Naveed’s Comedy Club (NCC) is one of the first comedy clubs in Asia. It started its journey on March 6, 2010, at a small basement room in Dhaka’s Baridhara area. The club resembled a typical New York-style venue – a small room, audiences huddle together in a cramped space, a small stage right in front of the audience. The experience could not have been better for Dhaka-ites to throng to this new source of entertainment in town, other than, well, just eat. The club is the realization of the dream of Naveed Mahbub, an engineer turned executive turned comedian and his wife, herself an executive, Zara Mahbub. After successfully launching his comedy career in the US, Naveed and Zara moved to Bangladesh with the dream of establishing a stand-up comedy scene in Dhaka and eventually, all over the country. The manifestation of that is NCC, a dedicated venue for stand-up comedy. 

The rest is history, with NCC being the only proper stand-up comedy club, i.e., a dedicated venue solely for stand-up comedy shows, as opposed to “comedy rooms”, which are venues like cafes and restaurants holding comedy shows. Over the years, NCC has been the spring board for many an aspiring comedian in the country while also hosting international stars such Grammy Nominee Bobby Collins, The Late Show with David Letterman’s warm-up comedian and booker Eddie Brill, Azhar Usman of Allah Made Me Funny fame, India’s ABB alumni Sorabh Pant, New York’s Chuck Burks, LA’s David Reinitz, CricInfo’s Andy Zaltzman, Toronto’s riffing wizard Ian Bagg and Tony Williiams.