Tanmay Bhat (born 23 June 1987) is an Indian YouTuber, comedian, scriptwriter, Actor, performer and producer. He was the co-founder and former CEO of the creative agency All India Bakchod (AIB) along with Gursimranjet Singh Khamba.
Tanmay Bhat had his debut with UTV Bindass’ flagship show, Hass Ley India. He wrote for MTV India’s Wassup and Nachle Ve with Saroj Khan. He ventured into story, screenplay and dialogue writing for Disney India’s daily comedies Kya Mast Hai Life and NDTV Imagine’s Oye! It’s Friday! with Farhan Akhtar.
In mid-2019 he started the YouTube channel “Tanmay Bhat”, where he posts vlogs, comedy sketches, reaction videos and video essays and streams games such as PUBG Mobile, Among Us etc. In 2018, he was a judge on Season 1 of Comicstaan, a stand-up comedy competition broadcast on Amazon Prime.
Tanmay Bhat was also the writer and producer for India’s More Talent, a subsidiary comedy show spawning from Not true, and has scripted TV award shows, including the Filmfare Awards, Star Parivaar Awards, Balaji Awards, Big TV Awards and Stardust Awards.
Tanmay Bhat teamed up with YouTuber Saiman Says in January 2020 and brought in several comedians, including Sorabh Pant, Ajey Nagar, Kaneez Surka and Zakir Khan, for the “TreeMathon 2020” live stream. The stream was an 8-hour live session with people playing the game Getting Over It to support Mission Green Mumbai and raise funds to plant as many trees as possible in response to the deforestation drive at Aarey Milk Colony.
In early April 2020, Bhat and Kaneez Surka hosted an 8-hour live stream for two days, raising over Rs 1.7 million for charities fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Bhat moderated multiplayer online games with fellow comedians Rohan Joshi, Kaneez Surka, Bhuvan Bam, Anuvab Pal, Varun Grover and Kusha Kapila.
In 2020-2021 Bhat co-wrote the scripts of several advertisements for the financial services company Cred, which featured actors and other celebrities including Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Bappi Lahiri, Ravi Shastri, Anil Kapoor, Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev and Neeraj Chopra.
