Rohan Joshi is an Indian comedian, writer, actor, YouTuber, content creator, and TV presenter. He was born on Tuesday, 22 February 1983 in South Mumbai, Maharashtra. He was one of the key people of the creative agency All India Bakchod.
He attended Cumballa Hill High School, Mumbai, where he grew up participating in various extracurricular activities. He attended KJ Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai, for a while but eventually dropped out after the second semester of the course as he was bullied by a teacher. Eventually, he joined a media course.
Rohan Joshi entered the Mumbai stand-up comedy circuit around 2008 along with his fellow comedians Tanmay Bhat, and Ashish Shakya. Until 2008, Joshi and Bhat were contributors to the JLT (a.k.a. Just Like That), a weekly youth-focused humor magazine published by The Times of India. It was when Bhat saw Joshi’s Google Talk status about him performing a stand-up comedy act that they connected over how to turn a hobby into a profession. Meanwhile, Joshi and Bhat also worked at Weirdass Comedy, a comedy consultancy company founded by Vir Das.
After graduating from Jai Hind College, Rohan Joshi briefly worked as a journalist for CNBC and also wrote a humor column for Mid-Day. In 2010, Rohan, who was then working as a TV journalist, performed at an influential open-mic show called Hamateur Night. He won the contest and, pursued comedy as a hobby for the following year and a half.
In 2011, Rohan Joshi performed at the prestigious comedy festival ‘Fringe Festival’ in Edinburgh. The same year, he also joined a selected group of Indian comics to perform at the Comedy Store, hosted in London. Delhi-based comedian Gursimran Khamba joined the trio when he moved to Mumbai to attend the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in 2011. The four comedians would write scripts for television, including writing jokes for Filmfare Awards, MTV and Channel V.
In 2013, Tanmay Bhat, Rohan Joshi, Gursimran Khamba, and Ashish Shakya established the humor and pop-culture SoundCloud podcast All India Bakchod. In the same year, the quartet performed a series of live shows titled ‘The Royal Turds’ in which they satirically hosted a Bollywood-themed award show ‘Worst of the Year.’ The show was a big hit and all around the country.
In 2018, Rohan appeared as a Judge in the Indian stand-up comedy competition TV series TLC Queens Of Comedy. In 2022, he featured as a Mentor in the Indian stand-up comedy competition TV series Comicstaan, which streamed on Amazon Prime Video.