Of late, she’s been part of comedy shows but that experience hasn’t proved of much help to Sucheta Khanna-Pawase after she and her Pakistani partner became the first pair to be eliminated from Sony’s<em> Comedy Circus 2</em>. A source from the sets informs, “Sucheta and Salim Afridi lost out to Akashdeep and Pervez Siddiqui. It was surprising to see Sucheta go out as Akashdeep and Pervez had another poor showing. Maybe, the other competitors considered Sucheta a bigger threat and that’s why they voted her out.”

It looks that television’s bad boys and girls are switching to comedy for an image changeover. Apart from Kamya Punjabi, it’s now bad guy Akashdeep Sehgal who will be seen in the second season of <em> Comedy Circus.</em> Giving them company is veteran actress Apara Mehta. Apart from them there is Sayantani Ghosh (the <em> Ichadhari Naaginn</em>), the youngest member of the Indian hockey team in <em> Chak De India,</em> Komal Chautala (Chitrashi Rawat) and poet Shailesh Lodha.

The success of <em> Comedy Circus</em> has proved that actors can indeed do stand-up comedy. Inspired by the likes of Swapnil Joshi, Ali Asgar, Urvashi Dholakia, the cr?me de la cr?me of television actors will be fighting it out in the second season.