[2] Their friends and contemporary comedians, Rohan Joshi and Ashish Shakya were frequent guests[3] and the four co-founded the YouTube channel in 2013 and began making sketches.

[5] In October 2018, the company halted operation and fired its entire staff, after Bhat and Khamba were implicated in two separate sexual harassment allegations.

[6] Tanmay Bhat, Rohan Joshi and Ashish Shakya entered the Mumbai stand-up comedy circuit around 2008.

[10][11] Joshi and Bhat performed improv with Das, Kavi Shastri, Ashwin Mushran and Anu Menon as The Cardinal Bengans.

[19] Gursimran Khamba is a Delhi-based humour blogger who had gained popularity with political commentary, satirical essays and film reviews.

[21] In 2011, he moved to Mumbai to attend graduate school at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and soon transitioned to stand-up and podcasting.

[22] Bhat approached Khamba after seeing him perform stand-up,[23] and in 2012 they began the humour and pop-culture SoundCloud podcast All India Bakchod.

Karan Johar was the host with roasters AIB, Rajeev Masand, Raghu Ram, Aditi Mittal and Abish Matthews.

[38] Facing public backlash due to Knockout, AIB ceased uploading content until 11 April 2015, when they released a call to action video which urged viewers to email their member of parliament to support net neutrality.

During this period, the four original members, with a writing team, created a satirical web television show called On Air With AIB, produced by Only Much Louder.

This show ran on Hotstar for three seasons, with some shorter segments uploaded on the AIB YouTube channel along with branded content.

[7] In December 2016, a report stated that AIB was producing Amazon Prime Video's first Indian original fiction show, Ministry, starring Irrfan Khan.

[41] In October 2017, it was reported that Khan would play a washed-up Bollywood actor seeking to regain the love of the masses while appointed as a placeholder culture minister.

[42][43] In August 2018, Irrfan left the project due to a health issue,[44] and the show was renamed to Gormint, a pronunciation from a viral video of an elderly woman criticizing the government.

[50] It was co-directed by frequent collaborators Devanshu Kumar and Satyanshu Singh, and starred Vinay Pathak and Tillotama Shome.

[54] The majority of their sketches were branded content and included promotions for AskMe[55] Snapdeal,[56][57][58] Furlenco,[59] Swiggy,[60] Bacardi,[61] TrulyMadly,[62] Google Allo[63][64][65] and OnePlus.

[66][67][68][69] Their podcast guests and work collaborators, included numerous Bollywood celebrities, global and Indian comedians and filmmakers.

[73] In February 2017, within a week of being hired as a social-media writer, 22-year-old Krupa Gohil felt, "the company in general and the four founders in particular, saw the internet's emerging conversation about feminism as just another meme-worthy narrative to tap into."

She said that in July 2017, when she was working with AIB as a writer on a contract, a male employee dropped his trousers and underpants and exposed his penis.

On 4 October 2018, comedian and actor Utsav Chakraborty, a former editor at Huffington Post India,[79] former AIB employee and frequent collaborator,[80] was accused of impropriety.

[81] The allegations against Chakraborty garnered attention when poet Mahima Kukreja accused him of sending her an unsolicited explicit image.

He said that an independent committee looked into the allegation for four months and was "replete with procedural lapses and did not follow principals of natural justice".

[7] On 8 October 2018, Khamba and Bhat were asked to leave AIB due to their involvement and complicit behaviour in separate sexual harassment allegations.

[98] In May 2019, they issued a statement that confirmed that their entire staff was let go, that Bhat's suspension was lifted (but he would not be allowed to return as CEO) and that Khamba had cut all ties with the company.