Zakir Khan, Kanan Gill, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Tanmay Bhat, All India Bakchod
Last updated: 16 October 2022
Kumar Varun is an Indian stand-up comedian,[2] actor, writer and quizmaster. He is known for his roles in the comedy sketches of All India Bakchod, as the co-founder of the comedy collective Random Chikibum, which won the OML Comedy Hunt.[3] He has featured in both seasons of the comedy webseries Amazon Prime Video's Chacha Vidhayak Hain Hamare.[4]
Before committing to stand up in 2017, Kumar worked as an engineer at TCS in Delhi from 2008-2011. He earned an MBA in Marketing at FMS, Delhi from 2011-2013. He worked as a brand manager in Mahindra Group and DBS Bank.[6] During this time he met Rahul Subramanian, with whom he found the comedy collective Random Chikibum and won the OML Comedy Hunt judged by AIB and hosted by Biswa Kalyan Rath in 2016.[7]
Varun wrote and acted in the 7-episode mini series Random Daftar along with Rahul Subramanian. The same year he appeared as Atul Naak in four episodes of Sumukhi Suresh's sketch series Behti Naak.
In 2017 he rose to popularity with his role as Failure Mehta in Honest Campus Placements.[8] He played the role of Professor Kodoth in Laakhon Main Ek.[9]
Between 2017-2020 Kumar took roles across web series and shorts including Anirban in Better Life Foundation,[10] Kranti in both seasons of Amazon Prime Video's Chacha Vidhayak Hain Hamare, Babloo in DisneyPlus Hotstar's PariWar[11] and the titular Buddhaditya Das in Mr. Das. In 2019 he released his first stand up video on YouTube which garnered more than 5.5 million views.[citation needed]
During the pandemic, Kumar Varun hosted online quizzing tournaments with fellow comedians and other actors and writers under the title of Kvizzing With The Comedians.[14] Since July 2020, 14 such tournaments were conducted by Varun, which gained over 100 million views on YouTube.
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