[2] Sharma won the stand-up comedy reality show, The Great Indian Laughter Challenge season 3 in 2007.

[6][7] Sharma was born in a Punjabi family in the city of Amritsar in Punjab, India as Kapil Punj.

[8][9] His father Jeetendra Kumar Punj was a head constable in Punjab Police, while his mother Janak Rani is a homemaker.

In 2011, he participated as a contestant in Zee TV's singing reality show Star Ya Rockstar, he finished as runner up.

[citation needed] Sharma made his Bollywood debut as the male lead in the movie Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon, a romantic-comedy directed by Abbas Mustan opposite four actresses, Elli AvrRam, Manjari Phadnis, Simran Kaur Mundi and Sai Lokur.

[30] The film was released on 25 September 2015 to mixed reviews from critics but did record-breaking opening day business for a debut.

Directed by Rajiev Dhingra and produced by Sharma himself, Firangi was a period drama film set in the year 1920.

Renuka Vyavahare of The Times of India in a review wrote, 'Firangi is a boring film', gave 2.0/5 stars and other critics, panned it for a bad story, and slow speed.

[40] His next show was launched on 25 March 2018 stating as Family Time With Kapil Sharma which ended on 1 April after only 3 episodes.

From the previous show on Sony TV, Archana Puran Singh, Krushna Abhishek, Kiku Sharda and Rajeev Thakur joined the cast.

[49][50] In 2016, Sharma tagged Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in a tweet and alleged that Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) took a 500,000-rupee bribe from him for construction of his office.

In response chief of BMC's vigilance department asked him the names of the people who took bribes and assured him to take stringent action against them.

[3] In 2018, Sharma did a show for the Pakistan Super League in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, angering right-wing groups in India who were hostile to the idea of a collaboration with their neighbouring country.

He just wants to earn money and doesn't care about the country, we strongly condemn Sharma for performing during PSL", Sena said.

After the conversation went viral on social media, Sharma filed a police complaint against Vicky Lalwani, along with his ex-managers Preeti Simoes and Neeti Simoes, for trying to extort INR 25 lakhs from him as well as alleging in a police complaint that both sisters used to take money from the people who arrived in Film City, Mumbai to see his show and Preeti-Neeti manufactured miss understandings between him and his fellow comedians of his show and arriving guests.

[56] She claimed that trouble erupted between Preeti and Kapil after he announced his engagement with Ginni Chatrath in March 2017.

On 8 April 2018, SpotboyE filed a counter police report against Sharma for intimidation, abuse and threats.

He and the cast of Comedy Nights with Kapil appeared in a PETA campaign to promote the adoption of homeless cats and dogs.

[61] Sharma was nominated in 2014 for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to spread awareness among people for cleanliness and other hygiene-related social issues.