Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta is an Indian comic, actor, performer YouTuber and theatre artist. He was the co-winner of the second season of the stand-up comedy competition television series Comicstaan along with Samay Raina. He is trained in performing arts and sketch comedy.
Early life
Born and raised in Delhi, Gupta did his schooling at Sumermal Jain Public School. Gupta attended Delhi University graduating with a Bachelor in Commerce with Honours. He was first exposed to the theatre in college and where he was well known as a performer. He performed in several streets and stage plays in his college and also various other college fests such as Mood Indigo. In his final year, Gupta was the president of Natuve- The theatre society of Shaheed Bhagat Singh College. After graduation Gupta worked as an audit associate with KPMG for one year, while doing theatre on weekends with different groups in Delhi.Early career
Gupta eventually chose to quit his corporate job and to focus on learning different forms of theatre, while keeping up his work in comedy and improv. In 2014, he did an internship at Radio Mantra. Gupta further explored acting by undertaking professional training in Red Nose Clowning & Commedia dell'arte from Indian and German acting teachers.After leaving KPMG, Gupta developed an interest in improv comedy and joined a comedy improv collective in Delhi in 2014 called Cueless Improv under the guidance of Varoon Anand, Delhi's experienced improv trainer. Gupta continued learning improvised comedy and did multiple improv shows for two years with the group. In 2014, he began pursuing a career in stand-up comedy after performing at an open mic at Akshara Theatre in Delhi.
Around 2015 he started working with seasoned comic Nitin Gupta, as an actor and a co-writer, for Gupta's comedy network The Humour Beings for their comedy sketches.
Aakash finally released his first stand up video on YouTube in 2017 after three years of doing stand up. This video was recorded in the Mumbai venue, The Habitat.
Stand-up
Gupta began pursuing a career in stand-up comedy after performing various improv shows. Gupta's national comedy tours began after the success of his first two stand-up videos titled: Train Journeys & Honeymoon ''Trips and Relationships, Clubbing & Cocktails with his Stand up solo titled Bhai Khush Raha Kar.In 2018, Delhi Metro'' video released became a worldwide viral sensation and has been the highest watched video on the channel till date. When Aakash auditioned for Comicstaan 2 which aired on Amazon Prime Video he quickly become a popular contestant amongst audiences. He consistently received the highest scores in most episodes. His unique sketch comedic style landed him in the grand finale of the show and he ended up being the co-winner of Season 2 along with Samay Raina. After his new found fame from Comicstaan, Aakash started doing multiple shows across India and filled up auditoriums and college gigs.