Rohan Joshi

Joshi attended K J Somaiya College of Engineering, but eventually dropped out.[1] He attended Jai Hind College and subsequently worked as a journalist for a period of time. Before working for CNBC and Times Now, Joshi also attended Asian College of Journalism, Chennai where he received his postgraduate diploma in media journalism.

In the late 2000s, Joshi was a contributor to JLT, a humour magazine based in Mumbai.[2] In addition to performing across India, Joshi served as a humour columnist for several publications including Mid Day. In 2011, he performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2011 and 2012, he co-wrote the Filmfare awards. In addition, he has performed in over 250 shows.[3] Joshi spent a couple years at Vir Das's comedy platform Weirdass, writing live comedy shows with Tanmay Bhat and Ashish Shakya. With Gursimran Khamb, they co-wrote television scripts and jokes for MTV, Channel V, and the Filmfare Awards. In 2013, the four started the SoundCloud podcast All India Bakchod (AIB).[2] Joshi scripted and starred in several YouTube sketches for All India Bakchod, and was a co-creator of the satirical news comedy show On Air with AIB. Following controversy and sexual misconduct allegations against AIB members, the comedy company ceased operating in 2018.[2]

In April 2019, Joshi confirmed that he was working on an hour-long stand-up comedy special for Prime Video.[4] On 10 January 2020, Joshi's special Wake And Bake was released on Prime Video.

In 2020, Joshi faced backlash for unearthed controversial tweets about politicians and Hindu deities.[5] After his phone number and address were posted online, Joshi deleted his @mojorojo Twitter account.[6]

Joshi has started a new show on Youtube, where he discusses 30 Questions (taken from the online users) with his long-time colleague Ashish Shakya and a bunch of other comedians/ Non-comedian friends.