Abish Mathew


Abish Mathew is a stand-up comedian. He is known for his work with All India Bakchod, as the host of Comicstaan, and is the creator and host of Son of Abish and Journey Of A Joke.

Personal life

Abish was born in Kerala. He completed his schooling from Fr. Agnel School,New Delhi, and studied history at Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi.
Since Mathew is a Catholic, he was the member of St. Mary's Church, Noida before moving to Mumbai. He got engaged to actress and YouTuber Archana Kavi on 31 October 2015. They got married on 23 January 2016 in Vallarpadam Church, Kerala. The wedding ceremony was attended by Rima Kallingal, Aashiq Abu and Abish's friends from Delhi and comedians like Kenny Sebastian, Kaneez Surka, Rohan Joshi and Kanan Gill.

Career

He began his career as an RJ at Red FM, Delhi before switching to stand-up..Abish Mathew is a great chess player who faced former world champion Viswanathan Anand and was up a queen against him. His main philosophy for chess is "Clear out the board, play with the king". One of his famous quotes is "Why move a rook when you can move the king".

''Son of Abish''

Son Of Abish is a comedy talk show hosted by Mathew that debuted in 2015. Since then, the show has hosted guests such as Kenny Sebastian, Kunal Kamra, Swara Bhaskar, Vidya Balan, Anand Gandhi, Irrfan Khan, Suresh Menon, Sonakshi Sinha, Dulquer Salmaan, Zakir Khan, Shirley Setia, Mithila Palkar, Vishal Dadlani, Miss Malini, Vicky Kaushal, Arman Malik, Abhay Deol, Yami Gautam, Jassie Gill, Tanmay Bhat, Bhuvan Bam, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Radhika Apte, Radhika Madan, Naveen Polishetty, Vir Das and Jordindian.