Anuvab Pal was born on 27 April 1976 and is an Indian stand up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
21 Facts About Anuvab Pal
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Anuvab Pal is occasionally featured as a rotating co-host on Season 4 of the podcast The Bugle.
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In 2011, Anuvab Pal was featured in a New York Times video, A Night At The Comedy Club.
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Anuvab Pal was interviewed in the BBC News segment titled Having A Laugh In India and was, along with comedian and presenter Cyrus Broacha, the only Indian comedian on the popular BBC Radio 4 show Just A Minute with Nicholas Parsons.
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Anuvab Pal contributes columns often to magazines like Time Out Mumbai.
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Anuvab Pal has written a non fiction book on the Bollywood movie, Disco Dancer.
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Anuvab Pal had his stand up special Alive At 40, featured on Amazon Prime.
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In Feb 2018, Anuvab Pal did his stand up special The Nation Wants To Know at Harvard Business School, as part of the Harvard South Asia Conference.
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In May 2018, Anuvab Pal premiered his stand up special, The Empire, at London's Soho Theatre.
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In 2018, Anuvab Pal appeared on four different shows for the BBC.
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Anuvab Pal debuted on BBC's Fresh from the Fringe, performing highlights of his Edinburgh Festival show.
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Anuvab Pal made an appearance on BBC 2's Big Asian Stand Up as part of BBC's The British Asian Summer.
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In December 2018, Anuvab Pal was invited by the BBC World Service Arts Hour to The Arts Hour New Year International Comedy Show.
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Anuvab Pal appeared on QI, on the third episode of the 17th series, on the topic of "Quarrels".
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In late summer 2018, Anuvab Pal became the first Indian comedian to perform before a sell out crowd at the Lund Comedy Festival in Lund, Sweden.
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In 2020, Anuvab Pal wrote a sitcom for Amazon Prime India directed by Rohan Sippy, with the pandemic as the backdrop.
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In 2022, post pandemic, Anuvab Pal returned to the Soho Theatre with his Edinburgh show Democracy and Disco Dancing, which received a series of four-star reviews.
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Anuvab Pal appeared as a panellist in a number of BBC radio shows including The BBC Radio Scotland show The Good, The Bad and The Unexpected and Comedians Vs The News on BBC World Service.
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Anuvab Pal's show The Empire was recorded at the Soho Theatre in London in January 2021 for release on May 6,2022.
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In September 2023, Anuvab Pal was featured in a Sky History documentary titled "Why Does Everyone Hate The British Empire" hosted by comedian Al Murray.
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In 2024, Anuvab Pal featured in the TV series Freedom At Midnight produced by SonyLIV and created by Bollywood directed Nikhil Advani, playing the controversial Chief Minister of pre-independence Bengal, S Hussein Surawardhy.