Vodafone Comedy Stars

Vodafone comedy stars

Vodafone Comedy Stars is a popular Malayalam comedyreality-television competition, broadcast on the Malayalam channel Asianet and is sponsored by Vodafone Essar...

 is a popular Malayalam

Malayalam language

Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...

 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

reality-television competition, broadcast on the Malayalam channel Asianet

Asianet

Asianet Communications Limited is an Indian media conglomerate jointly owned by STAR TV and Jupiter Entertainment. Formed in 1991 and headquartered in the city of Thiruvananthapuram in the south Indian state of Kerala, the company owns several television channels including Asianet, the first...

 and is sponsored by Vodafone Essar

Vodafone Essar

Vodafone Essar, formerly Hutchison Essar, is a cellular operator in India that covers 23 telecom circles in India. It is based in Mumbai. On July 2011, Vodafone Group agreed terms for the buy-out of its partner Essar from its Indian mobile phone business. The UK firm paid $5.46 billion to its...

. The program aims to discover the best comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 Team

Team

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  in Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 and the winner is determined by the viewers and judges based on the teams skill in Performance

Performance

A performance, in performing arts, generally comprises an event in which a performer or group of performers behave in a particular way for another group of people, the audience. Choral music and ballet are examples. Usually the performers participate in rehearsals beforehand. Afterwards audience...

 and Entertainment

Entertainment

Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...

.Text messages are sent by the shows's audience to vote for the best performing Team

Team

A team comprises a group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks.A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team...

 and a small weightage of this score is considered for a Team

Team

A team comprises a group of people or animals linked in a common purpose. Teams are especially appropriate for conducting tasks that are high in complexity and have many interdependent subtasks.A group in itself does not necessarily constitute a team...

  to be shortlisted to next round.The show also features a panel of judges who are prominent personalities in the Malayalam cinema

Malayalam cinema

The Cinema of Kerala or Malayalam cinema refers to the film industry in the Indian state of Kerala, which makes films in the Malayalam language. Malayalam movies typically portray social or family issues and are considered more realistic than films from other parts of India. Malayalam cinema has...

 industry and they offer scores and evaluations of performance to the contestants in every stage of the competition.The Current Season Of The Show Is On Saturday And Sunday At 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m IST

Indian Standard Time

Indian Standard Time is the time observed throughout India and Sri Lanka, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments, although DST was used briefly during the Sino–Indian War of 1962 and the Indo–Pakistani Wars of 1965 and 1971...

) ON Asianet And Thursday And Friday At 7:30 p.m. to 8:30p.m On Asianet Middle East.

Season-1
Participants
The teams include:

• Team VIP
• Team Chirikudduka
• Team Mars
• Team Four Stars
• Team Rasikar
• Team Success
• Team Comedy Cousines
• Team Mimics Bhavan
• Team Laughter Kerala (eliminated in 13th stage)
• Team Rock (eliminated in 12th stage)
• Team Sky (eliminated)
• Team Angels (All girls team) (eliminated)
• Team Alpha (eliminated)
• Team K Stars (eliminated)
• Team Shiva (eliminated)
• Team Lucky (eliminated)
• Team Joke Boys (eliminated)
• Team Nano (eliminated)
• Team Big Fun (eliminated)
• Team Winners (eliminated)
• Team CID (eliminated)
• Team Four the People (eliminated)
• Team Crazy Boys (eliminated)
• Team Dreams (eliminated)

Actors worth mentioning

Binu Adimali (Team Chirikkudukka)

Shashankan Mayyanadu (Team Chirikkudukka)

Lal Babu (Team Chirikkudukka)

Nelson (Team VIP)

Ullas (Team Four Stars)

Venu Nariyapuram (Team Success)

Shivasurya (Team Success)

Susheelan (Team Mars)

Sivadas Mattannur (Team Rasikar)

Biju Kalabhavan (Team Rasikar)

Rajesh (Team Rock)

Sudhi Peyad (Team Laughter Kerala)

Saji Peyad (Team Laughter Kerala)

Aziz(Team Comedy Cousines)

Tragedies

Arun Venjaramoodu, who was a member of Team VIP died in a car accident on April 18, 2011. His friend and fellow member of the team, Nobi also got injured in the same accident.

Reference

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