One Mic Stand

*One Mic Stand*
One Mic Stand
Directed by	Kreeti Gogia and Karan Asnani
Presented by	Sapan Verma
Country of origin	India
Original languages	Hindi and English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Only Much Louder
Original release
Network	Amazon Video
Release	15 November 2019

One Mic Stand is an Indian standup comedy television show series created by Only Much Louder for Amazon Video.^[1] It is not like a typical standup comedy show in that it hosts India's famous actors, politicians, influencers, writers and musicians who are trained by Comedians to perform standup comedy for first time.^[2] This series has 2 seasons on Amazon Prime Video and both seasons are hosted by comedian Sapan Verma.^[3]^[4]

Seasons

The first season of One Mic Stand released on 15 November 2019, with 5 episodes.^[5] Bhuvan Bam, Taapsee Pannu, Richa Chadda, Vishal Dadlani and Shashi Tharur^[2] performed their first time ever standup comedy. Zakir Khan, Kunal Kamra, Ashish Shakya, Rohan Joshi and Angad Singh Ranyal were the mentors, trainers and the guest comedians in this season.^[6]

The second season released on 22 October 2021, again with 5 episodes.^[7] The celebrities who performed their first standup are Sunny Leone, Karan Johar, Chetan Bhagat, Faye D'Souza and Raftaar.^[8] The guest comedy and trainings were performed by Samay Raina, Neeti Palta, Sumukhi Suresh, Atul Khatri and Abish Mathew.^[9]

Season 1


Episode	Title	Celebrity	Guest Comedian
1	Bhuvan Bam ft. Zakir Khan	Bhuvan Bam	Zakir Khan
2	Taapsee Pannu ft. Angad Singh Ranyal	Taapsee Pannu	Angad Singh Ranyal
3	Richa Chadha ft. Ashish Shakya	Richa Chadha	Ashish Shakya
4	Vishal Dadlani ft. Rohan Joshi	Vishal Dadlani	Rohan Joshi
5	Shashi Tharoor ft. Kunal Kamra	Shashi Tharoor	Kunal Kamra

Season 2

Episode	Title	Celebrity	Guest Comedian
1	Sunny Leone ft. Neeti Palta	Sunny Leone	Neeti Palta
4	Karan Johar ft. Sumukhi Suresh	Karan Johar	Sumukhi Suresh
3	Faye D'souza ft Atul Khatri	Faye D'Souza	Atul Khatri
2	Chetan Bhagat ft. Abish Mathew	Chetan Bhagat	Abish Mathew
5	Raftaar ft. Samay Raina	Raftaar	Samay Raina

German version

In 2022 Amazon Prime Germany and Leonine Studios created a German language version of the format. It is hosted by Teddy Teclebrhan and features professional comedians including Hazel Brugger and Harald Schmidt, and celebrities such as politician Karl Lauterbach, dancer Motsi Mabuse, and actor Fahri Yardim.^[10]^[11]

References

^ One Mic Stand (Comedy), OML Entertainment, 15 November 2019, retrieved 23 March 2022
^ ^a ^b Duggal, Deepansh (18 November 2019). "Shashi Tharoor - 'One Mic Stand': Shashi Tharoor calls out PM Modi, speaks millennial lingo; his stand-up act becomes a massive hit". The Economic Times. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
^ "Sapan Verma: Shashi Tharoor agreed to be on One Mic Stand in two minutes". The Indian Express. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^ Bhavani, Divya Kala (14 November 2019). "'One Mic Stand': When Indian celebrities took stand-up comedy lessons". Retrieved 12 May 2022.
^ "Watch One Mic Stand – Season 1 | Prime Video". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^ "Shashi Tharoor, Taapsee Pannu Try Stand-Up Comedy in One Mic Stand Trailer". NDTV Gadgets 360. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^ "Watch One Mic Stand – Season 2 | Prime Video". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^ "One Mic Stand writers room on making stand-up sets for celebrities, and training them to be 'losers' on stage-Entertainment News". Firstpost. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2022.
^ "Techno Sports". technosports.co.in. 24 October 2021. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
^ "Schlechter Scherz" [Bad Joke]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 4 August 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
^ "One Mic Stand - Germany (2022)". Radio Times. Retrieved 8 June 2023.