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When Siddhu replaced Kapil as host of 'Comedy Nights with Kapil'

TOI.com earlier reported that ace cricketers Sunil Gavaskar and Virendra Sehwag will grace the upcoming episode of 'Comedy Nights with Kapil' and here we come up with some more exclusive information right from the sets of Comedy Nights...

Kapil's show always has some or the other reason to be constantly in news and once again the upcoming episode has a special highlight which we would like to share. A close source from the sets informs, " In the upcoming episode when Sunil Gavaskar and Sehwag came on the sets, Kapil asked Siddhu Ji, who sits and enjoys the episode, to come on the stage and have some gala time with his buddies from the cricket arena. And in return, he occupied Siddhu's seat and enjoyed the episode. The reason why Kapil exchanged the hosting responsibility with Siddhu was just to make the ace cricketers comfortable to share their memories with the audiences."

"As Kapil doesn't belong to the cricket field and wouldn't have had many questions to interact, who else then Siddhu Paaji would be better to share the stage with them. This particular episode would be one of the best episodes of the 'Comedy Nights...' so far," adds a source.

With this Sunil Gavaskar and Siddhu who earlier shared the same pitch will now share same stage.

LIST OF ALL EPISODES

2013

Episode No.	Guest(s)	Original air date	Notes
Episode 1	Dharmendra	22 June 2013	Promotion of Yamla Pagla Deewana 2.[1]
Episode 2	Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi	23 June 2013	Promotion of Ghanchakkar.[2]
Episode 3	Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer Singh	29 June 2013	Promotion of Lootera.[3][4]
Episode 4	Sunil Shetty and Johnny Lever	30 June 2013	Promotion of Enemmy[5]
Episode 5	Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan and Rohit Shetty	6 July 2013	Promotion of Chennai Express.[6]
Episode 6	Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan and Rohit Shetty	7 July 2013	Promotion of Chennai Express.[6]
Episode 7	Prabhudeva and Girish Kumar	13 July 2013	Promotion of Ramaiya Vastavaiya.[7]
Episode 8	Huma Qureshi and Nawazuddin Siddiqui	14 July 2013	Promotion of Shorts.[8]
Episode 9	Irrfan Khan and Arjun Rampal	20 July 2013	Promotion of D-Day.[9]
Episode 10	Tusshar Kapoor and Ravi Kishan	21 July 2013	Promotion of Bajatey Raho.[10]
Episode 11	Kirron Kher	27 July 2013	Promotion of India's Got Talent.[11]
Episode 12	Tina Dutta and Avika Gor	28 July 2013	Special appearance[12][13]
Episode 13	Shahrukh Khan and Rohit Shetty	3 August 2013	Promotion of Chennai Express.[6]
Episode 14	Mika Singh	4 August 2013	Special appearance[14]
Episode 15	Akshay Kumar and Imran Khan	10 August 2013	Promotion of Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobara.
Episode 16	Anu Malik	11 August 2013	Special appearance[15]
Episode 17	Riteish Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani and Vivek Oberoi	17 August 2013	Promotion of Grand Masti.[16]
Episode 18	Ranjeet, Nikitin Dheer and Prem Chopra	18 August 2013	Special appearance[17]
Episode 19	Ajay Devgan and Prakash Jha	24 August 2013	Promotion of Satyagraha.[18][19]
Episode 20	Usha Nadkarni, Renuka Israni and Smita Bansal	25 August 2013	Special appearance
Episode 21	Ram Charan and Priyanka Chopra	31 August 2013	Promotion of Zanjeer.[20][21]
Episode 22	Sushant Singh Rajput, Parineeti Chopra and Vaani Kapoor	1 September 2013	Promotion of Shuddh Desi Romance.[22][23]
Episode 23	Juhi Chawla	7 September 2013	Special appearance
Episode 24	Shahid Kapoor and Ileana D'Cruz	8 September 2013	Promotion of Phata Poster Nikhla Hero.[24][25]
Episode 25	Ranbir Kapoor and Pallavi Sharda	21 September 2013	Promotion of Besharam.[26]
Episode 26	Anil Kapoor	22 September 2013	Promotion of 24.[27][28]
Episode 27	Sunidhi Chauhan	28 September 2013	Special appearance
Episode 28	Soha Ali Khan and Javed Jaffrey	29 September 2013	Promotion of War Chhod Na Yaar.[29][30]
Episode 29	Kangana Ranaut	6 October 2013	Promotion of Rajjo.[31][32][33]
Episode 30	Akshay Kumar, Ronit Roy, Shiv Pandit and Aditi Rao Hydari	13 October 2013	Promotion of Boss
Episode 31	Farah Khan	20 October 2013	Special appearance[34][35]
Episode 32	Sonu Nigam	27 October 2013	Special appearance.[36]
Episode 33	Hrithik Roshan	3 November 2013	Promotion of Krrish 3.[37]
Episode 34	Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone	10 November 2013	Promotion of Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela.[38]
Episode 35	Sunny Deol and Amrita Rao	17 November 2013	Promotion of Singh Saab The Great.[39][40]
Episode 36	Imran Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan	24 November 2013	Promotion of Gori Tere Pyaar Mein
Episode 37	Saif Ali Khan	1 December 2013	Promotion of Bullett Raja.[41][42]
Episode 38	Shahid Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Sonu Sood andPrabhudeva	8 December 2013	Promotion of R... Rajkumar.[43][44]
Episode 39	Govinda & Pooja Bose	15 December 2013	Promotion of the album Gori Tere Naina.[45]
Episode 40	Sania Mirza	22 December 2013	Special appearance[46]

