Idiotic Media is a niche platform offering a select catalog of India’s top Comedy YouTubers. Brands can then readily collaborate with them for influencer marketing because the platform has a selective approach to collaboration. Laughter has been famously recommended by wise men since time immemorial as a remedy not only for malaise of the body but also for the mind. Keeping or managing time just for your own self while staying away from daily routines is becoming almost impossible, hence resorting to social media networks for the sake of recreation and leisure.

Studies show that there are actual health benefits in having a good laugh: more established blood circulation, calorie burn, improved immunity, and a dramatic drop of stress. Of all the user-created video content platforms, YouTube is the site that has become a sanctuary for Comedy YouTubers to try and entertain and engage an audience with comedic pieces of their work.

Comedy YouTubers are crucial to creating a steady flow of entertaining and uplifting work for an audience whose latest demand is unending entertainment sources. Their creative videos, timely uploads, and interactive commentary are not only meant for entertainment but also contribute to the largest subscriber and views count.

Who are Comedy YouTubers? Comedy YouTubers are those who produce funny and cheerful content that the mass audience likes. They choose YouTube because it is very common, has extensive audience engagement, and is highly saturated. This creates a channel for creators who make situational, fictional, observational, anecdotal, sketch, dark, slapstick, and many other such kinds of comedy videos. The viewers interact with top comedy YouTubers on the basis of their own choices and tastes, enjoying a broad variety of comedy content.

5 Most Popular Comedy YouTubers to Follow in 2024:

1. Ashish Chanchlani Vines:

Regarded as one of the most popular comedy YouTubers in India, this artist is a comic and a stand-up comedian. He had his first video in 2009, and today he has an audience of 4.37 billion views. Apart from YouTube, Ashish is active on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. His playlist is quite versatile and includes popular series like Sasta, OTP The Lottery, Milestones, ACV Hatke, and Brand Integrations. This makes his content almost everything from short tales to situational comedies and small series.

Besides his profession as an engineer, Ashish is a degree holder in acting as well. His laurels spread: the winner of the digital influencer prize as the best one in Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Award in 2018, a place in Daf Bama Music Awards in 2018, The Forbes India “30 under 30” is surely a proud topping followed by a world of bogglers award in 2019 with the best comedy influencer title.

Ashish is more than a YouTuber. He worked in the Hollywood movie “Men in Black: International” and also directed a small horror film “Akhri Safar,” and this video is going to hit 17 million views on his channel. It is for sure that Ashish Chanchlani is the top comedy YouTuber across the globe.

2- Swagger Sharma:

Swagger Sharma is one of the finest comedy YouTubers, and his channel stands as one of the best comedy YouTube channels. Swagger Sharma is an engineer by profession, but he realized his passion towards comedy and thus made his further career in the field very quickly. He made his debut on YouTube in February 2017; in such a short tenure, Swagger has impressively gained around 660 million views on his channel.

Outside of YouTube, Swagger Sharma maintains an active presence across Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, where he shares comic desi-style content. His most viewed video is “Judge Identifies Murderer as Schoolfriend,” which is extremely popular.

Compile playlists on topics ranging from behind-the-scene stories of what made Swagger’s videos to thriller content, lockdown humor, and relationship dramas, Swagger Sharma combines 117 videos. That’s not all; he also manages another channel named Swagger Sharma Shots, where his top four most-watched videos have garnered an incredible 103 million views.

Hailed to be one of the best comedy YouTubers, Swagger Sharma’s channel varies from one of the funniest to his dedicated followers and viewers.

3- Tanmay Bhat:

Tanmay Bhat is one of the most recognized personalities among the funny YouTubers in India; he has been on the platform since its inception in 2006. He is popularly associated with AIB, garnering over 1.3 billion views on his comic YouTube channel. Regularly, he collaborates with guest personalities for vlogs and gaming-related content.

Sketch comedy is what largely became famous for Tanmay’s channel, in cooperation with other channels in the comic YouTube genre. Playlists are greatly varied, from live streaming, reviews, to sketch comedy, reaction, and gaming videos. He has completed work in cinema and numerous television programs, including UTV Bindass’ “Hass Ley India” and Disney India’s “Kya Mast Life Hai.” His most-viewed clips, such as “He Didn’t See That Coming with Carry Minati” and “Pakistanis Are Savage Part 2 ft. Zakir Khan,” have alone amassed 35 million views, which solidifies that he is among the funniest YouTubers India has to offer.

4- RJ Abhinav:

RJ Abhinav is considered to be one of the funniest YouTubers from India with a clean presence on YouTube. Since October 2008, when he joined YouTube, his humor channel has managed to garner more than 204 million views.

His videos are accompanied by playlists with contradictory themes, such as “My Stones,” “Car Speaker Check,” “Bekar Ki Baat,” and “Oversmart Girlfriend,” which offer a whole range of amusement within the entire list. His “Faad Magician” series has undoubtedly been the most popular and, in fact, is a hit among his huge number of followers.

Not only this, but RJ Abhinav can also be seen on Instagram and Facebook, where they still gather love and support from the fans. They are known for being totally authentic, and that is why they have even been called by their fans one of India’s all-time best comedy creators.

On Radio Mirchi, as a radio jockey, RJ Abhinav also cuts out on certain mimicry, which is why he has got quite a lot of fan base. His recognition at the Cannes Film Festival through Brut was a turning point as he was the first digital comedy creator from India to be invited to the event. His fans affectionately call him the “Desi Johnny Depp,” and his videos, “Faad Magician- Tameez Please” and “Faad Magician- 4D Magic”  among others help him become one of the biggest comedy stars on the platform of YouTube.

5- Be YouNick:

Be YouNick, real name Nikunj Lotia, is a very famous YouTuber in the comedy video space, especially in India. With corporate work, bartending, and wedding planning behind him, he finally found his bliss in preparing funny YouTube videos.

After joining YouTube in August 2014, Be YouNick has over 858 million views, making him one of the best comedy creators in India. His playlists run the gamut of sketch comedy series like “The Bro Code” and “Men Will Be Men.

His most viral videos are “BYN: We All Have That One Friend feat. Ashish Chanchlani” and “BYN: The Mass Cheating.” It brought billions of viewership for those two above-mentioned videos, and there are definitely actors that Be YouNick had collaborated with, such as Raj Kumar, Dwayne Johnson, and Boman Irani.

Having been recognized as an Indian YouTube sensation by Forbes India in 2020, Be YouNick represented India at VidCon 2019 US. He has huge collaborations with other powerhouses of comedy YouTubers, be it Tanmay Bhat, Bhuvan Bam, or CarryMinati.