Zakir Khan (born twenty August 1987) is associate Indian comedian and actor. In 2012, he rose to quality by winning Comedy Central India' Best rise Comedian competition. Khan has conjointly been a locality of a news comedy show, On Air with AIB. He has also discharged three-hour length standup specials: Haq Se Single (2017), Kaksha Gyarvi (2018) and Tathastu (2022) on Amazon Prime Video.
Early life
Khan was born and raised in Indore, Madhya Pradesh to a rajasthani muslim family of classical musicians. He is the grandson of Sarangi Maestro Ustad Moinuddin Khan. He spent a large portion of his adult life in Delhi. He comes from a humble background and credits his father with being supportive of his talent.
Career
Khan incorporates a sheepskin in stringed instrument and could be a school dropout. He has declared that had he not been a standup comedian, he would instead be operating as a music teacher. He became a known face in India' stand-up comedy circuit in 2012 once he won the title of 'India' Best Stand Up', a comedy competition organized by Comedy Central. Besides working at several stand-up comedy shows, he has conjointly ghostwritten and created radio shows.
His comedy vogue was applauded in NDTV Prime' The Rising Stars of Comedy tv show. Khan is understood for his punchline "Sakht Launda" that refers to a bloke with large self-control who doesn't simply fall for girls.[5] He conjointly performed with Joke Singh at Gurgaon. he's an rising Urdu writer and comes from a family of artists.
He has given his poetry in events like Rekhta. On his train journey to Delhi, he wrote initial poem, "Mai Soonya letter of the alphabet Sawar Hoon". He also wrote "Apne Aap Ke Bhi Piche Khara Hoon Main", "Bus Ka Intezar Karte Huye".
In Sept 2017, Khan appeared joined of the 3 mentors along side Mallika Dua and Hussain Dalal for the fifth season of the good Indian Laughter Challenge, judged by actor Akshay Kumar.
He has over six million subscribers on YouTube and is understood for works like his Amazon Prime special Haq Se Single. Khan wrote and contend the protagonist within the Amazon Prime net series Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare. In 2015, Khan co-hosted and wrote On Air with AIB, a news comedy show, with Sorabh Pant and Gursimran Khamba from the Indian comedy cluster All India Bakchod.
The show was broadcast on Star World, India. Khan co-hosted the fifth Annual Golden Kela Awards. He conjointly appeared joined of the judges in Amazon Prime' Comicstaan Season two wherever he mentored the contestants in an exceedingly genre of comedy referred to as anecdotal comedy. He also went on to be one in every of the four judges in Season 3.
Khan has also featured within the recent Amazon Prime' One Mic Stand Season one aboard Bhuvan Bam He has also begun his show referred to as Farzi Mushaira that is on the market on Amazon mini TV.
with the exception of comedy, he has also generated podcast series Ummeed on Gaana, where he shares the inspiration he got from incidents in his life, along side his different comedian friends.
