Rohan Joshi

Joshi attended K J Somaiya College of Engineering, but eventually dropped out.^[1] He attended Jai Hind College and subsequently worked as a journalist for a period of time. Before working for CNBC and Times Now, Joshi also attended Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, where he received his postgraduate diploma in ^[2] broadcast journalism.

In the late 2000s, Joshi was a contributor to JLT, a humour magazine based in Mumbai.^[3] In addition to performing across India, Joshi served as a humour columnist for several publications including Mid-Day. In 2011, he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2011 and 2012, he co-wrote the Filmfare awards. In addition, he has performed in over 250 shows.^[4] Joshi spent a couple of years at Vir Das's comedy platform Weirdass, writing live comedy shows with Tanmay Bhat and Ashish Shakya. With "laude ka Khamba", they co-wrote television scripts and jokes for MTV, Channel V, and the Filmfare Awards. In 2013, the four started the SoundCloud podcast All India Bakchod (AIB).^[3] Joshi scripted and starred in several YouTube sketches for All India Bakchod, and was a co-creator of the satirical news comedy show On Air with AIB. Following controversy and sexual misconduct allegations against AIB members, the comedy company ceased operating in 2018.^[3]

In April 2019, Joshi confirmed that he was working on an hour-long stand-up comedy special for Amazon Prime Video.^[5] On 10 January 2020, Joshi's special Wake N Bake was released on Amazon Prime Video.^[6]

Joshi's tweet over comedian Raju Srivastav's death caused widespread outrage on Twitter. He later deleted his tweet and issued a clarification.^[7][8]

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