Aditi Mittal

Aditi Mittal’s own description of herself, comedian, actor, writer, and barely managing any one of them competently, is itself a perfect example of what makes her so good at all three. She is one of the first women to do professional stand-up comedy in India, and what she has built since then is a genuinely global career. She has two stand-up specials on Netflix, Things They Wouldn’t Let Me Say and Girl Meets Mic, as well as Mother of Invention on Amazon Prime, and her own show on BBC Radio 4, A Beginner’s Guide to India. In 2024, she appeared in James May’s Our Man in India, and more recently, she collaborated with the Financial Times on In That Top, a short film that manages to be simultaneously about fashion, capitalism, and identity in a way that only Aditi Mittal could pull off. She has performed her comedy across Switzerland, Nigeria, Australia, and beyond, and live dates continue to be listed internationally through 2025. Beyond performing, she has founded two social initiatives, Crash Burn Learn and Punchlines and Powersuits, which use comedy as a tool to build confidence in anxious teenagers and working women. Her jokes have always been sharp, culturally specific, and unafraid to say the things that most people leave unsaid. On Twitter, she is just as fearless, and just as funny.