''Comedy Nights With Kapil'' is an Indian Hindi-language sketch comedy and celebrity talk show hosted and produced by comedian Kapil Sharma. It was on-air on

Colors TV Colors TV is an Indian general entertainment broadcast network owned by Viacom18. The network's programming consists of family dramas, comedies, youth-oriented reality shows, shows on crime and television films. History It was launched on 2 ...

amid 22 June 2013 to 24 January 2016. Many of the episodes feature celebrity guests who usually appear to promote their latest films in a comedy-focused talk show format. On 25 September 2013, a fire broke out on the sets of the show at Film City in

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causing the entire set to collapse and an estimated loss of 20 Crores. Following the fire, two episodes were shot on sets of '' Bigg Boss'' in Lonavla. In September 2013, the show became India's highest rated scripted TV show. At the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year awards, Sharma was awarded the Entertainer of the Year award for 2013. After a successful run of three years, Kapil Sharma decided to wind up the show after differences with the channel

. The last episode aired on 24 January 2016. In August 2016, Colors started to re-telecast old episodes of the show in their Sunday afternoon time slots due to low Target rating points besides stiff competition with Kapil. The show is adapted in Kannada as '' Majaa Talkies'' and hosted by

Srujan Lokesh Srujan Lokesh (born 28 June 1980) is an Indian actor, television presenter, radio presenter and producer who mainly works in the Kannada film industry. Production house Lokesh Productions was founded by Srujan Lokesh and his mother Girija Lo ...

. This show is aired on Colors Kannada, the Kannada Channel owned by

Cast

Main cast

* Kapil Sharma as Host / Bittu Sharma / Sittu / Kapil / Inspector Shamsher Singh/ Various Characters * Navjot Singh Sidhu as permanent guest * Ali Asgar as Dolly Sharma / Chinky Sharma Dadi *

Sumona Chakravarti Sumona Chakravarti (born 24 June 1988) is an Indian film and television actress. She is well known for her roles in ''Bade Achhe Lagte Hain'', ''Comedy Nights with Kapil, Comedy Nights With Kapil'' and ''The Kapil Sharma Show''. Career She b ...

as Manju Sharma, Bittu's wife * Upasana Singh as Pinky Sharma * Sunil Grover as Gutthi / Khairatilal / Kapil's father in law / Various characters * Kiku Sharda as Palak / Lachha / Pankhudi / Pam /various characters * Chandan Prabhakar as Raju / Chadda uncle * Paresh Ganatra as Kapil's brother-in-law / Various characters * Roshni Chopra as Various characters * Naveen Bawa as Various characters * Atul Parchure as Various characters *

Sugandha Mishra Sugandha Santosh Mishra (born 23 May 1988) is an Indian actress, playback singer, television presenter, comedian and radio jockey in the Indian film and television industry. She is known for her character in The Kapil Sharma Show. She was also ...

as Bittu's sister-in-law/various characters

Recurring

Naseem Vicky Naseem Vicky (born 18 July 1967) is a television and film actor and also a stand-up comedian, born in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan. In 2000, he migrated to Lahore because of his career. He was in ''Family Front'' (1997), a Pakistan Television Cor ...

as Ramu / Various characters * Vishal Singh as Mango Crorepati * Rajiv Thakur as Various characters * Razzak Khan as Golden Bhai * Krishna Bhatt as various characters *

Gaurav Gera Gaurav Gera (born 23 September 1973) is an Indian comedian and actor who works in Hindi language films and television series. He also worked in Bollywood musical ''Jhumroo''. He is well known for playing the role of Nandu in ''Jassi Jaisi Koi Na ...

as Dulari * Raju Srivastava as beautician Rosie / various characters * Akshat Singh as Dhamaka * Soni Singh as Bittu's secretary * Rahul Mahajan as Nawab Pandey * Parvati Sehgal as various characters.

List of episodes

Incident

On 3 April 2014, a audience scam was exposed of this show, when a NRI lady revealed to that she paid 8,000 rupees to see show,

Preeti Simoes Preeti Simoes (born 31 July 1988) is an Indian television Executive producer and producer in Mumbai. She has produced Comedy Nights with Kapil, The Kapil Sharma Show, Kanpurwale Khuranas and Gangs of Filmistaan . Simoes is well known for her ro ...

, this shows excutive producer said some freelance coordinator did the scam with multiple people and their shows audience isn't paid but they select random people on Facebook and Twitter and invite them for shows shoot.

Awards

References

External links

* * {{Colors Programmes Indian television sketch shows Hindi-language television shows 2013 Indian television series debuts Colors TV original programming Indian stand-up comedy television series