Stand-up comedian, writer and co-founder of India’s premiere comedy collective East India Comedy, Sapan Verma is a bona fide artist on the Indian arts scene. He is the host, creator and executive producer of the Amazon Prime Original show, One Mic Stand — where he trained celebrities like Karan Johar, Shashi Tharoor, Sunny Leone and others to try stand-up comedy for the first time. The widely popular show went on to become the first Indian show to be remade in Germany.
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You’ve also seen Sapan as a judge and mentor on Amazon Prime’s Comicstaan Season 1 and Season 3 — a show that only added to his comedy repertoire.

He recently made his debut in Bollywood as a comedy consultant on Kho Gaye Hum Kahan (Tiger Baby Films) and a dialogue writer on Friday Night Plan (Excel Entertainment), both of which released on Netflix in 2023.
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He made his foray into the global comedy scene by representing India at two of the world’s most revered comedy festivals — Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2023) and Melbourne International Comedy Festival (2017). With over 2000 live shows in India, Sapan has also toured internationally across USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Dubai.
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A key highlight of his career was when he was one of the opening acts for Coldplay and Jay-Z for an audience of 80,000 at the Global Citizen Festival India in 2015.
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His first comedy special Obsessive Comedic Disorder is available on Amazon Prime Video. Previously, he has also scripted the IIFA Awards, Screen Awards and Filmfare Awards for celebrities like Shah Rukh Khan, Ranveer Singh, Farhan Akhtar, Ayushmann Khurrana among others.