Mid-week blues catching up to you? Well, The HIVE has a solution! Join us for our mid-week mic test as we bring you fresh and work-in-progress jokes by an amazing line up of your favorite comedians.Guaranteed laughs and a lot more! This weeks lineup has Kaneez Surka, Sorabh Pant, Deep Chhabria and Raunaq Rajani. Expect some suprise drops in spots as well...just saying, come prepared :)

About the Artists

Kaneez Surka

Kaneez Surka is an improviser, comedy actor, sketch artist and stand-up comedian. She is India’s first female improviser and has been associated with The Improvisers collective since 2009, along with comedians Abish Mathew, Kanan Gill and Kenny Sebastian. She’s been invited to four international Improv Festivals, ones in Amsterdam, Berlin, Seattle and Toronto. Currently, she hosts a game-show called The General Fun Game Show, which has featured popular comics Kanan Gill, Biswa Kalyan Rath, Tanmay Bhat, Rohan Joshi, Abish Mathew, Zakir Khan and several others. In 2014,Kaneez began conducting improv workshops all around the country, expanding the improv scene in India. She is also a part of the popular TV segment The Week That Wasn’t with Cyrus Broacha on CNN IBN. Presently, Kaneez also hosts the Improv All Stars: Games Night on Amazon Video.

Sorabh Pant

Recently described as “the second most brilliant Indian comedian I’ve seen, after Russell Peters” by Wayne Brady, Sorabh Pant is one of India’s leading comedians, the kind to expend the last drop of energy and Glucon-D to make you laugh. Sorabh’s done over 1000 shows in 60 cities across 15 countries, as well as 300+ corporate shows. The zany comic has opened for international biggies like Rob Schneider (You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, Deuce Bigalow) and Wayne Brady (Whose Line Is It Anyway?,Wayne Brady Show), and has had TV shows on Pogo, Star World, CNBC and ET Now. He also founded the East India Comedy, India’s busiest comedy company, which has raked up 115 million YouTube views with shows like EIC Outrage and EIC vs Bollywood. And if all of this wasn’t enough, he has also released three novels – The Wednesday Soul, Under Delhi and Pawan: The Flying Accountant. Recently, Sorabh was streaming a live comedy show on Amazon Prime called Make India Great Again.

Deep Chhabria

One of India's youngest professional comedians, Deep was born and brought up in the bustle of Mumbai. Like that information made a difference to your life. It's ok read on. He majored in advertising to become a copywriter and happened to on the way start his own comedy collective called Comic Kaun? (What a pun! Oh yeah!) At a tender age of 21, he became a regular at premium comedy venues across the country. The downfall of his self-esteem began when he realised that after years of growing up he turned out to become a Jacky Bhagnani look-alike.

Raunaq Rajani

A pure bred Bombay boy, Raunaq Rajani has been in the comedy scene for a little more than half a decade. . He has appeared on Cyrus Broacha’s: The Week That Wasn’t and Rising stars of comedy on NDTV prime. Some insightful perspective, honest observations and sarcastic wit make Raunaq an act that you shoudn't miss!