Sorabh Pant Explained

Sorabh Pant
Birth Date:14 September 1981
Birth Place:Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Medium:English
Nationality:Indian
Active:2010–present
Subject:Comedy

Sorabh Pant is an Indian stand-up comedian and writer.[1] [2] He has performed over 250 shows.[3] [4] He was rated amongst India's top 10 stand-up comedians by The Times of India.[5] In a poll by IBN Live in March 2012, he was listed No. 1 of the 30 most interesting Twitter users in India.[4] [6]

Career

Pant started as a writer for television.[2] [7] In March 2008, he met Vir Das and they did a show together on CNBC-TV18 called News on The Loose.[7] [8] Pant's career in comedy took off when he started as the opening act for Vir Das's show, Walking on Broken Das, later that year.[9] After working with Das for three and a half years, he did his first solo act at HQ.[10] In November 2009, he became one of just three Indian comedians to hit auditoriums with his solo show, Pant on Fire.[2] [10]

Sorabh also featured in F.A.Q. on Pogo .

In July 2011, when Wayne Brady toured India, Pant was his opening act.[2] [9] [11] In November 2011, Pant opened for American actor and comedian Rob Schneider on his India tour.[1] [12] [13]

Pant released his debut novel The Wednesday Soul in December 2011.[2]

Pant on Fire

Pant on Fire is Sorabh Pant's first comedy special, and was staged in more than 10 cities in India, Dhaka, and Dubai. The tour reached North America in November 2012.[2] [14] [15]

Traveling Pants

Traveling Pants is a comedy special which takes on cultures and people in India and around the world.[16] In July 2012, it became the second show by an Indian comedian to be showcased at the coveted Comedy Store, Mumbai.[14]

The East India Comedy

In 2012, Pant founded comedy company The East India Comedy, and over the next year recruited comedians Kunal Rao, Sapan Verma, Sahil Shah, Atul Khatri, Azeem Banatwalla and Angad Singh Ranyal. Pant and Khatri are no longer a part of EIC.[17]

The East India Comedy performed 130 shows across the country in 2013, including the specials Men Are From Bars and Comedy News Network.

Books

Comedic style

Pant's material has been described as "over the top", "manic", and occasionally "marginally unstable."[14]

Wayne Brady, for whom Pant has opened, has said: "He's the second brilliant Indian comedian I've seen, after Russell Peters."[2] [14] [21]

Pant's jokes take a dig at communities and involve a lot of sex – two things which he says work "big time" in India.[10] He also does impersonations of communities, and some of his jokes are about women.[15] Pant says, "I am a home-grown comedian. I have the Indian sensibility".[10] He has also been working on a lot of material that revolves around politics and puns.[1]

The Wednesday Soul

Pant's book, The Wednesday Soul, is a "fictitious and comic take on life after death".[22] It was published by Westland Books.

