Just 9 days in the past, Los Angeles comedian Neel Nanda was headlining a Toronto comedy membership for the primary time, cracking up the group and welcoming followers to assist have a good time his birthday weekend with him downtown after the present.

“He made our audiences smile and so happy,” Jokers Theatre & Comedy Club proprietor Dave Curran mentioned Sunday, nonetheless shocked by the information filtering by the stand-up neighborhood: Nanda, who reportedly had simply turned 32, was useless.

“At this point all I can do is confirm, yes, unfortunately my client of over 11 years has passed,” supervisor Greg Weiss instructed The Times on Sunday. Time and reason behind demise weren’t given, and on the request of Nanda’s household and girlfriend, no different particulars had been being launched, Weiss mentioned, including that Nanda was a fantastic comedian, good friend and “fantastic human being.”

Nanda could not have been a family identify, Curran mentioned, however he had achieved notable success, with a robust variety of membership bookings and greater than 100,000 followers on Instagram. The comedian had appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and Comedy Central’s “Adam Devine’s House Party,” and in January he was featured on “Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents.”

Clips selling Nanda’s appearances at Jokers centered on the comedian’s Indian heritage and rising up in Atlanta with immigrant parents.

“I only met him six months ago, but after a day or two he has the ability to make you feel like you’ve known him for years,” mentioned Curran, who booked Nanda as a result of he had an “it factor.” Curran mentioned he and Nanda went from “strangers to feeling like friends over 24 hours. He does that with audiences too.”

As information of Nanda’s demise unfold by the L.A. comedy neighborhood, tributes flowed. “RIP Neel Nanda, a great comic who built a whole comedy scene in Santa Monica nearly single-handedly and always gave his all and was welcoming to everyone,” comedian John Roy wrote on X.