Anuvab Pal

Anuvab Pal (born 27 April 1976) is an Indian stand-up comedian, screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He is occasionally featured as a rotating co-host on the fourth season of the podcast The Bugle. Born in Kolkata, he co-wrote the 2007 Indian comedy Loins of Punjab Presents with Manish Acharya, which The New York Times called "a witty musical comedy", and in 2009 his play The President Is Coming was made into a Bollywood film by producer Rohan Sippy. As a stand-up comedian, Pal started out with the British Comedy Store when it opened in Mumbai in 2010, and has since toured nationally with his one-man show The Nation Wants To Know.

Pal's first play, Chaos Theory, a love story between two Indian professors, was written in New York City and performed across the United States, receiving its first professional New York production in 2010. He has contributed columns to magazines like Time Out Mumbai, and three of his plays, Chaos Theory, The President Is Coming and 1 888 Dial India, have been published as novels. He was the only Indian comedian, along with Cyrus Broacha, to appear on the BBC Radio 4 show Just A Minute with Nicholas Parsons.

Pal released his stand-up special Alive At 40 on Amazon Prime, and in 2018 premiered The Empire at London's Soho Theatre before debuting at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the same show. That year he appeared on four different BBC programs and became the first Indian comedian to perform before a sell-out crowd at the Lund Comedy Festival in Sweden. His long-running podcast Our Last Week with Anuvab and Kunaal, featuring Bollywood actor Kunaal Roy Kapur, was picked up by Spotify as an exclusive for India in 2020, the same year he wrote the Amazon Prime India sitcom Wakaalat From Home.