Abijit Ganguly
About
Abijit Ganguly, a stand-up comedian for over six years now, has done over 2000 shows including stage shows, pub gigs, college shows & corporate events.His style of comedy is mainly observational humor with occasional self deprecation and political satire.
He first gave a shot at comedy in 2010 at an open mic in Delhi organized by the comedy collective ‘Cheese Monkey Mafia’ and since then he never looked back.
Apart from being a stand up comedian, he is a brand consultant and a freelance writer.
He has performed regularly in the ‘Best of Stand-up’ at Canvas Laugh Club, Indian Comedy Club & was part of India’s first English stand-up festival ‘Weirdass Comedy Festival’.
Abijit has performed for various organizations, such as American Express, Sapient, McKinsey Knowledge Centre, Deloitte, HDFC, Shell, Mercedes Benz, Dassault Systems, PWC, Sakri IT Solutions, Microsoft, Glaxo SmithKlein and more.
Awards and Accomplishments
Awards and Accomplishments
Abijit has done international shows in Dubai, Nepal, Tanzania and Australia, and consulted for brands like Sprite, Culture Machine, Woo, Oyo, Times, Treebo and Cinepolis.
The bilingual comedian performs in both Hindi and English, and has done over 2000 shows and has been featured multiple times on ‘NDTV Rising Stars of Comedy’. He’s also written a web-series titled ‘Joint Venture’ for Times on their MensXP platform.
His humour is quite random, ranging from anything to everything, be it stereotypical observations or middle-class life. Having worked in multinational corporate companies, Abijit is one of the few English stand-up comics who speak the language of the typical corporate world. His woes about office life relates very well to both top and middle management. Be it cracks on the HR department, time-consuming reimbursement process or the painful procedure of filling timesheets, Abijit is a sureshot hit with the corporate audience.
