BIOGRAPHY OF KAPIL SHARMA COMEDIAN OR ACTOR Kapil Sharma is an Indian stand-up comedian, television presenter, actor and producer. He hosted also television comedy show Comedy Nights with Kapil from June 2013 to January 2016. Wikipedia Born : 2 April 1981 (age 36), Amritsar Residence : Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Awards : Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role , MORE Education : Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar , Hindu College, Amritsar Early and personal life Kapil was born in Amritsar , Punjab. [10] His father Jeetendra Kumar Punj was a head constable in the Punjab Police while his mother Janak Rani is a housewife..His father was diagnosed with cancer in 1997 and died in 2004 at AIIMS in Delhi . He studied at the Khalsa college in Amritsar , Punjab . Kapil Sharma has a brother named Ashok Kumar Sharma, who is a Police constable and a sister named Pooja Pawan D