After two successful seasons, Amazon Prime has announced the premiere of Comicstaan Season 3, a show that provides a platform to aspiring stand-up comedians under the mentorship of some of the best stand-up comedians in India. The show will be available for streaming from July 15.

This year the format of the show has been changed from the past couple of seasons. Season 1 and 2 saw professional comics take the roles of judges and mentors at the same time. However, this season the show will have four dedicated judges and seven dedicated mentors to guide the competitors.

Stand-up artistes Zakir Khan, Sumukhi Suresh, Neeti Palta and Kenny Sebastian will be the four judges of the show.

Rahul Subramanian, Sapan Verma, Rohan Joshi, Prashasti Singh, Kannan Gill, Aadar Malik and Anuradha Menon have been named as the seven mentors.

Abish Matthews, who hosted the first two seasons as well, will be returning to host the third season. He will be joined by Kusha Kapila as the co-host.

Neeti is known for her long presence in the stand-up comedy industry. In 2019, her stand-up special Almost Sanskari was featured on Amazon Prime.

Kenny is noted not only for his humour but also his musical talent. He has collaborated with several comics like Kannan and Abish on multiple ventures.

Zakir and Sumukhi not only have stand-up specials on Amazon Prime but also their own shows that mostly run housefull.

Zakir is the protagonist of the Amazon Prime exclusive comedy mini-series Chacha Vidhayak Hain Humare.

Sumukhi, who co-hosted the first season of Comicstaan, is also the lead of the Amazon Prime Original series Pushpavalli which is a dark comedy-drama about a female stalker.

Among the mentors, Rahul and Rohan were associated with the comedy company All India Bakchod (AIB) while Sapan was associated with the comedy company East India Comedy (EIC).

Kannan was earlier known for the Pretentious Movie Reviews series which he co-hosted with Biswa Kalyan Rath. He even acted in the 2017 movie Noor opposite Sonakshi Sinha.

Aadar, Anu Malik’s nephew, is a multi-talented comic who has composed several rib-tickling musical parodies.

Anuradha, during her Channel V video jockey days, was known for playing the character Lola Kutty.

Comicstaan season 3 will also see the return of Season 1 contestant Prashasti as a mentor.

The reinvigorated format will take eight contestants through different genres of comedy in each episode leading up to the finale.