The Great Indian Laughter Challenge - Wikipedia The Great Indian Laughter Challenge The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Genre Reality Country of origin India Original language ( s ) Hindi No. of seasons 5 No. of episodes 193 Production Camera setup Multi-camera Running time approximately 48 minutes Production company ( s ) Endemol Distributor Star India Release Original network STAR One ( season 1 -- 4 ) STAR Plus ( season 5 ) Picture format NTSC 480i ( season 1 - 4 ) 576i ( season 5 ) HDTV 1080i ( season 5 ) Original release 15 June 2005 ( 2005 - 06 - 15 ) -- present Chronology Followed by Laughter Knights External links Website The Great Indian Laughter Challenge is an Indian Reality Stand - up comedy series Produced by Endemol India. First four seasons aired on STAR One from 15 June 2005 to 26 September 2008. The show 's Fifth season started airing on 30 September 2017 on STAR Plus and is being judged by Akshay Kumar. The show is based on a format where stand - up comedians perform and entertain judges and the studio audience with their comedy skills. The first three seasons of the show saw Shekhar Suman, an eminent TV personality and Navjot Singh Sidhu, former cricketer and current cricket commentator and politician. '' The show 's initial episodes were hosted by Parizaad Kolah Marshall and later she was replaced by Shonali Nagrani. The fifth season is being hosted by Elli Avram. The set was designed by noted Bollywood production designer Nitin Chandrakant Desai. In the fourth season Shatrughan Sinha replaced Shekhar Suman as judge. Contents 1 Seasons 2 Season I 3 Season II 4 Season III 5 Season IV 6 Season V - 2017 7 References 8 External links Seasons In the first season, Sunil Pal was the winner, Ahsaan Qureshi was runner up and Raju Srivastava was second runner up. In the second season contestants from Pakistan were present and the winner Rauf Lala was from Pakistan. The third season was won by Kapil Sharma and the first runner up was Chandan Prabhakar both from Amritsar. Many other talented comedians like Siraj Khan, Sudesh Lehari, Rajiv Thakur, Bharti Singh, Navin Prabhakar, Jassi Kochar, Khayaali, Dipoo Srivastava, Ahsaan Qureshi have appeared in the show. The first two seasons were followed by another show, The Great Indian Laughter Champions, which included top performers of the previous shows. Here also the judges were Sidhu and Shekar including some celebrity guests as well. Recently the first woman to participate was Aarti Kandpal. The fourth season 's finalists were Rasbihari Gaur, Bharti Singh, Suresh Albela, and a duo from Pakistan. The winner for the fourth season after a tough laughter war was Suresh Albela. Season 5 had 3 mentors Zakir Khan, Hussain Dalal ( Dialouge Writer ) Hussain Dalal and Mallika Dua later replaced by Sajid Khan and Shreyas Talpade who along with Akshay Kumar, will select 12 finalists who will compete for the title. Season I Sunil Pal ( Winner ) Ahsaan Qureshi ( Runner - up ) Raju Srivastava Naveen Prabhakar Bhagwant Mann Parag Kansara Season II Rauf Lala ( Winner ) Rajeev Nigam ( Runner - up ) Khayali Pratap Faujdar Irfan Malik and Ali Hassan Dr. Tushar Shah Rajkumar Javkar Saransh Bhardwaj ( as a guest appearance ) Gaurav Jha Season III Kapil Sharma ( winner ) Chandan Prabhakar ( Runner - up ) Sunil Pal Aamil Keeyan Khan Sudesh Lehri Raju Srivastava Season IV Suresh Albela ( Winner ) Sikandar Sanam ( Runner - up ) Wali Sheikh Bharti Singh Jaswant Singh Rasbihari Gaur Shrikant Maski Ramdas Yeole Rehan Jamlal Sugandha Mishra Vinod Rathore Season V - 2017 Abhishek Walia ( Winner ) Nitesh Shetty ( Runner up ) Shyam Rangeela Vighnesh Pande Parvindar Singh Vishwas Chauhan Jayvijay Sachan Abhay Kumar Sahil Bhatia Mohammad Anas Naman Jain Sumit Sourav Ajay Singh Chauhan Gaurav Gupta WINNER : Abhishek Walia RUNNER UP : Nitesh Shetty References Jump up ^ `` Star One 's The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Dwitiya clocks the highest ever ratings ''. July 8, 2006. Retrieved December 28, 2017. Jump up ^ `` The great Indian Laughter Challenge 3 ''. May 16, 2007. Retrieved December 28, 2017. Jump up ^ `` The Great Indian Laughter Challenge 4 airs every Friday & Saturday on Star One ''. Retrieved December 28, 2017. Jump up ^ `` Akshay Kumar to judge The Great Indian Laughter Challenge ; releases the teaser ''. Retrieved 2 July 2017. Jump up ^ `` Charge of the laugh brigade judging the show ''. The Telegraph. 21 November 2005. Retrieved 2 March 2013. Jump up ^ Javed Jaffrey 's spoof on budget desires Screen ( magazine ), Chaya Unnikrishnan. 3 March 2006. 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Question: who won the great indian laughter challenge in 2017
Answer: Abhishek Walia