Aditi Mittal

Aditi Mittal is an Indian stand-up comedian, actress and writer.[1][2] One of the first women to do stand-up comedy in India, Aditi has been rated amongst India’s top 10 stand-up comedians by The Times of India.[3] She is featured in CNNIBN.com as top 30 witty, intelligent and incredibly funny Indian women to follow on Twitter.[4] Aditi has written columns and articles in Grazia Men magazine, DNA and Firstpost.com and Financial Times (UK, Weekend Edition).[5][6][7][8]

Mittal is one of the better-known faces of the Indian English stand-up comedy scene in India.[9] In 2009, she was one of the first 5 Indians to be featured in an Indians only stand-up show called Local Heroes, organized by the U.K based “The Comedy Store.” [10] Today, she is a regular at Canvas Laugh Factory, Comedy Store Mumbai and has performed at venues and humor festivals across the country, clubs in UK and at Laugh Factory, Los Angeles.[11][12]

In 2013, Mittal was invited by the BBC for the prestigious 100 Women conference in London.[13] Mittal first performed her solo show ‘Things they wouldn’t let me say’ in July 2013 at the Canvas Laugh Factory, Mumbai.[14] She is currently on tour with this show, which features an appearance by sex therapist, Dr.Mrs. Lutchuke and Dolly Khurana, the “thinking” Bollywood starlet.[15]

Mittal has been featured in the American documentary Stand-Up Planet, along with American and South African comics, which is a stand-up comic’s quest to find some of the best humor coming from corners of the developing world.[16] She has appeared on CNN-IBN’s Phenking News with Cyrus Broacha, and is a staple on political satire show, Jay Hind.[17][18] She was one of the founding members of the Ghanta Awards and the Filmfail Awards, two of the biggest parody award shows in India.[19][20] She has featured in Ripping the Decade with Vir Das, Fools Gold Awards on Comedy Central India, Bollywood OMG on Channel V.[21][22][23]

Mittal was featured on BBC World and BBC America among “India’s trailblazers”, appeared on BBC Asia with RJ Nihal.[24][25] Mittal’s material has been described as “acerbic and cutting edge”.[26][27][28] Her jokes cover everything from Osama to sanitary napkins, toddlers to Miss India winners.[29][30][31] She says, “My brand of humour is personal. It’s observational.” [32] She developed the character of Dr. (Mrs.) Lutchuke because she did not like the way sex was portrayed by the media.[33]

In December 2014 she featured as a part of the Roast panel on the AIB (All India Bakchod) Knockout. In February, Mittal appeared as a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Now Show.[34]

References

  1. ↑ "The Joke's on you", Mint, Mumbai, 29 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Little Miss Sunshine", "India Today"
  3. ↑ "Comic Relief", “The Times of India”, Mumbai, 11 September 2011.
  4. ↑ “Women’s Day: 30 witty, intelligent and incredibly fun Indian women to follow on Twitter”, “CNN IBN”
  5. ↑ “Carpe the Hell Out of every Diem”, “DNA”, Mumbai, 20 May 2013.
  6. ↑ “The Curious Case of Armaan Kohli”, “Firstpost.com”, 17 December 2013.
  7. ↑ “In all Fairness”, “Financial Times, UK, 16 November 2012.
  8. ↑ “Can Women be Funny”, “Grazia”, 19 January 2013.
  9. ↑ “Getting candid with the phunny girl”, “Mid-Day”, Mumbai, 12 July 2012.
  10. ↑ “Local Heroes”, “Zomato.com”, Mumbai, 20 June.
  11. ↑ “What makes India’s Women comedian tick”, “Mint”, Mumbai, 6 July 2013.
  12. ↑ “From the Directors notebook”, “Stand Up Planet”, USA.
  13. ↑ “100 Women: Who took part”, “Bbc.com”, London, 22 November 2013.
  14. ↑ “Aditi walks into a bar”, “NH7.com”, Mumbai, 24 July 2013.
  15. ↑ “Things they wouldn’t let me say”, “Bookmyshow.com”.
  16. ↑ “Comics”, “Stand Up Planet”.
  17. ↑ “Telegraph”, “Just for laughs”, Calcutta, 19 June 2011.
  18. ↑ “A funny weekend treat for city residents”, “The Times of India”, Coimbatore, 27 October 2012.
  19. ↑ “The 2nd annual ghanta awards list of winners”, “IBNlive.in”, 20 March 2012.
  20. ↑ “The Filmfail Awards”, Time Out, Mumbai, 22 March 2012.
  21. ↑ “R.I.P.ping the Decade”, “Indiantelevision.com”, 27 December 2010.
  22. ↑ “Now, an awards for fools!”, “The Times of India, 31 March 2012.
  23. ↑ “No laughing matter”, “Mid-Day”, Mumbai, 6 May 2012.
  24. ↑ “India’s Trailblazers: The Female stand-up comic”, “BBC.com”, London, 30 May 2013.
  25. ↑ “Female stand-up comedian Aditi Mittal”, “BBC.com”, London, 18 June 2013.
  26. ↑ "Little Miss Sunshine", "India Today".
  27. ↑ “What makes India’s Women comedian tick”, “Mint”, Mumbai, 6 July 2013.
  28. ↑ “TOI rates Aditi Mittal for Laughs”, “Actfaqs.com”, 10 June 2013.
  29. ↑ “What makes India’s Women comedian tick”, “Mint”, Mumbai, 6 July 2013.
  30. ↑ “Want a laugh? Just let her loose!”, “Telegraph”, Calcutta, 3 September 20.
  31. ↑ “Laugh Out Loud”, “India Today”, 7 July 2011.
  32. ↑ “Laugh Out Loud”, “India Today”, 7 July 2011.
  33. ↑ “Get Up Stand Up”, “Open Magazine”, 28 May 2011.
  34. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0512ln6
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