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Abijit Ganguly first gave a shot at comedy in 2010 at an open mic in Delhi organized by the comedy collective Cheese Monkey Mafia. He soon started getting some pub and bar gigs in 6 months time and smaller corporate shows and college shows in a year's time. Initial 4 years, he was a parti-time comedian, finishing his Masters from Delhi School of Economics (2010-2012), and working at Deloitte Consulting (2012-2014).
In 2014, Abijit started pursuing comedy full time. By this time Abijit had featured quite frequently on NDTV prime, Zoom and media publications, such as Times of India, Hindustan Times, Statesman, Hindu, etc and was a frequent face at the Canvas Comedy Club branches of Mumbai, Delhi and Gurgaon & That Comedy Club Bangalore.
In 2017, Abijit relocated to Mumbai. He's also written a web-series titled ‘Joint Venture’ for Times on their MensXP platform. Abijit has performed extensively in the cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Chandigarh, Guwahati, Shillong, Nagpur, Bhubaneswar, Ranchi, Surat, Jaipur, Indore, Coimbatore, Ahmedabad, etc. He’s done international shows to Indian diasporas in Dubai, Nepal, Tanzania and Australia, and brand work for Sprite, Culture Machine, Woo, Oyo, Times, Treebo, Cinepolis, etc. His style of comedy is anecdotal, observational humour with occasional self-deprecation and political satire.
List of major live events performed in India as main artist / headliner
Radio Mirchi Live in Hyderabad in Jan 2018
Black Dog Comedy Nights Calcutta Nov 2018
Black Dog Comedy Nights Siliguri Dec 2018
Radio Mirchi Comedy Night Ahmedabad in October 2018
Black Dog Comedy Night Jaipur November 2018
ITC Bingo Comedy Night at IIIT Allahbad October 2017
ITC Bingo Comedy Night at SRCC Delhi November 2017
ITC Bingo Comedy Night at IIT Roorkee February 2018
ITC Bingo Comedy Night at DTU Delhi April 2018
Multiple Solo shows at Indian Habitat Centre, Delhi
Ranchi Literary Fest 2017 December
Bhubaneswar Literary Fest 2019 January
Lucknow Repertwahr Festival 2018 December
Democracy Wall Mumbai KC College June 2018
Democracy Wall Jalandar LPU August 2018
Performances abroad – comedy festivals, tv shows, live events
Dubai September 2016 Desi Laughs 600 capacity
Dubai Y So Serious Nights at The Music Room, Majestic Hotel
Dubai Solo Show at Courtyard Playhouse title Raci Desis
Kathmandu Round Table 2018 December 2018 900 Capacity
Melbourne 2018 September 500 Capacity
Barcelona May 2018 Local Show
Tanzania February 2016
Been Part of following Comedy Festivals in India
Weirdass Comedy Festival Mumbai 2013
Weirdass Comedy Festival Delhi 2014
Stage 42 Comedy Festival Pune Mumbai Kolkatta 2016
Bangalore Comedy Festival by TCC 2016
Bangalore Comedy Festival by TCC 2017
Pune Comedy Festival 2017
Delhi Comedy Festival by Cheese Monkey Mafia 2018
Chennai Evam Comedy Festival January 2019
Number of followers on various social media platforms
Twitter – Verified Account and 15.1k + followers
Facebook – Verified Page and 70,000 followers
Youtube – Verified Account, 3.30 Lac+ subscribers, 33 Million+ views
Instagram – Verified Account, 14.k followers
