Did you know that Google processes over 40,000 search queries every second, which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide. Yes, I just googled that!
Of course, it’s no news that we google almost everything and it has an answer to all that we ever wanted to know. Now, imagine this! What if Google were a comedian? Say, Tanmay Bhat from AIB answering all your queries or Kanan Gill giving you your daily dose of information? We imagined just that and got the judges of Amazon Prime’s Comicstaan to answer some of the most searched questions by Indians on the web and the answers were downright hilarious.
To see what happened when Tanmay Bhat, Kenny Sebastian, Abish Mathew, Kanan Gill, Sapan Verma, Kaneez Surka, Sumukhi Suresh, Biswa Kalyan Rath and Naveen Richard behaved like Google’s search engine, watch this video. It stars all your favourite comedians, so play now and get entertained.
Comicstaan is a nine-episode series where ten contestants from across the country will compete for the winning title. They will be mentored by comedian judges who are experts in their respective genres of comedy. Comicstaan’s first four episodes will be available online from 13 July, followed by new episodes weekly on Amazon Prime Video.
Camera: Sanjoy Deb
Editor: Ashish Maccune
Camera Assistant: Gautam Sharma
Producer: Bilal Jaleel
(This story is from The Quint’s archives and was first published on 29 June 2018. It is now being republished to mark the anniversary of Google’s registration as a domain in 1997.)
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