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The Great Indian Laughter Challenge is one of the very successful reality shows on Indian television. It is a competition of stand up comedians that is presented on STAR One. Produced by Endemol India, the fourth series of the show launched on June 6, 2008.
It has run through three seasons where stand-up comedians and performers from different places came together and showed their comedy skills to judges, live audience and people.
The show was judged by Shekhar Suman, an eminent TV personality and Navjot Singh Sidhu who a famous former cricketer and cricket commentator from India, known for his humorous "Sidhuisms." The show also made host Perizad Kolah very popular and Shonali Nagrani .
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In the first season, Sunil Pal was the winner whereas Ahsaan qureshi was a close second, Raju Srivastava 3rd and Naveen Prabhakar 4th.
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In the second season contestants from Pakistan were also present and the winner Rauf Lala was also from Pakistan. Rauf Lala (Urdu: رؤف لالہ) (born in 1960) is a popular Pakistani comedian and actor. He is the 2006 winner of the Great Indian Laughter Challenge on Star One. He is the first Pakistani to win the major Indian contest. He has starred in a number of Lollywood films and has also broken in to the Bollywood scene. and second Rajeev Nigam (Mumbai), third Pratap Singh (Agra) & Khyali (Chandigarh) (TIE) and fouth Irfan Malik & Ali Hasan (partners)(Pakistan) and fifth Raj Kumar & Rancho (Monkey Puppet)
The third season was won by Kapil Sharma from Amritsar and second Chandan Prabhakar (Amritsar), third Sudesh Lehri (Amritsar), fourth Pervez Siddqui (Pakistan), fifth Rajiv Thakur (Amritsar), sixth Kuldeep Dube (Shivpuri, Madhya Pradesh)
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The judges for the grand finale, included Umer Sharif, the legendary Pakistani performer.The first two seasons were followed by another show The Great Indian Laughter Champions which included top performers of the previous shows. Here also the judges were Sidhu and Shekar including some celebrity guests as well.
The fourth season features judges Navjot Singh Sidhu and popular actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who has replaced Shekhar Suman. Recently the first woman to participate was Aarti Kandpal. Hope this searson also best person win.
