Ravi Gupta (Comedian)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ravi Gupta

• Ravi Gupta is an Indian standup comedian, cartoonist, illustrator, and content manager who became popular for narrating real-life stories in a funny way.

• While studying in school, he often took part in plays and dramas and participated in various cultural competitions. He later participated in fests while pursuing his graduation at BHU.
  

  

  

• Once he completed his formal education, he moved to Delhi where he worked in many companies as an illustrator. From May 2012 to July 2012, he worked as an intern illustrator at Drawing Room Media. From June 2013 to August 2014, he worked as a senior illustrator at White Mice Media and at Satyabhawna Production from October 2014 to August 2016.
  

  

  

• From September 2016 to Aug 2018, he worked as a content manager at Bobble Keyboard. From March 2022 to May 2022, he worked as a content manager and creative campaign innovator from May 2022 to November 2022 at Bobble AI. ^[3]LinkedIn – Ravi Gupta He has also worked as an illustrator at Crazy Geometry. ^[4]Facebook – Ravi Gupta

  

• Ravi Gupta talked about his motive behind starting standup comedy in 2015 and revealed that he found the work very repetitive which he was doing as an illustrator in corporate companies, and he felt that his creativity was not being used purposefully. While he often viewed many celebrities during their interview who encouraged artists to do theatre, he was hesitant to work as an actor as he considered himself a bad actor.

  

• He got interested in doing standup comedy after watching Zakir Khan and Amit Tandon doing a comedy act. He messaged Zakir Khan on Instagram and in reply, Zakir asked him to start doing standup comedy during the evening. Ravi Liked Zakir’s suggestion and started performing at bars and clubs during the evening while working at his job during the day.

  

• Ravi later also started posting videos on social media platforms such as YouTube and TikTok showing him performing standup comedy. ^[5]YouTube – Ravi Gupta His videos did not do well initially; however, once Bollywood superstar Riteish Deshmukh made a reel of his video ‘Mai Kal Ki Chinta Nahi Karta,’ he started getting recognition on TikTok.

  

• After getting famous, he did many shows and tours of various cities in India. He is liked by his fans for making jokes out of real-life situations through his strong observation and language comprising Uttar Pradesh’s slang in his acts. He appeared on the TV show ‘Good Night India’ in February 2022, hosted by Amit Tandon and Jiya Shankar and televised on Sony SAB.
  

  

  

  

• Ravi Gupta is popularly called Shudhdesicomic on Instagram.

• He smokes and drinks wine and other alcoholic beverages during parties.
  

  

  

• He likes cats and dogs and has a dog named Peeku.
  

  

  

• Sunil Pal was his first favourite comedian.

• Ravi Gupta said in an interview that if anyone wants to make money in a quick manner, they should not come in the standup comedy genre. He said that it takes years to perfect the comic timing and mannerisms of delivering jokes to make a good amount of money.