: #

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& Shakeel Siddiqui # VIP & Swapnil Joshi # Khayali &

Team Sumans: #

& Sudesh Lehri # Rajiv Nigam & Rajesh Kumar #

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& Rajeev Thakur

Comedy Circus 2 – 2008 Contestants

* Juhi Parmar & Vijay Ishwarlal Pawar (VIP) – Winner *

& Rajiv Thakur – 1st Runners-up *

& 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 Khan & Ali Asgar- Winners * Swapnil Joshi &

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- Runner-up * Khayali Saharan &

- Voted Out *

& Shakeel Siddiqui – Voted Out * Kiran Karmakar & Sunil Sanwra – Voted Out * Pratap Faujdar & Ketaki Dave replaced by Manini De – Voted Out * Varun Badola & Deepak Dutta – Voted Out

References

External links

Official site
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