Hindi Comedy Serials - Top 10 Indian Comedy Shows of the Last Decade

The last decade had some of the very famous and funny shows which went on-air on Indian Television. With some older shows like Tu Tu Main Main and Hum Paanch returned for their second season, but later could not last for much episodes.

This decade also has had its share of excellent comedy shows.

The last decade not only gave us comedy serials like "Tarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chasma" but also gave us comedy reality shows like "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge" and some rib-tickling prank shows like MTV Bakra and Chuppa Rustam.

With Sab TV branding itself as an all comedy serial channel there will be no dearth of comedy shows for some time now.

This is one show which is breaking all records and even giving various Saas-Bahu type serials a run for their money.

With more than 500 episodes (at the time of writing) and still counting, this show is one of the biggest hit comedy serial that the Indian Television has ever produced.

The story revolves around the happenings of the Gokuldham Society with its prime focus on the Mehta family. The best part of the show is that besides clean and funny comedy it also gives a morally correct message.

Famous Characters

• Shailesh Lodha - Tarak Mehta
• Dilip Joshi - Jethalal Gada
• Disha Vakani - Daya Gada
• Bhavya Gandhi - Tipendra Gada
• Amit Bhatt - Champaklal Gada

Office Office went on-air between 2000 to 2004 on Sab TV, the series was a farcical comedy based on the corruption and mishaps that take place in a government office.

The main character played by Pankaj Kapoor of Musantilal was at the receiving end every time he had some work at various government offices.

Famous Characters

Bhatia - Manoj Pahwa

Shukla - Sanjay Mishra

Patel - Deven Bhojani

The show revolved around the happenings of the Sarabhai family. With amazing performances by Satish Shah and all other characters the show was a must watch.

The trademark of the show was the character of Maya - the Mother-in-law played by Ratna Pathak was often seen pulling gags on Monisha (Daughter-in-law) played by Rupali Ganguly.

Chandramukhi Chautala (Kavita Kaushik) is a brave female inspector of Imaan Chowki who tries to solve crime and other cases.

The USP of the show is the amazing one-liners that every character says immediately after their dialogue.

Famous Characters

• Chandramukhi Chautala - Kavita Kaushik
• Gulgule - Kiku
• Gopinath Gandotra - Gopi Bhalla
• Raj Aryan - Ali Asgar

The story revolved around the Gujrati family called Parekh, who lived in a joint family and the comedy came from the part of the problems and their solutions that the Parekh family faced.

Famous Characters

• Tulsidas - Anang Desai
• Jayshree - Vandana Pathak
• Praful - Rajeev Mehta
• Hansa - Supriya Pathak

One of the longest running comedy serials which went on for 600 episodes.

Famous Characters

• Vinod Verma - Aashif Sheikh
• Mohan Srivastava - Rakesh Bedi
• Meera Srivastava - Kavita Kapoor
• Kavita Verma - Delnaaz Paul
• Sasu Maa - Sulbha Deshpande

7) The Great Indian Laughter Challenge

The Great Indian Laughter challenge is considered as the first successful reality comedy show for stand-up comedians in India.

The series has completed 4 seasons and has given the country some outstanding stand-up comedians.

Season one results

• Sunil Pal (Winner)
• Ahsaan Qureshi (1^st Runner up)
• Raju Srivastav ( 2^nd Runner up)

Season two results

• Rauf Lala
• Rajeev Nikam (1^st Runner up)
• Khyali and Prataj Faujdar ( 2^nd Runner up)

Season three results

• Kapil Sharma
• Chandan Prabhakar (1^st Runner up)
• Sudesh Lehri ( 2^nd Runner up)

Season four results

• Suresh Albela
• Sikandar Sanam and Wali Sheikh (1^st Runner up)
• Bharti Singh ( 2^nd Runner up)

8) Comedy Circus

This show brought TV celebrities and stand-up comedian as partners. This show also completed four seasons recently.

Who can forget the laugh out loud nature of Archana Puran Singh and excellent performance of Krushna Abhishek.

Comedy Circus Results

• Season 1 - Kashif Khan/Ali Asgar
• Season 2 - Juhi Parmar & Vijay Ishwarlal Pawar (VIP)
• Season 3 - Krushna, Sudesh, Mellisa
• Season 4 - Mukti Mohan and Kapil Sharma

Chhupa Rustam was a weekly show which aired on NDTV was one of my personal favorites. Basically it was a prank show in which they used to meticulously plan and fool people.

The host Arun Thapar presented the show very well and the prankster Gurpal Singh did a fantastic job of fooling people with his amazing acting skills and unconventional questions.

MTV Bakra is considered one of the finest prank shows, hosted by Cyrus Broacha, which had some amazing pranks.

The show also regularly featured pranks on famous celebrities.