Stand-up comedian Varun Grover took a dig at YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia aka Beer Biceps and comedian Samay Raina amid controversy surrounding their India's Got Latent episode. The duo, and several others, landed in trouble after videos of the controversial episode surfaced on social media earlier this month. Multiple FIRs have been lodged against them and summons have been issues by Maharashtra Cyber Cell in connection with the controversial episode.
Now, comedian and lyricist Varun Grover took a jibe at the ongoing controversy and he even went on to say that Beer Biceps sounds like a porn star's name from Gurugram.
A video from one of his recent acts have been doing the rounds on social media in which he also takes a dig at the investigations surrounding the case.
He is heard telling the audience, "Video recording nahi karni hai (please don’t record) because that is how the comedy world works right? It is a new material. There is a whole process. Hum likhte hain... 3-4 mahina naya content likhte hain fir woh 1 ghante ka show banta hai. Fir woh show ke saath hum tour karte hain all over India (We write new content to make a set, and then go on tour all over the country). Once the tour is almost over, then we record it, and put it on YouTube and then go to jail," leaving the audience in splits.
"I don't want to go to jail because of a video shot on the phone, I want to go because of high-quality content that I post on my channel," the comedian joked, adding, "I can’t say vo video dekh ke ki ‘Yeh main thodhi hoon, yeh Samay Raina hai’ (This is not me, this is Samay Raina)."
During his act, Varun also joked about Ranveer's onscreen name BeerBiceps. He said, "Iska show pehle bandh hona chahiye tha because of the name, and look at the content after that (His show should have been stopped for his name itself). It sounds like a porn star from Gurugram."
Take a look at his video here:
Varun Grover is absolutely brilliant. He politely takes on the system with top notch humour. One of the best of our time pic.twitter.com/zMpqgokCRv
— Joy (@Joydas) February 20, 2025
India's Got Latent controversy
The controversy began after Ranveer asked a contestant of India's Got Latent, "Would you rather watch your parents have sex every day for the rest of your life or join in once to make it stop forever?"
Others panelists, including Samay, Ashish Chanchlani and Apoorva Makhija aka The Rebel Kid, laughed over Ranveer's supposed 'joke'.
The remarks were deemed vulgar and inappropriate. Following criticism and social media outrage, Samay deleted the related videos from his YouTube channel. Ranveer also issued an apology and stated that comedy is not his forte.