Anubhav Singh Bassi is one of India’s most popular stand-up comedians and a YouTube star. He is best known for his YouTube videos Cheating, Waxing, and Hostel. He is famous among the youth for his nostalgic content. Retrospective comedy is his unique selling point. Most of his performances are based on his past experiences with his school and college friends. In 2019, he first released a video on YouTube titled Cheating, which made him an overnight sensation.
Wiki/Biography
Anubhav Singh Bassi was born on Wednesday, January 9, 1991 (29 years old in 2020) and is from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. He attended Dewan Public School in Meerut and then pursued a five-year integrated LLB course at Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh. Later, he became a UPSC candidate; however, he was unsuccessful in the UPSC examination.
appearance
Height (approximate): 6′ 1″
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Black
Family and caste/race
He was a member of a Jat family from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
Parents and siblings
Not much is known about Anubhav’s parents. His sister is Ruchi Aniruddh Singh, who is a homeopathic practitioner.
Anubhav and his sister Ruchi Anirudh Singh
Profession
As a stand-up comedian
Before becoming a stand-up comedian, Anubhav tried many career options; he started out as a lawyer. Next, he opened a fast food restaurant but, much to his disappointment, failed there as well. He then worked at a law firm but soon realized that a 9-to-5 job wasn’t for him. So, he started doing open mic performances in his spare time. One day in 2017, he Googled open mic performances hosted by “Canvas Laugh Club” and went there to perform. When the host asked him if he had a script, he whispered,
Apni bezzati toh kar hi lenge”
The audience and the organizers liked his performance very much and invited him to perform again the next day. From then on, he couldn’t stop.
As a YouTuber
In 2019, Anubhav Singh Bassi made his YouTube debut with a video titled “Cheating”. The video went viral and made Anubhav an overnight celebrity. In an interview, he said:
Before I posted it, I thought, “If this video gets 5 million views, I’ll feel like I’ve accomplished something.” The video started getting 1 million views a day. When it hit 4 million views, I stopped watching it.
Achievement
Anubhav Singh Bassi received the YouTube Gold Button Award for crossing 10 million subscribers and currently has over 1.88 million subscribers (as of 2020).
net worth
Anubhav Singh Bassi’s net worth on YouTube is around $100,000 and he charges around INR 400,000 per show.
Facts/Trivia
- Anubhav Singh Bassi occasionally smokes and drinks. He is often found posting pictures of himself drinking on social media platforms. In his famous stand-up comedy, Hostel, he said,
Pehle toh Main College pahuncha, mujhe gaanja mil gaya. Maine phooka, semester khatam ho gaya. ” 
- Anubhav was an all-round student from childhood. In a TEDx Talks video, he revealed that he wanted to explore every field. Hence, he participated in a wide range of extracurricular activities such as debate, impromptu speaking, singing, dancing, drama, etc., as well as sports during his school days.
- In 2008, while in school, Anubhav was adjudged the Boy Leader of Dewan Public School (Meerut).
Anubhav was awarded the title of “Student Leader”
- A YouTube video titled “Deception” has been identified as his first upload, but less well known is that his first video was a series of videos about lawyers that he uploaded to his Facebook account.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ca83yD6qng
- Unlike other stand-up comedians, Anubhav does not upload many videos on his YouTube channel. His YouTube channel has only three stand-up videos (as of 2020). When asked in an interview, “Why don’t you post much content on your channel”, he replied,
I’m a live performer. For me to create content, I need a live audience. Without an audience, we’ll never know if a line or a joke is actually funny.”
- While trying to become a stand-up comedian, Anubhav used to idolize Zakir Khan. In an interview, when asked who he looked up to in stand-up comedy, he replied:
My biggest inspiration in terms of content is Zakir Khan. But I admire everyone, even those who don’t have a good life but are really funny.’
Anubhav Singh Bassi and Zakir Khan
- Anubhav has toured nearly 35 cities in India, performing his comedy show “Bas Kar Bassi” to sold-out tickets over a period of six months.
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