All India Bakchod

All India Bakchod
OriginMumbai, India
YouTube information
Also known asAIB
Channel
Location
Years active2012–2019 (company on hiatus; individual members active)
Genres
Subscribers3.99 million[1]
Total views591.5 million[1]
Network
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers

Last updated: 1 April 2022

All India Bakchod[a] (abbreviated as AIB) was a Mumbai-based comedy company which created the eponymous podcast, YouTube channel and production company. The name is a parody of All India Radio. It began in 2012 as a humour/pop-culture podcast co-started by comedians Tanmay Bhat and Gursimran Khamba.[2] Their friends and contemporary comedians, Rohan Joshi and Ashish Shakya were frequent guests[3] and the four co-founded the YouTube channel in 2013 and began making sketches.[4] They subsequently formed a digital agency and produced sketches, live comedy and TV shows.[5]

In October 2018, the company halted operation and fired its entire staff, after Bhat and Khamba were implicated in two separate sexual harassment allegations. No formal charges were made but the company dissolved in May 2019.[6] Khamba was dissatisfied with the independent investigation into the allegation against him and has since disassociated himself from the company and brand. The company's four founders continue to work in the comedy circuit. Bhat, Joshi and Shakya continue to collaborate independently. The company's social media accounts and YouTube channel are dormant.[6]

  1. ^ a b "About AllIndiaBakchod". YouTube.
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  6. ^ a b "AIB issues new statement on their future; Gursimran Khamba won't be involved in comedy group's operations". Firstpost. 22 May 2019. Archived from the original on 3 June 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019.


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