Samay Raina Education: Print Engineer By Profession, Stand-up Comedian By Passion – News18

Last Updated:February 11, 2025, 15:29 IST

Samay Raina Controversy: Born in Jammu city into a conservative Kashmiri Pandit family, Raina studied print engineering at PVG’s College of Engineering and Technology in Pune, Maharashtra

Samay Raina Qualification: Stand-up comedian Samay Raina, who is currently facing backlash over the latest episode of his show India’s Got Latent, gained popularity on the internet during the COVID-19 period with his standup videos and comic shorts. He rose to prominence when he won the second season of the stand-up comedy contest Comicstaan in 2019 along with fellow contestant Aakash Gupta.

Born in Jammu city into a conservative Kashmiri Pandit family, Raina studied print engineering at PVG’s College of Engineering and Technology in Pune, Maharashtra. Soon after completing graduation, he started doing open mic events and became a popular face in the local comedy scene.

During the pandemic, Samay Raina raised a massive subscriber base on YouTube by hosting and streaming chess games. Today, he has 7.36 subscribers on his YouTube channel and six million followers on Instagram, making him one of the most popular stand-up comedians in the Indian comedy circle.

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He is the brain behind the YouTube show ‘India’s Got Latent’, his own humorous YouTube version of the popular reality show ‘India’s Got Talent’. In Samay’s show, contestants from across India come to showcase their talent, or sometimes rather lack of it, on the stage. This is then followed by a grilling session by the judges present on the panel, which includes Samay himself and the guests he invites to the show.

An FIR has recently been filed by the Guwahati Police, naming ‘India’s Got Latent’ host Samay Raina, YouTuber-podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia, YouTuber Ashish Chanchlani, comedian Jaspreet Singh, and ‘The Rebel Kid’ Apoorva Makhija. “Guwahati Crime Branch has registered a case vide Cyber PS case no 03/2025 under sections – 79/95/294/296 of BNS 2023 read with Sec 67 of IT Act, 2000, read with Section 4/7 of Cinematograph Act 1952 read with Section 4/6 of ⁠Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986,” Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said.