Khamba

Khamba can refer to:

Gursimran Khamba

Gursimran Khamba (popularly known as Khamba) is an Indian stand-up comedian and writer. He is the co-founder of All India Bakchod which is a comedy group and also hosted India's first ever comedy podcast alongside Tanmay Bhat.

Early life

Khamba was born in Delhi. He did his masters degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.

Career

Khamba started his early career as a blogger in Delhi. Before moving to Delhi, he started a radio show on the lines of The Marc Maron Show. In Mumbai, he along with Tanmay Bhat co-founded AIB podcast. Khamba was booked by Mumbai Police over organizing the roast show All India Bakchod Knockout starring Arjun Kapoor and Ranveer Singh as the roast and Karan Johar as roast master.

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Tanmay Bhat

Tanmay Bhat is an Indian stand-up comedian, script writer, producer and also the co-founder of comedy sketch group All India Bakchod. He was one of the first four comedians to be featured at the Comedy Store Mumbai’s first all-Indian comedian line up, titled Local Heroes, and soon thereafter he performed alongside comics from the UK in a Best In Stand Up event. He attended Sheth Chunnilal Damodardas Barfiwala High School. Tanmay was named a “Top 10 Comic” by the Times of India. Tanmay is also the co-founder of India's first comedy podcast All India Bakchod with Gursimran Khamba.

Biography

Bhat received his high school education from S.C.D. Barfiwala High School. He's been playing the circuit since 2009. After doing the open mic circuit, Tanmay went professional. He joined Weirdass Comedy and became Vir Das' opening act on high sellout Walking On Broken Das. He was 1 of the first 4 comedians to be featured at The Comedy Store Mumbai's first all Indian comedian line up titled "Local Heroes". Soon, Tanmay performed alongside comics from the UK in their "Best In Stand Up" nights, performing 5 times a week. Tanmay is also a member of the awesome Weirdass Comedy – India's first and only comedy company that writes, performs and directs all comedy content on all formats. He is a member of the Cardinal Bengans, an improv comedy troupe. He also works wth Weirdass Comedy and scripts films and television content. Tanmay was seen alongside Vir Das, Ashwin Mushran and others on Star World's first-ever Indian New Year's Special RIPping the Decade, which he also co-wrote. Last year, Tanmay as a part of Weirdass Comedy performed at The Fringe Festival in Scotland.. He has also featured in a couple of Bollywood movies in minor roles or cameo appearances like Ragini MMS 2 and Mr. X.

All India Bakchod

All India Bakchod usually abbreviated and referred to as AIB is an Indian comedy group. The group was initially founded by Gursimran Khamba and Tanmay Bhat and was later joined by Rohan Joshi and Ashish Shakya. Abish Mathew and Kaneez Surka frequently collaborate with them. All four members are equal owners of the group. The group maintains a YouTube channel that shows their comedy sketches and parodies on topics such as politics, society, and the Hindi film industry, and much of their reputation was founded on their online presence. Initially, the group produced podcasts, before using YouTube in 2013 as a medium to share their comedic work. Joshi had noted that the reason for their use of YouTube was that they simply did not have funds for advertisements and other promotional materials, and instead relied upon social media to promote their work.

Current work

As of March 2015, the group has amassed over 100 million views on their videos and has over 1.33 million subscribers on YouTube. The group has multiple employees for script writing, brand consulting, and coordinating academic and corporate workshops. In December 2014, AIB organized a roast show, All India Bakchod Knockout Championship featuring Karan Johar as the host with Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor as subjects of the roast. The event is claimed to have raised over 40 lakh rupees for charity organisations such as Being Human and Vogue Empower, which works for women empowerment.

India

India, officially the Republic of India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.

Home to the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation and a region of historic trade routes and vast empires, the Indian subcontinent was identified with its commercial and cultural wealth for much of its long history. Four religions—Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism—originated here, whereas Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam arrived in the 1st millennium CE and also shaped the region's diverse culture. Gradually annexed by and brought under the administration of the British East India Company from the early 18th century and administered directly by the United Kingdom after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, India became an independent nation in 1947 after a struggle for independence that was marked by non-violent resistance led by Mahatma Gandhi.