| The Great Indian Laughter Challenge | |
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| Genre | Reality |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 193 |
| Production | |
| Production location | Mumbai |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | approximately 48 minutes |
| Production company | Endemol |
| Original release | |
| Network | STAR One (season 1–4) STAR Plus (season 5) |
| Release | 3 June 2005 – 30 December 2017 |
| Related | |
| Laughter Knights | |
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The Great Indian Laughter Challenge is an Indian reality stand-up comedy series produced by Endemol India. The first four seasons aired on STAR One from 15 June 2005 to 26 September 2008.[1][2][3] The show's fifth season premiered on 30 September 2017 on STAR Plus and was judged by Akshay Kumar.[4]
The show is based on a format where stand-up comedians perform and entertain judges and the studio audience with their comedy skills. The first three seasons of the show saw Shekhar Suman, an eminent TV personality and Navjot Singh Sidhu, former cricketer, cricket color commentator and Punjab politician."[5] The show's initial episodes were hosted by Parizaad Kolah Marshall and later she was replaced by Shonali Nagrani. The fifth season is being hosted by Elli Avram. The set was designed by noted Bollywood production designer Nitin Chandrakant Desai.[6] In the fourth season, Shatrughan Sinha replaced Navjot Singh Sidhu as judge as per season.
- ^ "Star One's The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Dwitiya clocks the highest ever ratings". 8 July 2006. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ "The great Indian Laughter Challenge 3". 16 May 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge 4 airs every Friday & Saturday on Star One". Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- ^ "Akshay Kumar to judge The Great Indian Laughter Challenge; releases the teaser". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 July 2017.
- ^ "Charge of the laugh brigade judging the show". The Telegraph. 21 November 2005. Archived from the original on 29 June 2006. Retrieved 2 March 2013.
- ^ Javed Jaffrey’s spoof on budget desires[dead link] Screen (magazine), Chaya Unnikrishnan. 3 March 2006.