
Karunesh Talwar
Comedian | Writer
Karunesh Talwar is a stand-up comedian from Mumbai, who is one of India’s most experienced and widely viewed comedians.
Since he began in 2016, Karunesh now stands as one of the fastest growing Indian comedians on YouTube having crossed 650K subscribers on YouTube with nearly 61M views, at this given point.
In 2018, he was invited to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in Australia where he did more than 20 consecutive shows and featured on Australian television network, ABC TV’s show Comedy Up Late. Later that year, he was invited to the prestigious, world famous Soho Theatre in London where he did a week-long run with fellow Indian comic Sumit Anand, which played to largely full houses and was well reviewed.
He is also a renowned comedy writer having written for many brands like Hotstar, HDFC, Red Bull etc. and has also written Bollywood and television award shows such as IIFA, Filmfare etc. He was a writer and performer at All India Bakchod, and wrote some of their most popular sketches, including Every Bollywood Party Song with Irrfan Khan. He also wrote and featured on Season 1 of their Hotstar show On Air With AIB.
In 2019, Karunesh successfully toured across the USA, Australia and the UAE – it was very well received by all audiences & critics par continents.
His second Amazon Prime Special - Aalas Motaapa Ghabraahat premiered in 2021, it was received extremely well by critics of the comedy community & is one of the highest rated Indian comedy specials on IMDb.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
1. One of the first Indian artistes to have performed the World Famous Soho Theatre
2. Self produced his own Amazon Prime special which received critical recognition
3. Performed 20 consecutive shows at the Melbourne Comedy Festival & featured on Australian ABC TV’s Comedy Up Late.
4. Successfully toured the USA, Australia & Middle East to packed houses.