Anuvab Pal is set to tour the UK in 2024. He will be starting his country-wide “conference” in Southend in May 2024 and giving his final “seminar” in London with a week-long run at the Soho theatre. Tickets for Anuvab Pal: The Department of Britishness go on sale on Thursday 1st February and are available from mickperrin.com/tours/anuvab-pal-the-department-of-britishness/.

Anuvab Pal returns on official business. Post-Brexit, the British government wants to sell the idea of Britishness to India. It has been done before, with dubious results. Now, they've set up a Department of Britishness and hired him. He will explain in detail why Indians should embrace Britishness, having done it himself. There is trouble ahead.

Pal’s stand-up comedy special The Nation Wants To Know, has played over 500 sold out shows from Mumbai to Sydney to San Francisco. His show, Empire, a comedy show based on the history of the British Empire in India, has played in 12 cities worldwide and can now be seen as a comedy special on Amazon Prime UK AS part of Soho Theatre Live. Anuvab is also a prolific writer. He was the screenwriter of multiple Bollywood films, his play Chaos Theory was a hit stage play in New York and Mumbai and later became a bestselling novel; he currently writes a monthly column for India’s Economic Times.

Anuvab is the only Indian stand-up comedian after Russel Peters to sell out The Gotham Comedy Club in New York in record time. He’s also the only Indian comedian invited to perform at Harvard University. Times of India lists him among India’s top 5 English speaking comedians, having played over 750 shows and sold-out houses across India, the Middle East, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, South by Southwest Austin Texas, Laugh Boston, New York.

In 2016, Anuvab was one of 14 comedians in India to have his comedy special available on Amazon Prime Video among the premiere shows of Amazon’s India debut and joined the hilarious pan-global satirical podcast The Bugle alongside Andy Zaltzman. It is with Zaltzman that he has co-created the upcoming comedy (BBC Radio4) series Empire-ical Evidence and Future Empire-Fect. Pal’s sitcom pilot titled Empire featured as part of Festival Of Funny (BBC Radio2) starring actor comedian, writer, presenter Stephen Fry.

Anuvab’s credits include Soho Theatre Live: Season 3 (Amazon Prime) QI (BBC2) Big Asian Stand Up (BBC2) Al Murray: Why Does Everyone Hate The British Empire (Sky History) The News Quiz (BBC Radio4) The New Year’s Eve International Show (BBC World Service) Comedians VS News (BBC World Service) Fred At The Stand (BBC Radio4).

ANUVAB PAL TOUR DATES 2024