Personal life

His sister is author Meghna Pant.[23] [24] He is married to Iva Bagchi, and together they have 2 kids.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Secret Behind Sorabh Pant's Hair Loss > NH7 | Discover new music from India and around the world . Nh7.in . 21 February 2012 . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120806090929/http://nh7.in/indiecision/2012/02/21/the-secret-behind-sorabh-pants-hair-loss/ . 6 August 2012 . live.
  2. Web site: TWB . Pant on Fire! . This Week Bangalore . 28 September 2011 . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180701194320/http://www.thisweekbangalore.com/?p=4199 . 1 July 2018 . live.
  3. Web site: Funny Thursdays in Bangalore. Daily News and Analysis . 24 July 2012 . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120804030244/http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report_funny-thursdays-in-bangalore_1718985 . 4 August 2012 . live.
  4. Web site: "Pant on Fire" Comedian Sorabh Pant's English Comedy Special . Dubainightplanner.com . 7 August 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120623164217/http://www.dubainightplanner.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NID=98&t=-Pant-on-Fire--Comedian-Sorabh-Pants-English-Comedy-Special . 23 June 2012 . live.
  5. Web site: Nona Walia . Comic Relief . https://web.archive.org/web/20130906124516/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-11/tv/30141653_1_stand-up-comedy-comedians-russell-peters . dead . 6 September 2013 . 11 September 2011 . . 7 August 2012.
  6. Web site: Twitter@6: 30 interesting Indians to follow – India News – IBNLive . Ibnlive.in.com . 7 August 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120823052709/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/twitter6-30-interesting-indians-to-follow/241387-3.html . 23 August 2012 . dead.
  7. Web site: Nona Walia . Comic Relief . 11 September 2011 . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130906124516/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-11/tv/30141653_1_stand-up-comedy-comedians-russell-peters . 6 September 2013 . . dead.
  8. Web site: About R.I.P.Ping The Decade. Starworld.in. 22 September 2012.
  9. Web site: Catherine Rhea Roy . FEATURES / METRO PLUS : Laugh your Pant off . The Hindu. 13 October 2011 . 22 September 2012.
  10. Web site: Wearing the comic pants. Daily News and Analysis . 8 November 2009 . 22 September 2012.
  11. Web site: Wayne Brady's performance – DNA . Daily News and Analysis . 9 July 2011 . 22 September 2012.
  12. Web site: Rajinikanth looks like me, I don't look like him: Rob Schneider . Hindustan Times. 29 November 2011 . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120104160948/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Hollywood/Rajinikanth-looks-like-me-I-don-t-look-like-him-Rob-Schneider/Article1-775424.aspx . 4 January 2012 . dead.
  13. Web site: Ranjit Rodricks . Hollywood Star Rob 'Hot Chick' Schneider Had Sidhartha Mallya, Atul Kasbekar, Elahe Hiptoolah And Nagesh Kukunoor in Splits at The Black Dog Comedy Evenings in Mumbai . MissMalini . 29 November 2011 . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120429061720/http://www.missmalini.com/2011/11/29/hollywood-star-rob-hot-chick-schneider-had-sidhartha-mallya-atul-kasbekar-elahe-hiptoolah-and-nagesh-kukunoor-in-splits-at-the-black-dog-comedy-evenings-in-mumbai/ . 29 April 2012 . live.
  14. Web site: "Pant on Fire" Comedian Sorabh Pant's English Comedy Special . Dubainightplanner.com . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120623164217/http://www.dubainightplanner.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NID=98&t=-Pant-on-Fire--Comedian-Sorabh-Pants-English-Comedy-Special . 23 June 2012 . live.
  15. Web site: Sorabh Pant | Madhavi Tata . Outlookindia.com . 1 August 2011 . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110924030534/http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?277738 . 24 September 2011 . live.
  16. Web site: The Travelling Pants (A) event tickets now available . In.bookmyshow.com . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121012232531/http://in.bookmyshow.com/events/The-Travelling-Pants-A/ET00009961 . 12 October 2012 . live.
  17. Web site: Comic Timing . The Indian Express. 10 June 2012 . 22 September 2012.
  18. Web site: 'Under Delhi' by Sorabh Pant Book Review . 2023-05-16 . Indian Nerve.
  19. Web site: 2017-12-12 . It took comedian Sorabh Pant 5 years to write his new humour novel. Here’s why . 2023-05-16 . Hindustan Times.
  20. Web site: Pant . Sorabh . "Vote for Pant: But, Don’t": A book of political satire by comedian Sorabh Pant . 2023-05-16 . The Dispatch.
  21. Web site: Sorabh Pant – Artist Profile. eventseeker.com. 2020-02-27.
  22. Web site: How to Get Published: Sorabh Pant | Work & Life 8bjjhuhuh7h. 18 April 2012. iDivayhyyg6g6g6d6h.com . 22 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120626024625/http://idiva.com/interviews-work-life/how-to-get-published-sorabh-pant/12214/1 . 26 June 2012 . live.
  23. Web site: Sibling Speak. Daily News and Analysis . 2013-08-18.
  24. Web site: The Metrognome – Two Pants on fire. 18 October 2012.

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