Comedy influencers in India

Kapil Sharma's figure is from Instagram and the others are from YouTube, so treat his figure as a separate comparison.

SET India: the brand at the top of the list

SET India, Sony Entertainment Television's YouTube channel, has 190 million subscribers. It posts TV shows, including comedy, so it sits first in our combined list. It is a TV network brand, not an individual comedy content creator. If you are looking for people, start with CarryMinati.

Indian comedy on social media is not one genre. The top comedy content creators fall into clear groups:

• Roast and reaction creators: CarryMinati built his channel on roasts of trends and other creators.
• Sketch comedians: Ashish Chanchlani and Bhuvan Bam write short sketches. Bhuvan Bam plays several characters himself.
• Stand-up comedians: Zakir Khan shares stand-up clips and specials.
• TV comedy hosts: Kapil Sharma is known for The Kapil Sharma Show, and his Instagram is his biggest social account.

Top comedy YouTubers in India by channel age

The biggest channels are not always the oldest:

1. Ashish Chanchlani Vines: created 6 July 2009.
2. CarryMinati: created 30 October 2014.
3. BB Ki Vines: created 20 June 2015.

CarryMinati started five years after Ashish Chanchlani's channel and now leads him by 13 million subscribers.

Views tell a different story from subscribers:

Ashish Chanchlani has the most total views among individual comedy creators, even though CarryMinati has more subscribers. If you care about how many times videos are watched, Ashish leads.

A few patterns stand out when you put the figures side by side:

• Views per subscriber vary a lot. Ashish Chanchlani has about 176 views per subscriber and BB Ki Vines about 204, while CarryMinati has about 100. Sketch channels tend to get watched again and again.
• Stand-up is smaller on YouTube. Zakir Khan's 8.5 million subscribers are far below the sketch and roast channels, because stand-up fans also watch full specials on streaming services.
• TV comedy lives on Instagram. Kapil Sharma's biggest social account is Instagram, not YouTube.
• Brands sit above people. SET India's 190 million subscribers dwarf every individual creator, but it is a TV network.

What this means for fans and brands

For fans, it means "biggest" depends on the platform. For brands, it means a creator with fewer subscribers can still deliver more views per video. A sketch creator with a loyal audience may be a better partner than a larger channel that posts rarely. Always check the creator's last ten uploads before you decide, and compare the view counts on those videos with the subscriber count.

Comedy in India also lives on Instagram Reels and in regional languages. Kapil Sharma's 44 million Instagram followers show how big comedy can be away from YouTube. For short-form comedy and other categories across India, see our top creators in India ranking.

People searching for comedy creators often also look for infotainment, which mixes entertainment with information. Two big names:

• [Ranveer Allahbadia](/c/ranveer-allahbadia) (BeerBiceps): 8.22 million YouTube subscribers and 2.9 billion views, mostly long-form interviews.
• [Samay Raina](/c/samay-raina): a comedian known for stand-up and live streams; his counts are on his profile.

Instagram is where Kapil Sharma is biggest, with 44 million followers. Instagram limits outside tools, so we only list counts we could confirm on the day. Many YouTube comedians also post clips as Reels, so their Instagram reach adds to the YouTube numbers above.

The ranked list above this text uses combined reach: it adds a creator's followers on every platform we track. Our tables use one platform at a time. That is why the list shows CarryMinati at 68.5 million combined but the table shows 45.8 million: the table counts YouTube only. Kapil Sharma's combined reach of 54.2 million includes accounts beyond Instagram. Ashish Chanchlani's combined reach of 53.3 million is close behind.

Neither number is wrong. Combined reach answers "how many follows does this creator have in total?" A single platform answers "how big is this creator on YouTube?" Use the one that fits your question, and always quote the platform with the number. Combined figures also count the same fan more than once if they follow on several platforms, so they are an upper bound, not a count of people.

1. Match the comedy style to your brand. Roasts are risky for some brands; sketches and stand-up are often safer.
2. Check views per video, not just subscribers.
3. Check the language. Most of these creators make Hindi content.
4. Look at recent uploads. Some large channels post rarely, so check the dates of the last few videos.

We read YouTube counts on Social Blade and Kapil Sharma's Instagram on 31 October 2026. Every number in the tables was read on that date; none is estimated. For other countries and niches, see the full creators directory. The combined list above this text adds up several platforms, so its order can differ from our tables. Outside references: CarryMinati on Social Blade, YouTube and Kapil Sharma on Instagram.