#Seven Female Stand-up Comedians that Deserve Your ApplauseEntrepreneur India takes a candid look at a few Indian female stand-up comedians who are winning hearts all over the world

ByVanita D'souza

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Way beforeYouTubepicked up in India, comedy content was mostly consumed through censored television shows. However, since the early 2010s, the Indian standup comedy space is simply flourishing and it's not clean anymore.

The space sadly remained a male-dominated one for quite some time and lacked the active participation of women. But in the last few years, the comedy scene has been witness to a number of female comedians stealing the limelight that too for all good reasons.Entrepreneur Indiatakes a candid look at a few Indian female stand-up comedians who are winning hearts all over the world.

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Aditi Mittal

YouTube Channel: Aditi Mittal

YouTube Subscribers: 183,501

Mittal is one of the well-known faces of the Indian comedy scenes. She was also a part ofAll India Bakchod's roast event.

These days she is known for portraying the character of a sex therapist Dr.Mrs. Lutchuke and an aspiring Bollywood diva Dolly Khurana. Her commentaries include everything from lingerie to sanitary pad shopping.

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Neeti Patla

YouTube Channel: Neeti Patla

YouTube Subscribers: 34,875

Patla, a former copywriter, is among the few noted ones in the English stand comedy club in India and her acts mostly include day to day commentary on Indian lifestyle.

The comedian has performed in more than 200 cities across India and her ongoing notable work isAlmost Sanskaari

She is also the founder of Delhi's well-known comedy outfits Loony Goons.

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Kaneez Surka

YouTube Channel: Kaneez Surka

YouTube Subscribers:44,220

We have on and off spotted her in some of theAll India Bakchod's sketches. Surka is part of India's improvisation club and has acquired the art from theMagnet Theatrein New York.

Surka started full-time comedy in the mid-2000s withCyrus Broacha'sThe Week That Wasn'tshow.

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Ankita Shrivastav

YouTube Chanel: Filmy Chowkri

YouTube Subscribers: 37,445

Shrivastav is full-time theatre artist and has also been a part of several Bollywood movies likeWelcome BackandSarabjit.

According to her interview with the Hindu Business Line, her act#OyeStandUpis a reflection of the middle-class society, the Hindi film industry, and corporate India.

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Sumukhi Suresh

YouTube Channel: Sumukhi Suresh

YouTube Subscribers: 8,492 subscribers

If you areAll India Bakchod的粉丝,机会s are that you haven't missed their一个女人的Bestiesseries which features Sumukhi as the Vagayenti or if you are binge watcher onAmazon Prime, you have must have surely spotted the comedian in the web series calledPushpavalli.

Before taking up comedy as a full-time profession, the artist was a part of improvisational comedy club called The Improv, wherein she performed about 100 shows domestically along with a few sessions in Dubai and Sweden. During the same period, Sumukhi was also working at Bangalore based food lab.

These days Sumukhi's audiences are looking forward to her web seriesBeauty and Feastwhich will be broadcasted onHotstar.

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Radhika Vaz

YouTube Channel: Radhika Vaz Comedy

YouTube Subscribers: 9,541

The advertising executive worked on online marketing campaigns for brands like Sofy Sanitary Pads and Fab Alley, an e-commerce platform.

Her website claims that some of her noted comedy shows 'Unladylike'and 'Older. Angrier. Hairier'have been sold out in New York, Los Angeles and in Indian cities like Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi.

Additionally, her web series Shugs & Fats, which she performed and wrote with Nadia Manzoor has been applauded with the Gotham Awards

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Vasu Primlani

YouTube Chanel: Vasu Primlani

YouTube Subscribers: 5,900

Primlani is India's only female standup comedian who is openly gay. She uses her comedy skills to send social messages and often discusses boundaries, civic sense, gender equality, and the concept of consent.

Apart from being a standup comedian, Primlani is also a professor and has been teaching sustainability, green design and writing comedy in some of the education centers like the University of Michigan, USC, XIMB, IIT Delhi and IIT Hyderabad.

She is also a corporate speaker, actor, triathlete, and therapist. In fact, the comedian is known to be working with rape survivors, suicide survivors, and people going through the trauma of depression, cognitive disorders, idiopathic ailments, etc.

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Vanita D'souza

Former Senior Correspondent, Entrepreneur India

I am a Mumbai-based journalist and have worked with media companies like The Dollar Business Magazine, Business Standard, etc.While on the other side, I am an avid reader who is a travel freak and has accepted foodism as my religion.

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