Comedy Stars

Comedy Stars is a popular Malayalam comedy reality-television competition, broadcast on the Malayalam channel Asianet and is sponsored by Vodafone Essar. The program aims to discover the best Comedy team in Kerala and the winner is determined by the viewers and judges based on the teams' skill in Performance and Entertainment. Text messages are sent by the show's audience to vote for the best performing team and a small weightage of this score is considered for a team to be shortlisted to the next round. The show also features a panel of judges who are prominent personalities in the Malayalam cinema industry and they offer scores and evaluations of performance to the contestants in every stage of the competition. The first season was won by Team VIP defeating four other teams who made it to the Finale.