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These 16 Indian female standup comedians come to your rescue with their wit and humour! Now you can watch them on your favourite OTT!
If you’re looking for a good laugh while stuck at home over the weekends, these 16 female standup comedians come to your rescue with their wit and humour!
It’s always said that comedy is the best remedy. Particularly at this time when your mental health might be at stake, a good dose of laughter might help.
So while you’re all working from home or living at work, we have curated, for you, a list of hilarious female comedians! If nothing, these women are guaranteed to make you laugh and wonder why people ever said, ‘Women cannot be funny.’
Netflix’s new all-women stand-up special is a rib-tickling saga of first-hand experiences that leading women of comedy undergo on a day-to-day basis. Staring Kaneez Surka, Supriya Joshi, Prashasti Singh and Niveditha Prakasam this special is a full-fledged package of talent.
With jokes ranging from hookups, matrimonial sites, Fitbit, condoms, North-South divide, this special is meant to drag you away from quarantine boredom. You can watch the special here.
Neeti Palta is one of the most popular female comedians in the country. She is known for her witty style of humour driven by experiences. Her Amazon Special ‘Almost Sanskari’ is a rollercoaster journey of her life.
Full of irrelevant humour in this standup special, Palta takes digs at her mother, father, brother and herself. From being a teen to buying condoms to marriage, this gig has it all.
You can follow her on Instagram here and Twitter here and watch the Amazon Special here. And we leave you with a bit from her show!
Aditi Mittal is a female comedian who is known for her unapologetic, patriarchy-bashing sense of humour. Her standup special ‘Things They Wouldn’t Let Me Say’ made Mittal one of India’s first female comedians to have her own special featured on any web-streaming service.
In her special, she talks about topics ranging from sex to menstruation and bras to sanitary-napkins. It has everything that ‘they’ don’t let us women talk about, and that’s what makes this special a complete laughter riot.
You follow her on Instagram here Twitter here, and you can watch the Netflix special here.
Our dearest ‘Pushpawali’ Sumukhi Suresh is one hell of a dose of comedy and energy. Her standup special ‘Don’t Tell Amma’ is funny and relatable.
It’s an average humour ride with a pinch of edginess and sarcasm and a lot of sweetness!
You can follow her on Instagram here, Twitter here and watch the Amazon special here.
Unapologetic, raw and wild is what Anu Menon and her standup Wonder Menon are. This Amazon Special is filled with Menon’s flair for storytelling, narrating incidents from her life with self-deprecating wit.
You can follow her on Instagram here, Twitter here.
Kaneez Surka aka the improvisation comedy star is known for her spontaneous sense of humour. Her most renowned comedy series is The General Fun Game Show. This game show is general and funny, as the name suggests.
Kaneez Surka who controls the show in each episode puts the three contestants on a journey of madness, fun, tears and maybe a loss of dignity. You can watch the show here and trust me it’s pretty addictive!
You can follow her on Instagram here and Twitter here.
Radhika Vaz is best known for her no-holds-barred stand-up comedy. Her standup videos on YouTube are not just funny but also very elegantly thrashes patriarchy. Her standup bit ‘Why Men And Women Are Different’ will leave you in splits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPKtkDCiKk
Sarcastic and awkward Urooj Ashfaq is known for her sense of comedy that is dark and absurd. Her stand-ups are driven from observations and make one feel a lot of emotions at once.
You can follow her on Instagram here.
Punya Arora is one such amazing stand-up comedian who talks about simple real-life experiences and thoughts. She is one of the female comedians who is an eccentric mix of stand-up and photography. You can watch her video ‘Purush Ka Sparm’ here and have your daily dose of comedy!
Aayushi Jagad is your very relatable Gujrati woman whose stand-ups are something to look forward to. Whether it’s through her opinions and experiences on Instagram and Dick Pics or Arrange Marriages, her stand-up is a fresh touch to your mundane work from home!
Another young female stand-up comedian on this list is Sejal Bhatt. Her comedy in some sense questions our household banter. I mean, how can you not laugh when the comic jokes that her life dream is to take a bath without a ‘chaddi.’
Sumaira Shaikh’s standup acts are relatable and just as funny! From gambling with Dadi to her SSC school experience Sumaira through her punchlines makes everything sound funny.
She drops real truth-bombs like even paper can do the work of a paperweight!
Now I recently discovered Jeeya Seethi and she is hilarious! While advising men on how to pee she suggests them to aim only in the pot because ‘humko tumhara rasna nahi dekhne ka hai’! Her standup How To Pee is the correct boredom booster.
This standup comedian from UP through her video tries to bring her experience and observation to the people in a fun and sarcastic way! Her video ‘UP is the Texas of India’ will prove my point.
Well, here’s hoping these female standup comedians bring you as much laughter as they brought to me! Watch their videos when you can, and thank us later for all the entertainment we provided you with!
Image source: From respective social media accounts of the female standup comedians!
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Neena was the sole caregiver of Amma and though one would think that Amma was dependent on her, Neena felt otherwise.
Neena inhaled the aroma that emanated from the pan and took a deep breath. The aroma of cumin interspersed with butter transported her back to the modest kitchen in her native village. She could picture her father standing in the kitchen wearing his white crisp kurta as he made delectable concoctions for his only daughter.
Neena grew up in a home where both her parents worked together in tandem to keep the house up and running. She had a blissful childhood in her modest two-room house. The house was small but every nook and cranny gave her memories of a lifetime. Neena’s young heart imagined that her life would follow the same cheerful course. But how wrong she was!
When she was sixteen, the catastrophic clutches of destiny snatched away her parents. They passed away in a road accident and Neena was devastated. Relatives thronged her now gloomy house and soon it was decided that she should be married off.
Women today don’t want to be in a partnership that complicates their lives further. They need an equal partner with whom they can figure out life as a team, playing by each other’s strengths.
We all are familiar with that one annoying aunty who is more interested in our marital status than in the dessert counter at a wedding. But these aunties have somehow become obsolete now. Now they are replaced by men we have in our lives. Friends, family, and even work colleagues. It’s the men who are worried about why we are not saying yes to one among their clans. What is wrong with us? Aren’t we scared of dying alone? Like them?
A recent interaction with a guy friend of mine turned sour when he lectured me about how I would regret not getting married at the right time. He lectured that every event in our lives needs to be completed within a certain timeframe set by society else we are doomed. I wasn’t angry. I was just disappointed to realize that annoying aunties are rapidly doubling in our society. And they don’t just appear at weddings or family functions anymore. They are everywhere. They are the real pandemic.
Let’s examine this a little closer.
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