2014

Episode No.	Guest(s)	Original air date	Notes
Episode 41	Arshad Warsi and Soha Ali Khan	4 January 2014	Promotion of Mr Joe B. Carvalho
Episode 42	Hema Malini	5 January 2014	Promotion of Sholay 3D[47]
Episode 43	Madhuri Dixit and Huma Qureshi	11 January 2014	Promotion of Dedh Ishqiya[48]
Episode 44	Raveena Tandon	12 January 2014	Promotion of Yaariyan with all cast.
Episode 45	Salman Khan	18 January 2014	Promotion of Jai Ho[49]
Episode 46	Salman Khan, Sohail Khan and Daisy Shah	19 January 2014	Promotion of Jai Ho[49]
Episode 47	Bipasha Basu	25 January 2014	Promotion of her fitness DVD[50]
Episode 48	Shekhar Suman, Adhyayan Suman and Ariana Ayam	26 January 2014	Promotion of Heartless
Episode 49	Parineeti Chopra and Sidharth Malhotra	1 February 2014	Promotion of Hasee Toh Phasee[51]
Episode 50	Daler Mehndi	2 February 2014	Special appearance
Episode 51	Ravi Kishan, Manoj Tiwari and Nirahua	8 February 2014	Special appearance.[52]
Episode 52	Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor	9 February 2014	Promotion of Gunday
Episode 53	Razak Khan, Diljit Dosanjh, Ravi Dubey, Sargun Mehta, Siddharth Shukla & Karan Wahi	15 February 2014	Special appearance
Episode 54	Farhan Akhtar and Vidya Balan	16 February 2014	Promotion of Shaadi Ke Side Effects.[53]
Episode 55	Randeep Hooda, Alia Bhatt and Imtiaz Ali	22 February 2014	Promotion of Highway[54]
Episode 56	Malaika Arora Khan and Kirron Kher	23 February 2014	Promotion of India's Got Talent
Episode 57	Yami Gautam and Ali Zafar	1 March 2014	Promotion of Total Siyapaa.[55][56]
Episode 58	Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla	2 March 2014	Promotion of Gulaab Gang.[57]
Episode 59	Kangana Ranaut and Rajkummar Rao	9 March 2014	Promotion of Queen[58]
Episode 60	Remo D'souza, Terence Lewis, Mugdha Godse and Nikitin Dheer	15 March 2014	Special appearance[59]
Episode 61	Ayushmann Khurrana and Sonam Kapoor	16 March 2014	Promotion of Bewakoofiyaan
Episode 62	Ekta Kapoor and Sunny Leone	22 March 2014	Promotion of Ragini MMS 2.[60]
Episode 63	Shilpa Shetty, Harman Baweja and Raj Kundra	23 March 2014	Promotion of Dishkiyaoon.[61]

On 25 September 2013, a fire broke out on the sets of the show at Film City in Goregaon causing the entire set to collapse and an estimated loss of  200 million but there were no casualties. He stated in an interview that a lot of Bollywood celebrities offered to help him naming Lata Mangeshkar, Shahrukh Khan & Rohit Shetty.^[8] Management decided to shoot subsequent episodes (Episodes 29 and 30) on sets of Bigg Boss in Lonavla.^[9][10][11] Shooting for episodes 31 onwards resumed on a new original-themed set.

Cast

Present cast

• Kapil Sharma as Kapil "Bittu" Sharma
• Ali Asgar^[5] as Dolly (Bittu's Grandmother (Dadi))
• Sumona Chakravarti as Mrs. Bittu Sharma
• Upasana Singh as Pinky (Bittu's Aunt (Bua))
• Kiku Sharda as Palak/various characters
• Chandan Prabhakar as Raju/various characters
• Navjot Singh Siddhu as a permanent guest
• Paresh Ganatra as various characters
• Roshni Chopra as various characters
• Raju Srivastava as various characters
• Atul Parchure as various characters

Former cast

• Naseem Vicky as servant
• Soni Singh as Bittu's Secretary
• Sunil Grover as Gutthi

Comedy Nights with Kapil is an Indian comedy show that airs on Colors TV channel. The show is hosted by comedian Kapil Sharma. The format of the show is mixed, with Sharma acting out skits on stage with supporting characters, while also interacting with members in the audience and the guest Navjot Singh Siddhu. Each episode features celebrity guest(s) who usually appear to promote their latest films and with whom actors interact in-character. The show is similar in context to the British show The Kumars at No. 42.

After the conclusion of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, the show became India's highest rated serial in the non-fiction category garnering viewership rating greater than KBC and Big Boss.

At CNN-IBN Indian of the Year awards, Kapil Sharma was felicitated with Entertainer of the Year award for 2013 by Amol Palekar in recognition of his contribution to the show.